Love You Forever

Chapeter 4: Truth

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. You're lonely and worthless, you should kill yourself too!"

I tried to hold back the tears that welled up in my eyes. I had recieved a little card shoved into the crevice at the bottom of my locker. At first, I thought that maybe someone did know me after all, maybe someone wanted to be my friend. It filled me with such joy and hope I thought I would cry. Alone no more! Sadly, the tears came for a different reason.

I knew at once who had sent this to me. Probably one of the people who make my life like heck everyday, the ones who make their life's purpose to injure me.

I had been dealing with this from kindergarten, all the way til' now, my 16th birthday. But this hurt me even more than the broken arm that Joey Slater had given me in 5th grade. But maybe this hurt me even more because they want out of their way to ruin my special day, my "sweet sixteenth". It hurt like hot pins poking me to my insides.

I dropped the card on my night table, dried my eyes, and walked outside my bedroom. I was an only child, or as I liked to call it, a "lonely child", so my parents were always ready to celebrate my birthday with a big bang. We had my choice of Chinese food for dinner, played a couple games, and opened my presents, all of which were satisfactory. I didn't tell them about the card.

I had forgotten all about it by the time it was time for me to go to bed. When I took my contacts out, I noticed some words on the back of the card I missed before. I picked it up to read them.

It said "-From: Keon Mitchell"

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I started at those words for a while, mouthing them over and over again. A tear or two ran fown my face, and I flopped down on my bed, surrounded myself with blankets and pillows. Then I cried myself to sleep.