The Crash

2

I wake up laying on a bed. I look down and see Emmalyn and Scarlet staring at me.

" what are you doing?!"I yelled

"Why can't we look at you? It's a free country" Scarlet said

"what just happened?" Emmalyn asked

"My narcolepsy." I answered.

"Oh, can we get working on your makeover." They asked.

"Sure as long as I don't look stupid." I said worried that they might end up making me look stupid even if they didn't try to.

"well be right back .' I heard Emmalyn say right before they left the room.

I could hear them out in the hallway arguing over my hair style whether they were going to have Scarlett's mom trim it or give me a bob. Considering that after Lacey died I only wore the same t-shirt that I had had forever and thrown away my other clothing. I could guess that they would want to change as much of me as possible.

"you know guys I can hear everything your saying."

"Good it won't be a surprise then." Scarlet yelled back.

When they returned they had Scarlett's mom with them and they sat me down in a chair and started describing what they wanted to happen.They decided that they would donate my beautiful red hair to Locks of Love and give me a lob. Yes, a long bob

"everyone's sporting one these days." Scarlet's mom said when she saw the look on my face.

"It'll look great on you."

And that is all the say I had.

Within the next hour more things changed about me than had changed since Lacey had died. I learned that I do, in fact, do look good with a lob, I love being able to feel pretty again, and that I finally found people I connect with again.

"OMG! You are so pretty you should have done this a while ago. If only you had been talking. You could have a boyfriend." Emmalyn half screamed half stated into my ear.

"Listen you two are the only people I can talk to. If other people know I can talk they will not understand why I shut up."

" Why did you shut up Piper? why?" Scarlet asked

"A few months before I came here I was in a crash and I was the only survivor. My best friend died and I couldn't live with it."

" i'm sorry for your loss."Scarlet consoled

"Well when I came here I met this kid who understood me but, he got tired of me not responding.'

" Wait did you say he!"Emmalyn interrupted.

"Yah so,?"

" It's A boy! He probably liked you but you pushed him away." Scarlet interjected

"Tad left and never spoke to me again so just mind your own business." I retorted

"You like him!"They said in unison.(it's starting to scare me that they do that randomly and it doesn't even bother them, but don't tell them that.)

"Maybe, just a little bit."

"Which Tad is it?" Emmalys asked

"I don't know I never learned his last name."

"Well What does he look like?" Scarlet questioned

"Brown hair, blue eyes, taller."

"Ohh...." said Scarlet

"Ohh, what?"

"That's Tad Gram. He's not only popular, but super nice." Emmalyn answered me.

"Well I'm never talking to him."

"Why not?"They said in unison again(its really scaring me now).

"Do you forget that I am supposedly mute! If I even uttered a word to anyone outside of you, my mom, and my family everyone would know that I was faking."

"Not everyone needs to know only Tad."

"Well when he starts talking to the weird kid again and actually thinks she talks back he will lose his popularity. I'm not going to do that to him because of some silly crush."

"Well you're not weird anymore."

"Well that definitely boosts my confidence."

We're interrupted by a honking outside.

"That's my mom gotta go." I yell before anyone can say anything.

I rush downstairs and just barely hear Emmalyn yell,"Don't forget to text a picture of your outfit for tomorrow.