Sorry for waiting so long to upload, if anyone actually follows the story xD & Sorry for the constant stuff about Ethan. It's just incredibly important, and you learn more about him each time, and it'll make more sense later. Plus I get to freak people out with the doll names, based on people in real life. HEHEHEHEHEHE x3
any ideas or suggestions. name suggestions. let us know ^.^; comment please!
- Sarena <3
Maria
Ethan looked different. He seemed to be grimmer, more mature - and much, much sadder. Maria slowly walked towards him, sensing something was wrong. She reached out a hand and laid it on his shoulder. He shrugged her off and turned away, as if he was ashamed to face her.
The two were standing by a large oak in a grassy meadow with a pond. Rabbits circled around them, and birds flew into a heart shape overhead in the sky. All of a sudden, the sky darkened and a bolt of lightening struck the tree. The birds' heart formation dissolved as they quickly flew away, shrieking with terror. Maria watched with pain as a glistening tear slid down the face in Ethan's reflection.
"Ethan -"
"Please, don't make this harder than it has to be.
Silence enveloped the landscape, where beauty and life lay less than a minute ago. Maria was extremely sad, and so confused that she didn't know what to do.
"So it really is over...?"
"Maria..." he began. "It never started."
That broke her heart. She ran across the meadow, tears running down her cheeks. Only then did she realize that she had no idea where to go, and she turned back. He was in hysterics, not knowing what to do. Ethan turned around, and they locked eyes. Not for the first time, they saw their own expression on eachother's face.
Maria woke up. For the second time this week, she cried for Ethan. She missed him more than she thought she could. After she cried her blank, miserable eyes out, the silence was intense. Ethan hates me... she thought to herself. Nothing was worth it anymore. Life was an endless abyss of nothing-or as Tommy said it, 'nuffing.' NUFFING! Ugh, what's wrong with me? I'm becoming a Tommy. My life is officially over.
Thinking of this made her cry even more. Turning her thoughts back to Ethan, she simply cried, knowing that nuffing else would make her feel better. She thought back to that one night a few years ago when she had her first Ethan-dream. That night, she found out that one of her best friends, Victoria, was a total backstabber. Literally. She would get close friends with a girl, or in some case boy, and when they weren't looking, she would stab people's stuffed dolls in the back until they bled all their cottony fibres out and were empty. It gave her a cold, disturbing joy. She killed all Maria's dolls-like Awesome Abbey, Sunny Sunny, Melodramatic Melody, Cynical Cindy, Lunatic Luna, Talented Tahlysha, and all the others. Victoria even killed her very favourite doll- Stealthy Stephanie. Well, of course two years later she found out that Stealthy Stephanie was really Sassy Suriyetta (like omg what kind of name is that) and it was actually from Tommy in secret. She then stomped on the doll, and Tommy found it again and put it with his squidge collection.
The night she fought with Victoria, Maria was miserable, but when she got to sleep everything changed. In her dream she met the love of her life: a perfect, good-looking, smart, nice boy named Ethan. Ethan loved her back, but they were together only in their dreams. Lying in her bed in tears, she wished with all her heart that he was real.
Drowning in self-pity, Maria almost missed the hushed sound of a hamster wheel. Ethan shot her a fiery glare, and Maria's heart melted. Of course, she thought. Hammy-Ethan! He's always here for me, and there's no doubt about that. I'm not alone! A part of her still wished for the real Ethan, but the rest was content.
