Her Tragedy

Chapter 2

Now that you know my past I'll tell you about my present.

Tomorrow is my first day of school and I'm terrified. But whenever that happens I just think of at least five things that are scarier than that.
1. Being accused of murder
2. Slowly becoming deaf
3. Your brother killing you
4. Your mom dying
5. Changing schools

Oh wait, changing schools is one of them. It really is scary but I have to stay open minded. I guess there could be some nice people in this school. In my last school they bullied me because of of my family. Well not about my family, more like, because I didn't have one. All that bullying leaded to my first suicide attempt. It happened after a long time of cutting myself and throwing up. For a while I didn't want to live. I thought I'd be easier to just die and be up there with Maggie.

I still think about Maggie every once in a while. How she died so young and didn't have time to do all the things she wanted to. She'll never have a boyfriend, never graduate, never get married,etc.

And here I was, wishing I was dead instead of her. In I way Maggie saved me. Just as I was about to do it I remembered her and realized that I had a chance to live and she didn't. I was choosing to die but she didn't have a choice.

Anyway I'm getting ready for my first day of school. I have no friends. I actually don't want to have any because friends just make life harder. It's hard to keep them and even harder to get them so I don't bother with that kind of stuff.

For breakfast I just have a Nutella sandwich and a banana to-go. I have to walk to school (my parents didn't even bother to drive me). I know what your thinking.  Why don't you have a car? Cause I've been saving up for years and since most of my families are poor, I'd have to pitch in. At the moment I have two jobs, one as a waitress and another as a dentist assistant. Being a dentist assistant is horrible because of the amount of blood I see a day.

I walk through the doors of Bronx Public High school, and of course the first thing I see is the division of people. You know that thing that always happens in school were people are branded to be who others want them to be? Yea that's what I see here. Popular people, "losers", nerds, etc.

My first class is biology with Mr. Robert. Our seats are assigned and so are our lab partners. I'm sat next to this guy that I don't know his name at lab space 5. Today were apparently just going to introduce ourselves. Donovan is the first damn name of the list. No a, b, or c. So I go up to the front of the class and say what I say in every school. I'm Maddie Donovan and I'm 14. I like Nutella and my favorite class is history.

The next few people are a blur I can't remember until something amazing happens. The boy sitting next to me gets up.

"Hi my name is Jason Hudson."