Saturday 3.30 P.M.
I'm completely soaked, but I don't care. I've been walking for more than 3 hours and I've finally reached the bridge I've had my eyes on the entire time. I walk it and stop in the middle. I crawl over the railing and hold on to it with my back facing towards it. I look down at the river beneath me. It's going crazy because of the rain. The clouds are grey and I hear thunder. Everything is dark and foggy and cars are passing by behind me. My thoughts are going crazy.
I am actually doing this? No one will miss me. There'll be no more Clara. No more Gavin. No more parents. No more me. I doubt anyone will notice.I start crying. My tears disappear between the raindrops hitting my face.
I think about how my mom hit me. About how my dad hates me. About how I was never wanted. I was a mistake. An accident. I've always lived in my brother and sister's shadow. They've always been smarter and better looking than me.
I think about Michael. How he never noticed me, and never will. What was I thinking? A guy like him would never want a relationship with a girl like me.
I think about Clara. She's telling everyone SHE is the victim. I think about how she pulled my hair a thousand times, pushed me over a million times and humiliated me a billion times. And it's not just her. Everyone thinks it's funny to mess with me. I see Gavin's face in front of me. I remember laying on the floor after he pushed me. He bend over and screamed in my face:' The world was a better place when you weren't around, dickface!' Then he spit in my face and kicked me around like I was a football. The world was a better place when I wasn't around. Maybe it's time to go back to that time then. Everyone was happier. Clara, Gavin, my parents, my siblings,... Maybe I was never mend to be here. Maybe I was mend to be somewhere else. Away from everyone I'm bothering right now. Maybe my crazy dream was never mend to come true. It was just a dream. An illusion of my imagination. A stupid idea. Becoming a youtuber if I can't even speak in front of a class. In front of Clara and Gavin. I see their faces in front of me. They're laughing at me. Calling me dickface, midget, loser... Making fun of my mom's drinking problem. Wishing that I would die. Maybe they're right. Maybe I should.
I wake up from my thoughts and realize that I'm crying very loud, but no one hears me. The cars behind me and the thunder make more noise than me. I look down at the water and hope that it'll bring me to a better place. Everything is better than this hell. I slowly let my hand slip of the railing behind me.
Finger by finger, I get closer to a happier place. A happier world. I still can't feel the difference between my tears and the raindrops.
I hear thunder as my last fingers let go of everything I ever knew. My thoughts are gone. All the noises turn off and everything turns black. I want to make the world a better place again, without me.
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Dreams Do Come True
Aktuelle LiteraturA 14-year old girl has big dreams. She wants to go to America, but not everyone is very supportive. She has some trouble at home, at school and with herself, but she'll do anything to make her dream come true.