Mood Ring

The Heart

"Okay class I know this is the first week of school, but this is AP and you are expected to turn your projects in tomorrow."
In AP Bio, surprisingly we weren't put in abc order. The classroom was instead in a boys vs girls setting. I could overhear Becky talking with her friends.
"Hey Becky, have fun over break?"
"Yeah we heard you spent the whole thing with vampire-nerd boy over there."
"No way, I would never" she said, sounding disgusted.
My heart sank and I couldn't believe my ears.
"OH FUCK ME!" I yelled as I stood up, pushing all my notes off my desk. Everyone in class gasped.
"Mr. Moony!!!" Exclaimed Mr. Lee.
"Detention for the whole week! I'm surprised an honors student like you would have an outburst like this! Unacceptable!"
Suddenly, the bell rang. I ran straight to the student parking lot and sped all the way home.

When I got there, I shattered all the jars from our experiment, and tried to do anything to contain my anger and disappointment. How could I go from loving someone to hating someone so fast? No-did I hate Rebecca? She's been everything to me from the time we were in kindergarten. Now I just didn't understand what I was feeling. I went upstairs to tear apart all my notebooks with her name scribbled in them. I tore apart all the valentines cards she gave me from elementary school that I had kept for so long. All the pictures we had together, everything she left while sleeping over, her hello kitty pajamas, I threw it in a pit to burn it.
     I grabbed my lighter and lit up a piece of paper and threw it into a pit in my backyard. I remembered when I roasted marshmallows in that same pit with Rebecca ten years ago.
     "Don't think of her," I told myself, as the fire glowed brighter.

      I heard the backyard gate fence open.
       "Having a campfire without me?"

"Yes now get the fuck away from me."

My anger glowed brighter than the fire.

She began to walk towards me.

"Don't come any closer," I said.

She was still walking towards me.

"Becky I said go away!!!"

I grabbed the Mood Ring (that I was prepared to burn) and threw it at her. I immediately regretted that when I thought of how every time it touched her, a power activated. But this time, that didn't happen.
       When it hit her, the Mood Ring flashed into a burst of colors, until it turned into a bright white light. Rebecca's body reacted as if she was being electrocuted.
      "Oh my God I killed her!"
But then I remembered how wrong she did me and I threw her lifeless body into the fire pit. Nah not really. I carried her to my bedroom, to analyze her condition of course.
        I sighed of relief when I checked her pulse and saw that she was still breathing. I laid her in my bed for a while and just stared. What had I done? I couldn't stand looking at this girl I love- used to love. So, I carried her home.
       By the time I reached her house, The sun was already down. I grabbed her house key from around her neck. It was painted with weed leaves and smiley faces. Her initials, RAM were on the back. When I opened the door, Rebecca's dad was sitting at the kitchen table. He wore a name tag embossed with "Mike Moody." He seemed to be engaged in a newspaper, but upon close inspection, he was just staring blankly at it.
     "Hey Mr. Moody," I said, carrying his daughter up the stairs, trying to look less suspicious.
      To my relief, he barely looked up. He only managed a faint grunt.
      I laid Rebecca down on her own bed.
      Before I left, I glanced at her sleeping frame once more.
      "What an angel," I whispered as I shut her door.