Short Storys

That One Perfect Girl

There was this one girl. She sat in the front of one of my classes. She smiled at the people who we're down and made them feel better. She seemed perfect. Had both parents, kind and caring yet feisty and sarcastic. There was something special in that girl.

One day I took a good look at her. Her eyes had dark circles around them and she had a sweater pulled down tightly around her. When I walked by she smiled tiredly yet so brightly so I thought nothing of it.

The days after she looked worse. Her eyes grew darker and he smile got weaker. Yet when someone was down she still made them smile during those days. One day someone was in the girls bathroom crying people walked past but never cared or bothered to see who it was. That one perfect girl walked in and soon the crying stopped and out walked her and the girl crying. They split ways but they both walked away smiling. I should have done the same. I should've learned something from that one perfect girl.

A new day and I didn't see the girl. No one say her for a week or so. When she came back she looked exhausted. I got the courage to walk up to her that day and asked "Are you okay."

She smiled and replied simply with "Just tired."

Just tired.

And she was.

She was tired of everything. Tired of losing everything. Tired of feeling alone. Losing her friends. Hating herself. Hating the world though she smiled so much. I found she was tired of hurting. Her life wasn't as perfect as it seemed. Her family made her feel useless. Her friends left her left and right. Her dreams crushed. Her reality made a nightmare.

The next day....no one saw her. No one heard from her. The day felt dark. I thought it was from the lack of her bright smile but it was more. Unexpectedly the whole school was called to an assembly. That's when we found out how tired our smiling, perfect girl was. For she left a note addressed to everyone.

It read

"To the people who lived by my masked smile. To the people who left and to the people who hated. You never know how someone thinks. You never know what to believe. You all thought I was perfect. A smile can hide a thousand truths. No one knows the real me. The world is broken and everyone's lost. I'm not that important. And I'm not good enough. I'm broken and lost and not good enough so this is my last goodbye. They see my smiles and think its all okay. I smile for you and i smile for them so they don't feel the same way. Give a little smile. Hold out a little trust. Cause you never know who's watching and who's proud of us. There is just one problem with the world. We push the good things aside. We make them useless and therefore that one good thing hides. So be a little kinder think of everyone else. Cause the way i felt and the way I am is not who you want to be."

I cried. I wasn't ashamed to cry. A lot of people did. Weather they felt the same way as that one girl or saw how they needed to change. Me i felt like I should've done something. I could've done something. The signs were there....but that perfect error that beautiful smile masked everything.

That one girl was all it took. That one girl was all it needed to change things. That one imperfect girl.

A/N: I'm actually not sure when this one was made weather I was in school or not but it was in 2017. I had inspiration from a song I had heard about suicide and a girl I had saw in my head with really choppy almost poorly cut hair smiling and crying so beautify but I knew for some reason she had long beautiful perfect hair before something happened and her hair got cut. I did put some of what I had felt at one time or another into it so I feel it is a little bit of me and a little bit of her.