Remains

New Friends

Hannah's POV
School is as it is. People stare at me, and back away when I walk up to them.
Well, except for one.
"Hi H-Hannah. It's m-me again."
It's her. That girl I showed around school.
"I n-never properly got to i-introduce myself. I'm Emily." She holds out her hand.
I shake it and we walk to class.
During math, I think of her. How we fought bullying together, sat together, talked for forever.
Emily sits on the other side of the room, gazing at me.
Her black hair is falling just below her chest, and her brown eyes are...curious.
Like Sarah.
Sarah was different.
I'm so focused on her face that I don't notice everybody staring at me. "What?" Everybody snickers.
The teacher rolls his eyes. "What is the square root of 144?"
"12." I reply, glaring at everyone. He nods. "Next time, pay attention."
I slump in my chair.
I just love this school.
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Emily sits with the popular table, looking uneasy. She glances over at me, and I give a little wave and she waves back, smiling.
I sit at my usual "emo table" and listen to the gossip.
"I heard that Alex McDonald got so drunk that he puked on three wine cans"
"I heard that Donny Patterson made out with Madison Peterson."
"I heard the emo bitch took pills and died."
I sit up and glance at the person who said that. Katherine.
She's sitting with the popular people with an evil look on her face.
She has everybody at the table's full attention.
"Yeah, apparently she decided that 'life was shit' and just committed suicide." she says.
I want to punch her. Sarah loved life.
They know nothing about her.
Fuming in my head, I feel the regular thud of an apple that bounces off the back of my head.
I look back at them and...Emily is gone.
I look around and see Emily at another table.
The exact same one Sarah sat in 3 months before.
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I sit by her grave again and place a piece of paper next to it.

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Sarah McConnell
Loved roses, bullied, killed by the darkness.
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I stare at it.
"So she didn't take pills?"
I look up and see Emily sit next to me.
"Is there a reason you came?" I say icily.
She looks shocked at my tone, but says, "Caleb asked me to be his girlfriend."
I stare at her, shocked, and she smiles. "I know! Isn't it cool!"
Something else takes over my body. "Get away from me."
She frowns. "I'm sorry, what?"
I push her away. "Get away from me!"
She rises, angry. "What did I do?"
I can't see out of my own eyes, as fear takes over my body. "I SAID GET AWAY FROM ME." I yell and run.
I run for God knows how long.
I end up sitting on the bench me and Sarah sat on after Caleb beat us up.
I feel someone sit next to me. "Not taking that well either, huh?"
Caleb is next to me.
I immediately rise.
He pats the seat next to him. "Sit down."
"I'm not sitting down and playing patty cake with you." I snarl.
"Sit down or I swear to God I'll handcuff you to this bench until you listen to me." He says calmly.
"You can't handcu-" He cuts me off by grabbing my wrist and snapping a handcuff on and attaches it to the bench.
"WHAT THE HELL!" I bellow, angrily.
"Sit down."
I glare at him but sit down.
"I'm going to tell you the truth. About Sarah."
I sit up.
"I have a little sister named Molly. She means the world to me, and I just loved her. So, after Sarah told Katherine to go talk to me, she did. In a threatening way." He begins to tear up "T-Told me if I didn't shoot Sarah, she would take my little sister and sell her body to a pimp." He sobbed harder, and I felt a little sorry for him. Not a lot, just a little.
"I almost just killed myself there, but I couldn't, I couldn't put my sister through that." He sniffs.
"I'm so sorry." He says, looking at me.
I open my mouths to answer but am saved by Emily. "Hey Caleb! Wanna go to the mall?"
Caleb nods quickly and drops something in my lap and leaves.
I look down to see the key to the handcuff.
I unlock myself and close my eyes and take in the information.