A Whole New World

-THE CONFESSION-

As the last bell rang, Sofia started to head towards the library. She has a science quiz next week and she's not planning on getting anything lower than an A. She doesn't care if she's a nerd or whatnot, she'll work her butt off, graduate, be successful and what other people call her wouldn't even matter. And people actually respect her for that.

 As she climbed up the stairs, she noticed Jeff Henderson sitting at the top of the stairs starring at nothing but his shoes. He was sobbing, and Sofia knew he was trying to keep it in. She felt so bad, he looked like a total mess.

"Hey," she started.

Jeff looked up and immediately wiped his tears and forced a smile.

"Hi,"

"Uhhh are.. you... uh... look, I'm so sorry" she stuttered. 

"It's fine, at least you didn't kill someone" he said with a forced smile.

Sofia sat down next to Jeff, his eyes were stinging red.

"What really happened?"

Jeff scoffed.

"I killed her that's what happened," his voiced raised as tears rolled down his cheek.

"Hey, you can talk to me" convinced Sofia.

He took a minute and turned to look in her eyes. He looked so hurt and broken. She felt her throat swelling up, and her eyes was starting to get misty.

"Emily, she's been stressed out lately because of her parents' divorce, she's been really moody and over the edge. Then she saw me with Angela Moore the other day and went completely  bonkers. I tried to explain to her that its nothing, Angela was just asking  when's the last day to hand in our report. She didn't believe me, she started to push me to the limit and I freaked. I told her if she couldn't trust me then there's no point in having a relationship,  and we broke it off just like that."

He started to sob.

"I should have been patient! I knew she was having a hard time and I just made it worst!" he started to scream.

"Hey, no no no its not you're fault" Sofia tried to calm him down but she couldn't even stop herself from crying.

"If it weren't for me, Emily would still be alive"

Sofia kept on weeping, she couldn't help herself, she guessed making Jeff screech it all out would make it easier for him rather than keeping all that pain in.

"I'M A MURDERER!" he roared.