Living Dead | Onhold

Chapter one

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I woke up on the morning after my birthday - June 23rd, with a pounding head and bloodshot eyes. My head felt so heavy, but at that time I was not worried because I must have been drinking and smoking on my birthday during my birthday party that I had been planning since last year June 24th.

I struggled to open my eyes and as I finally manage to open them, I find that I'm outside. How am I outside? The party was inside the whole night! "I must have been so high that I ended up outside!" I thought to myself and chuckled inwardly.

I also struggled to get up, but it didnt worry me anymore since I thought I was just high. I got up and started walking on the frosty pavement. It seemed as though my feet hardly touched the ground, but I didn't let that get to me. I was cold even though I was wearing a heavy fury sweater, boyfriend jeans and timberlands, with my fury heavy knee-high socks hidden inside obviously. But I had spent the night outside... which was probably why I was cold.

I got up and fixed my hair- my head hurt, then I started walking towards the door. As I was about to open the door, something caught my attention. There was a girl screaming at the backyard, and suddenly; the door popped right open and my friends ran out hurriedly and worriedly. They ran right passed me . It's like, they didn't even care to greet the birthday girl. I finally decided to run with them and see who was screaming and what it was about. "Urgh, there's always something going on in this house!" I said to myself before starting to run.

When I got to the back, my friends had gathered up in a circle and observing the frosted shrubs then Nicholas- my boyfriend, decided to exclude himself from the circle and started crying. I didn't go to the circle. I decided to check what was bothering my Nicky first. "Nicky what's up?"

Nicky didn't answer me. He just continued crying quietly and banging his head with his hands.

Me and Nicky had known each other since we were four . We became best friends and our parents also became friends. We were one big happy family. Then we started dating when we were twelve. We lived two streets away from each other- a walking distance, and therefore we were almost always together.We even went to the same primary school, middle school and now high school. And judging by the pictures, we went to kinder garden together. We didn't know each other then though. We were even planning on going to the same college. Our applications were still pending.

"Nicholas? Are you ignoring me?" I pounded up and down with him, at a safe distance . Then he decided to sit down on the swing set.

"Nicholas Moon?!" I looked over at my friends, who looked like they had just seen a corpse. "Nicky, what's going on? Why won't you talk to me?" I quickly arranged my thoughts and pulled myself together. I tried to think of the things that I might have done the previous night that might have made him mad. "Okay I know I smoked weed last night, and I'm sorry. But you're the one who gave it to me! You gave me the whole joint! What did you expect? Of course I was crazy. I was high! Which is probably why I don't remember anything that happened last night. But please talk to me Bubbles? You're the one who told me that keeping quiet about the problem won't make it go away. So tell me what the problem is and let's fix it. Together. Please baby?" I was about to go sit besides him when a voice from behind me said: