Hallway of Insecurities

The Breakdown

        By the time I went to grab the towels the girl was in the bathroom. Wait. It was Tay? What was she doing in here? I could see tears running down her face, along with her mascara. Why was she of all people crying? She looked at me. Under her breath she asked a rhetorical question,

        "You're in here too?" she whispered. "I'm so sorry! I've never done anything like that and I don't know what's wrong with me I just... I-- I..." she rambled on, sobbing.

        I interrupted her. "Why are you crying?" I said, while still crying myself.

        "Jay broke up with me because I did that to you. And.. I'm so mad at myself! I am so sorry and I promise I'll never do anything like that again to anyone I really don't know what got into me. Your friends were right. All of them. I'm a manipulative, lying, selfish, person. I use people. I'm fake with people. I pretend to be someone I'm not just to be popular and liked. I hide all of my issues at home and take all of my anger out on random people. I wear all of this makeup and I hate it, but I still wear it just to be what people think is pretty. I always hide my feelings because I feel like if I don't people will use them to do exactly what I did to you! I can't believe myself! I make fun of people for nothing. Really I don't mean anything I say. I say all of these mean things to these people who are so nice. These people I admire for their true kindness. These people that I make fun of just to be popular. I don't understand why we always feel this need to be popular, when in the long-run, it doesn't even matter. None of it matters. I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry--"

        "It's okay!" I said. She was slowly dropping to her knees sobbing. This girl was truly a good person, but hiding it. I think she finally might start to be the actual good person she is. After her... breakdown. I hugged her, both of us crying. What she had said had brought even more tears to my eyes.

        We stopped crying eventually and just sat in the bathroom talking things out. Talking about problems and worries...and we actually decided that we were pretty good friends and were able to easily understand each other. We hadn't made it to our fifth period, but we decided to go to our 6th period. We realized that we both had 6th period math together.