Whatever happened to Sylvia Sykes?

Chapter 1:

Who on earth is she?? What happened to her?

These were the repeated phrases Sylvia heard when she walked through the school corridors. It has been a week since the school re opened; the whispers have not died down.

All sorts of rumors began to come up.

Maybe she started drugs?

Her boyfriend dumped her after getting her pregnant!

She had a nervous breakdown.

Sylvia's personal favorite:

She was exposed to gamma rays and can now become a big green monster.

The last one was probably a joke.

The thing is, nobody knows what happened and it s killing them, because the truth is: Everybody loved Sylvia Sykes; seeing her like this is a shocker.

Sylvia's POV:

"I hear one more time, that you are spreading rumors about me being a drug addict, I will personally make sure you or your pretty friends will never recognize that face of yours! Do you get what I mean?" I threatened the girl, whose jaws were still in my hands, still intact.

With the amount of rumors going on about me, somebody is going to end up in the hospital. The summer was a nightmare. It was something I want to forget. Telling someone about it will not help me forget it. These people can never imagine what happened to me. It is better for them not to know. I'd rather they assume these silly things than know the truth.

All I want is to forget the worst summer of my life, forget that night that it happened and forget what followed. I want to make it a distant dream, a distant bad dream and nothing else.

I followed the flow of students to my next class, trying to go unnoticed, but that was not going to happen. Whenever I passed by the corridor, everybody would stop doing their work and simply stare.

I don't blame them for that. It is a huge change for anyone to take in, but it just gets out of hands sometimes and all I want to be is invisible.

Kyle's POV:

I saw her today, again, threatening Maya. They used to be good friends before summer. Now, she is threatening her. This has got to stop. She needs to tell somebody what happened.

I was so prepared to tell her how I feel this year. To tell her finally, that I love her, with all my heart. But now, I just can't. Something has shattered her from inside, and I will find out what it is.