Girl Meets Suicide

chapter 7

I knew I couldn't avoid school forever. It would be hard without Riley by my side. She was my other half. If I wasn't with her people would be like hey Maya where's your other half? Now they wouldn't be asking that question anymore since they obviously knew the answer. As I entered the classroom I noticed that  instead of Mr. Matthews being there another man was in his place. 

Without asking any questions I sat down. The bell rang and he got up. "Hello everyone. My name's Mr. Brown.  Mr.Matthews won't be here for a while which is why i'm here. I'm assuming you know why he's gone. Now i'm going to be here for a week or so and I heard good things from this class. I hope they're true. Now why don't you all tell me your names. "You," said Mr. Brown pointing in my direction. "Introduce yourself please." 

"Um okay. My name's Maya hart." "It's nice to meet you Ms. Hart. Next!" I didn't want a new teacher. This guy didn't seem like anything special. I just wanted things to be the same again but that would never happen. After class I passed by Riley's locker. It was decorated with letters and cut out hearts. There were also some roses and other paper decorations.   A lot of notes on her locker hung which said things like we  miss you or you'll always be in our hearts. They probably didn't even know Riley. They just did it out of sympathy. I was the one who was closest with her. 

I noticed Missy staring at her locker. "What the fuck are you doing here, bitch?" "What's your problem? I was just staring at her locker." You stay away. Stop acting so innocent, bitch. You killed my best friend." "Excuse me? I heard she committed suicide." "It was because of you. You made her make that choice. You took my best friend away from me and i'll never forgive you for that. Why did you have to bully her?" Missy looked shock. She was like a fish out of water. 

"Answer me!" I couldn't take it anymore so I slapped her right across the face. Missy looked at me in the most disgusted way. "What the hell is wrong with you?" I pushed her and then kept slapping her over and over again. "How dare you? Riley was an innocent girl and you killed her." I kept hitting her. In the background I heard students yell "fight!" I continued Missy until someone pulled me off of her. "Let me go!" I screamed like a little kid. I turned around and saw Lucas. Missy ran away and didn't even look back. I spat onto the ground. "Maya, have you lost your mind?" "No, I haven't. Missy was the one who killed Riley." 

"What are you talking about? Riley's death was a suicide. Everyone knows that!" "You don't understand. Riley was bullied. She kept leaving her hateful messages on Instagram and told her to kill herself many times. She threatened her too. It wasn't entirely her fault. It was also mine." "What the hell are you saying, Maya?""I'm saying that I could've helped her but I didn't. Poor Riley died alone and no one got to her in time. I could've done something."

"You can't blame yourself for Riley's death. All you can do is tell the principal what Missy did and that's it. What happened is done. You can't change the past just like you can't blame yourself for Riley's death." "Oh Lucas!" I cried while he held me in his arms. "It will be okay, Maya. It will be okay."