〔the atella effect〕

ch. 1

Where it all Began

-(Oct. 15, 2004)
May's Pov
I was hanging out at the park with my best friend Blake. We met eachother in preschool last year. He was currently pushing me on the swings. Mommy said to be home for dinner at around 7:30. "Blake can you check your watch!" I screamed behind me since he was still pushing the swing. "Yeah sure!" And with that he let go of the swing and I fell off. "Thanks a lot" I remarked. "Anytime and it's 7:38." "Oh no Blake I need to get home now!"

We hopped on our bikes and started riding as fast as we could to my house. My house wasn't too far away (I still don't know what minutes and stuff like that is). When we started nearing my house I noticed a thick smoke filling the air. It looked like a match when we were on the opposite end of the block from my house but when we reached it, it was about the size of TWO houses.

There was so many sirens and it was all blur. All I remember is me crying and Blake holding me back from going into the fire. The police men were telling me that the fire was probably just an accident but I thought it was my fault. I wasn't home on time, I didn't follow the rules. Those thoughts only made me cry more in the arms of Blake. That night I stayed over at Blake's house and fell asleep in his arms.

-(Oct. 16, 2004)
The police told me that my parents had died. I. Was. Crushed. You see, I was an only child. Which means the rest of my life will be spent alone. Now my parents didn't talk to their families so they don't even know I exist. Where am I going to live? The police man told me I was going to live in an orphanage. And that was the first time I ever felt like death was the only option.

-(Oct. 15, 2017)
I slammed my hand as hard as I could on my annoying alarm clock. It was Wednesday. Great. 3 more days of bullying to go through. Then I get a break, then it starts all over again. These people wonder why I tried to kill myself. I got changed out of my beaten up pajamas and into a casual outfit and put on my ring. It was a gift from my parents when I was born. I wear everyday especially today. It was the anniversary of my parents' death. Boy am I gonna be tormented. I walked out of my room and downstairs to eat breakfast with the rest of the girls. I lived with 3 other girls (it was a small foster home). Anne, Emily, and Jade were the girls I lived with. I was the oldest with Anne being 8, Emily being 12, and Jade being 15. Now let's be honest, no one wants to adopt a child over the age of 1 let alone a week. So we knew we were going to be here for awhile. This was my 3rd foster home and before that I lived in 2 orphanages. I guess no one wanted the girl with off red hair (A/N: Refer to the gif of you want to know what that looks like). Our foster mom came downstairs and drove us to school.

I came in and was immediately met with paper balls thrown at me. Out of all the yelling I was able to pick out "No wonder why your parents killed themselves" and "Go commit suicide again you little orphan maybe this time it'll work" Kids are so cruel. I ignored them the best I could and went to my locker. When I opened it a bunch of papers came spilling out. I forgot to mention that my parents death was ruled a suicide after they found a lighter near the corpse of my parents and engraved in my ring was "We love you... but we left you" on the inside of course they're not that cruel. I knelt down to pick up my books and I was met with a familiar pair of brown eyes.

Blake's Pov
When I entered the school I saw the love of my life ... I mean friend being tortured by the majority of the grade. When she opened her locker a bunch of papers flooded out. So I knelt down to help her. "Hey May sorry about them." "No it's okay it's not your fault Blake I appreciate your help" I got lost for a second in her eyes, I could melt in those brown eyes of hers and I finally spat out "Anytime!" "Well I better get going, wouldn't want to ruin your reputation by being seen with me" and before I could tell her she was so wrong she sped off. We used to be so close but then I joined the football team and we ended up on opposite sides of the popularity spectrum. She always hung out with my best friend's sister Willa, Tori and Thomas. Tori was always made fun of for being the schools 'gay' and Willa & Thomas got made fun of for supporting her.

I had science first period. We were getting paired for a group project. "Willa and Tori, Jack and Thomas, Max and Joe, May and Blake,..." Mr. Smith said. Wait... oh my goodness I just got paired with May. I can finally confess my feelings for her. All I need to do is invite her over to work on our project. The bell rang and I ran up to May. "Hey May so I was thinking.. maybe we could work on our project tomorrow at my house?" Please say yes please say yes. "Yeah sure, 8 good?" I nodded and she waved bye man she is so cute I saw Jack freaking out behind her and when she left he ran up to me and was telling me a bunch of crap about how I finally got her over and how I need to confess my feeling blah blah.. I can't wait to see how tomorrow goes

(A/N: So first chapter hope you enjoyed. There will be a lot of stuff going for the projects and lots of point of views so that should be out for next week. See you next time!)