Chasing the End

two

Turns out my computer decided to be mean and turn off while I was writing this chapter, so I have to write all over again. So, I'm pissed because I had already had written a full two pages...

Anyway, there should be a photo of how I picture Rider on the side.

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The second day of camp was different. There was boy. A cute boy, not even cute he was drop dead gorgeous. But, unfortunately he was the type of person to stare at people. The way I know this is that he was staring at me. Even when I caught him and looked at him, he didn't try to play it off like he was looking somewhere else. He just stared right back at me.

My self esteem was already low, so why did he have to make it worse? Maybe was looking at the large pimple on my forehead that I continually tried to cover up with my bangs, but soon gave up.

"Looks like we have someone new joining us today," Leo announced while fixing his rainbow t-shirt that I assumed he had worn more than once that week.

"Sorry I couldn't be here on the first day," the boy, who had been staring at me, said.

"Its okay, every day that you're here counts," Leo patted him on the back. "Why don't you tell us about yourself?"

"Okay, I'm Rider. I'm eighteen, and I want to be a writer when I graduate from college."

Rider wants to be a writer.

"Nice, why don't we all say what we want to be?"

I already knew what the answers were going to be; lawyers, writers, singers, dancers, strippers, etc. I never really had a dream. I never really thought I would make it before I could graduate, get a job, possibly get married and have kids. You can probably tell by now that I wasn't very optimistic.

"Mary-Kate," Leo said. "It's your turn."

I sighed and rubbed my palms on my jeans. "I don't know," I answered, shrugging my shoulders.

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

I stared at the ground while I thought. "Happy?"

Leo nodded. "That's a good goal."

The truth is I didn't even know how to be happy. To me happy was just a word. Not an emotion, not a song, it was just a five letter word that had two p's in it. Whenever I looked around and saw people who were so happy as if nothing bad ever happened to them, it just helped me know that it is possible for me to be happy. Even if I didn't have any friends; you don't need friends to be happy.

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Rider stood outside, facing the camp as if he was waiting for someone with his hands in his pockets.

He was pretty tall; he had curly hair that he made work. I had seen boys with curly hair and they looked like my grandmother when she took her curlers out of her hair. Rider just made curly hair work.

I stood next to him, facing the street, waiting for my mom to come and pick me up. My mom never let me drive myself anywhere. I knew how to drive, my mom was just too scared to let me drive alone.

"I saw you staring at me in there Mary-Kate," Rider said suddenly.

I faced him, raising my eyebrow and breathing out a small chuckle. "Are you kidding? I was only waiting for you to stop staring at me."

"Whatever you say. I know you couldn't look away because I'm that good looking."

I rolled my eyes and shoved him lightly. "So, why'd your parents force you to come here?"

"My parents didn't force me," he said.

"What? Nobody would be willing to come here unless their parents forced them to."

"Nope, not me."

"Well, my mom thinks I'm depressed, so she sent me here."

"You don't seem depressed."

"Because I'm not."

He pulled out a white piece of paper from his pocket and wrote something on it before handing it to me. "Here"

I took the paper from his hands and inspected it. It was a phone number. I smiled and looked back up at him. "Well that was random."

He shrugged innocently.

"Who's this?" my mom, who I hadn't even noticed pull up, said from her car.

"Uh, this is Rider. Rider this is my mom."

"Hi, Rider," my mom waved at him. "Come on Kate we have to get going."

I got in the car and waved at Rider before he waved back at me.

I guess I was wrong when I said that you don't need friends to be happy.

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Once again, the chapter was short. My chapter will always be short, I'm sorry. I'm trying to actually have stuff happen in them and I'll try not to have any filler chapters. Like I said before there is a photo of Rider on the side.