Thief 2 (m.e.)

Chapter 1

"Kole." Mrs.Morris says snapping me out of staring into space. "What about you? Why are you here?"

I stare dead at her and let out a breath of annoyance. She knows I don't want to be here, she knows half of us don't.

"Is there something wrong Kole?" She sighs.

I look around the room, I got to be smart about this. "Yes Mrs.Morris, there is something bothering me." I answer. "Keegan is slouching, Liam is about to fall asleep, Savannah is in Lala land, and Zack looks like he wants to kill himself... again."

"We have talked about you calling her that, her parents have requested that she is called by her birth name, Zoe. And Kole, you have done at least one of those things each time you come to group, I don't understand your complaint."

"That's the point. I shouldn't want to do any of those things each time I'm in here." I say. "We do the same thing everyday, we come in talk about our week, what happened to get us here, and then you tell us why the we shouldn't of done it, or never should." I shake my head. "I don't want to be here, and you know that, I'm just here because it's part of the contract allowing me to have my own house. I don't need to be here, I've been clean for seven months! I haven't had a nervous breakdown, I take all my medicine," I point to Zack. "I have friends!"

In reality I don't have friends but I have a friend but that's not the point.

She sighs of of irritation "Then what do you suggest I do Kole? What am I doing wrong?"

"Give us something different!"

"Kay then, Kole take it away, this is your class for the day."

I raise my eyebrows. "Alright." I stand up to grab most everybody's attention. "So we're all here for the same thing, we all tried killing ourselves right? We all know what happened to each of us when it happened, because we've shared the story millions of times, but why? Why did you want to die? Keegan."

"What?" Keegan ask.

"Why did you want to kill yourself?" I rephrase.

"Well I had this girlfriend... it was pretty long term, ya know, and she decided after our two year relationship, she didn't want it anymore."

Pathetic.

"What made your girlfriend so special?" I ask.

"I loved her."

"But clearly she didn't love you." I say as he frowns. "Would you have rather loved a girl who didn't love you?"

"Well no..."

"Okay so there's two things, there is this girl who takes your love for granted, plus your fucking awesome-"

"Kole, language." Mrs. Morris corrects.

I roll my eyes and continue. "Which means there is one girl out there who wants to be loved, and you have the bonus of being awesome.

He smiles.

I clear my throat and walk directly in front of Mrs. Morris. "What about you?"

"Excuse me?" She questions.

"Why are you here? You try killing yourself at one point then decide you wanted to help others or something?"

"Actually, when I was younger, my mother killed herself." She looks around the room. "My mother thought no one loved or cared about her. And it was too late after she died, you guys. This is why I'm trying to help you. After my mom died I went through a lot of depression because of her death. I'm trying to show you guys do matter."