The Silhouette of a Girl

Chapter 5

      I furiously wipe away my tears as I finally enter the woods that I love. "It's okay Ocean," said Tootsie. She then whistles our familiar tune to grab the attention of my wolves, they are always near when I need them. As I turn my head ever so slightly, I'm taken down by a big fuzzball of teeth and claws. "Oh come on, Phoenix, I just got slightly cleaned up from today," I say as I hug the huge teddy bear-like wolf. She licks my face from all the salty tears that were running down my face just seconds before. I look up to see all of my other wolves circling around my and Tootsie waiting for an explanation.

     I know, they're wolves, but it's like they understand all of my problems sometimes. Normal people have dogs or cats, I have my wolves and Tootsie. I start talking to them as if I were talking to myself. Phoenix and a few other wolves come and lay right next to me as I talk. A few others do the same to Tootsie after we both decide to lay down. I got on my specific rock while Tootsie got on her preferred log nearby. I started to release all of my anger and frustrations from the math test I took today to my success in acting to even, ugh, Cinderella.

     After I finished I had cried again for my lonely life. All my wolves had shown their affections to me in one way or another. "Hey, what time is it?" Said Tootsie. "Oh crap, it's already 5:48. Where did the time go?" I said as I grabbed all of my stuff and tried to hurry Tootsie. It's not that my family cares what time I'm out at, it's Tootsie's. She has a curfew of 6:00 before she gets in serious trouble. My family barely starts to worry by the time 8 comes around on days that we don't have a band or drama practice.

     "Crap, we gotta go. It takes about 10 minutes at a full sprint to get to my house." Or we could sprint to my house, call your mom and tell her that you can stay at my place, it's not that uncommon we do that?" I offer. ".... I guess so, plus it's like a 5-minute sprint to your house. Let's go then." She said. I howl slightly to all my wolves saying that I'm leaving them for the night.

     As we get back to my house, we tell mom that we are needing to call Tootsie's mom. As usual, my mom offered to call her for us. She snatches any chance to talk to her best friend possible. We let her, it save us at least a few hours. I walk into the kitchen and casually grab our favorite snacks. Apples and pears, Tootsie likes Apples and I like pears. She cleans the fruit and tossed my pear at me. We walk right back into my room where we were either gonna play music, do homework, or all of the above. Once we migrated toward my bedroom, we both jumped on the bed and started to play "Fourth of July" by Fall Out Boy. "So, Ocean, what was your plan for costumes on Halloween? If you still wanna go with it anyways..." Said Tootsie, after the song had ended. "Well, what if you the one to lead Liam to me, and I act as his 'soulmate.' What do you think?" I told her with a slight head tilt. "I love it, what am I gonna do? And by the way, you totally look like a puppy." Tootsie said as she snuck a picture of me. I made a face at her after she took the picture. "Good because I'm going to need you to do this at some point during the day," I told her.

     What is the plan for today? To figure out what my outfit will be to make me a silhouette and in an outfit that is school appropriate. I will probably be in a solid color. Probably black, to look like a shadow. "You could wear a full body suit that is all black with black shorts or skirt ... plus you could cut eye holes so you can see better for band and whatnot." Said Tootsie. "And you could be in like ... something similar to a ball gown or a short dress and pretend its like a masquerade thing," I said. "Bet" she replied.