The Silhouette of a Girl

Chapter 11

     The next day, I went to school as usual. Went through my same old classes, same old people, nothing has changed, until my 5th period. It is history and we usually work by ourselves in this class. Working on projects, essays, etc. My teacher, Mr. Bill, decided to change our seats. I was put right next to one of Liam's friends and she was talking to one of her cheerleader friends. She started talking, since we had nothing to do, about something that was going on in Liam's life. As soon as I heard Liam's name, my ears tuned in and I hid my cheeks to keep them from seeing my crazy blush."Yeah Nadeen, remember her? Anyways Liam was talking about maybe getting with this other girl, but I told him that it might've been a bit too soon since Nadeen happened. I mean, it takes a while to get over your girl sleeping with someone else." I didn't hear what this other girl's name was, but I envied her a bit.

So I was right all along, he has been hurt. God, I didn't want to be right, but I should've known. Of course, some girl would be stupid enough to hurt a good guy like that. He is a really nice, respectful, and beautiful guy. When I say beautiful, I don't just mean physically, he is beautiful in his heart too. I knew something was going to happen, I felt it, saw the signs, and hurt for him. Hell, I even saw a video from his friend a few days ago saying that he was really sad, I just didn't know why then. I want to be the one to comfort him, but I know he wouldn't want me to. I've just barely entered his life through a business project! He might make me a friend if I'm lucky. I don't even know who this "Nadeen" chick is, but I don't want her to hurt him any more than he already has.

After the show last night, I felt that I connected with Liam on another level and felt that I wanted to help him recover from Nadeen. I don't want him to hurt, he's too good of a guy. Having someone cheat on you when you are the most loyal one could be, is heart-shattering. If I'm going to be left to pick up the pieces or not, I don't know. I just want to help him without him knowing that I know of his past, even if it is just a little.

I continue to my next few classes and see Liam in the hall, he gently waves at me and I return the greeting. It is always in those moments that Cindy comes and ruins it, usually by wrapping herself on his arm or taking away his attention. I go to Drama and focus on getting into character. Today we are about to figure out that there was a trap set for Andromeda the whole time, and she is about to get hurt. I get onto the stage with everyone else and get ready to start my lines. I always try to memorize them before we actually start to practice them. Miss Hunts understands this and gives everyone their scripts way ahead, specifically since I ask her to. After the end of the school day, Drama stayed behind to rehearse our performance for about an hour or two.

The remainder of our group still present is Vivianna and Gerald, one of the friends and the antagonist. "Hey, Andromeda look. That wall has your name on it" said Vivianna. It was another bloodied wall, but instead, it had pictures of me and all my friends on it, showing that the killer has been watching us for a long time. "This was planned... It's been planned for a long time..." I cry... I start to go down the list of friends that were lost. " London, Jeremy, Hansel, all of them, their deaths were planned the whole time. This was exactly what they wanted! Whoever is trying to kill us has some sort of motion against us!" I said. "Guys we HAVE to stay together, we will get through this, oh god..." I say. My voice cracks exactly where I need it to and I start to ball up on the floor.

"It looks like they are after one of you two preferably," said Gerald. I asked him what he meant with tears running down my face and confusion laced in my voice. "All of the pictures has either you or Vivianna in them." Gerald points out. Then I start to look a little closer at the pictures. "There's our yearbook pictures, our group picture at the beach, Andromeda and my twin day photo, dear god! They are after one if not both of us" said, Vivianna. This was Meg's cue to start acting hysterical.

I look at one picture that Vivianna failed to mention about. It was one with me and Vivianna, but it was a day that there was only 3 of us. Andromeda knew who it was at that point. "Look at this one" I "whisper" towards Vivianna and mentioned that it was only us three there that day. We knew Gerald was the killer. "Act as natural as you can in this point," I told her. "Gerald, what are we going to do?" I ask him. He looks taken aback as I ask him for advice instead of being the leader. "Well, shouldn't you try to get away from here?" He said. Leo dramatically leaned his body in the direction of the side stage, AKA the "exit door." I told him he should lead us while acting scared and looking to him for "protection," but not so much to keep him suspicious. He hesitantly agrees, trying to get me to go first. Vivianna and I both start to lead him to the door, distracting him. He whips around us and pulls out a knife. The knife is actually a piece of plastic cause, school rules.

"Andromeda, go through that door right now!" he screams. Leo messed up his hair a bit when he warped around us, adding to the maniac effect. He shoves the "knife" to the small of my back. I walked slowly to the door, and as I come closer, I "kick" his leg and grab the knife. I toss it to Vivianna and put Gerald's arm in a lock. I move him the rest of the distance to the door and open it. I quickly jump to the side when the audio section makes a light gunshot sound. Gerald falls to the ground and is dead. "I knew it." I said, "He was trying to kill us." I said to Vivianna while looking at the "dead" Leo. "I wish we only knew why," said Vivianna. I slowly shook my head and said "I don't know" while a tear slowly fell down my cheek. The curtains close.

As the curtains re-open, I hear two sets of hands clapping. Wait, two? "Well done everyone! Leo, Meg, Rose, what a wonderful performance!" said Miss Hunts. I look and there is Liam, sitting in the stands. Why was he here and how long was he here? Miss Hunts ended rehearsal for the day and we were able to go home. "Hey, how long have you been here?" I ask Liam. "I was here since 8th period ended. Football practice was canceled and they said we could go home." He replied. I nodded to him and asked his thoughts on it. "It was really good, had me on the edge of my seat there for a minute, can you really fight like that, or did you just learn those few moves I saw." He asked me. I told him that I actually knew how to fight a little. I noticed that I wasn't stuttering all the time, anymore. Maybe I am getting used to talking to him.

"Hey Ocean, Liam," said Tootsie. "Hey Tootsie" "Hey Trinity" Liam and I said at the same time. We gave each other a look and laughed a little. "How was the rehearsal?" Tootsie asked me. Liam said that the performance looked amazing and I told her it went pretty well. I asked her how tennis practice was for her, and she said that it was long and tiring. Liam offered to drive us to wherever, but Cinderella found him and said "Hey Liam, there you are! Where were you, you didn't forget our little homework date, now did you?" Her sickly sweet and taunting voice made me inwardly cringe as she said and emphasized the word "date." Liam stuttered and started to protest but she was already dragging her down the parking lot saying bye to us.

"Well, good to know that she is still hot on his tail," I told Tootsie. "Oh, Ocean. I hate her for putting you through all this internal fighting," she told me. "At least I might know where my place is... again," I tell her. I feel the large boulder of sadness fall onto my chest as I see her enjoying the person I long to have. "Let's go home," I told Tootsie.