Hero

~Chapter 1~

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEEEEEEP! I grab my phone and turn off the timer, slowly waking myself up. I look at my phone and see a text from my best friends, Alice and Zoe. A.K.A wingus and dingus. I love them, with all of my heart but PLEASE, for the love of god they need to stop trying to text me at 3 in the morning. I mean, what kind of person stays up that late on a Wednesday night? Anyway, I get out of bed and go brush my teeth and get some clothes on. A t-shirt and jeans with holes at the knees. Just a normal day for me. Honestly, it's too normal.

I go to the bathroom and do the necessities. I do my hair, make-up, ya know, all the normal stuff. I look in the mirror and see this girl. She has brown hair, brown eyes, lots of freckles, some ok lips, ok eyebrows. Ya know, just an ugly human being. I look at that girl and realize it's me. Why do I look this way?  I think to myself. Compared to Alice, I look like a toad, and that's offensive to toads. She is so pretty, basically a perfect human being. Always has perfect grades, everybody loves her, she attracts all the boys. She is so popular and then there is me. Nobody knows who I am. I'm hated by people, and I don't know why.

*buzz buzz*

I look at my phone and it's Alice. "Hey Alice!" I say trying to sound happy.

"Hey Dani, I was wondering if you would want to go to the Winter Formal with me, since I don't have a date" She says.

"Wait, the Alice, the one all the boys drool over, doesn't have a date?"

"I know right! I wanted it to be me, you, and Zoe this time cause I always go with a date and you haven't been to a dance this year! So, I said no to all the guys who asked me."

"Al, I don't know what to say," I say "I guess I'll have to think about it cause you know that dances aren't my crowd."

"Oh come on Dani! I said no to all the guys cause I wanted to go with you and Zoe! I really want to, please?" She says with a whine.

"Fine, I'll go, BUT you have to get me a bouquet of flowers," I say holding my head high, acting like I was 5.

"Ok Dani, I'll talk to you at school. Bye!" She says then hangs up. I look at the time and it's 7:15. Plenty of time to get coffee. I go downstairs and see if my sister is awake. She was sitting on the couch, watching tv. "Hey Caroline, you down to leave early and go get some coffee? My treat," I say hopefully persuading her. Yes, I was 18 but I didn't have my drivers license. "Sure where we going?" She asks. "The normal" I say and she nods her head. Every Sunday we would go to the little coffee shop down the street from my house. That was until, something happened. We don't really go on Sunday anymore and we just go whenever. "Hey Dani you ready?" Caroline asks. I nod my head and walk out the door, Caroline following. "Oh I almost forgot my backpack!" I say sprinting inside the house. I grab my bag and start running back to the car. I run out the door and lock it as fast as humanly possible. I get in the car and see Caroline, tears streaming down her face. "What's wrong?" I say. "Listen to the radio," She says tears still streaming down her face.

"A little girl of the age of 7 hit by a car and killed over near Hills Coffee Shop," the radio lady says. "Police still trying to figure out who made the hit and run, more information will be revealed later on"

I now knew why Caroline was crying. "Hey it's ok Caroline, she is in a better place," I say trying to comfort her. She just nods her head with tears still streaming down her face. "Why don't you just drop me off at school early, I need to go get some stuff done," I say trying to get Caroline's mind off of the situation. She nods her head again and then drives me to school. On the way there, we don't say a word to each other. We get to school and I get out of the car, saying goodbye to Caroline. "Have a good day, ok?" She says with worry in her face. I nod my head and close the car door, taking deep breaths. I hated school. It made me so anxious that I would cry sometimes before I walked into my first period class. "Dani!" I heard a girl scream. I turn around and see Zoe hanging out with Alice and her group of friends. I walk over and wave at Zoe, hoping that none of Alice's friends would talk to me. They scare me so bad cause they are the most popular group in school. Alice is the leader of the group. Makes sense, I mean she is gorgeous and everybody loves her. "Hey Dan" one of Alice's friends say. "Are you going to cut your hair yet?" One of Alice's friends say. "Why would I cut my hair?" I say, really confused. "I thought you were a trans boy, that's why you wear boy clothes and have Dan as your name" she says as all of her friends besides Alice are snickering. "I-I don't wear boy clothes," I say as I start crying. Zoe steps in front of me and starts yelling at them. "HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO HER! SHE IS SO PRETTY, PRETTIER THAN YOU WILL EVER BE YOU SLUTS!" Zoe says while hugging me. Alice just looks at us and then her asshole friends, and then walking over to me and hugging me. "Guys please, stop fighting. It's not very nice," she says with a frown. "NOT VERY NICE! THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY ALICE! I THOUGHT YOU WERE OUR FRIENDS, COME ON DANI LETS GO!" Zoe says while grabbing my hand and pulling me away from Alice's grasp. I just follow her while she drags me to the bathroom. As we walk in, Zoe throws her bag on the ground in frustration, "I can't believe her! She would rather choose her popular bitchy friends than her best friends since kindergarten!"

"Hey Zoe calm down, your fine, she is fine, everything is fine," I say in a calming voice. Zoe just hugs me, I can't imagine what Zoe must be going through. Not just with the Alice thing, but with everything. She has a pretty rough home life. Her dad is always gone at work, her mom off sleeping with some man whore, and her older brother is always getting stoned. All she needs is a friend and Alice is not helping the situation. I just hug her until the 5 minute bell rings. We walk to our 1st period class. Thankfully we have it together. We get there and we sit down in our seats. God, I hated this class. It was full of stuffy popular girls who had no personality and jocks who had no brains. "Hey ladies, wanna go out tonight? Me and my buddy would love to hook up with pretty ladies like yourselves," one of the jocks said. I just sat there, not cause I was thinking about my answer, but cause I was to scared to talk. I didn't know what to do. As I sat there looking really stupid, Zoe stood up from her seat, fuming. Right before Zoe was about to say something one of the popular girls said "Oh I thought Zoe was dating the trans boy Dan" she said with a smile. All of the popular kids nodded their head in agreement, snickering at the comment. My eyes started to get watery and I rushed out of the classroom. "Hey where are you going!" said the teacher. I didn't even care anymore. I just rushed to the bathroom, not looking where I was going. I looked up and right as I did so, I slammed right into someone. BAM! lights out.

I woke up on the ground with my head throbbing. I looked in front of me and saw someone was trying to shake me awake, but I was still to dizzy to respond. I just blinked a couple of times and tried to focus my vision. I just shook my head and tried to get up, but instantly fell back down. "Hey miss are you ok?" said the guy that I ran into. "Um I don't know, I hit you pretty hard" I say looking down. Something about his voice seems familiar. I look up and instantly know who I'm talking to. He has chocolate eyes, a wide smile, goofy laugh, it was Markiplier. I just sat there speechless, not wanting to move. I just ran into the guy that saved my life. The guy that made me feel whole again. Wait, what was he doing in my high school?

And that does it for the first chapter of my new Markiplier book. Sorry to leave it on a cliffhanger. I have worked on this for so long cause I wanted it to be a good first chapter. I really hope you guys enjoyed this cause this was a lot of fun writing. Also, if you haven't checked out mu other book then you should cause it's great. Ok love you all and I'll see you guys in the next chapter, BUH-BYE!!!

~dani (aka ya girl with split personalities)

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