New Girl

4

Geraldine watched with open-wide eyes as Veronica sashayed away angrily while Cameron slumped down the hall. The teenager was adapted to seeing Cameron trotting down the hallway with Veronica clinging onto his arm, affectionately. Now, the couple left separately and with broken hearts. Although, as much as the girl felt shock and pity, Geraldine shrugged off her stun and left with the rest of her dignity.

Cracking her knuckles, she wandered off to get her books for the last period of the day. The teenager quickly grasped all of her stuff from her locker and treaded off to literature. As she stepped through the crowds of students gazing at her in awe, she kept a paper blank face masked on. Geraldine was passing the girls bathroom when she heard a strange noise. Pausing in her march, the girl rambled off into the awful and polluted smell of the restroom. The sound grew louder and louder until she heard it clearly. The sound was as tranquil as the serene hush of the ocean waves, but yet was as clear as a crystal. It was the sound.....of someone weeping.

"Hello?" Geraldine inquired with a weird but soothing note of sympathy in her voice.

She heard a quiet gasp from the girl crying, as if she was in desperate need of air. All of a sudden, everything was veiled with a sea of silence. Geraldine uttered once more and started seeking for the girl when she got no response. Once the teenager questioned for a couple more moments, Geraldine began a feeling of irritation creep up her spine.

"HEY! Look, I won't exactly be able to help you if you don't answer me."

Geraldine heard another soft sigh from the girl and behind her, she heard a door's eerie creak as it slowly swung open. Tilting her head around, she cautiously tip-toed towards the stall. Geraldine was almost in the view of noticing who the mysterious sobbing girl was when a realization smacked her in the head.

"Wait, Veronica? Is it you?" the teen inquired with confusion, "I knew that the break-up was a bit harsh, but I never would have suspected you to cry your heart out because-"

As the words poured out of Geraldine's mouth, she caught the girl's eye. Gazing up and down, she realized that the girl was not at all Veronica.

"-of it...."

Once more, a long silence spread its long body of quietness over the two teens. The girl, who was weeping, was...the new girl.