They say trust gets you killed and love gets you hurt. I totally agree with that. Shawn left me and well.. Vera. She's history, we go way back from before she became evil or perhaps the anti-christ.
I never wanted to mention this but Vera used to be good and not dangerous. She used to be my best friend since we were kids, until high school came. She distanced herself from me and I didn't do anything wrong to her. I asked her and desperately plead of what I did so I could fixed it. But she ignored as if I was nothing to her and was just a speck of dirt to be stepped on.
Back in my 2nd year of high school, Vera beat me until I was unconscious at the back of the school. She left me lying at the ground and I passed out quickly. I woke up and it was night time already. I went home.
As I got home, I covered and treated my injuries and bruises. Luckily, my parents weren't there (they went to Singapore for a business trip), I didn't want them here though because they would freak out over me. So yeah, that was how I realized that the Vera I knew didn't exist anymore and there was no way I could reach out to her.
Back to the story. As I was saying, Vera also happen to be the mean bitch who screwed up with my boyfriend. I know, typical mean girl who used to be your bff who just stoles your boyfriend out of the blue. It was inconvenient and very not pleasant.
"Well hello emma, how have you been? Are you're parents back from the dead? Did you're boyfriend already break up with you? I guess he's mine now, and too bad we get to have a lot of fun every single day." Vera looked down at me and gave me the look of "He's mine bitch" face.
"Yeah, enjoy being heartbroken and being all alone in a blackhole loser." Katie cooed.
"No wonder you're keeping a straight face in being pretty and smart, yet you're just a two-faced foolish and stupid little crybaby." Patricia crossed her arms and smirked at me.
I was filled with a tsunami of emotions and anger, guilt, regret were throwing on me, I tried to ignore the solitude of pain. Just then Hailey stepped up and defended me and here I was playing a coward, I hated it.
"Aren't you going too far and being like this early in the morning? You guys are the real stuckup and wimpy losers here." Hailey said.
I tugged Hailey's shirt. She noticed I had something to say to them so she stepped back.
"You guys are just a complete waste of time, we don't have time to play as your dolls Vera, instead why don't you just find a garbage trash and talk to it because you guys are trash." I confidently stand up to them.
"Be careful Emma, do you even realize what you are doing? You are being led to the lion's den and you didn't even noticed and I'm going to devour you. I'm the one who has the power and control of this school and all you're petty little talks can anger the queen." She looked at me as if she can murder me in a second, the glare that people feared were horrors of violence and I didn't want to get to her bad side.
"Oh and by the way, Happy Birthday Emma." Vera whispered to my ear then finally pulled away.
"Come on Hailey. This is a waste of time, let's go."
We walked away and didn't want to attract any audiences. Then the words repeated at my head soothingly "Waste of Time" and I was getting a major headache.
Classes were about to start and I couldn't stop thinking about my headaches happening at a time.
I shaked my head off and ignored my condition because I thought it was only stress and a lot of work at school. But it was not.
The school bell rang and it was lunch time. Every step I take the ringing was getting louder and louder, my head feels like being shot. I covered my ears tightly as possible and thought the ringing would be over but it wasn't. I looked around and the kids weren't bothered by it and they were looking at me weirdly.
"Am I the only one hearing this!?" I thought.
I couldn't hear anyone at all. The noise was fading away by every minute and all I could hear was the loud ringing of the bells.
I ran to the bathroom as quickly as possible and locked myself to one of the bathroom stalls.
Just then the ringing was getting louder more than ever. My head couldn't take it anymore. I was in pain. I was in trauma. I panicked and I didn't know what to do.
"P-Please Stop It!!!" I cried and begged for the ringing to stop at any moment.
Then the ringing stopped. Thank God it did. And now silent grew and I could hear the small sounds from every area in the school. The water dripping from the faucets, the rustling leaves of the trees, chalks written in chalkboards, grass whistling in the campus and many more. I was shocked to hear all this.
I frozed for a minute. Then I started to wipe my tears from my face and went outside to wash my face. I turned the faucet on, cupped my hands to fill in the water and splashed it to my face. I sighed of relief and felt the water against my skin. I feel relaxed.
As I looked at the mirror, I touched the cold reflection of the glass and saw my face staring back at me like it was empty, like it didn't felt any emotion and it was like dead on the inside. I backed away from the mirror and grabbed my bag quickly.
"This is like a horror movie." I thought.
I went outside to find Hailey. But Hailey found me instead.
"There you are! I've been looking everywhere for you! Where have you been?" Hailey asked too many questions and I didn't want to tell her everything.
"I-I was just in the bathroom." I stuttered.
"But I looked for you in there." Hailey was stressed.
That was weird. The bathroom door was unlocked and no one came in at the time while I was in there.
"What are you talking about? I was just in the bathroom for only half an hour." I said while trying to hide the fact that I had an insane headache.
Hailey was shocked. She was confused and was trying to process everything in her mind.
"Emma. You were missing for 4 hours!" Hailey said.
There was a long silence between us. I was shocked and mostly very confused, then I looked at my phone, it was 4:30 PM and it was already late. Everyone went home already, there were only a few students staying for their practices also teachers sorting out their paperwork and I was in the bathroom for a very long time. And most alarming of all, I missed the triple chocolate cake and missed 3 periods in class. I'm gonna be in so much trouble.
It was too much for me to handle this. Then Hailey breaked the tension.
"Come on, let's go home." Hailey said softly.
I nodded and sighed.
Then we went home in complete silence. When we walked from school, the bright moon had shined very early. I stared at the moon and it reflected from my eyes. I sighed in relief to see the white bright and beautiful moon staring back at me.
Little did I know that this wasn't going to end. It already began. Next week, my birthday. My life will not be the same and it will be changed forever.
Thank you for reading and Happy New Year! See you next year! Byeeee🤗💖
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Mermaid Tail
FantasíaEmma had suffered already to lose both of her parents and being bullied at a school until one day her life changed and became upside down when she met a mermaid and became one herself at the night of her birthday.
