Imagination Run Wild

Chapter Four

Okay, I'm back AND I promised you an extremely long Chapter and I will do everything within my power to make that happen. Please bear with me on this. I get a ton of school work to do.

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The rain started 5 minutes after I'd begun searching for Cole and it just opened up on me so when I finally gave up an hour later, I trudged in, soaked. My mother, naturally rushed to dry me with an old towel. She watched me the whole time, concern etched into her face. I knew tye question she was dying to ask. What happened?

I shook my head. I wasn't sure whether there were tears in my eyes or if they were just droplets of rain left over from my expedition.  I tasted salt and knew it was newly formed tears falling into my mouth. I wanted to talk but when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a choked sob.

"Honey...I know you might now want to talk about it but what happened between you and Cole?" My mother asked, sounding as though she was about to cry along with me.

I shook my head, desperate for an idea and it came to me, "Cole...got...rejected."

For a moment she looked confused but she must have understood because she asked nothing more about it. "You should get to bed. You have school tomorrow. "

I followed her gaze to the microwave clock and sighed. It was already 9:30Pm. I know it was an early time to sleep but I needed alot of sleep to wake early.

"Fine." I sighed, turning towards the stairs and slowly trudging up them, only hoping that Cole was alright.

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"Al, I had the weirdest dream last night."

Alice merely glanced up at me and picked at her fries, delicately.  "You were supposed to call last night," She murmured around a frie.

"I was?" Searching my mind for any memory of last nifht but coming up empty. "Oh well...in my dream...there was a boy..."

After I'd finished, she stared at me, like I was a mentally retarded weirdo. "What? It was only a dream!"

"Was it...was it really?" Alice asked me, "You do act strange after these dreams and you did have an episode yesterday. Maybe it really did happen and you DIDN'T CALL ME AND TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED! I seriously began to panic and think you drove yourself nutty and committed suicide."

I sighed again, "Alice. Calm down. It had to just be a dream."

"Don't call me an ass when you see him again."

"Why would I ever call you an ass?"

"You tend to have a habit of being a hypocrite."

"What does that even mean?" I asked, shaking her,  "I am not as smart as you." I said, trying to flatter her into explaining.  It doesn't work though and she snickers. "Bitch." I whispered, hoping she didn't hear.

She did though and her face scrunched up. For a moment she was really weird looking until she stood, grabbed her backpack and before walking away, said, "See? Hypocrite."

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I rode the bus home yet again but this time, I couldn't sit alone. Some unlucky fellow had the displeasure of sitting next to me. He leanes as far away from me as possible.

"Poor Devon." A voice I don't recognize said, truely pitiful. "Has to sit with Miss. Seizure!" The boy pretended to twitch and I sank in my chair.

"Get me out of here."  I heard the boy called Devon whimper to his friends, who inched closer to each other to make room for each other.

My eyes found the floor and I see a weird liquid dripping from the seat in front of me. I pull my knees to my stomach amd hug them. It was the first hug I'd felt in a decade. Since I got my 'episodes'.

The trees whizzed past as though they too wanted to get away from me. It seems as usual, the world is against me. Mother Nature  is just one of the people begging to get on my list of haters.

I'm done. I'd made everyone hate me. Dream-Cole, the kids, Devon and  Alice.

I felt a pang in my heart. Alice...I'd hurt her too. I can't do this anymore.  I probably hurt my foster Mom too. Why didn't she just give me up?

I'm done. The words circulated in my thoughts. What did it even really mean? I'm going to kill myself? That is what most people think of the words. Me? I'm one of them...and guess what? The word applies. I'm done.  How surprising that I am not scared.

My stop. I get off and rush to the bathroom with a knife I'd found in the bathroom.  My mom was at work until 5. It gives me 2 hours to slowly bleed out. I smiled as I drew an X against the length of my arm with the knife. Then I wrote out 'BYE' using it as a pen and my arm as the canvas.

It didn't hurt when the knife ripped apart my flesh. My chest had an X also. Why? I did this for the pain but I felt nothing. Minutes passed and I blacked out.

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"She's waking. She will fully regain consciousness in approximately 2 minutes." An unfamiliar voice said, smartly. There is an edge to his voice, "I still say it should only be family."

A new voice speaks, a female. "He looked absolutely devastated and kept muttering thay he faiked to protect his...Queen?" She sighed, "I'm just saying he isn't normal."

"1 minute." The man's voice said, confident,  "He must be a nut."

"Doctor!" Doctor? I tried to form the word on my lips but only thought it. I...failed? The thought saddened me as I slowly blinked my eyes open and stare around the bright room...the briht hospital room. Before I spoke, I cried.

"Why?" I asked, sobbing, "Why didn't you let me die?"

It was the nurse who answered, although I'd asked the doctor, "Sira.."

I automatically corrected her, "Sierra. I am Sierra."

"Sierra. You don't need to kill yourself to be noticed." The nurse said, sweetly. There was no bit of unkindness in her voice.

"I don't want to be  known." I whispered,  "I wanted to get away from my...problem!"

The doctor groaned and the nurse sent him a disgusted glance, "I know. You mom explained that you have weird dreams at the wrong time."

I sat up, and shook my head. "Please...is there a boy out there?"

"Yes..."

"Does he go by the name Cole?"

She had to ponder for a moment, "Uh.....yes."

I fainted right after  that.

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I know this isn't as long as o promised but hey...Cliff hamgers are key :P. Thanks for the reads and I wish to see you....soon.