Syana Walsh moves to a new school after a tragic event takes place. Which causes her to become mute. She and her family had to take signing lessons. Her parents want them to run from what haunts her. Though she is terrified that it will come back. S...
I reach the school doors and swing them open. I pull my bag strap up and start running out the door. I keep running. I run through the parking lot. I run across the street. I just keep running until my lungs burn too much and my legs get wobbly.
Why can't I just be a normal girl? A girl who can get close to someone. Who doesn't have to keep looking over their shoulder. Who's not terrified. I just want it all to change! I don't know how much more of this I can take.
If I get close to anyone I would be putting them in danger. It's bad enough that Reece now knows my secret.
I stop at the park gate. I open it and walk in, walking to the far side and sit up under a tree. I lay down on my back and just look up at the sky.
After awhile of laying there, I decide I need to get home. I get up and brush my pants off and start running home.
As I run home, I see an ice cream parlor so I stop there and get my favorite ice cream. Cookie dough.
Thankfully the cashier knew sign language. I go to take a seat in a booth but the bell on the door rings and Maddison, the school's Barbie walked in.
I pick up my bag and start heading for the door, hoping Maddison doesn't see me. I am not so lucky though. She comes over and blocks the way to the exit.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the mute." She says. "No wonder you are fat, look at that ice cream. You should probably stop eating that so you can lose that weight." All her friends around her snickers.
As I go to walk past, Maddison takes my ice cream. I haven't gotten to take a bite out of it yet so she unwraps my spoon and sticks it in my ice cream.
"I'll take that." She says while taking a bite. "Cookie dough, you should stop eating this. It has so many calories in it and I'm sure you want to lose all that weight."
I finish walking past her and as soon as I walk out the door I take off into a sprint with tears streaming down my face. I didn't know that I started gaining weight.
I walk in the house smelling the aroma of my mom's cooking. "Syana, come eat." My mom says.
I get in her line of view so she can see me, "I'm not hungry, I'm going to go running after I change." I sign. She nods her head then goes back to the kitchen.
I walk up the stairs into my room so I can change. I get out my sport gear then start changing into it.
Everyone acts like nothing happened. Like I didn't lose my best friend in the process of me being kidnapped by my own boyfriend, and him torturing me. If It wasn't for me being saved, I would have died. Especially when I was saved. I was lying on the ground, not breathing. She found me so he killed her. I've lost part of myself due to the past. But she called the cops before she came in to try and break me free.
I know everyone is just trying to move on, but at this point, you should be able to tell that I am hurting still. I just want someone to be here for me but no one can.
Ever since that first encounter, Maddison keeps dragging me down, slowly. She has dumped a bucket of paint on me. She hit me with a ball. She just won't stop and I have only been at that school for a month now.
I get my sports gear on and run out the house and I keep running. I run past my limit, letting Maddison's words soak in to keep me going. At this point, my legs are so wobbly and my vision is starting to get dark.
I am now in my neighborhood, just a street over but my legs give out causing me to fall to the ground.
"Syana!" I hear, but it's faint due to the gasping for air from me. I went way past my limit. All because of Maddison. But I needed someone to tell me.
Suddenly I am lifted off of the ground. I start thrashing my arms and legs frantically because I do not know who picked me up.
"Syana, it's okay. It's me, Reece." I hear. His voice is recognised and finally I look up to see it really is him.
"Reece." I mutter, real low. Suddenly he comes to a halt and looks down at me in his arms.
"You just talked! You said my name." He says excitedly. I did. I did talk. I open my mouth to try to say something else but I can't.
"You can't say anything now, can you?" He asks. He seen me trying to talk again. I shake my head, disappointed. I really thought I got my voice back.
"Hey, it's alright. That's just the start. That gives hope you will get your voice back." He says, noticing my disappointment. He starts walking again and I notice he is walking into a house. His house. I had no idea that I was at his house.
Reece sets me down on his couch and goes into his kitchen. Not long after, he comes back with a glass of water for me. I drink the contents in the glass and thank Reece.
"Sorry if I was heavy. I know I am fat." I write on the paper Reece gave me so we can talk.
"Heavy? Fat?" Reece scoffs. "As if, you weigh nothing. You are as skinny as a toothpick, lose anymore weight, you would look seriously anorexic."
"How can you say that? I was told today I am fat." I write.
"Who told you that?" He questions.
"Maddison." I write.
"She is still messing with you?" He asks. I nod and look down at my hands.
"Let me talk to her." He says. "Let me help."
"I'm not a charity case." I write to him, getting angry.
"I know that. I want to help because I like you Syana." He says.
"Like me? You hate me." I write.
"Like I said before, I don't hate you." He says.
"Then why are you rude to me if you like me? And just because you now know my story, it doesn't give you the right to see me differently." I write.
"I am rude to you because I have never had feelings for anyone before. I'm not good Syana. I am the bad boy and you know it. I just didn't realise how rude I was being until you told me your story." He says. "I am just now going to embrace that I have feelings for you. I want you."
"I need to get home." I write. He stands up also.
"I will walk you." He says. I nod my head then we leave walking to my house. I only live a street over so it doesn't take long.
He turns to leave but then stops and turns around. "You won't be able to resist my charm much longer." He says then walks away.
I walk into my room and get my stuff to get a shower. I am so tired. I ran past my limit tonight.
I walk into my room to lay down. I put my phone on charge and as soon as I lay it down, my phone lights up with a message. I unlock the screen and read the message.
"Goodnight Bell'Angelo." It reads. Reece.
I lay down and fall asleep with a smile on my face. He gave me a nickname. I don't even know what it means.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
