Ben forced himself through the next few days of school. Every class was days long, Ben's mind was in hell, he just started school, he was confused about his feelings for Briana, he had a terrible feeling of danger on his mind ever second of every day, and to make things worse some feelings from last year came back to him for another girl, Lindsey. everything about Ben's life was just a big middle finger to him. "Why me?" he wondered in bed at night every day. he called his friend Stephen at night on Friday for some help, Stephen suffers from depression which was close to what Ben felt so if anyone could help, he could. "Stephen, how do you deal with your depression? I can't take this feeling anymore, it's eating at my insides." Ben said softly to Stephen as he dozed of and he faintly heard someone say something, he thought it was Stephen but the voice was more like his own. The voice said "Everything will change." The next Monday, Ben felt a little better. That was the first time he talked to Lindsey since seventh grade. They only talked for a little while before his friend Nico dragged him off to class as a joke, not knowing that was the first time since school started that he felt genuinely happy. He thought the feelings went away but a small amount were there.
