"Am I Dead to You?"

Chapter 2: Invitation to Death

     It's been a week since that incident with me and Louis, since then he hasn't said a word to me but I don't put much thought to it, most of the times we've fought we'd always make it up. Although it usually doesn't take that long for us to be friends again and leave it in the past? "Keira! Keira," oh no it's more people, I groan and turn around. "What is it?" I smile so fake as I'm annoyed. "I heard you'll be trying out for the cheerleading team; you're obviously passing right?" Wow these rumors surely do spread quickly. "I guess, and?" I shrug my shoulders and walk away.

     So many people ask me questions or want to hang around with me, I mean what's the big deal? It's not like I'm famous or something, what makes me so well known? As I walk towards my next class, the announcements go on. "Keira Laur please report to guidance. I repeat, Keira Laur please report to guidance. Thank you." What did I do now? I feel all eyes on me as I do as the principle said but I also notice people giving me ugly looks and whispering things of me? "That's new," I say as I whisper underneath my breath. "You're such a pig!" What the heck was that? Throughout my journey to guidance, I've received unkind words from other students. I don't know how to feel about it.

     As soon as I grab the door handle someone opens the door and leaves, I go in and shut the door behind me slowly while looking at Mr. Neil, the guidance counselor. "Ms. Laur, I've received many unkind complains and stories from some students," he folds his hands. "What kind of stories?" I say as I lay back in the chair. "Things like how you've been starting fights and beating your friend." What the fuck is he talking about? "This fellow friend of yours says so," I look over to my right and see a creepy looking girl staring right at me, I almost jumped out of my seat by looking at her.

     I quickly sat up straight and looked at Mr. Neil. The creepy girl that was sitting beside me then speaks, "Keira, why did you have to beat me up? I thought we were friends?" I then move away from her feeling disgusted. "Would you look at that? More proof, anyways I would like to clear the atmosphere up with you two, so I'll leave you two alone. I'll be back in 20 mins," he then leaves while I'm stuck here with the unknown girl. "What do you want from me? Why are you making stuff up? And who the fuck are you?!" I cross my arms. "What do you mean? It's me Jackie, Jackie Hail." She removes the makeup and wig.

     I get creeped out, once she removes the black powder from her face and the wig I see her face more clearly, she's that girl from middle school that I'd always avoid. "Are you mad because I'd ignore you?! If it's that then here take my number so I can talk to you every 5 minutes!" I take out a piece of paper from my binder and write my number down then slap it against her hand. "I'm not mad at just that!" She rips the paper and throws it in the recycling bin, "Because of you all your little fans and friends would bully me, telling me that I'd never be friends with someone like you who's popular and pretty!" She pushes me against the wall. "So you're the one making everyone go against me?!" I push her away from me, harshly making her head hit the window which then makes her pass out. "What the fuck did I just do..." I then began to panic, because of that I grab my stuff and walk out the room to and went straight to my house.

     I decided to skip school, yeah they might find out that I did it since there are cameras around the whole school so I'm technically fucked up. "What the hell am I going to do?" I pace around my room trying to find a solution. I lay on my bed and look at the ceiling, "There's no way out this problem except to hide in here all week. No, no, no, that'll just make me look guilty." I then get a phone call, I look at the ID Caller and it's... Louis.

     I pick the phone call up. "Hello," I say as I put it on speakerphone. "Hey Keira, how are you?" He says it in an evil way. "What do you want Louis? You're behind all this aren't you, you're mad because of how much better you think I am, right?" He chuckles. "I always knew you were a clever one. You ran away too soon, you forgot to grab the envelope that was left on Mr. Neil's desk, I put it on your front door for you. Hope you like it." He hangs up leaving me speechless.

     As soon as he hangs up I go running towards the front door and see an envelope, I pick it up and read "For Keira Laur" printed in red ink. I quickly open it up and read it out loud.

"Dear Keira,

     Hope you're having a spectacular day so far, you're such a strong girl for getting through all the trouble lately. Don't worry you'll get used to it, you might be home or maybe trying to deal with all this at school. Just to let you know you're always welcome here with me in hell, remember, I'll be watching you. This is your confirmation for your invitation to death.

Sincerely, Death

I quickly grab the note and tear it apart then throw it in the trash. "This must be a joke, right?" I then go under my covers and keep thinking "it's all a terrible nightmare, tomorrow'll be normal." Oh but boy I was wrong...

*thank you for reading all the way to the end*
*Chapter 3 coming soon*