Wonder

Chapter 1

My life was black just like my heart. Everything I touched turned to sickly. I was nothing but a useless reject with a mouth.

I could not fix anything I just broke all the things I put my dirty little fingers on. It was like I was the defective version with tangled brown hair and everyone else was the perfect one of a kind steal of a deal product.

The rejects never get put on the shelfs they just get thrown away like every other piece of useless shit. I was no different with pale skin and oval eyes.

My family thought I was a ticking time bomb ready to explode every minute. I was kept in the dark, I was the dark that surrounded this lovely little family in Wonder.

I was nothing but a broken toy that could not be fixed.

I was broken for good.

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I stepped into the lifeless place they call school. Dragging my heavy feet behind me. I stared at all the pretty girls in there designer boots and handbags. Their glimmering white teeth flash as they smile. The feeling of longing springs from deep within my chest. Almost like a disease.

I looked at the useless stuff I wore and sigh. I would never be anything. I was a nobody in a school full of somebody's. I was the odd one out.

I wasn't anything special even my friends know that. I would keep them at arms length just so they didn't see who I was. If they left I would have nobody.

Slowly making my way to my first period class of hell. I walked through the door to find the WANNA be's crowding around the queen bee.

She smiled up at everyone of her followers with a big plastic smile you only find on barbies.

Her hair was flat ironed and her eyes sparked like no other. She ruled the school with an iron fist, every word she spoke to every outfit she wears. Everyone girl wanted to be her and every guy wanted to get in her pants.

I did not see what was so great about Becky. Hell she was pretty but she was not smart. She looked at a pencil and thought it was a small tree.

She protested that all pencils should be removed from all school. All her follower voted too.

She smiles at me. One of those I hope you vote for me or I'll make your life a living fucking hell.

I don't smile back. She frowned at my face. "Is there something wrong with your eyes. I just smiled at you. Now smile back." Her voice was squeaky like a mouse, it made me sick.

"Oh, I'm sorry plastic objects don't really catch my eye."

Her eyes almost popped out of her head as all her dogs scowl at me. I didn't mind I was already the loser at this school.

Her frown did not make me guilty it actually made me feel absolutely nothing. She was the the queen at being fake even her teeth were fake.

Class started like it did every day with the teacher going on and on about some boring shit that we will never use in our everyday life. That bored look as if he didn't know what he as talking about.

"I'm confused." Becky hollers from the back of the class.

He looks up. "No you're not confused, you just don't know." He raises an eyebrow like his just come up with the new quote of the year. Everyone just sighs and someones whispers from behind me 'the fucks that supposed to mean'.

When the bell rings I stand up from my chair and slide out of the room without getting noticed. I was my own germ. No one wanted to get close to me.

The day went on like any other black and white Friday. The sky was gray in the small town of Wonder and the people were even grayer. This town was a boring old place.

It's where most of the old poor folks came to live before they die of a heart attack or a stroke or something like that.

Nothing interesting happened here nothing at all.

It was as if a blanket of boringness was covering over the small town of Wonder.

As I walked home through the dirt sidewalk I dragged my feet through the gravel. Going home was never something I liked to do I was always swallowed whole from the yelling and the fighting about what they where going to do about their defective child.

'Maybe we will ship her across the state to her grandparents' or 'maybe will give her to a private school where she can stay forever'.

I opened the door to my parents and my younger sister all sitting at the table already eating there meals.

They all stopped talking at the sound of the front door being opened then slowly shut again.

I walked into the small kitchen and looked around the room before strolling over to the fridge and grabbing an apple.

"Oh Olivia I made dinner." She said in a cold tone that didn't bother me in the slightest. I could feel all their eyes falling me across the room.

"I'm fine. It's not like you want me sitting with you anyway." I didn't get a reply because they all knew I was right.

They didn't want me in this perfect little family that had one flaw and that was me.
I walked out the glass back door into the forest that was behind our small little house.

Taking small bites of my apple I throw it on the ground and walk down the path to the small lake within the trees.

It was nothing special but it was something I could call my own.

I was quite and calm by the small lake it was just me and the birds sitting out here. The air was cool as it brushed up against the tall pine trees.

I slowly dragged my finger through try cool water and let it trickle down my fingers as I pulled my hand out of the freezing liquid.

I pulled the water away from the stream and made it dance before me. I flowed and spun in circles above the crystal clear water.

That's what made me different I could manipulate water right under my touch. That's why my parent didn't want me. I was not normal in there eyes I was defected and couldn't do anything right I was a mistake they told me.

They would not care if someone found my body in a gutter. They would probably throw a party not a funeral. They would probably invite the whole town to enjoy life without me.

I was still here, so that party was just going to have to wait.

The water ripped under my fingers and I made a me small wave.

The water was the only one who listened to me. They only one who would stay by my side but only because it had too.

I was the defected toy in the small town of Wonder.

••••Every morning you put on a fake smile.....but what if on morning you didn't. Would anyone notice? ~Anonymous