All Alone in a Crowded Room

PART 1

Highschool. The worst 4 years of my life. I'm only in the second year and it sucks. I dodge the oncoming kids while trying to get to my class. I finally get into the door and sneak in. I sit down at my usual desk. Next to me was my nieghbor, Nick. We have been friends forever. Behind me, though, was Taylor my other friend.

The students come into class. Usually, they walk in with their group of friend, or the "cliques". There were the nerd, jocks, cheerleaders, goths, and the normals. Nick and Taylor come and sit down too. This was the last period of the day. We had Algerbra with Mr. Juleander. After the class was done everyone rushed out to get home. Nick, Taylor, and I were the last to leave. We walked out of the building.

"So Natalie," Taylor started "I hear someone has the hots for you." She smiled and started to chuckle.

"Yeah," I say "Who?" I know she is only kidding. She likes to mess with me like that.

"Umm. Uh. That rock!" She laughs and gets all red in the face. I know she is only kidding but it hurts my heart a little bit. Taylor turns left while Nick and I turn right. Me and Nick start talking about the day. It was an average day.

Most girls in my high school likes Nick. What wasn't there to live about him. He had gorgeous blonde hair and blue eyes. He was in shape and had abs. So yeah, I like Nick. He just doesn't like me back.

We get to our houses and we go our seperate ways. I walk into my house and see a note on the fridge. Its from my mom

"Natalie,

I have to work late tonight. Watch Erin for me?"

Nice. Ill be lucky if I can get my homework done with her in my way. At 4:00 Erin comes home she is so loud and obnoxious.

"Im HUNGRY!" She screams. She wont stop screaming until she gets what she wants. I finally get her to do her homework and eat dinner. At 8:00 I make her go to bed. That took forever. I finally get to finish my homework. My mome doesnt get done work until 10:00. I have to wait up for her. At 12:00 she comes home.

"Why are you so late?" I ask

"Natalie I am so sorry. A worker took me out to dinner and-" She says

"YOU COULDN'T HAVE CALLED?!?!" I scream

"I am sorry." She says

I run up to my room and start crying. I get in to bed and fall asleep. This was a good day compared to the rest. Tomorrow will be even worse.

PART 2.

I wake up the next day still angry at my mother. I pick out the cutest outfit and go in the shower. I start the shower and notice something weird in the shampoo bottle. I open it and notice there is glue on there. ERIN! How dare she put glue in my shampoo bottle.

After the shower, I head downstairs to eat breakfast. Erin was sitting at the table eating her cereal. "I should just kill you." I tell her. She chuckles. She obviously knows what I'm talking about. "Next time you do something like that you'll be sorry."

I hurry up and rush out the door to meet Nick. I make sure my hair is good and walk outside casually. He walks out looking cute as ever.

"Hey." He says. I say hi back and we walk to meet Taylor. Taylor comes out and we walk to the school. Once I get inside I head to my locker. I open my locker an notice a folder piece of paper. I open it up and immediately start tearing up. It was a note from Amanda. Amanda was one of the popular cheerleaders. She was a bully. She put this note in my locker calling me dirty names. I tear up a bit more but I can't. If I do my makeup will smear and I won't look good for Nick.

I meet up with Nick and show him the note.

"Wow. Did you cry? I mean you shouldn't because she doesn't know what to do with herself. I don't know why she would call a perfect girl like you those names. You are not a single bit of what she said. Don't believe her." Nick said. I was immediately happy and my heart starts to do flips. At that moment, I saw a little bit of hope. I saw that he might like me a little bit. I don't want to tell him how I feel because if he doesn't feel the same way, our friendship is over.

I go home that night happy. My mom was home, which means I don't have to watch Erin. Good. I finish my homework by 6:00. I go out and sit on the roof for a while. I stare up at the beautiful night sky and think about the day. Suddenly, memories of previous days flood into my mind. I see the horrible days. I see crying. I see heartbreak. I see bad memories. I think about leaving it all. I think about not having to deal with all this pain. I think about ending everything. I am thinking about suicide.

Part 3

Everyday, I am woken up by the radio, which is my alarm. Except today. The oddest of things happened. I woke up naturally to the chirping of birds and the sunlight through my window. I look over to where my desk was- a place where a drew, did homework, and occasionally played music- and I saw  figure in black. The figure stood. The thing was about 5 feet and 8 inches tall. Taller than me.