Telling The Future

[Breaking Up]

My best friend, Alice, has been my friend ever since elementary school and now we are grade ten. In grade eight she got a boyfriend and they are still together. Everyday, when I saw her smile it was beautiful, I liked her ever since grade seven. But she has a boyfriend and I don't want to get rid of that, it'll crush her delicate heart. Every time she's with her boyfriend, or shall I say, every time I even look at him, it makes me so jealous and unhappy. Alice's boyfriend, Cooper, he smokes, he drinks, skips school, he even took her virginity away from her. Which really ticked me off because I know he cheated on her many times, I tried telling her but I don't want to crush her. He doesn't deserve her, I'm not saying she deserves me, she just needs someone better. But me compared to her, she's the universe and I'm just a piece of dust floating. Her laugh, her smile, just her everything, makes me like her more and more, well actually, I love her.

Every time I hang out with her when she's with her boyfriend, she seems so happy, so.. In love. It crushes me so I say, 'hey, I'm gonna get ready for my next class', or, 'I'm gonna go, I have stuff to do'. Then she nods her head and I walk away, feeling defeated, crushed, abandoned, small, and so much more. Cooper always has his hands all over her, it makes me so mad. "Hey, Matt, what's up?" She asked me, I looked over at her, cute as always, I can't get over her beautiful sparkly eyes. "Nothing really, you?" I replied trying not to stutter because of her beauty, it always has shocked me everyday. "Waiting for Cooper to come and pick me up from school". Every time I hear that name come out of her mouth... I want to just... Push Cooper into a garbage can and push that over a cliff. "Ah, I see", I opened the door while she jumped ahead and walked in front of me, I walked beside her. I looked to my left and down at her, her lips look so kissable, her eyes are hard to look away from, her waist so small and so huggable, her hair so silky and shiny I could run my hand through it. I smiled and kept walking beside her on the sidewalk towards her house.

"Hey, Matt", she said, she looked up at me and had tears forming in her eyes. I stopped walking and so did she, "whoa, what's wrong?" I asked, her body trembled and she held her books close and tight against her chest. "Cooper has been talking to me less and less ever since we had sex, I think he might leave because I'm not good enough anymore or he just waited two years to get sex from me", she looked up at me and tears ran down her face, my eyes went wide and I held my tears back. "Cooper has been talking to another girl too, more than me, I don't know what to do, I lost my virginity to him, he can't leave because of that...", she forced to say it, anger filled my heart and my blood began to become warmer. She dropped her books and hugged me. I looked at her shocked, she was trembling so much. I hugged her back, "it'll be okay, if he does anything to hurt you again, he will regret it", I said as I held her closer and tighter. Alice kept crying in my arms, Cooper will not get away with hurting her.

That's when Cooper pulled up beside us in his truck, "hey babe, hop in, I'll take ya to my place", Cooper said as he chewed on a toothpick. I looked at him and she let go of me, I let go of her. I didn't want her to leave my arms and go with that cheating son of a bitch. She picked up her books and wiped the tears off her face. Alice... I'm here if you need anything, anything at all. She opened the truck door and hopped in, she closed the door and they drove away. I stood there watching them drive off in the distance. I sighed and walked towards my house, how can she still be so in love with that guy when she's hurt so much by him? I wish she would be mine... I would never hurt her in anyway possible, I would give her anything she wanted, I would not say a word if she's yelling at me, I would not hit her if she hit me. I wouldn't do anything to her that I would regret. She means everything to me.

I walked into my house, my mother and father were sleeping on the couch together, I smiled and walked upstairs into my room. My younger sister, Lily, walked out of her room with her teddy bear's hand in hers, it dragged across the floor as she walked to me. Her teddy bear had an x over the right eye, and it was ripped but with thread holding the pieces together. It was kind of creepy, but she made it that way. She was six years old, I bent over and picked her up. She hugged me and I held her close. "Matt, come play with me", she said, she always wants me to play with her, but that's okay, I like playing with her. "Okay", I replied, I put her down on the floor gently, she grabbed my hand and directed me to her room. "Let's play... Anna", she said, Lily was never into dolls, or girly things, or boyish things. She liked creepy things that confused sexuality. I nodded my head and sat down on her rug that was fluffy and white with red spots all over. It looked like from a murder scene.

She sat down in front of me and she grabbed my hands, I never played Anna yet, I wonder what it's about. Her eyes rolled back in her head and I only saw white in her eyes. "Oh, eeww...", I said while I tilted my head away. Creepy, really creepy and she started shaking. I was looking at her while I still had my head titled away. She then flings her upper body backward and coughs up blood, her face is facing the floor then she looked up at me, her eyes still white and her brown long wavy hair covering parts of her face. "Lily isn't here, Anna is", Lily said, her face went pale and her mouth went wide open as she arched her back and looked up at the ceiling. "Anna, stop its creepy", I said as her eyes rolled back so I could see them again. I sighed in relief, I was getting kind of worried, "did you like the game?" She asked with her normal soft voice, I nodded my head and stood up. "It was... Creepy", I said, she smiled and I walked out of her room and into mine.

I closed the door behind me and leaned my back against it. What a creep show, that's the kinds of games she plays with me sometimes. Lily also said she has an imaginary friend who is exactly like her. It wouldn't really be a pleasure to meet her or him.... Or it for all I know. I put my bag down on the floor and I sat down on my bed with my elbows on my thighs and my head rested in my hands. I was thinking about Alice, what Cooper might be doing to her right now, or what they might be talking about. It makes me sick to my stomach even though I think about them all the time. "Are you okay? Matt", Lily asked, I jumped a bit and looked at her. How the hell did she get into my room? She walked over to me and sat down in front of me on the floor. She had her teddy bear on her lap. "Yeah, I'm-", she interrupted me, "your not alright or fine or okay, your broken inside and your heart hurts from Alice being with another guy, a guy who doesn't care about hurting her", she said, her eyes didn't blink once ever since she sat there, her face didn't even have an emotion. "How did you know?" I asked and stood up, I never told her anything about that!

"Because, your mind is only focusing on that and it gives off waves to me, telling me what you are thinking about", she said, how can my thoughts turn into waves? I pointed to door, Lily stood up and walked out of my room as she closed the door behind her. I laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling. Alice... Don't let him do any harm to you again, please. I sighed and closed my eyes. I thought about Alice, beautiful beautiful Alice. I wish she said no when he asked her out, she's gonna get really hurt. I don't like seeing her cry. I soon fell asleep, but minutes later my phone vibrated in my pocket and I woke up. I grabbed the phone from my pocket and it was a text from Alice. I unlocked my phone and read it. I jumped up and ran out of my room as I dropped the phone on the floor. I ran out of my house.