Us

Natalie

 

This is one of  the worst moments of my life. Karishma, one of my closest friends, just confessed to loving my crush. His name is Jason, he is so hot! he has short brown hair, always perfectly done with a gel that smells like strawberries, he has big, bold, dark brown eyes with long eyelashes, he has perfect, soft pink lips that match perfectly with his golden skin. Of course someone as beautiful as Karishma would notice someone as cute as him, with her long glossy black hair, beautiful figure, nice clothes, big dark brown eyes, perfect eyelashes, and dark golden brown skin.

 

She knew I had a crush on him, she was one of the first people I told. After Lauren though. Lauren is my best friend, she is one of the funniest people I know. Karishma knew that I would be upset once she told me, but she did anyway. It nearly crushed me, I screamed at her with tears in my eyes “get out of my house, get out of my life, I don’t want to talk to you anymore” and she ran away crying. I hate her with all my heart, there is nothing she can do to get me to like her again.

 

I couldn’t think straight, I had to sleep get a full nights rest to get my mind off of what just happened. I changed into my pajamas, brushed my teeth and hair and fell into oblivion. But, my sleep wasn’t as peaceful as I thought it would be, I couldn’t keep my mind off of what Karishma did to me, random thoughts of revenge popped into my head and i threw them away, I may have hated her but I didn’t hate her that much.

 

I knew I would have to hang out with her because of everyone else, so I would have to be the bigger person. Oh to hell with it, I couldn’t be able to talk to her without the thought of slapping her come into my head. I couldn’t do it, even though it was three in the morning I had to call Lauren and she would answer, she wouldn’t be happy, but she would answer.  I dialed in her number, the first call she didn’t answer, so I called her again. On the third ring she answered, in a soft voice she answered “what the hell do you want?”

so I answered trying not to cry again, “Lauren it’s Natalie”

“my question remains unanswered, what the hell do you want?”

I knew she would be angry but she needs to know what happened “Lauren, Karishma and I got into a huge fight” I explained everything that happened, all the screaming and crying, all of it.

After I finished there was a silence, I thought she may have fallen asleep again until I heard her sigh.

“Why did you wait until now to tell me this? If you had called earlier I would have come over, I’m only around the corner it would have taken me five minutes”  she laughed a little bit. “Nat, are you okay? Do you need me to do anything?”

I got frustrated at her questions, “of course I’m not okay! What kind of question is that? One of my best friends just stabbed me in the back, of course im not okay!”

and she got frustrated with me, “well what else am I supposed to say Nat? It’s three AM, I’ll talk to you in the morning.”

 

And at that she hung up, the tone ringing in my ear. Who else am I going to get pissed at me today? I rolled over and turned off my phone, burying my face in my pillow and fell asleep.

 

No thoughts of revenge came to me in my sleep, only my conversation with Lauren, I shouldn’t have gotten so angry with her. I was already upset. But I did have to give her credit, I thought there was going to be a lot more swearing during that conversation, she did not like being woken up in the middle of the night. And that was all I remember for the night.

The next morning was a disaster, I woke up with a brain splitting headache. The light hurt my eyes, any sound echoed in my head like it was blasted in there by speakers, every step I took blasted a shock of pain through my body. But I treated it like a normal morning besides the fact that I hurt everywhere. I got dressed, did my hair, ate breakfast, got my school stuff ready, said goodbye to my parents and left.

 

I met up with Lauren, Rachel and a few other friends. Lauren walked over to me with a sympathetic look on her face, her green eyes glistening.

“Nat, I’m sorry for last night. I was tired and cranky, you have to understand it was three in the morning. If you called me for something stupid I would have been really mad.” She smiled and laughed.

“Don’t worry about it. I shouldn’t have gotten mad, it was the right thing to say on your part” I smiled and laughed back.

She stopped smiling and got all serious, “do you want to talk about it?”

I rolled my eyes “no, I’m okay now, don’t worry!” I smiled sadly and we left, of to the dreaded high school, where we will all go to different classes and meet up again at lunch where I will have to see Karishma again.