An Unhealthy Obsession

Rule Ten

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(Y/N)'s Complete Guide to Achieving Success

Rule Ten of Ten:

'Just keep pushing on'

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Halloween 1986

It was the thirty-first of October and the rain outside your window didn't seem to be stopping anytime soon. It looked like even the weather didn't make exceptions for party goers, a torrential storm beating down onto the dark concrete streets below, down onto the people walking along it.

A fearsome drumming noise, that made the young children in the street squeal, their synthetic costumes soaked, as they raced back home leaving a trail of brightly coloured wrappers in their wake.

You rolled over, content to snuggle under the warmness of your covers, far away from the commotion outside, the sheets soft and gentle against your aching skin.

It had been too long since you had been that comfortable, body relaxed, breathing calm and mind freed from stress. School was out for the half term and you couldn't be gladder, finally able to occasionally sleep in, well before you would have to make a speedy exit out of your house. You didn't want to be around for what happened during the day, it was better that way. But you tried not to let that cloud your mind.

Breathing out a sigh, you once again turned over to face your sour expression in the glass of the window. Rain lashing against the pane, the noise blocking out every other, drowning out the usual cries of the people downstairs, masking the screams of the young children, covering the late night drunks ramblings.

Those were always the most interesting.

Rolling over, once again, you turned to face the ceiling, the size of the room obscured by the darkness. You just couldn't settle down properly, your mind far too full of racing thoughts, bouncing around from one end of your skull to the other like it was an empty cavern.

It was almost like there was nothing to think about now that school was over, most of the day to day worries drifting from your mind. The chemistry project was over, thank God, if you had to endure another hour of writing paragraphs about noble gases you were going to go crazy. You had to present it too, putting the pieces of paper under the projector and awkwardly stand in front of an already dead class, their minds already fried from the previous two hours of presentations.

You had let Kakyoin do most of the talking, he had seemed more up to it than either you or Jotaro, especially Jotaro.

The red head had explained as best as he could, leaving you to read out your own parts which you had reluctantly done. The class were practically ready to be wheeled off to the morgue when you had gotten to your own section near the end of the presentation, one student was already drooling on the desk and even the teacher was steadily nodding off, their head bobbing where they stood. At least you had all got full marks on it.

That was a bonus.

Sighing you pulled the covers further over your body, burying your face deep within them, thankful that you had decided to stay home.

You had rejected every party invite you had been given, making up as many excuses as you possibly could as to why you couldn't come, your 'friends' faces falling at the sudden rejection. But if anything you just didn't have the will to put up with them all, not in some stinky front room, bedazzled with coloured lights and filled with sweaty body and ruined make up.