Dear Reader, It hadn't hit me right away, many things, but especially the fact that I was about to turn twenty years old. It was as if it was just yesterday that I was learning how to make a peanut butter sandwiches, tie my shoes, and draw endlessly with fat crayons--which I thoroughly believed to be a masterpiece. It had to be yesterday, when I was befriending any new person that I met with a dazzling smile. No, those were the years that I was numb--masked from the world and blissfully unaware of the dangers and lingering dark edges of the Chicago city. Life moves fast; terrifyingly fast for some, especially those who try and anchor down each and every day of their existence. For others, it moves drearily slow. I use to be numb, I use to be unaware of the shadows deep within the corners of the earth, the watchful figures around me. I use to draw scribbles, struggle to tie my shoes, and fail at doing the simple things, like tying shoes. I use to make friends with anyone I met and kept that friendship over a promise. I use to do a lot of things, actually. But that was when life was a whole lot simpler, safer, and perfect. That was before I knew about Death. That was before he became my frenemy. Forever and always, Faith Williams *** MY WRITING PAGE! Please join! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kat-aka-katrocks247-from-Wattpad/208740202517075

Cherie was the quiet girl. The one that barely talked during school. Just another face you pass in the hall. The girl who was never really noticed and if she was it was with teasing. She had only one friend who didn't even have her back in times of trouble. Cherie was happy to get the hell away from her stupid town and to move to Los Angeles where her mom got a job as a dancer. They stayed there for two years and were forced to move back because Cherie developed a disability and a passion for something she was never really into. And the only school that would let her disability and her passion mix was her old high school that she had escaped from. So now she's back, she's bad, and she's deaf?