Wake Me Before I Die

Maria Teresa Young. Blonde haired, blue eyed. Smart, pretty, healthy. Perfect.

That's me. Or so everyone thinks. But the truth is, no one is perfect, no matter how it seems on the outside.

That's the story of my life: walling up bricks of lies to hide what was real inside.

Ambition did that to me, because really, what are you if you're not perfect? Who would want you?

That was my life, but I wasn't living. Telling myself I'll do it sometime, a time when I don't have to hide, when I can finally do what I want. That's how my list of things I want to do before I die started piling up.

That is, it did until life was suddenly cut short. Timed.

Death suddenly felt like a foot away.

What do you do when you've only got so little time left on Earth? So little time left to live?

Maria Teresa Young. Blonde haired, blue eyed. Screwed, pathetic, hateful. And dying.

That's the real me. That's what I've been hiding, something I didn't even know myself. But sometimes, you gotta face the truth. Especially when you're only a breath away from death.

My name's Maria Teresa Young, and this is my story. Wake me before I die.