The 99 Rules to Living
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Last published Wed, Dec 13, 2017
Lyra Lane has always been your stereotypical bitchy rich girl who has always the queen bee of the school.
Everyone thought she had it all. Plenty of friends, a hot guy, money, a future modeling career.
They all thought every night for her was dancing at parties, chugging down cheap alcohol, concerts and back stage passes to meet the band. But in all honesty, that was just the schools' wild imagination, conjuring up whatever they could to mold what was Lyra Lane. So when people always said, "Lyra Lane rules the school", it was really the school that ruled Lyra Lane. On the outside she appeared to have it all but inside she was just a shell.
No one really cared. No one really cared that her mom had died to cancer a year ago, most didn't even notice. No one cared, noticed, or knew that she was dying from the inside out.
Maybe that's why she did it. Because if she had killed herself one night, the next day people would shed a fake tear and move on, letting the wave of time take them along the crazy roller coaster that is life.
That's the thing about time, it doesn't stop for the insignificant people.
But little did she know that she wasn't even on the roller coaster yet. She was waiting in an endless line. Lyra was living yet, just existing. She hadn't felt the feeling of life. Little did she know that she was the one who had to step on the roller coaster and strap in her seatbelt. And little did she know that it was going to be the people she least expected to make her realize that.
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