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Thirteen Days Ago
The one person I hate the most? My best friend. She used to be the sweetest person I know, and we talked for hours. Now, it's like she's from a different planet. A planet named Doomsville, where all residents are required to have an entirely black wardrobe and always have hair hanging in their pale faces.
I look at her now, from my solitary spot in the cafeteria, and wonder. I wonder why this happened to her, to me. I wonder what she's thinking, and if she knows I'm eating alone for the fourteenth day in a row. She must. Everyone else does. I regress into the ultimate state of dorkiness as I pull out my Science homework and figure out the complicated problems. I feel two hundred pairs of eyes laughing silently at me.
A few moments go by silently, and I quietly pray they last. Unfortunately, they don't. The table in front of me shakes as someone I don't know sits down in front of me. He smiles and I notice his dimples.
"What'cha reading?" He asks, before taking my book and skimming the cover. He lets out a low whistle. "Whoa. Truly a classic."
I ignore him, just wanting to be a dork in peace. And then I feel it.
It's cold and sticky and smells sour. I put a shaking hand to my drenched head, realizing the boy had been a distraction. She did this. I'm confident she did, because she's the only one evil enough. I'm about to cry, but then I realize what she dumped on me. So instead I scream.
I scream and run towards her, and I'm sure I look absolutely nuts, but a tackle her and wrap my hands around her neck. At first she fight but then she stop moving all together.
It's then I realize what I've done. I killed my best friend.
The next thing I know I'm in my bed, screaming and crying at the same time. I feel the back of my head, but it's dry. It was a dream. The same dream I've been having for the past thirteen days. It was thirteen days ago I first felt the urge to hurt her, kill her if it came to it. Thirteen days ago when she dumped the sour milk on my head. Thirteen days ago when I was expelled for choking her, almost to death.
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