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Creative Writing: Lethal

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The first time I saw her she was perched on my chair at New Westview High in the English 11 classroom and was twirling a luxurious pair of earbuds around her elegant and slender fingers wrapping them around like whips. Lethal. Pestilent. Yet still there was something about her that was bewitching. She screamed anguished closures and shredded promises. Back then I just had a feeling. One of those nauseating, petrifying feelings but almost addictive when I went near her. She had these black and red beats that were colossal compared to her meagre face but she didn't seem to mind. They kept slipping off her sleek, smooth hair. Why would she have earbuds and headphones? Like what an idiot. Her fingers and feet tapped out the rhythm on the floor. …show more content…

The dust flew up in clouds around her black and white Nikes that were brand new. She looked sick. Actually when the sun hit her face she looked healthy just frail. She was on the border tipping back and forth between life and death. Sick looking and normal. Her hair a black mess was spilling right down her back falling everywhere except her face but she still kept pushing it back anyway as if she wanted it to disappear. Eyes were pale, a pale blue like diluted Gatorade that held the sadness of the world. As for the rest of her features they were average just bigger. Bolder. I had just sighed and moved to the next available seat unaware of her pale eyes following my every step. If I didn’t know better it was almost like she was studying me like I was an animal or a test subject. The following day I saw her in the lunchroom. Sitting with the rich kids, the ones with the polished cars and money they could throw away, literally and don’t forget the designer clothes. Again she was staring at me. With her diluted blue Gatorade eyes and in her ear this time she had earbuds, her headphones around her …show more content…

Always my seat. And she was of course, staring at me. I noticed during class the little things she does. Push her hair back, grabs and twists her ears until they turn red, picks at her spotless fingernails and scabs on her hand until they bleed. Usually this is when she tells the teacher she has to clean up the mess she’s made. You’ll be lucky if you see her in that class after one of those, otherwise she disappears into the walls of the school, her body receding, swallowed by the colours in the area. This happened day after day, one day after another. The crowd of people would disappear when I would look at her. The other kids I mean. Her eyes the Gatorade ones. They would just stare at me. Look at me and stare right at my face. The look she gave me was usually vacant. Occasionally she would let her emotions spill out like paint spilling on a fresh clean paper. I would see the glass inside of her, the real girl, the shattered one the one who didn’t live to shop, hang out with her friends, squeal over guys. The one who truly believed she was broken, she wasn’t safe and no one could help her anymore. But just as quickly as it came it would disappear like the a fault or glitch in the system. She would go back to the standard usual glacial look and quickly avert her gaze. I would just sigh. We never actually interacted, until the day she came up to

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