13: This Can't Be Real
This is from Tyler's perspective
I had parked my car and grabbed my keys to unlock the front door, but to my surprise, it was already unlocked.
"Hello?" I said cautiously.
"Jenna? Marie?"
Nothing. I walk around to see if maybe someone was home but was just asleep or something, only to find Maries' door to be shut.
"Marie?" I said, knocking softly.
I tried to open the door but it was locked. I immediately had a bad feeling when I didn't get any response.
"Marie? Marie?! I'm gonna break down the door if you don't unlock it!"
I hated sounding this violent, but I was worried. I used my body weight and slammed into the door twice before it opened. I looked around to find a note, a poster, and her bathroom was shut with the light on.
I began with the note.
"Dear Tyler and Jenna,
I'm sorry you have to see me like this. Actually, I'm sorry you have to deal with me at all. I'm just a mistake, I keep messing up, I'm just a disappointment. None of this is your fault. I promise. You two have treated me so well, I feel bad. I want to repay you. I want to give what I've gotten from you guys. I can't say 'I'm sorry' enough.
The poster is something that Lydia, someone who has bullied me all year, had made and posted around the school. Her and a guy named Shaun haven't stopped torturing me and I don't know why. I had reported the two, but there was no evidence it was them, so they couldn't get in trouble. The beatings and harassment only got worse the more I reported it, so I stopped. I tried to ignore it. I really did. But something took me over the edge:
I had defended myself when Lydia was bullying me to keep it short. She got her revenge. Her and Shaun had made a video with the news story about my family's house fire. It was broadcasted all over the school. They said:
'Marie Crawford is. MURDERER. She burned her whole family alive! How can anyone trust her? She's obviously mentally insane! First she kills her family, then she starts cutting herself!'
The whole school heard it. I can't take it anymore. I'm done. I didn't hurt my family. I'm not a murderer.
So I'm finished with this waste of a life.
I'm done being something that only makes mistakes. I'm done being something that breaks your things and makes people hate me. I'm. Done.
So it's time to say goodbye to the earth and now my worthless life, cause everything I've ever made is dead now inside the grave.
I love you two. Promise me you won't mourn a day, and you'll move onto someone else.
~Love, Marie"
The tears are uncontrollable as I realized what is happening. I ran to the bathroom door and kicked it open only to find the most horrific sight in front of my very eyes.
"No...no no no oh god no please don't."
I grabbed her limp body and used my shirt to tie up her arm wound. She was barely conscious.
"This can't be real. Marie, honey, stay with me. Don't go to sleep okay? Stay with me, you don't need to run. Stay."
I dialed 911 and had an ambulance rush over. I called Jenna and the moment I told her she hung up. She was at the house around the same time the ambulance took her into the van on a gurney. She broke down in my arms, shaking uncontrollably as my tears stained her shoulder. We quickly followed the ambulance over to the hospital where we wait.
And wait.
And wait.
Until the doctor came into the waiting room.
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