I wake up at  to the sound of my alarm clock beeping loudly at me. I smack the button, making the beeping stop. The bright red numbers show the time; 7:00 AM.

Sleepily, I roll out of my white bed, flinching when my bare feet hit the cold tile floor. I yawn and stretch before heading to the bathroom to use some dry shampoo and change into my work clothes. I slowly pull off my white silk night dress, and pull on my cloth dress in the same color, before grabbing the bottle of dry shampoo and spraying it onto my curry red hair, which was still messy from sleeping.

I sigh and grab the bottle of 'Happy Pills' off the counter, removing one of the plain white pills and dropping it into the toilet next to me. It instantly devolves in the water, as if it were acid.

Everyone is supposed to take their Happy Pills, but I had faked smiles so often that I never needed them, and I could easily fake it. I'd rather not put any unneeded drugs in my body, thank you very much.

I walked out of my room and into the living room and out the door, deciding that I wasn't very hungry this morning.

Almost missing the bus, I ran out into the outside world. The bus passed through my neighborhood, past the old house of my old friend, Frank Iero.

I remembered the times I'd go over to his house, and listen to him play guitar with the rest of the band, My Chemical Romance.

I remembered the time they gave me a Black Parade jacket for my birthday. I used to wear it every time I came over.
I remembered how Frank would always pull pranks on the other guys, because he knew it would make me laugh.

I remembered the day they ran away.

And left me here.

I knew today was just going to be like every other day.
But I also knew that had to change soon.