Run. I whisper towards Ross as a bead of sweat drips down his face. The look of terror fresh on his face. Run!! I repeat, but it is too late. They got him.
I bend down to touch his now limp body, a drop of blood had landed on my cheek. I feel like I should cry, but I don't and this terrifies me.

"goodbye ross.." i whisper with tears now racing down my cheek. "You did this," he simply says hoarsely. His soon to be lifeless body stares up at me from the cold concrete ground. His face masking the pain with betrayal. I press my knuckles into the ground, the concrete turns to sand. "I never loved you anyway. How could you let me die Laur? You let me down." Hearing the nickname makes me flinch.

Flashes of memories race to the surface of my conscious one by one. It's the memory of our break up that really shatters me. "I'm sorry Ross!" I wail. I can feel the ground scrape at my knees as the wholes of my jeans only gets wider. I sink deeper down. "I hate you." are his last words,

and then I awake.
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The loud ringing of the school bells really gets to me sometimes. Why can't the principal just make an announcement each class? I'd gladly trade in a dumb bell for an announcement. "First period now begins." definitely wouldn't shatter eardrums.

"bad night?" Raini says walking up next to me. I look towards her and she nudges towards the dark shades on my face. "oh." I simply say trying to forget the horrific nightmare I had. "Yeah, couldn't sleep."

"good." she laughs. "I thought it was some attempt towards becoming a Cullen." the pounding of my head is too much for me to understand her reference to the movies of Twilight.

"Whats with her?" Calum asks joining our walk to class. Now either of my friends stand on either sides of me, and somehow both seem to be yelling.

"Bad night. not a vampire conversion attempt." and the two start laughing like wild hyenas.

"Woah, laur, why so pale?" Flashes of last nights dream returns and my knees slightly buckle. "hi Ross." I speak quietly. "Not trying to be a vampire now are we?" he tries to conceal a laugh.

"really!?" i say strictly and stop in my steps. Three of my friends now line up in front of me like soldiers obeying a commanding officer. "Thanks guys. I feel like crap today okay. so STOP yelling. and since when do you three talk to each other?" and then I storm away to first period, which I am late for, but not before seeing Calum, mouthing behind my shoulder.

"Yelling?" he mouths, but Raini and Ross simply share confused glances.

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all day, kids have greeted me with simple 'hello' s and 'how you doing laura?' and every single one has seemed like a yell or shout of some sort.

with tiredness seeping through my veins, I suddenly find myself stopping, in the middle of the hall, with hundreds of busy high school students surrounding me. I feel an enormous amount of annoyance and without thinking, I open my mouth. "CAN WE ALL JUST SHUT UP! PLEASE!!!"

In my head, or in the movies at least, When the main character does something like so, people around them would either A) start gossiping about him/her being crazy or loser, hence the form of rumours, B) Everyone would get crazy and fight one another like a riot, and last but not least, C) People would stop, heads would turn, and someone in the crowd would yell loser while teachers drag him/her to the principles office.

In my case... that did not happen. Not even close.

In fact, not even a single body stops to hear what I have to say. Nobody acknowledged me. It's as if I were, invisible.

"Stop standing there Laura." Marissa, from my math class sneers. "You're in everyones way!" and then she shoves my shoulder, which of course throws me off balance and I land in the arms of, Nate.

"h..hi." suddenly, I can't talk. "hi back." he says with his amazing Australian accent. Nate is the new foreign exchange student. I gave him a tour around the school when he first got here last year. Since then, he's definitely climbed his way up the social latter. "Are you okay?" he asks, his thick, but beautifully proportioned brows knit together.  I stare into his pools of green eyes before struggling to mumble "yes," and then he laughs OH so adorably.

"MOVE!" someone yells shoving us both to a wall. "oops." he chuckles, "almost forgot we were in the middle of the hall." It's only then, do i notice his arms still wrapped around me protectively.
"yeah.." i say trying not to blush. "clumsy us." He opens his mouth as if wanting to say something but a cry of his name across the hall releases him, from our bubble of dreamy. Reality quickly rushes in to fill the gaps and with a look of apology, he rushes over to his friends, not even waving a goodbye.

"what're you doing there?" Calum asks walking up to me. "nothing.." i mumble staring at the spot Nate had ran to earlier. "He's gone now."

"who's gone now?" Ross asks stopping in his tracks. And of course without thinking, I open my mouth. "Nate," and then a flash of jealousy and anger appears on his face, just as fast as it had come, and he leaves.

"Argh!!" i groan grabbing at strands of loose hair. "what is wrong with me!?"

"well, nothing." Calum assures. "Nate is a very handsome boy with an amazing body, an amazing face, oh and his hair!! oh that boy has great hair! oh and, Have you seen his abs? BOY does that boy have abs. His arms are thick and toned much like his legs, and his butt OH don't even mention his - "

"OKAY CALUM!" and i can't help but roll my eyes, "I think I get it..."
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thank you for reading! Sorry it's not as long, I'm exhausted and am in pain. Please bare with me.
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