Lillian's view

The class and I had just received our assignment: - write a 1000-word story in English. We could write about anything so I picking up my pen started writing.

Libby and I always loved our Aunt Sasha, she was quirky, always sporting wild ombre coloured hair, a bit like a pixie, everywhere she went she carried this wild knotted staff, a bit like a wizard's, thinking about it now. Aunt Libby was babysitting us for the week so our parents could have time alone to reaffirm their commitment to each other, whatever that means.

We were in our new bedroom, having moved back to Ireland recently, it was a quaint room, the floor marked with Celtic runes, we thought nothing of it until we asked our Aunt to tell us a story. She always did this weird but cool chant before telling us a story. When she had done it on her visit to us in Australia nothing happened, except a cool imaginary adventure. However, here it was different. A blue light lit up the runes and took us all elsewhere...where we were exactly none of us knew - not even my Aunt. My guess was we stumbled upon the last working portal to the fae...what would we do now? How would we get home?

Sasha being her usual self, snatches it off me and ridicules it "What utter trash!" tearing it into pieces, and throwing it on the floor.

I fight back the tears, and think of something else I could write... after all, she deemed it trash straight away? I don't know why I let her get to me but I did. I guess I did because others in the class joined on Sasha's band wagon saying "You're Trash Lillian. Go die Lillian. You're a waste of space Lillian." My usual defenders were silent, so I thought that they must have thought so too deep down. All I could think of was "I should go, kill myself, then everyone would be happy right?"

At the end of the day, I quietly went home, poured myself a bath and hopped in it with a razor. I started cutting myself across my wrist to start with, just to see if I could feel anything. I could not. I did not want to be there anymore. I was a waste of space. A piece of junk. No one would miss me that much.

I watched the water go red with my blood and started feeling sleepy. So, I rested my head on the back of the bath and closed my eyes.

The next thing I feel is being lifted out of the bath and wrapped in a towel, my wrists quickly sprayed and bandaged.

"Lillian! Don't you dare die on us!" I hear Lucian say.

"Come back, please!" Louis said "We can't live without you, Lillian."

"Why would you do this?" they asked.

"Because I am a waste of space" I say.

"Lillian, You. Are. Not. A. Waste. Of. Space!" Louis emphasised.

"You definitely are not!" said Lucian "Whoever said you were was lying and definitely did not know what they are talking about."

"I hate to agree with Blueberry here but I agree, they definitely don't know what they are talking about. Who said such a thing to you anyway?"

"Sofia"

"God, I hate that Girl!" said Lucian, "She's such a spoilt brat! I am so sick of her attitude and always trying to get rid of you! I love you for fuck's sake!"

"We both do," butted in Louis not willing to let Lucian be alone in his declaration of love.

"But don't you love me like a sister?" I query, sure that they did. That sort of love right now meant nothing to me. What's the point of living if only your family love you?

"Are you stupid?" and "Fuck NO!" the boys said together. "You mean so much more to me then that." And proceeded to glare at each other.

"I love her more!"

"No, I do!" their argument deteriorated into.

"If you're going to argue about it, GO AWAY! And let me die in peace!" I yell.

The pair shut up and started crying "Don't die Lil, I couldn't bear it"

"Why do you care so much anyway?" I ask again.

"Because we love you" they said.

"I don't believe you" I say.

The boys looked at each other then me, and words came out of their mouths that neither of them thought they would ever utter. "Since you don't believe that we love you. How about we show you?" Picking me up off the floor where they had given the emergency first aid, and taking me to my room.

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