Part I

As I ran across the courtyard spurring the rain storm, I had no clue it would completely change my life. I slipped and slid right into a pillar.

I rubbed my head in pain, "Ow..." I mumbled and got up looking at the pillar. The pillar actually looked pretty. I walked back over to my laughing friends and they smirked at me. I grinned and kept walking straight past them.

I needed to know who built this building. I mean they added such a beautiful piece of art to it, so why not get recognition? I decided to just leave the matter alone, I mean it's just a pillar after all.

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Over the next few days, I found myself going out of my way to see the pillar. I even started eating my lunch by it every day. People would think I'm crazy, but I was in love with the pillar. It was truly amazing.

Eventually, people actually started calling me Pilmothy. Whatever that means, I have no clue.

One night I was laying in bed and thinking to myself. I wonder if Pilly (that's what I've decided to call the pillar) is lonely?

I got up out of bed and put on jeans and a sweatshirt. I snuck out of the house quietly and started making by way to the school. As I approached the front doors, I remembered that it is locked at night, of course. I had to find another way to the court yard.

I walked around the school to the courtyard in which Pilly was. I grinned, hopped the fence, and ran for Pilly. I hugged her (yes, Pilly is a girl) and lightly kissed her smooth stone surface. Little did I know someone from the newspaper club that happened to still be in the school, was filming every little move I made.

Suddenly, an alarm went off and I started to hear police sirens in the distance. I looked at Pilly in fear, kissed her one last time, grabbed my jacket, and ran back the way I'd came.

The next day when I got to school, everyone was staring at me and laughing. I was so confused to I asked my friend what was going on.

"You mean you haven't seen it yet? There is a video of you on the school website of you getting it on last night with that pillar you slammed into last week! I can't believe you did that!" He laughed and fell to the floor holding his sides.

I ran to the boys locker room and took ok my phone and checked the school website. I watched in horror as the me in the video started making out with the pillar. The horrifying part was how close the person filming me was and I never even noticed! I covered my face with my hands.

Now people know about my relationship with Pilly...... Should I embrace it or break it off?

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After a week, I still was keeping up my relationship with Pilly, but the video had gone viral and people were making fun of it with there own videos on YouTube as well. I wasn't sure what to do, but all of this annoying hate I'm getting is driving me up the wall. I can't take it anymore! Why can't people just accept the fact that I am in love with Pilly? Is that just too much to ask?!

I walked down the hallway to Math and all I heard was rude comment after another.

"Pilmothy~ You know you want more of that stone!"
"You're such a geek!"
"Aww! Do you miss your wittle pillar?"
"What, are going to take the pillar out to dinner?"

Everyone around me was laughing non-stop. Tears welled up in my eyes and k let them fall. I decided to screw math. I made a B-Line straight for the EXIT.

When I arrived home, I wanted to kill myself. I started to try and tie a noose out of a rope with blurry, sting, eyes from the tears.

Suddenly my door burst open, and it showed Pilly.

"PILLY?!" I shouted as tears threatened to fall again.

"My sweet! Don't die now! I need you! You cannot kill yourself! It will only mean we can never love again!" Her soft voice spoke in my mind. I blinked my eyes and she disappeared, but I know she was really there. I can sense it.

"I won't die now. But only for you, Pilly. Only for you." I whispered to myself, but o knew she could hear me too.

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The next day, I made sure things turned for the better. Anyone who tried to shove their crap in my face to make fun of me, I would just laugh as loud and hard as I could over them. By the end of the day, I was free. Everyone pretty much avoided me completely, even my closest friends.

I would spend all of my free time with Pilly; lunch, after school, before school, walking past between classes, study hall, small breaks, and any other time I had.

Everything had been going great for weeks until I heard about something from rumors around school. I heard that they were planning to add another big gym where that courtyard was. This means they were going to tear down Pilly.

My hands clenched in fists of rage. I instantly went, got my gym lock, grabbed a chain from the janitors closet (why it was there, I have no clue), and ran out to Pilly. I wrapped the chain around myself and the pillar. I grabbed my gym lock to fasten the chain so it would stay tight and not fall down.

During the next time between periods, other students, teachers, and even the principle started to crowd around me and Pilly.

"What is the meaning of this?!" The principles words were strict and held no room for error.

"I will not let you take Pilly away from me."

Part II

"Pilly?" the principal scowled, "Timothy, is this some sort of joke? Are you trying to be funny?"

"No," I said back, my voice rising in red hot anger, "you can't tear Pilly down. I won't let you!"

The principal looked behind him at the crowd, then back at me, trying to decide how to best handle the situation. "Get back to class," he told the others, "I'll deal with this."

When everyone had left reluctantly, the principal rounded on me, "Timothy, unlock yourself this instant. This is ridiculous."

"No!" I snapped. "I'm staying right here so you can't tear her down."

"Timothy," the principal growled, getting annoyed, "do you want be to call your parents?"

"I'm not moving from this spot! And that's final!"

Eventually, the principal gave up and called the janitor to get me out. When I refused to tell him the combination of the lock, he procceeded to try and break the chains. I prayed to all the gods I could think of that he wouldn't be able to do it, and I got my wish. He tried everything. A bolt cutter, a hammer, and even a flamethrower to melt the chains. He tried all the lock combinations he coul think of. Nothing worked. Then the fire department came and failed. It was as if something was preventing them from succeeding.

In the end, I had to stay overnight. The school security guard would watch me to make sure nothing happened to me.

I didn't mind, of course, and she didn't stay awake the whole time either. And when the school had completely cleared, and it was just the security woman sitting in a chair a few metres away, Pilly spoke. "Timothy. I am so glad that you are here with me."

Unfortunately I hadn't chained myself so that I was facing Pilly. I backhugged her and turned my face so I could kiss her.

The night passed. My legs were sore, but I didn't care. I was with my true love, and I could almost feel her warmth radiating from behind...

The next morning when school began, any student who passed by gave me either a disgusted, mocking, or weird look.

I ignored them, I knew that not everyone was going to accept my relationship with my Pilly.

My history teacher brought me food, and I ate with Pilly. I offered part of my snack to Pilly, but she had gone silent. I saved it in my coat pocket, and my parents came to try to convince me. I told them no. Why wouldn't anyone understand my love? Later, people again came to try and free me. They failed.

At night, Pilly spoke again, "Timothy, how long are you going to stay?"

"Until I die," I responded immediately.

I could easily imagine Pilly smiling, like she loved the idea.

Two days later, the principal could not take it anymore. "Timothy! It's been nearly a week. What is the combination?!"

"I'm not telling." Even with all the threats he hurled at me: suspension, and even expulsion, I wouldn't spill. "Why do you insist on parting me from Pilly?"

The principal went speechless with frustration.

The weekend passed. Pilly would only speak at night, at around 10 PM, when nobody else but me was listening.

For some reason I began waking up earlier and earlier. Today I woke up at 7:30 AM, instead of at 9. It must have been because of my love of Pilly. I sighed and hugged Pilly, "I love you Pilly."

Before school started, a skilled safe hacker came to unlock my simple gym lock. He failed.

A week later, it was October 30st. I woke up at 6 AM. I felt a strange urge to hang myself.

I resisted, and at night I asked Pilly why I felt that way. To my sorrow, Pilly was mad. She didn't want me to hang myself. She wanted me to stay with her forever.

"I don't want you to be mad," I said, "I don't know why I feel this way. But I'm not going to kill myself. I love you, remember?"

At 6 AM the next day, I unlocked myself. I went up to the second floor, tied one end of the chain around the railing, then wrapped the other end around my neck. I made sure it was tight. Then I climbed over the railing and let myself fall.

Backstory

Pilly is actually a ghost girl whose body is inside the pillar. She hung herself because her boyfriend accidentally killed himself on Halloween when he was trying to do a prank that was like "fake hanging", but he actually...yeah. Then Pilly went insane and turned into a spirit thing, then tried to hang herself at school, but since she's already a spirit, it didn't work. She was stuck there and invisible, so people just built a pillar at that exact place. Pilly then protected Timothy from getting freed because he was the reincarnation of her boyfriend. But.... There's a problem..... The reincarnation dies the same way as the old life, and at the same time.