Number 2
I don't remember her name.
Maybe I blocked it from memory or maybe I never learned it.
I thought she was my friend.
Anyways, it doesn't matter because she was a bully.
And she's dead.
She tried to take my lunch money every week.
I let her do it twice because I thought she would like me and I desperately wanted friends.
The second time she punched my in the eye. It was black for a week.
I told Dad I walked into a pole, just like the bully told me to say.
The third time I saw her coming toward me, I ran.
I'm really fast.
I ran up the fire escape stairs. You know, the metal ones outside tall buildings? Those.
I could hear her running after me. For being a fat girl so was fast too.
When I got to the top I tried to push the door open but it was either stuck or locked. In my fear, I couldn't tell.
The only way to escape was back down so that is the way I went.
It surprised the girl that I was coming back down. She squated down like she was ready to fight. But I just ran right past her. Element of surprise, that's me.
I ran and ran and ran until I got to the front doors of the school.
I didn't hear her fall.
I might have heard the screams, but everyone screams on the playground. We're kids, after all.
I went to school for another month.
I didn't make anymore friends.
I don't remember if anyone talked to me either.
Come to think of it, not even the teachers talked to me.
That is the first time I realized was the word 'lonely' meant.
I don't remember her name.
Maybe I blocked it from memory or maybe I never learned it.
I thought she was my friend.
Anyways, it doesn't matter because she was a bully.
And she's dead.
She tried to take my lunch money every week.
I let her do it twice because I thought she would like me and I desperately wanted friends.
The second time she punched my in the eye. It was black for a week.
I told Dad I walked into a pole, just like the bully told me to say.
The third time I saw her coming toward me, I ran.
I'm really fast.
I ran up the fire escape stairs. You know, the metal ones outside tall buildings? Those.
I could hear her running after me. For being a fat girl so was fast too.
When I got to the top I tried to push the door open but it was either stuck or locked. In my fear, I couldn't tell.
The only way to escape was back down so that is the way I went.
It surprised the girl that I was coming back down. She squated down like she was ready to fight. But I just ran right past her. Element of surprise, that's me.
I ran and ran and ran until I got to the front doors of the school.
I didn't hear her fall.
I might have heard the screams, but everyone screams on the playground. We're kids, after all.
I went to school for another month.
I didn't make anymore friends.
I don't remember if anyone talked to me either.
Come to think of it, not even the teachers talked to me.
That is the first time I realized was the word 'lonely' meant.
