August 25, 2015 London, England
I'm on a tall building, almost floating. I look down at the city streets of New York, cars parked beside every building. The sun slowly rising, like it was reaching for the dark center of our atmosphere. I hear a door shut behind me and see a creature I don't recognize. I could see little gears on its cheek, and its hands weren't . . . normal. I stay still like a statue. It moves forward and when it reaches me it grabs me by my shoulders and jumps off the building with me. I scream my lungs out and then . . .
"Tessa! Wakeup! Tessa, please stop screaming!"
I open my eyes and see my neighbor, Sophie. She's also my best friend. Little thing she is. She had a worried face on. Her big scar across her face didn't bother me but people would stare when she and I went out to the store or something. She knew they were looking but she never said she did. She would just keep on smiling, and talking like nothing was going on. Like everything was perfect. That's one of the reasons I like her so much. Your whole family could be gone and she could make you think your world was perfect.
"Sorry Soph. It was a nightmare." I said feeling bad for waking her.
"No! Really?" she said with a little sarcasm in her voice." What was it about?" she had lost the sarcasm and was using a more considerate tone.
"I don't remember", I lied. I didn't want to worry her. Especially about a nightmare.
"Well, there's no point in going back to sleep. We would have had to wake up around now anyway." She was looking at the clock as she said this. I looked over at the clock and it said five o clock. She was right, we would have had to wake up this early for our first day of college. Usually we would just have to wake up later but today was the first day. We definitely wanted to be on time today.
"Well, let's start getting ready shall we. I have the perfect outfit for you. You're going to love it.", I said with a small grin on my face. I had gone shopping the day before without her as a surprise. She does practically everything for me. I wanted to do something nice for her, so I bought her a new outfit. A couple actually, she is fun to shop for. She fits into all of these cute sweaters and tank tops.
"I told you not to buy me anymore clothes. I have enough cute clothes don't I?"
"What's life without a truck load of cute clothes?"
"A normal life?" she said hopeful.
"Nope, a boring life. Now stop complaining and come look. I walked to my closet her following behind me. I opened the doors and showed her her new cute outfit. I bought her a mid-length green plaid skirt with a green tank top. I then showed her the matching sweater I bought her to put overtop the tank top.
"My favorite color!" she squealed happily.
"Plus it will go great with those sparkly green flats you bought last week", I said pleased with myself for remembering that, because I ran out of money to buy her new shoes. She started jumping up and down and smiling like a nut. Then she stopped with a knowing glance in the closet.
"You spent all of your money on this didn't you?"
"Yeah, aren't you happy?"
"I can't believe you didn't buy yourself something!" she said now a little pouty. Then she left the room. I just stood there looking astonished. Was she mad?
Then she came back into my room with something behind her back. She had a huge grin on her face. I probably looked so stupid because I was so confused. I felt like I was on some sort of crazy rollercoaster. First, she's happy, then she's not, and now she's happy again. What in the world was going on.
She came a step closer and finally showed me what was behind her back. She had a red plaid skirt, a black tank top with lace trim, and a leather jacket that had a fit waist and three diamonds on the shoulders. I was so happy that I started screaming not caring if I woke up the whole hotel. Sophie was smiling like a madwoman.
"Sshh. You'll get kicked out!" She said, laughing a bit.
"Thank you, Soph. I just want you to know that I've always seen you as my sister", Sophie then embraced me, tearing up a little.
"You have been so nice to me, Tessa. I can never repay you. You will always be my sister. I don't care if we're not related by blood." We embraced each other one more time and then decided to get dressed in our new clothes. Sophie put my hair in a cute messy bun and I braided her hair. She wore her new green flats and I wore my leather combat boots that had lace on the sides to add a feminine touch. Sophie put on some makeup, but refused to let me put on any.
"Your eyes are all ready perfect and you need no blush for when you are complimented by handsome boys you will blush quite enough" at this I giggled and lightly punched her shoulder."You don't need any either" I argued. " oh please. Save your breath." I was about to argue but Sophie's watch alarm went off. Her mom had gotten it for but sophie didn't really when or why. Sophie doesn't really talk about her past before she met me. She says," I began a new life when I met you, so I won't talk about life I had before. It was rather dreadful and I would like to leave the past in the past", so I just left the subject alone although if she hadn't told me to leave the subject alone I would be asking her all kinds of questions about her past. I pushed my thoughts away and grabbed my satchel with my school books in it, along with my favorite book "A Tale of Two Cities". I looked up and noticed Sophie had left. Probably to get her bag.
I looked out the door and saw Sophie standing there. "why you leave me?" I said, pretending she hurt my feelings.
"Cut the act. I left because you were thinking too long. Now let's move it slow poke."
"Okay, okay!" and off we walked toward the end of the hall.