Don't Fade Away
Sudden inspiration for this hit at exactly 2:33 in the morning. Must keep writing…when was the last time I went to sleep before 5?? Can't even remember. Oh well.
Disclaimer: This really makes me unhappy. Very well. I do not own Death Note or its characters. I do not own the lyrics at the end of each chapter, they belong to Milla Jovovich.
However, I do own my original characters, and the poetry/journals, etc. the characters write is my own.
Prologue
From the first day of high school she'd felt out of place. It was too loud. Too many people around her, making her feel like she couldn't breathe.
She usually sat alone. That was fine with her. A new school, new family, new everything. Fail. That word berated her, day after day. You're destined to fail. Everyone knows it.
That's why you sit alone.
That's why they stare.
That's why when you come home nobody cares.
Because everyone knows.
Even Pollard knows, and he's an idiot.
Because you're doomed.
Doomed.
Doomed.
You're not even worth looking at.
Why bother when they know that you are going to fall.
Be gone soon anyway.
And who even cares?
Day and night that stupid voice in her head. She'd actually written down those thoughts and made it a poem, titling it Nameless. That was what she was to anyone else anyway. Nameless. Her soul emptying out like sand.
She taped it to her door. So that every morning when she woke up, she would see it. See the angry pencil scrawls smudging the page; its paper torn and crumpled. It leered at her when she got ready for school and at night when she lay with her eyes open in bed.
Just in case she might forget.
No I haven't seen the flowers yet
From the broken seeds I'd planted
But the ground is still too red
From the wickedness you did
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