A.N.: Okay, this is the one-shot I promised Talee a forever ago. I'm so sorry, Talee! The song is "Skyscraper" by Demi Lovato. I own nothing!
Gilda ran to The Electric Diner, ready for her date with Marcus. She'd been waiting for this all week.
FLASHBACK!
Gilda Flipp ran in from recess with all of her friends. They were all laughing at how Billy's sister had come while he was trying to flirt with Vanessa.
"I still can't believe he likes you, Nessie," Gilda said.
"OMG, I know right! It's so- oh, um, Gilds?" she pointed to behind her best friend. Said best friend turned around to see… Marcus Barnes. Gilda gulped. She'd only had a crush on him, like, her whole elementary school life.
"Hi," she said. He smiled.
"Hey! I just wanted to know if you wanted to go see How To Train Your Dragon on Friday?" he asked, blushing. She also blushed.
"Yeah, I'd love to! Where should I meet you?"
"Um, how about The Electric Diner?" he asked, "Around six?"
"That sounds perfect, Marcus," she said.
"Come on, we've gotta go," Vanessa said. They left, Gilda ecstatic for Friday night.
Now here it was, the night of all nights! She ran in to see… her whole class?
"Hi, Gilda!" Marcus said, waving from the middle of the crowd. She looked at him, then her classmates. It wasn't a date. She then turned around, tears filling her eyes. At that moment, it began to rain; as if Mother Nature felt her pain.
Skies are crying, I am watching, catching teardrops in my hands.
She ran to the staircase. It was the place she always went when she was upset.
Only silence as it's ending, like we never had a chance.
Seriously, what type of idiot was he? You don't just do that!
Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me?
Everyone had been there. That meant they knew. That meant that they weren't trustworthy.
You can take everything I have,
You can break everything I am like I'm made glass.
Like I'm made of paper.
What? Did he think that that was the end? Hell no!
Go on and try to tear me down.
I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper,
Like a skyscraper.
She would be a skyscraper, tall and strong.
She rang through the fog, deciding to get home. Suddenly, she felt someone on top of her.
"Oh, sorry!" It was Marcus. She sat there for a moment, daydreaming. Then she remembered that she hated him.
As the smoke clears, I awaken and untangle you from me.
Would it make you feel better to watch me while I bleed?
She was nothing now, and it was his fault!
All my windows still are broken,
But I'm standing on my feet.
She wasn't going to give up, though.
You can take everything I have,
You can break everything I am like I'm made of glass.
Like I'm made of paper.
Go on and try to tear me down.
I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper.
She decided that she'd destroy him, right at that moment.
Go run run, I'm gonna stay right here.
Watch you disappear, yeah.
Go run run, it's a long way down.
But I'm closer to the clouds up here.
He could fall, everyone he loved could fall. It would teach him a lesson.
You can take everything I have,
You can break everything I am like I'm made of glass,
Like I'm made of paper.
Oh!
Go on and try to tear me down!
I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper.
Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper.
Like a skyscraper.
He would curse that day; she'd make sure of it. Marcus Barnes would never forget the day he doomed himself. He had made Gilda Flipp his enemy, and he'd have to pay the price. After all, it was the survival of the fittest.