The Boy

Opal new she was strange, that people didn't accept her, she was you average 17 year old girl with shoulder length blond hair with a black fringe and red tips that framed her heart shaped face, soft blue-grey eyes that seemed to radiate of sorrows that she never told to anyone not that anyone ever asked, she had pale skin but it had a faint tan and if you looked closely at her arms when she wasn't wearing her gloves you could see the faint scars from where she had cut herself, she didn't cut because she wanted death or attention in fact no one even new that she did cut herself no she did it because it proved to her that she was real and alive even though to everyone else it seemed that she didn't exist. Ok so maybe she wasn't average but she used to be before IT happened IT no HE broke her, changed her in the worst way possible, Opal wished he was dead it was his fault that Kerry killed herself it was his fault that Opal was all alone.

She slowly walked towards the art rooms after all why should she waste lunch feeling lonely when she was surrounded by everyone when she could work on her major art assignment, her teacher loved what she was doing even though she didn't understand it. She went to the cupboard and pulled out her bag of work and tools, before going to sit in her regular seat in the far back corner of the room, even though she was the only one in the room she felt like she was being watched I'm such an idiot why would anyone watch me she thought.

She pulled out her iPod and put it on shuffle listening to whatever came on it made no difference to me what it was. She worked silently slowly putting careful lines where she thought they needed to be slowly recreating her own personal hell, Opal still couldn't believe that a place so beautiful, so peaceful could be so horrible she shuddered at the thought but she knew that she would be stuck with that memory for the rest of her mortal life probably even after death.

The bell rang for the last period of the day her most hated class English, she slowly packed away her things and wandered towards her classroom when she got their everyone else was already seated she slowly walked to her desk hoping her teacher Miss Conner wouldn't go of at her again, but like always she did "Miss Lost hurry up and take your seat why must you always come late and disrupt my lesson, you could at least pretend to be interested" the other students started whispering things about her and laughing amongst themselves "Really what happened to you, you used to be such a kind and respectful girl you used to have friends and good grades tell me what changed, was it because of stupid friend of yours who killed herself? well answer me" Opal couldn't stand it, it wasn't Kerry's fault "shut up you bitch you don't know anything about what happened with Kerry and you know nothing about me, so how about instead of treating me like shit every lesson and disrespecting the dead you start doing what you are paid for and teach us something." She then turned around and walked out but not before she noticed some one new, he was sitting next to her seat "oh and you might want to move the new boy before I taint him with my disrespectful ways" she said as she closed the door behind her.

She paused outside the door for awhile listening as Miss Conner tried to persuade the boy to move but he wouldn't, eventually she heard him say "she will probably be a good influence on me cause the rest of sure as hell wont" Opal almost laughed but then she remembered IT and started silently crying, she walked aimlessly away from the class room her only goal was to avoid human contact she refused to let anyone in the school see just how damaged she was, not that they would care or want to know why, she saw a bench that wasn't too far from the students car park so she went and sat down, Opal decided she would leave just before the bell so her family wouldn't know that she skipped, again.

She was caught up in her memories that she didn't notice some one walking towards her until they sat down next to her, she didn't look over at them she just slowly got up and turned to leave but then they said "wait please tell me why are you crying and why do you start to leave just as I sit down to talk with you?" Opal looked over and realised it was the new boy "the reason that I am crying doesn't concern you and it will be better for you if we don't talk to each other, act as if I don't exist like everyone else, it will be better for us both that way. Besides I don't like you" and with that she started walking away, she was surprised when he started to walk with her "how can you not like me you don't even know me, just give me a chance. Besides how do you know that it will be better for us both if I ignore you, because I don't think it will. So give me a chance and I can prove it"

Opal looked at her feet she could tell he was the kind of guy who wouldn't give up till he got what he wanted "fine you have one day to prove me wrong but that's all you get ever and once I'm proved right you have to leave me the hell alone" by this point she was glaring at him wanting him to back down but he didn't he simply said "that's understandable" then he walked her to her car "see you tomorrow" he said as she closed the door, Opal just rolled her eyes and said "whatever" before she drove away.