You're Zero
A/N: Set just after the end of the novel. Melinda finally overcomes her depression about the rape. Songfic for Alter Bridge's Zero.
I look in Mr. Freeman's leveled gaze with my own glare of seriousness.
"Before I tell you everything, I need to write something first." I set my patheically sketched tree into his hands and a piece of paper in front of me. Okay. I write rapidly on the page.
Here's to you Andy. This is payback for what you did to me at the party that night.
Now there is a light in the dark some will say
There is a grace up high
There is a beauty that some can behold
Not I. Not I.
There is a power that's felt from the shore
There is a force that won't break
But all of these things to me are no more
I've changed. I've changed.
What in the hell have you done
Cast aside all that you love
Sorrows you never out run
Zero.
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole
How many times have you felt all alone
How many tears have you cried
Called out in vain for a god to behold
Inside. Inside
How many fires you let die in your heart
How many storms must you face
Left out to fight for yourself in the cold
No faith. No faith.
So nothing to lean on this time
Nothing is left to decide
All that you've known you deny
Zero
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole
Zero
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole
Go now surrender
You can't take no more
And just cry out
Surrender your faith is no more
What in the hell have you done
Cast aside all that you love
Sorrows you never out run
Just look what you have become.
Zero
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole
Zero
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole
Yes Andy. You are, and will forever be, Zero. Consider this my final words. Fuck you.
Despitefully yours, Melinda.
I politefully excuse myself from Mr. Freeman's care and march triumphantly to Andy's locker. This should surprise him come next school year.