Hey! Its Adriana Frost! I hope you enjoy this chapter b/c I put a lot of thought and care in this one so please review and enjoy! I do not own ROTG or Jack Frost or Echo by Jason Walker(listen to this song while you read ;-)) just Rowan and the other characters.
(Rowan's POV)
After school I ran home and shot right up the stairs to my room. I laid there on my bed crying for what seemed like 5 minutes then woke up to find that it was already seven o'clock.
"Well, Mom won't be home for another 5 hours so I can go to the pond." I thought happily.
So I threw on my skinny jeans, blue sweatshirt, white North Face, and my light blue beanie with white snowflakes. I grabbed a chocolate chip cookie to snack on and walked outside immediately feeling the cool air tickle my face. I started walking through the moonlight forest and smiled a bit when snowflakes started to catch on my clothes. Then I started singing my favorite song.
"Hello, hello anybody out there? Cause I don't hear a sound. Alone, alone I don't really know where the world is, but I miss it now.
I'm out on the edge and I'm screaming my name Like a fool at the top of my lungs. Sometimes when I close my eyes I pretend I'm all right But it's never enough.
Cause my echo, echo Is the only voice coming back. My shadow, shadow Is the only friend that I have."
I reached the pond and just took a moment to stare at its beauty. It was a fairly simple pond, but the way the ice always looked fresh and the way the moonlight reflected off it at just the right angle made the place look mysterious yet beautiful. The pond seemed hidden from society from the way the trees circled the pond protectively, keeping it unknown to the rest of the world. I took a seat in the fresh, cold, white snow and continued my song as I finished my cookie.
"Listen, listen I will take a whisper if that's all you have to give. But it isn't, isn't, you could come and save me And try to chase the crazy right out of my head!
I'm out on the edge and I'm screaming my name Like a fool at the top of my lungs Sometimes when I close my eyes I pretend I'm all right But it's never enough.
Cause my echo, echo Is the only voice coming back. My shadow, shadow Is the only friend that I have."
I finished my song and lay back in the snow thinking.
"Jason Walker must have been watching replays of my life when he wrote this! No one ever wants to talk to me, except my echo, and I have no one to hang out with, except my shadow. Maybe I should run away. Maybe if I left I could be hap-"
"Hey girls, look at this! Loser girl is hanging out in the woods by herself, WHERE SHE BELONGS!" I turned around and looked at the speaker surprised beyond belief. It was Kayla and her dumb followers. (I'm not being mean but they barely made it into the 11th grade.)
I wasn't surprised at what Kayla said, I was used to that, but the fact that she found this place really surprised me.
"H-h-how d-did you f-find me?" I stuttered in disbelief.
"We followed you out here, dummy!" Katrina, one of Kayla's followers, yelled out.
"We weren't supposed to tell her that, DUMMY!" Opal, the other one of Kayla's followers, whispered loudly to Katrina.
"Just shut up both of you! It doesn't matter how we found her, it matters what we do when we find her." Kayla stated innocently.
A smirk grew across her makeup smothered face as she started advancing towards me with a big rock in her hands. Katrina and Opal seemed to catch her drift and also picked up some big rocks and they started to follow Kayla's lead. I took a couple steps back not realizing that I was making the girls' scheme easier to accomplish. They threw their rocks and I covered my face to shield myself. I heard a crack and looked at my feet cautiously.
Those girls weren't aiming at me; they were aiming for the ice under me! I saw a huge crack in ice and a small hole a foot away from me where a rock had fallen in. I took a step back and heard a loud creak. My heart was pounding in my chest and I took shallow unsteady breaths.
"Come girls let's go! We'll just tell Mrs. Shire that Loser girl won't be here for school…EVER!" Kayla giggled as she walked away with her other giggling friends.
I watched them walk off then looked back at the ice. The crack had gotten bigger and seemed to be spreading.
"OK! You're just going to have to walk along the thick ice and avoid the cracks, like Hiccup when he was avoiding the lines Toothless drew in 'How to Train Your Dragon'." I thought trying to distract myself from the reality that I was in a life-death situation.
I looked behind me then took a step back. I heard a slight creak and took a reassuring breath as I took another step. This time there was a louder creak and the next thing I knew, there wasn't a solid surface under me.
"Well at least I won't have to suffer anymore; no more facing Kayla, Katrina, or Opal; no more wondering if school will be torture, and no more hurting or crying." And with that final thought, I closed my eyes, ready for the cold rush of water to overtake me.
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3-15-13- Hey guys Its Adriana Frost! I am so sorry I have not updated! I'm probably killing you guys with this wait but I'll try to have chapter 4 up by Sunday. I'm sorry school has started to get very busy especially since my school's musical is going to show in 1 month so please be patient! LUV YA GUYS AND LUV THE REVIEWS!
-ADRIANA FROST OUT!
