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GUYS I'M NOT DEAD! A LOT OF SHIT HAPPENED AND I KNOW I WAS GONE FOREVER AND JESUS AM I TIRED BUT I'M BACK! I MAY NOT POST EVERY DAY, BUT I AM BACK! I bet I lost all of my fans while I was gone (WHAT FANS?!) SHUT UP MYSTERIOUS VOICE!

Crazy Kyarra strikes again!

*cries* I'm so sooooorrry! ;-; please don't hate me! I STILL LOVE YOU!

ON WITH THE STORY!

When You Walk Away

I am awake, but I don't open my eyes. Why? Because it's Monday. I don't want to go back to school. I don't want to have to face Elsie and Kenzie and everyone else. I can't deal with any more on my plate right now.

Maybe if I sleep in, everyone will just think I went to school early with Gaara or Neji.

Just as I'm about to fall back asleep, there's a knock at my bedroom door.

"Kyarra, are you up?" Naruto's voice floats into my sleepy mind. I don't respond. It's only six though, he'll know I'm still here.

He opens the door, "C'mon Ky, it's Monday. School."

"Mmgph." I respond into my pillow. He comes over and rips the pillow out from under my head, my face falling into the mattress.

"I don't wanna!" I groan quietly, knowing I have already lost this fight.

"Well, if I gotta, you gotta." He says, then hits me with the pillow and walks out of the room with a smile on his face.

I am not smiling.

School went by slower than ever, as if the clocks had stopped working right. Between classes, the halls were filled with people who shoved me into lockers and pulled my hair, girls who called me ugly names like "slut" and "whore" and "whale".

Neji tried to get them to stop, and I told him I didn't need his protection. It didn't make him stop though.

"I will protect you, nothing will hurt you with me around!" He yelled in the middle of our silent classroom. I almost smiled, but then my stomach growled loudly.

I did not eat breakfast. I did not each lunch. I did not eat dinner last night.
I feel very tired.
I feel very hungry.
I feel very dizzy.

The bell to go home just rings, and me, Neji, and Gaara are walking though the crowded hallways. Some guy I don't know leans forward and slaps my sketchbook out of my hand. Gaara turns to him.

"Do you have a death wish?" He asks without emotion. The guy, seeing the look in the red-head's eyes, backs down. Neji picks up my book and hands it back to me.

"We got your back, Ky." Neji tells me, our hands touching for a moment as he handed me the book. My heart skips a beat.

Okay... I like Neji. Ever since I told him, and he was so supportive and I just... I like him.
A lot.

"Oh Ne-ji!" Came a singsong voice to our left. A hand reaches through the crowd and grabs Neji's wrist, pulling him away from me and Gaara.

"Uh, I'll catch up later, I guess!" He calls before disappearing. Why do our halls have to be so crowded?

A girl stuck her foot out to trip me. Gaara stomps on it, and we keep walking.

When we finally reach the doors to go outside, we open them and are able to breathe again. Gaara asks me why everyone seems to hate me all of a sudden.

"I don't know." I respond, and it's the truth. Or, at least, I don't understand.

Maybe if they knew what went on at home they would be nicer. Maybe if they knew that I don't eat or sleep they would be nicer. Maybe if they knew that every name they call me hurts me in ways they couldn't even imagine, they would be nicer.

Or maybe not.

Me and Gaara continue to talk until we turn the corner. The first thing I see is the big maple tree me and Elsie and Kenzie used to climb back when we were "best friends".

Then I see the people standing under it.

Elsie.

And Neji.

Kissing.

Oh.

My heart aches in my chest. Why... Why would he... After all she's done to me... Why?!

Elsie pulls back from him, then turns to me, smirking triumphantly.

"Neji?" Gaara asks uncertainly, seemingly as confused as I am.

Neji seems to snap out of a trance and he turns to us. He opens his mouth to say something, but I turn away before he can.

"See you tomorrow, Kyarra!" Elsie says in the same sing-song voice as when she called Neji in the hallways earlier.

I walk away from them silently. I hear running footsteps behind me, and I expect to see Gaara slowing to walk next to me.

"Kyarra, please, I can explain!" It's Neji.

I say nothing.

"Elsie, she... She kissed me! I was confused, so I didn't pull away and-"

"I HATE YOU!" I explode, turning to him, "YOU'RE A LIAR! YOU SAID YOU WOULD PROTECT ME, YOU WOULDN'T LET ANYTHING HURT ME!"

"Kyarra, please-"

"DON'T EVER TALK TO ME AGAIN!" Tears burn behind my eyelids, but I push them back. I will never cry in front of him again. Never.

I run away from him. I run as far away as I can, then farther. My legs ache and my lungs burn. Somehow, I find myself standing in front of my house. My feet had carried me here without me knowing.

I wonder how much farther I could have run.

ENDING NOTE!

I AM SO SORRY FOR BEING GONE FOR SO LONG! I WILL NEVER STOP APOLOGIZING!

Okay, I'm done.

PEACE!

~Kyarra-Chan (^_~)