Bringer of Futures
Chapter 21: Closure
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Hi, I'm sorry that i've taken so long in giving you new chapters. I've just had alot of issues to deal with. Friends mostly... *tear* Oh well, I told you the last chapter was a bit graphic. Kind of hard to write. Not really, emotionaly at all because I don't get emotional over what I write, true or not.. and believe it or not, alot of this is true. Not the Horizon part but you guys are too smart to think I've been to Horizon and killed myself. The character of Katie was me... Ha, I killed myself off my own story. That's typical. Anyway, it was more physically hard to write cause I couldn't really think of how to put it into words. I hope you will work with me in the next two chapters... that's the end folks.. just a few more chapters. Don't worry, I won't leave you hanging.
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Clouds of despair covered the campus of Horizon for a second time this month. Yet another student had "done themselves in" as some of the students would put it. Not the students who knew the deceased, however. They felt pain at it's highest.. nothing they could say to each other would help the mood any. The Cliffhangers were first to have an emergancy group session since they lost one of their own.
"Do you guys have anything you want to say?" Peter asked in a soft voice. Silence. No one spoke up.. there was really nothing to say. They each knew how they felt.. and more than likely it was just what the others were feeling.
Shelby was feeling the worst. She had a chance to save Isaac.. she had done it before.. but that wasn't what bothered her. In this other.. reality that she had experienced before, nothing like this had happened to Katie. She couldn't help thinking that she caused it somehow.. she caused the death of the troubled little girl. So young.. yet so much was going on in her head and Shelby could tell.
"I wish I would have talked to Katie some," Shelby said almost cynically.. "Ya know, it can almost be considered my fault that she's dead." There was almost no emotion in her eyes. That was pretty much normal. Shelby had never really been one to show her emotions. She believed that if you showed emotion in your eyes, someone could follow the path right to your heart.. and then smash it right when you expect it the least. Even Scott had done it when he couldn't accept her past after it had taken her forever to admit it to him!
People always turn their backs on the ones they love. She shook her head and spoke again after she had everyones attention.
"Shelby, it wasn't your fault..." Sophie whispered trying to get close by moving over to the young girl.
"You weren't the one who found her." Shelby said as calm as she could. "You weren't the one who walked into the bathroom after being- after having a bad experience with someone and find one of your friends dead on the bathroom floor" She had almost given it away. Shelby turned her head before Sophie could say anything. "I'm feeling sick, can I go now, please?"
Sophie narrowed her eyes. 'What did she mean by, a "bad experience with someone" I guess I'll have to find out later. "I suppose so.. but Shelby?" Sophie asked as Shelby walked out the door, "I want to see you later to finish this group session.. you can't just get out of it, and you know it. You cant just ru-"
"Yeah I know, I can't just run away from my problems." Shelby cut her off. "Well, too late.. I already have and I'm not going back to face them." She picked up the pace and walked out the door before another word was spoken.
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"Staci, have you seen my other shoe"
"No, Kristyn and does it look like I really care?" Staci said not looking up from her Gameboy.
"Damn, Stac! Ever since you got here, you have acted this way. All I wanted to do was try and be your friend because, unlike you, I can talk to other people without being mean!" Kristyn exclaimed. "Just because you screwed up your life and got kicked out of the screw up school and sent here, doesn't mean you have to mess up our lives!"
"Ah, well put, Princess. But you need to learn to get the facts straight before you open your big mouth! One, I didn't screw up my life, two, I didn't get kicked out of the so called 'screw up school' and three, SHUT UP BECAUSE I DON'T CARE!" Staci said finally setting her Gameboy aside. She bent down and picked up a single shoe and threw it at Kristyn. "Come on, it's time to go down to breakfast" She said and walked out the door.
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As the sun rose on the eighth day, the chatter about the two Cliffhanger suicides had subsided. There were other issues that had come up in the young teens' lives that, to them, were more important than both Katie and Isaac. Peter had evaded the Wilton lawsuit and thankfully, Mrs. Mathis had decided that it really wasn't the school's fault.
"I found something out that day, Peter" Sophie said. The silence before these words were spoken had lasted for days. Peter had become accustomed to the silence that Sophie had been giving him. In a way he understood but really, it hurt his feelings.
"What did you find out, hon?" He asked as calmly as he could. He was jumping for joy inside, however. She had finally talked to him.
"It was the reason Katie had been acting the way she did and the reason she was even at Horizon." Sophie begun to explain. "I learned of the man that abused her... I'm going to inform her parents about this, Peter. They deserve to know what caused their child to kill herself."
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Down in the breakfast room at the North Asheville school for girls, Staci and Kristyn sat together at a table slowly chewing their rubbery food so as not to break their jaws.
"This food is worse than the food at Horizon" Staci mumbled to no one in particular.
"That's nice, Staci. Go ahead and reminese about your days at the screw up school but do it silently, please. I'm trying to watch the news." Kristyn said, giving Staci a sick smile.
"Kristyn.. I'm sorry to break it to you, but incase you haven't noticed, the news is always on.. it's all these people allow us to watch!" Staci said getting annoyed with Kristyn.
"Fine, Ms. Bitch.. so I guess that you don't want to know what happened at your beloved school of screw ups?" Kristyn asked and pointed again at the boxed in television.
What she saw would remain in her memory forever... even though she would soon want to forget.
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Ooooo Cliffhanger! Yesssss this is great ^_^ I hope you guys will hold out with me these next few weeks as I finish Bringer of Futures. I figured that I've been writing on these storys for like a year and I want to start on something else. Something completely new. There will be no sequel but I won't leave you hanging. I promise... *evil laughter* No, really, I promise! *insane smile* Oh bah.. me and my evil looks.
Chapter 21: Closure
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Hi, I'm sorry that i've taken so long in giving you new chapters. I've just had alot of issues to deal with. Friends mostly... *tear* Oh well, I told you the last chapter was a bit graphic. Kind of hard to write. Not really, emotionaly at all because I don't get emotional over what I write, true or not.. and believe it or not, alot of this is true. Not the Horizon part but you guys are too smart to think I've been to Horizon and killed myself. The character of Katie was me... Ha, I killed myself off my own story. That's typical. Anyway, it was more physically hard to write cause I couldn't really think of how to put it into words. I hope you will work with me in the next two chapters... that's the end folks.. just a few more chapters. Don't worry, I won't leave you hanging.
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Clouds of despair covered the campus of Horizon for a second time this month. Yet another student had "done themselves in" as some of the students would put it. Not the students who knew the deceased, however. They felt pain at it's highest.. nothing they could say to each other would help the mood any. The Cliffhangers were first to have an emergancy group session since they lost one of their own.
"Do you guys have anything you want to say?" Peter asked in a soft voice. Silence. No one spoke up.. there was really nothing to say. They each knew how they felt.. and more than likely it was just what the others were feeling.
Shelby was feeling the worst. She had a chance to save Isaac.. she had done it before.. but that wasn't what bothered her. In this other.. reality that she had experienced before, nothing like this had happened to Katie. She couldn't help thinking that she caused it somehow.. she caused the death of the troubled little girl. So young.. yet so much was going on in her head and Shelby could tell.
"I wish I would have talked to Katie some," Shelby said almost cynically.. "Ya know, it can almost be considered my fault that she's dead." There was almost no emotion in her eyes. That was pretty much normal. Shelby had never really been one to show her emotions. She believed that if you showed emotion in your eyes, someone could follow the path right to your heart.. and then smash it right when you expect it the least. Even Scott had done it when he couldn't accept her past after it had taken her forever to admit it to him!
People always turn their backs on the ones they love. She shook her head and spoke again after she had everyones attention.
"Shelby, it wasn't your fault..." Sophie whispered trying to get close by moving over to the young girl.
"You weren't the one who found her." Shelby said as calm as she could. "You weren't the one who walked into the bathroom after being- after having a bad experience with someone and find one of your friends dead on the bathroom floor" She had almost given it away. Shelby turned her head before Sophie could say anything. "I'm feeling sick, can I go now, please?"
Sophie narrowed her eyes. 'What did she mean by, a "bad experience with someone" I guess I'll have to find out later. "I suppose so.. but Shelby?" Sophie asked as Shelby walked out the door, "I want to see you later to finish this group session.. you can't just get out of it, and you know it. You cant just ru-"
"Yeah I know, I can't just run away from my problems." Shelby cut her off. "Well, too late.. I already have and I'm not going back to face them." She picked up the pace and walked out the door before another word was spoken.
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"Staci, have you seen my other shoe"
"No, Kristyn and does it look like I really care?" Staci said not looking up from her Gameboy.
"Damn, Stac! Ever since you got here, you have acted this way. All I wanted to do was try and be your friend because, unlike you, I can talk to other people without being mean!" Kristyn exclaimed. "Just because you screwed up your life and got kicked out of the screw up school and sent here, doesn't mean you have to mess up our lives!"
"Ah, well put, Princess. But you need to learn to get the facts straight before you open your big mouth! One, I didn't screw up my life, two, I didn't get kicked out of the so called 'screw up school' and three, SHUT UP BECAUSE I DON'T CARE!" Staci said finally setting her Gameboy aside. She bent down and picked up a single shoe and threw it at Kristyn. "Come on, it's time to go down to breakfast" She said and walked out the door.
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As the sun rose on the eighth day, the chatter about the two Cliffhanger suicides had subsided. There were other issues that had come up in the young teens' lives that, to them, were more important than both Katie and Isaac. Peter had evaded the Wilton lawsuit and thankfully, Mrs. Mathis had decided that it really wasn't the school's fault.
"I found something out that day, Peter" Sophie said. The silence before these words were spoken had lasted for days. Peter had become accustomed to the silence that Sophie had been giving him. In a way he understood but really, it hurt his feelings.
"What did you find out, hon?" He asked as calmly as he could. He was jumping for joy inside, however. She had finally talked to him.
"It was the reason Katie had been acting the way she did and the reason she was even at Horizon." Sophie begun to explain. "I learned of the man that abused her... I'm going to inform her parents about this, Peter. They deserve to know what caused their child to kill herself."
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Down in the breakfast room at the North Asheville school for girls, Staci and Kristyn sat together at a table slowly chewing their rubbery food so as not to break their jaws.
"This food is worse than the food at Horizon" Staci mumbled to no one in particular.
"That's nice, Staci. Go ahead and reminese about your days at the screw up school but do it silently, please. I'm trying to watch the news." Kristyn said, giving Staci a sick smile.
"Kristyn.. I'm sorry to break it to you, but incase you haven't noticed, the news is always on.. it's all these people allow us to watch!" Staci said getting annoyed with Kristyn.
"Fine, Ms. Bitch.. so I guess that you don't want to know what happened at your beloved school of screw ups?" Kristyn asked and pointed again at the boxed in television.
What she saw would remain in her memory forever... even though she would soon want to forget.
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Ooooo Cliffhanger! Yesssss this is great ^_^ I hope you guys will hold out with me these next few weeks as I finish Bringer of Futures. I figured that I've been writing on these storys for like a year and I want to start on something else. Something completely new. There will be no sequel but I won't leave you hanging. I promise... *evil laughter* No, really, I promise! *insane smile* Oh bah.. me and my evil looks.