"Summer, School, and Silently Sleeping"

The summer days– sunny, fun, and long– had slowly became to be dull short weeks that no one had missed. Kids in the streets, that were once there, was now in preparation for the new school year. The sun fell short, the cricks of cicadas silently disappeared, and school was about to start in a couple of more days. Days like these had past twice in her life. She had been through a lot, as everyone had notice, but it was the past. Neighbors, family, friends, and even people whom she had never met in her life had known, but did not really cared. It was meant to be, she had thought.

Two summers of research about news and journalism had changed the 5'8" blonde girl to become more self-determined and become more hard-working, in to which it was for her future dreamt vocation in journalism. Keely had interact with the community for most of her summer days. She had volunteer her time in shelters and with the elderly. She had for a year believed that people in the world should be more involve with the community, as she always use fromwhat she had learn and apply to journalism.

Her article in the Pickford Penny Pincher had made her well known in the community and by others for her passion to animal and journalism. "Animal Cruelty, Help Save a Life", her article,had reflect her potential in this career, and also, it hadhelp poor animals that were abused; andencourage people toadopted these animals at the shelters. "Think for yourself, think of others" is what she had kept to heart.

Meanwhile, her friends Owen and Olivia had notice her change of personality.But they haddistance from her for awhile when she refused to tell them anything anymore. Instead, they had became closer to one another, being a couple now.

Couple and friend hadn't talk to one another for a period of a year. For a first time for a long time, Owen, Via, and Keely all went to the mall together. Via had offered her friend and her boyfriend to the mall, hoping to reunite the gang together, but Via, herself, knew that the"gang" itself won't be really be reunited.

The group had went to the mall. It was the longest time that the friends had ever went somewhere together, let alone, eveninteract with one another. Keely and the couple, Owen and Via, entered the mall. Both were awkward, not knowing what to do.

"Keely, do you want to go the Fashion-Bo-Fashion?" asked Via, as she tried to get rid of the silence among them.

"It's okay Via, you can go..."

"Okay...Keely, let's go, hun," said Via, unhapply.

"Okay, see ya' Keely,"Owensaid walking away with Via.

Keely had slowly walked away to the opposite direction where the couple had been walking. Keely had walk into a store.

Realizing after one hours had past Via and Owen searched for Keely. They couldn't had found her in all of the clothes stores, however, Via thought Keely would have might been ina certain place. There she was, in Electronics R' Us; where they sell many type of electronics, of course.

They had saw Keely, looking at different types of camera.Owen and, somewhat, Via wasin puzzlement.

"Keely?" asked Owen.

"Hey guys." she had replied

"Watchu' doing, Keely?" Via had asked, as both of the couple was staring at Keely.

"Oh, it's nothing. I'm just checking these cameras thatthey have. It's way better than the one in school. And since Principal Tillywack gave me the privileges of being head of Video Production Lab, I could spend the school's BroadcastingClub's budgeron this and –"

"Keely, do you want to go with the movies with us, we're going to watch "Love being Touch across Time"?" interrupting, Via had asked. Via was getting bored of Keely, every since that's the ways she been acting or is now. (An outcast, was the onlything that popped in her head).

'A chick flick' she thought, 'Uurgh'. All of the sudden she thought to herself, she wouldn't thought to describe any movie to be like that and 'How ironic was that title?', she had thought, but it didn't seem to had affected her as much she thought.

"No thanks, Via. You two go off, I'm going go do some go check on the information from the sales clerk." Keely walked away, until, she had forgotten the name of the product. She came back, until she heard Via and Owen talking. Looking at one another and leaving, they started to talk:

"What happen to her, she hadchanged" said Owen.

"I know, she's being acting too serious, she's acting too much of goodie... I don't mind it, thoughhowever, we haven't spend time anymore."

"Well, wecan try to talk to her, but I don't know what it can do. Even if weknow how she really feel, I don't think it would help..."

"I know, butI knew that she had changed,since it probably happened a year and half ago." Via replied, "I don't know her anymore."

"Me too."

"We should talk to her, if it was still bothering her."

"Again, I don't know that would help at all... hey I'm starting get hungry and bored"

"But Owen, this is Keely we're talking about, we should try to get her to be with us."

"I don't know, it sounds like she trying to avoid us."

"Nah, it can't be, Keely changed, but she wouldn't want to lose or try to lose another friend"

"Well duh, but... 'O-I-LUV-VIA' I really wanted go to the movies now, just you and me?"

"Yeah, lets go." said Via.

The two walked away, Keely heard the small conversation. She had only wanted to walk back for information for the camera, but no,she had to overheard. She rushed back home and thought of what they had said. In her bed, she had thought too much, as she never haddidthought like thisfor a long time since...

"They don't know me? Who am I then? Stop, you're Keely Teslow, the head of production/ video lab, now top 10 in class, and a future news anchor and journalist. They're just being over dramatic, I didn't change that much. Did I...No, I didn't?"

She had kept being reminded about the conversation.

'Think for yourself, think of others'

'C'mon Keely, keep it together. You haven't changed. You are a good citizen, a good Pickordian, a hardworking student, and a determined women. Other people are just expressing how they feel. Only I can truly say who I am...only I..."

later...

Keely had fallen asleep. A dream had emerged from the conscious of Keely. In the dream, Keely was in an empty cylinder-like room. Keely just is just sitting, there all by herself. Until, two people had emerged. It was Owen and Olivia.

"– she's changed," they said looking at her.

"Poor girl, locking herself up with her drama," a woman had said when the other two had disappear. Slowly the woman was gone. More voices came andhad taunted Keely.

"Keely, you got to get over it, he's gone now. There is nothing you can do, you're only a young girl, with more in life.The girl that have to live life betterthan what she is doing to herselfnow," said by Mandy Teslow.

'I can't...'

"Ha! Did you miss your "boyfriend", too bad you were "dumped" by him, and he doesn't want to see that pathetic face of your's no more. HAHAHA!" taunting by Terra.

'Shut up...'

"Miss Teslow, you have to do better in school now, you're going to fail math," -Hackett

'I'll try my best now...'

"Are you sure you're okay, Keely?" -Via

'Yeah, I'm fine, but I can't deal with this, I hadwant him to be here, andI didn't the chance to...but..'

"Keely! Pay attention, stop daydreaming around. Stop letting it take over your life." -Messerschmitt.

'I shouldn't, it shouldn't take over my life...I must move on'

"We like to announce that Ms. Keely Teslow is thenewStudent of the Month for H.G. Wells High, as she had showed dramatic change in her academic; from being of a B student, now to a A+ student, being now top 10 in her class! Also, she had recently received Pickford's Prize Person Award, for her passion to the environment andtohow it was excellently expressed on to her article. She had wanted give hard-hitting news and facts to those that had wanted to learn more."

'...ah...'

'...Thinking of myself, from others...that's not how it suppose to be.' Keely had been talking to herself, after listening from the past voices she had heard. 'No, Keely, it's not suppose to be like this! Don't think of what people say, think for yourself. He had said "think for yourself, think of others" not "think of myself, from others..."

Keely now just heard a familiar voice that she wished she really didn't wanted to hear, but it couldn't be helped, especially when she kept thinking of what he had once said to her. The words she had kept to heart and had been given to her, under that starry night...

"Thinks for yourself, Keely, and from that Keels, think of others. This Keel, would bring you far in life. Your life is percious and it should continue to skyrocket, to those stars"

He had said that to her, and she kept it dearly and to herself. She couldn't forget it, yet, she hadwanted to forget about him. She had kept it to herself greatly and hid her emotions for him. Keely couldn't express her tangled, yet, lost emotions anymore. She had thought she would had gotten over him by now, but the thoughts and these of dreams havebeen keptcoming back.It waslike the common cold; having no cure and having nosense oftiming, coming back.

Now there she was, in her silent slumber, silently sitting alone in the dream, crying...

'leave me alone, I'm over it'

Sorry, if i hadn't updated on saturday, like i said i was, but i tried my best to type this out. I hope u like it so far. Well the next chapter,im going to type would be aboutthe start of school.I'm trying now to update for every,at most, two days...one day for thinking/ brainstorm, and theanother to type. So please comment me, or give me any advice that would makes you, the reader to be happy! Well, hope i update to night or tommorow. BYE

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