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'No Ordinary Cinderella' – A Twilight Fanfic
By No Ordinary Cinderella
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This chapter is dedicated to lanna-misssunshine who impressed me so much with her review even though she did miss out four letters! And for trying something different instead of copying others ideas. )
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Saffron's POV
Chapter Ten
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His smooth words froze me up instantly. Did I just hear that? Did I just make those words up? Remember Leonie Saffron, remember Leonie. The tears leaked out of my eyes, people say things they don't mean, I already know that.
I pulled out of his embrace and he looked up at me with his gorgeous golden eyes, so beautiful unlike mine. And I ran, knowing that he would forget me tomorrow, knowing he didn't really care and knowing that if I let him any closer than distant towards me then he would have the power to break my heart, who was hanging off the edge, in two. I remembered what happened with Leonie, I remembered it all, and I remembered what she did to me, the only person that I could count on that wasn't dead was me, lonely ugly me.
It all started in 7th grade, the year before Cathy died. I was twelve, she was fifteen. She was in 9th grade meaning I had to suffer on my own whilst Cathy would probably make a few friends.
A new girl had just moved to town and had come to school. She was average looking, brown hair, a small mole on the right side of her face, wavy hair and of medium height. But I could always see her as one of the popular types, not the pretty cheerleaders but the wannabe sidekicks.
On the first day she acted as if I didn't exist, and then I saw her smiling tauntingly in my direction as she was surrounded by cheerleaders and jocks after school. I guess I didn't know better.
The next day I was walking to school and she showed up, walking beside me, we started to chat and we got along well, and she soon became my first friend. We were inseparable and she just bonded with me more and more.
She cared for me, and I had my first real friend, someone who cared, someone who was there and someone who understood me. We became inseparable, she'd always be with me and I always had someone, and for once in my life I was happy. She said she would help me, she said she would always be there. We even had our own little pathetic handshake.
And for the first time other than with my sister, I laughed with her and we shared our lunch as I didn't have much money and we did silly stuff. She brought the one thing I always wanted: friendship. She was perfect, brilliant, and all but a month later everything changed.
It was just an ordinary day for me, I was finally happy at having my first friend, even my dad's beatings couldn't break through my sunshine. She met up with me on our walk from school to home, and instead of turning down her alley she asked if I would join her. I quickly complied; I did anything and everything for her I didn't want to lose my first friend.
Then she quickly turned on me, and she shoved me roughly against the wall. I groaned in terror as my scars wounded themselves again. "Leonie?" I whispered as the blood oozed off my back. A demonic laugh filled the air. The three important cheerleaders and their jocks came out from the shadows of the alleyway.
"Leonie?" I whispered again, scared.
She smiled menacingly at me and then her fist collided with my face. I whimpered back in pain.
"I…I don't get it, why are you doing this to me?" By now the tears were cascading down my face and she cackled.
"Don't you see? We were never friends, I never even liked your hideous face, god you were so easy to fool! I did this as a joke! Otherwise I wouldn't even be caught standing twenty feet near your skanky self!"
"Why?"
"Oh because you're just…so…stupid and naïve you really thought I wanted to be friends with you? Ha! Whatev! I'm part of the untouchables now, you always have to do a cruel and manipulative dare to get in, lets just say…you were the easiest, ugliest and stupidest. It was so easy! Like taking candy from a baby…oh…you ARE a baby!"
They all cracked up with laughter as my rotting form began to sob.
I never did have a true friend; neither did I trust anyone. How could I? Leonie put me in hell for that entire year until she chose someone new to pick on. But she always came back to pick my resolve off bit by bit until I was left standing with nothing. I didn't heal when she moved away that year, I couldn't.
Two days after the endless bullying, Cathy died. My already shattered heart just crushed itself in once again. My voice was lost, lost over the chorus of pleas and shouts and whimpers and crying and tears in my memories, no one would break my resolve again, no one could because I couldn't let anyone get close without them damaging me, not without them scarring me mentally and physically and neither can I let them get close to me because I know the end is near, I always knew it would be. It took me just one more fateful night to figure that out.
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Authoress' Note:
I only had one friend,
Who told me she'd be their till the end,
I did everything for her,
Never stopping to please her,
She broke my heart,
And tore the only happiness I had apart,
Now I can't trust anyone at all,
Just because of one girl who pushed me into a wall,
The only friend I ever had,
Snatched my one chance of happiness and the only thing I can feel is forever sad,
What left is there for someone to take?
For I am eternally broken, ever since my sister's wake