She walked out into the bright sun and felt warmed. A smile spread over her face as she briskly walked down the sidewalk. She stared happily at the world and it seemed to smile at her. She walked up the sidewalk away from the school and sat down next to the tree. She felt elated and ready to jump for joy at just being alive. She had just finished a manga series that had ended perfectly, just the way she wanted it to. She felt as if everything might just be okay.
She got up and walked after she remembered that her parents had told her to walk home today. She roamed around for awhile wanting to enjoy the weather and replaying the ending of the manga in her mind. As she walked by the playground she ran up suddenly and ran up the slide. She looked around.
"Not high enough." She said.
She climbed onto the outside of the jungle gym and climbed to the very top. She looked around. She saw some boys playing soccer in the field close by. She squinted tightly as she tried to make out who it was.
"Oh," she thought, "I know some of them."
Then they turned toward her and stared. They were coming. They were looking at her. She immediately half fell, half climbed down quickly and snuck away. She rounded the corner and peeked around the corner.
"Hey, who was that?"
"I couldn't tell. I think it was a chick."
"A chick you know?"
"Maybe vaguely. Like someone from a dream?"
"Okay man now you're just freaking me out. Let's go back to the game."
"I don't know you guys. Whoever it was looked like they might have got hurt in that fall."
As she heard this she realized that she had a pain in her leg and in her side. She began to try to limp away.
"I think he's right," a familiar voice said. "Let's try to find them."
She went pale as she recognized the voice. It was him. She quickly limped into a bush. She heard footsteps as they rushed passed.
When they were finally gone, she limped to her house and hid in her room. Then went downstairs and told her parents she was in a tree, reading and she fell. They dressed her up and scolded her good.
The next day at school she tried to hide her limp, and pretended it was a cold was why she sat out of athletics. In truth she was embarrassed that such a silly thing had happened to her. She grew nervous though as she went into her third period. He might notice. She limped as little as is possible with her twisted ankle as she walked and sat down. She listened to him talk to a friend.
"Hey, listen to this. Me and the guys were hanging out at the soccer field right? And then I notice some chick on top of the jungle gym--"
"Was she hot?" interrupted one of his friends.
"I don't know she looked cute enough to go see who it was."
She blushed at this and hid her head.
"So we started walking to go see, but all the sudden she jumps/tumbled* down the jungle gym and starts running away. When we finally got over there we tried to find her to see if she was hurt, but we couldn't find her."
"And why are you telling us this?"
"I don't know." He said suddenly looking flustered.
"Oh I see you like this little mystery girl."
"No man, I'm just curious."
* He actually said slash. I also wanted to let my readers know that the dialogue is somewhat confusing, and apologize, but that's the way the story works. Thanks for all the support.
