"in that case, I would choose to be dead right now" Rosie said and took a sip of juice from juice bottle,
"Does that mean ,life until now , until this 18 means nothing to you,?" Catherine, a girl with straight long hairs sitting next to her raised a question
Rosie, Catherine, Karina, Lucas and Nivi were sitting occupying last 3 benches of corner in classroom, all of them were discussing what if we die randomly in car accident or any disaster
It was half past 4 in evening, all students were gone , except Daniel who was sleeping in front bench
Rosie said life was nothing unless she achieve her future goals
Catherine was just wishing to know her death at least before a month so can she be done with bucket list
Karina , a curly haired, light brown girl with full smile always on face said "even if I die tomorrow I consider it as blessings"
Rosie stood up straight looking right in Karina's eyes furiously " looks like your second suicide attempt is not so far, have some shame , our class is getting enough criticism now.
Karina hesitated to look up and said " it's notlike you will ever understand me" ..,
Catherine asked Rosie to calm down, because while class had already humiliated her because of attempting suicide enough..
Then
Her attention kind of shifted to front bench, same damn time a student with a green cardigan looked back straight at her and turned forward again,
Rosie turned to Cath calling out "Cath!!"
She suddenly came to senses and looked at her
Rosie continued
" little do you what's death is ,? Every step you took to reach that goal, every hesitation you made to stay away from people's judgement, every sacrifice you made will go for nothing
And Cath how do you ever know ? You 've already made your name throughout town as singer, a model student every parent know , no wonder you don't feel a bit scared of it"
The harsh words were suddenly interrupted
Karina stopped rose "hey, don't drag too much, if you wanna live.. may God bless you with 100 year of life"
Catherine suddenly left without a word after seeing a notification from phone ..
Rosie asked Karina if she talked too much, Karina just nodded asking her to nevermind,
Because she was always afraid to out argue her
As Catherine left class she was followed by Nick , a guy wearing green cardigan.
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Catherine 's pov
I just ran out of school because there was missed call from mom and she texted me to come home fast, she never cared even if I reached home at 8 or 9 or 10 but it is only 4:50 pm now , I wonder what happened today
As I was running, I felt someone following me turning around, nobody's there
Okay my misunderstanding
I walked almost a kilometre taking 3 turns , still felt the same way, is some following me?
I turned around, There he was Daniel Je stood for a second looking at me and then took left turn without even giving me a smile
Okay, nobody's following me, he was also on the way to his home
Walking some more steps I reached my home
Opened the door, wow nobody's here responding to my call
"Mommy, where are you?"
I was a bit nervous, if everything was alright
Because never on earth my home was this still when I came back from school
I walked towards my the room and kept calling for her,
Then suddenly there was response
"I am here dear , " a little cough
This voice is from my room,
I walked fast, and opened door
"OMG, mommy, Wowww , I wasn't really ready for this suprise" I said
She was standing there right beside long pink shining frock she stitched to me , measuring tape hanging on her neck.
"Give a try, I will make it better fitting, if it's not
Justake sure tomorrow 's performance will be bomb"
"Yeahh" I scremed and dragged the dress to wear
No need for any setting, it's perfect and I always feel like princess whenever it's mommy taste dress
"I am home" I heard my father's voice from downstairs
Jumped and ran to see him ,
"Oh princess, Gorgeous as always!!, how's song practice"
He gave me slight hug and walked towards couch keeping bag on table
"Ahh, whole week's work pressure should runaway from everyone after listening to your song" he said while sitting there
Yea , I am totally prepared to sing there , on "Redvale town's weekend talent show"
I 've been participating in this since I was 7 year old, and I won almost 14 time in past 10 years
That's not great achievement, but still gotta do my best
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"Redvale town's weekend talent show"
I am seeing everyone's performance, my preperation is nothing may be
I am bit afraid that I may mess it in high note
'Calm down I can do this'
Catherine it's your turn , rose been screaming for me , nivi was also cheering as I could see while climbing stage
My song goes like
"I pushed you away , but you found all the way to get in , get near me
Now that am convinced can I say yes
Do I still have chance
To lord I pray I walk till edge of world in bear foot if it's you with me
I'd say no to heaven if it's not you with me
Can you just stay with, stay with me"
Singing in this smooth tone stunned me too
Now it's time to oull a high note
"You stayyyyyyyyyhh, with me.. alwayyyyyyys. Stayyyyyy!
God voice cracked
I knew such an embrassing scene, should I be here till they clap, Or should I runaway without looking back
"Woahhhh" someone scremed in crowd and clapped followed by others' claps
Him? Lucas ? I denied him from attending my show , still dated to show up
I forgot all insult I caused myself, a strange blood boiling feeling
I rushed off stage
I was trying to run to home as soon as possible
"Hey, that was great performance actually"
U recognised voice, turned back
Dark brown leather jacket Same colour pants
With light brown skin texture and curled hairs
Standing there like model of 90's
Lucas!
"You better not mess with me again"
I walked fast close to him
" Calm , calm down, madam, only once in week we get this live show, you participate like once in month, if I miss this opportunity, can I find a better fool than me?"
Hitting my netbes without efforts?
"Don't try flattering me, I know you manipulator"
I kicked on his shoes and walked away
I heard "whatever I say is truth, you should try considering me"
He is such a maniac, last time I talked to him properly was almost 3 weeks ago
Fine Sunday evening I was in my room cleaning my table to study, someone suddenly jumped from my window and I screamed out of panic
Suddenly he held me tightly with one hand closing my mouth , one covering my eyes
A deep voice whispered "it was just a suprise, why are you creating scene?"
May be my parents rushed and opened door
My father dragged him away from me in one go
Mom ran to me checking if I was okay
Reassuring her about my status
Iooked at guy, Lucas! you dumbass!?
I convinced my parents that It was just silly dare given to him boys game
And personally asked him not to create such scenes since am not ready for these dramas
But never once he quits trying to contact me
Class's over, he asks me for notes
Sports period, he wants to borrow water
At cafeteria, he wants to borrow some money because he forgot
Can't even ignore, or god will use me as examples
Is he this clumsy, or making these dramas,