Remembering Yesterday

One week had passed and Zoey was dreading every day that passed. School would be over in two months and she just wanted to die. She was finally out of the hospital after being held captive for three days. Now she had to some stupid therapy sessions because they wanted to take her out of her depression. What a load of bullshit. Her mom should be the one taking therapy. Zoey wasn’t the crazy one; her mom was. She sat next to James handing him her lunch tray. “Aren’t you planning on eating anything?” She shook her head and laid her head on the table. “You gotta eat something. You’re getting awfully skinny.” “I’ll survive.” James shook his head and kept trying to make her eat. Casey rubbed Zoey’s back but said nothing. What would life be like in England? Maybe she could be someone new. Start a new life.

Zoey put her headphones in ignoring everyone around her. Why did this have to happen to her? She felt a knot in her throat as she heard Done For You by Black Veil Brides start to play. She whispered the lyrics and felt tears running down her cheeks. She stood up and walked out of the cafeteria ignoring stares and ran out of the building. She took her keys out of her pocket and got in her car. She turned it on and saw James running out of the building. She drove off at full speed ignoring his frantic screaming. She drove for about two hours thankful that there was no traffic. She looked at her phone in frustration as it ran for the twentieth time. Almost thirty missed calls from James. None from her parents…yet. It seemed James hadn’t told them, yet. She turned her phone off before her parents started calling her. She looked at a sign that read Pekin and took the turn off. She parked her car in front of a McDonalds and put her keys in her back pocket. She got out and ran down the abandoned street thankful that no one was around to try and stop her. She wasn’t sure where she was going; all she knew was that she wanted to be alone; to forget that this was her life. She fell as he legs gave in from all the running. She breathed heavily trying to catch her breath. She looked around trying to find out where the hell she was at.

She saw she was in front of a cemetery. She looked around and saw a forest beyond the cemetery. She sat down trying to catch her breath deciding to go into the forest. She looked up and saw the cars passing by. She saw a black RV pass by and she watched remembering she had seen that RV before. She shook her head of course she had. She had seen a lot of RVs in her life. She stood up shaking her legs preparing to run again. She ran onto the road that went beyond the cemetery and into the forest. She had just run for about ten minutes when she ran into a small lake. She ran around the lake not wanting to get lost. She wanted to be alone, but that didn’t mean she wanted to be in the forest forever. She stopped when she saw she had run across half the lake and walked into the forest and stopped as she got into a clearing. She lay down and looked at the clouds. That’s when she started to cry. She wasn’t sure for how long she cried, but next thing she knew, she was dreaming.

Zoey looked around and saw she was on the street Kathie lived. She couldn’t help but smile, she had missed Kathie, and felt that seeing her would make things better, at least until she woke up again. She saw Kathie staring at Dennis. “You no love me no mores!” “Don’t say that Princess, of course I love you!” “No you whyk that girl Kim.” Dennis looked at his best friend frowning. “She’s only a friend. You know you’ll always be my best friend.” Kathie shook her head stubbornly. She couldn’t stay the fact that Denny had new friends, especially girls. Denny was hers and no one else’s. “You my boyfwend, me no like you having girly friends.” Dennis let out a soft sigh and put scratched his head in frustration. “I’m not your boyfriend okay? I’m just your friend. And you can’t tell me who I can and can’t hang out with!” Kathie’s eyes filled with tears and she ran into her house.” Dennis ran after her and grabbed her hand. “Don’t cry! I’m only telling the truth, you’re not my girlfriend, boyfriend and girlfriends kiss and other yucky stuff like that. We’re not like that are we?” Kathie tried to break free from Dennis’ grasp. “Let goes! I hate you. I neber wants to see chu again! “Don’t be like that. I’m your best friend, remember?” Kathie stared at Dennis, “Let go Dennis, Kathie hated chu! She neber wants to see chu eber!” Dennis let go of his best friend shocked.

Zoey shook her head. She knew Kathie wouldn’t understand because she was only a little girl. Dennis was older and of course he wanted to have friends other than Kathie. Poor Kathie her little heart had been crushed. She followed Dennis as he ran out the door crying. She looked at a white Trusu that flew into Kathie’s drive way parking in front of the front steps. She watched as a man ran out wearing an IT mask and run into Kathie’s house. Zoey ran in as she heard Kathie scream. Zoey watched as Kathie’s mom held onto her daughter fear in her eyes. “No, you’re not taking her!” Kathie looked at the man with the IT mask shaking with fear. Who was this man, and why did he want her? “Daddy!” She screamed as she hid her face behind her mom’s golden locks. Zoey watched as a tall man ran out of a hallway. He was obviously Kathie’s dad. He had the same icy blue eyes she had and his hair was a dark burnet hair. He held a gun at the man with the IT mask and fired. Zoey screamed along with Kathie and Kathie’s mother. She winced as she heard another gunshot and her eyes flew open as she heard Kathie’s frantic scream. She saw Kathie’s dad lying in a puddle of blood. She looked at the man in the IT mask and saw he didn’t have a gun.

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