Paranoia

• Lucy Wallis , Grade 7
• Short Story
• 2019

Losing someone is always terrible it can feel as though someone is stabbing you in the heart or grabbing your insides and clenching them in their fists. 2 weeks ago, I lost the love of my life to a fate more horrible than death itself, as I will now tell you how it happened taking you back to the winter of 2017…
Hello, my name is Lila I am 17 years old and am finishing year twelve and fearing the future as everyone probably is. I have a crazy ex-boyfriend named Mark and a good friend named Georgia. Most people would probably say I am extremely lucky, others that know me know that I am not. I feel like there is a very important detail missing from my life I keep thinking that eventually it will show up but it never does. One day a new boy came to our school, I feel like he was the darkest thing in our world. He had a great sense of tenebrosity to him and I felt like there was a mystical force field pushing him away from civilisation. Me being the extroverted person I am I go up to him and introduce myself. ”Hi my name is Lila what is your name?” he didn’t respond at first but then I asked again and he said in a dark and mysterious voice….”Harry” and then walked away. I thought wow that was rude.
As the bell rang once I suddenly turned around and screamed. I don’t know why I screamed it just described everything that just happened. Now I have the worst possible subject maths. To make it even worse everyone around me was good at maths so I felt like a gold fish in a pond of tuna. Walking into class I nearly fainted I saw Harry sitting there on his phone listening to music loud enough we could here it 5 meters away. As the teacher started to talk I instantly turned off my brain.
I woke up and heard loud sound of laughter all around me embarrassed I ran out of the room and who do I see Harry, I will never know apparently he was sent out of the class for screaming at himself frantically. I don’t really know why but I actually have a crush on him. There’s something about him that draws you in like a revolting can of trash and flies. I decided to ask him out.
Surprisingly he said yes and said he had eyes for me too, I was so glad and I’m pretty sure that Georgia and Mark didn’t approve but I know I loved him so much. A few weeks after dating him we decided to meet his parents. It didn’t go very well. Eventually we ran out of the room and went driving. He told me in a weird voice that he loved me very much and ran out of the car crying and jumped off the cliff…. And died