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I closed the door quietly and began to walk away. Tears filled my eyes quickly. I tried to hold back but I couldn't. I just failed my math test. I already had a low C. Who Knows how this will affect my grade. i only have one test left and it's worth 150 Points. That's about a third of my final grade. Fabulous. just fabulous. It seems like my life is just a major train wreck that crashes constantly and repeatedly for about eleven years now. Every since that summer before second grade, everything went downhill. Between the weight gain, the birth of my little sister, and the divorce between my parents, my life has been a living hell since.
I walked outside the Russ building and to my surprise it was raining. I welcome the rain because when I walk in it no one can tell i'm crying. Since I cry a lot it's a nice change to not have to explain myself. I hate that question, those two words. We've all heard it, we've all been asked it, and we've all asked it. "What's wrong?" I've heard these two words so many times that I just expect it now. I'm either always crying or have a "I hate the world" look on my face. the cool rain feels nice on my dry skin. I opened the doors to the student center and to my surprise it was warm. I entered the cafeteria and sat at the counter. This was not a part of my usual routine. I usually look for my best friend immediately after math class. Today was a day that might contribute to my being exposed for what I really am. I have a theory about my future. you see, I am going to school to eventually become a pharmacist. At first I thought it was extremely attainable, but after getting C's in basically all of my general education classes I soon realized that I was not good enough. No pharmacy school would accept me with those grades. Everyone assumes that just because I say I'm going to school to become a pharmacist i have exceptional grades and a great work ethic. The bare truth is that I don't. I don't have good grades. I don't have honor roll. I am just a lazy, fat, slob posing to be some great academic scholar. I was stressed out so I began to write.
"I feel like I'm in over my head" I wrote. I paused and looked at the sentence. It was screaming it's context back at me. I needed to drown out the screaming so I took out my Zune and put on my "Anger" playlist. Despite the name anger, it wasn't all "angry" music/ I had a song by disney pop princess, Demi Lovato, one of the most calmest songs out there, Under the Bridge, along with some selections by system of a down. The night before I was laying in my bed listening to the radio on my zune, while searching through the stations I stopped on a christian channel. A song was just starting. I just like the sound of the first few chords, so I kept listening. The song was called "face of Christ" by an artist named Chris Rice. This song was now on my "anger" playlist. I had a theory of balancing out playlist. I looked at the paper and began to write how I wasn't good enough. Before i could finish writing the sentence my best friend came out of nowhere with a bagel in hand. She said something but it was drowned out by my headphones. I covered the paper, turned the page and began drawing a picture of what seemed to be an octopus at the tim. I started free drawing and playing with the lines just to keep my mind busy while my best friend was there. Whenever she is around I get extremely vulnerable and start to cry if something is wrong. We had an anatomy class right after I had my math class. Since I had a test, I got out earlier then usually. The picture's accurate depiction took a turn for the worse. I could no longer make out what it was. An octopus? An angel? A mystical creature? No one would ever know.
My best friend suddenly tapped me. I didn't look at her right away. I knew she was tapping me to get me to go0 to anatomy class. I had already decided I was not going because I know I failed my math test. So I figured why go be a failure in anatomy class. I was already behind as is. I realized not going would make that worse but at that moment I didn't care anymore. I shrugged my shoulders as a response to her. I watched her get up and leave the cafeteria. I turned the page and began to write again. I wanted to write about me successfully committing suicide. Unlike the other times in my life where i tried and failed. My favorite way to try was the "pill-popping" method. I grew fond of diphenhydramine gel caps when I was in my freshman year of college. At first I took them for recreation. Maybe two or three at most, just to fall asleep and feel "heavy" for a little while. Then I started flirting with disaster. I bumped up the amount of pills I ingested each time. I believe I got to thirteen before I stopped. I can't remember why i stopped. I think it was because of the car accident I was in. No car meant no way to get to a drugstore.
Before I started writing I went to actually get some food. I got my usual chicken strips, fries and pepsi. 6.75 compliments of my mother. Every since the accident I had no way of getting to work. I turned my zune to "under the bridge". The song I listened to on my route 9 drives. My route 9 drives were so fun. My friends and I would basically drive straight up the entire route 9 north. We'd stop at the Wawa on route 9 in Manahawkin, get sandwiches, candy and energy drinks and just have an adventure. Route 9 drives is something I miss so much about my car. My car, out of all of my friends, was the road trip car, just because I loved the sense of adventure and not knowing where I would end up or what I would see. But those days are over now. Now I had to car pool to school. All I saw was my campus, my house and occasionally my best friends house. It was torture. Going from midnight drives frequently to being stuck at home every weekend was a big change. And at that time I still didn't adjust. From time to time I'd look out my bedroom window that was over my driveway, and I'd expect to see my silver bullet. My beautiful car with the broken fog light and the dirty trunk, but as of September 16th, 2009, I would never see my "baby" again. I began to write...
"I have a plan. It will work if I just go through with it and stop being a pussy about it. Step one: Convince someone to take me to a store, one that sells sleep aid. Step two Have a "fake" item in mind because someone might ask what I need from the store. Step three: ensure the person that I can go in the store alone. Step Four: Act normal when getting back in the car. Step five: Get home and take the whole bottle. Step six: lay in the dark and wait to go to sleep."
Ironically as I was writing the story Chris Rice came on. The verses in this song, the music sounded like some song I liked when i was a kid. So it reminded me of my childhood. All the times I enjoyed my life. Mainly the holidays and my birthday. I was given presents so i was reminded that I was loved. Unlike how I felt. I felt ugly, alone and like I shouldn't exist. as I looked back on my thoughts, I realized how deep and mature my thoughts as a child was. I started to tear upon this realization. I replayed the song. The was such a delicate strum of the guitar that I tried to find some sort of delicate, vulnerable feeling to comfort me. Not to my surprise, I couldn't find one. I just felt empty and hollow. It was at this point when I realized how loud the music was on my ears. The notes of the song bled through my head phones, entered my ear canals and swam into my body. I could feel the beat pulsating but nothing else. I stared at the composition book in front of me and I began to drift away. in the middle of that crowded, noisy cafeteria, and for the first time that day I felt nothing.
"Under the bridge" came back on. It was halfway through the song before I realized it was on. I readjusted myself on the chair and looked at my phone for the time. 4:15 pm. 30 mins until my best friend comes back. I thought I should continue writing my story, and that I did.
"I closed the car door behind me with my schoolbag in hand. My keys were at the bottom of the bag as usual. I opened the door to my house and it was silent. My cousin was at work, my brother was in his room and my sister was at her fathers house. This was the usual setting for my house. Nice, quiet, empty. I enjoyed this because it made me feel alone, and feeling alone gave me more of an incentive to try and commit suicide. I always made myself some egg sandwiches before anything else. I go upstairs to my disaster of a room. I haven't cleaned it since I decorated it and let the kids play in it over thanksgiving break. I go to my computer. My best friend is logged on as usual. My boyfriend was on but mobile as usual"
I looked up from my writing and expected my boyfriend to be behind me. Unfortunately he wasn't. I don't see him enough. He always has shit to do either for work or at the firehouse. I hadn't been talking to him a lot lately either. That bothered me. I liked him a lot but i felt that he didnt care about me like I did him. I felt he only wanted me for sex. I remember asking him what his intentions were and he swore out it wasn't for sex. So I couldnt do anythign else but believe him. I missed th way he held me in his arms and the way he kissed me. I wanted to finish the story before I started crying again.
"I thought up a poem, one that was darker than my usual. I looked at my aim away messages and statuses as being warning shots for everyone. I'd think it was respectful to warn people that I might not be alive the next day. I made the poem into my away message. I started my move my furniture in my room to clean it back up. I walked into my bathroom and closed the door"
Another poke. My best friend was behind me she was done with her class. I packed up my things and followed her to her car. It was still raining, now only dark. We were silent on the way home. When we arrived to my house we agreed on how pretty the Christmas lights on the house looked. This reminded me of a suicide attempt I had a year ago. My frist one with the pills. It was a rainy light just like this. Only thing was I didnt go to the store to get any pills. but I did have the medication that I've been hoarding.Before I got out of her car I asked my best friend one question.
"You know I love you right?"
any last words?
7:31 PM - 2009-31-10