Guardian Angel.
Chapter
Two.
Aerona was just
another ordinary, shy, typical teenage girl who was dying inside.
She kept a sharp, ruthless blade in a velvet-lined box underneath
her bed, hidden from the unsuspecting world. When she had come
home from a long day at the hell hole also known as school;
she’d shut herself in a mind of her own, away from everyone
else, where things went right for once.
Our story starts on a chilly winter night, Christmas Eve, when
the family are all in bed, sleeping in a land of happiness and
light, yet Aerona is still awake, stilling staring at the patch
of ceiling above of her.
She tosses and she turns, she counts a hundred sheep. Losing hope
of ever getting rest, Aerona leaps out of bed and crawls silently
over to the window.
Outside are layers of miniscule fragments of snow, shining like a
polished gem, under the perfectly crescent moon. Surrounding it
are randomly scattered stars, seemingly smiling at her, or
watching over her.
Aerona’s mother used to tell her that every shooting star
is another soul flying to heaven, and that when you see a star in
the sky…it is now a guardian angel.
But she doesn’t believe in that fairytale, girly nonsense
anymore. Aerona grew up and realised the world is a real place-
not a princess letting own her hair, waiting in the tower with a
spark of hope that her prince will come. Absolute nonsense.
Her clock flashes with the numbers 03:17am. Sighing, Aerona
crawls back into bed, under the soft, feathery duvet and rests
her head on the pillow of dreams.
She wakes up several times that night- to the same recurring
dream…
***
“I heard Aerona killed herself today” A tall,
dark-haired teenager laughs.
“Loser! She’s so attention-seeking!”
Another teenager chuckles. This one had fair hair and looked a
year younger or so.
“Oh my gosh! I get no attention around here! I’m
gonna jump outta the window!” The tall one says in a
mocking, high-pitched tone.
The whole basketball team laugh.
“Good one, Ronan!” The coach shouts as a quiet,
tall,, 14-year-old scores a basket. “What are you two doing
on the side, Elliot, Ray? Get on court! NOW!” He points at
Elliot and Ray.
The dark-haired one, Ray, smirks.
“Ray, you better wipe that look of your face now!”
The coach shouts and Ray obeys, and walks over onto court, Elliot
closely following behind.
***
Each time it ended, Aerona woke up sweating and panting. Sweat
and tears merged on her cheeks, racing down, down, down, until
they fall onto the now damp mattress. Her unsteady, rapid
breathing pattern started to slow down eventually, and she looked
up at the ceiling like she was searching for hope.
Hope; what a strange word! Many people do not know what hope
means- and everybody has their own definition. I believe hope is
a miniscule spark of electricity buried deep down, beneath the
negativity and loss and sorrow and ruins…and when you find
it underneath all of those melancholy memories…you have
the power to do anything. You could grow and grow and grow in
knowledge and positivity, banishing the bad from all good (it
doesn’t mean it isn’t there, but it separates the
two, not letting one ruin the other). Despite all the odds when
you find that spark… you don’t notice the sorrow as
much anymore. Hope numbs the pain; and doesn’t let anything
get in the way of freedom and fortune.
But Aerona doesn’t find it. At all.
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"And you'll wake up all alone on the floor" -Alive,
Gabrielle Aplin