JSM - Edition Three

N ever S ay N ever - continued

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Four weeks passed and the bond between Madeline and I grew stronger every minute. Very soon Madeline and I grew inseparable. Every night afterschool during those four weeks we spoke on the phone till midnight. Everything was perfect. Madeline and I always felt special when we were with each other. Nothing was ever going to change. Madeline didn’t come to school today. Olivia and Brooklyn suggested that she was sick. Mila suggested that she was on holiday and Hazel suggested that she had moved countries. When I was lying in my uncomfortable bed I thought back to what Hazel had said earlier about Madeline. What if she had moved countries? My best friend gone! The one person that kept me from running away! Gone! I couldn’t bear thinking about it anymore. I slowly closed my eyes and drifted off to a painful dream about the days I could roam free in the meadow that stretched for miles and the bunnies…Claire wake up! Claire wake up! I woke up rather slowly from my dream of happiness and I moaned when my eyes opened into bright light and my mother peering down at me in an odd sort of way. I could feel my mother’s eyes X-raying me with her crystal green eyes through the back of my tired and weary head, I stood up from my bed and suddenly remembered the events that happened yesterday and I was wide awake. I hurriedly got changed into my despondent school uniform and was ready to leave the house at eight o’clock. On the bus my tummy clenched into the same tight knot I had on the first day of school, I crossed my fingers and prayed that Madeline would be at school. Madeline was there today! Except she had bad news. Piper her baby sister had fallen very ill, for Piper’s health they had to move to the country-side in two months which means that she would have to move schools! As Madeline shared the news, I felt lost for words like I was going to throw up! I also noticed Mila’s big green eyes well up because Mila had been Madeline’s friend for the longest time and she had adored helping Piper with learning to walk, while Madeline helped Holly learn to walk. Who was going to be my BFF for the rest of my life! I liked Brooklyn, Olivia, Hazel and Mila but not as much as I like Madeline. The rest of the day went by in silence. Madeline felt confused for so many reasons and I felt lost for words, like I was going to throw up! When I got home I didn’t want to eat dinner or see anyone, I just wanted to be alone. When I finally arrived in my room I could feel the darkness creeping up on me like a spider creeps up on prey. I lay on my lonely bed and before I knew it I fell asleep. Once again I dreamt about the meadow except this time Madeline was weeping over Piper’s perfect face so much like Madeline’s own face. She was feeding her a liquid of sorts to her tiny mouth, but Piper wasn’t drinking it. She was motionless. I felt like I didn’t want to go to school today I couldn’t bear another day like yesterday, I tried everything I could like drawing spots on myself, and making myself really hot so when mum checks if I have a fever. But mum used the same response every time. “Claire, I know you’re not sick because it is physically impossible to have chicken pox and a fever in the same morning and blah blah blah.” So I had to bear another day of torture. B ad N ews

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