I was frozen. Everything was still in slow motion. It took a minute
and my friends calling my name to bring me back to reality.
"Sue?"
"Sue!"
"SUE"
"SUE!"
"SUE?!!" I snapped out of it. Masks finally made contact with the
floor, peoples screamed became un-muffled again, jumping bodies went
back to normal speed, and my friends surrounded me in a circle of
worried faces. They all held their masks in their hands. (Oh yeah by
the way. These are the costumes matched with the girls)
Julie
"Huh?" I said looking around. I looked from Molly to Michelle, Josh
to Kurt, Seth to Peter. Then my gaze went from Cole to Matt. Both were
equally full of worry and my stomach turned in knots.
"Sue are you alright?" Michelle asked. I was in a daze still. But
my mind was racing and my head hurt. I kept looking from Cole to Matt
and then to Michelle and Molly. I looked at the exit door.
"I have to go." I said and then pushing my way out of the circle
and off the dance floor, I ran towards the exit. I threw my mask on the
floor as well as my shoes and I sprinted onto the cold wet grass and
ran towards the school's green. I ran into the heart of the maze and
sat down at the School fountain like I did the night Cole asked me to
the dance. I sat down on the edge of the fountain with the water cast
light on my shaking body.
Next thing I knew I felt myself leave my body. I was in the sky
looking at my body shaking and trying to push back tears of guilt. I
felt sorry for the me that was down there staring into the water and
sniffling. A tear hit the water making a small ripple that quickly
disappeared. Then, my body fell backwards unconscious and my arm
floated in the water that limply hung over the edge. It went dark.
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It was dark. Where I was I mean. I was lying in darkness. Then a
bubble started floating to the sky and I realized I was in black water.
So I tried following the direction the bubble was going and I saw a
faint shimmering light. I swam towards it but I found that I could just
run. I couldn't tell where the floor was. But I kept on going. When I
thought I reached the surface I pushed my head up to the air. I
breathed heavily, just realizing I was holding it the whole time, and I
looked around. I was in the fountain. Like I'd fallen into the water. I
climbed out and magically, my costume was on me. And it was dry. My
mask was at my feet. I could have sworn I threw it on the ground
before, I thought.
I then heard the clock strike 9:59 and I ran to the Ballroom. I saw
my friends chatting happily. But then the clock rang 10 with loud gongs
from the bell. All of a sudden everyone faded into the darkness except
for someone. I walked over to them to ask them what's going on but I
never seemed to get any closer to the person. I started running but I
never got any closer. Then, they turned around and I stopped running
paralyzed with shock. It was a guy. But half of his face was Matt and
the other half was Cole. I screamed but nothing came out. I started
running the other direction only to find them again. Everywhere I
turned the two faced person was there.
"Sue." They said in a voice that was a mixture of the two. "Sue.
Sue. Sue." all of them started chanting my name and I just collapsed to
the floor in the darkness shaking. I started yelling no! But nothing
was heard. I kept yelling though, hoping someone would hear me.
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"Sue!"
"No. no. . . no . . . NO!" I mumbled unconsciously and then
screamed no and shot my eyes open. I bonked heads with someone and
groaned. I looked around to see everyone looking at me worried. I was
in the common room in the girls' dorm building. Everyone was in
pajamas. Strict school policies say that guys can't sleep in the girls'
rooms. But they're allowed to sleep in the common room. And that's what
the guys were doing. There were sleeping bags and pillows all over the
place as well as backpacks, cellphones, cellphone chargers, laptops,
i-Pods, etc.
The girls were all in their pajamas. Plaid pajama pants and
tank-tops. Molly's was dark green. Michelle's was light green, Julie's
was black and yellow, Katrina's was pink, Trisha's was red, Abby's was
light blue, Amanda's was purple. The guys were either in gym shorts,
plaid pajama pants, or boxer pants, and tee shirts. I had a suit jacket
over my torso and a blanket over that. I was still in my costume.
I started to sit up but then a headache suddenly rushed to my head and I put my hand to my temple while wincing slightly.
"Hey take it easy." Molly said and she eased me back onto the couch. I shook my head.
"I gotta get out of this dress." I said. I got up and headed
upstairs, half stumbling from getting up too fast. When I came back
downstairs I was in my blue and black plaid pajama pants and a white
undershirt.
"What happened?" I asked sitting down on the couch trying to remember what happened.
"You fled the ball room and by the time we found you, you were
passed out on the edge of the fountain about to fall in. Cole found
you." My gaze shifted to Cole. He smiled at me.
"I didn't make it though. You fell in. But I grabbed you before you drowned." He said.
"How long was I out?" I asked.
"Not long. 2o minutes. It's 10:50. The older kids are at an after
party. The younger kids are already asleep. Kids our age are in the
other common room watching a movie. It just started so you're just in
time." Michaels said. I nodded. "Are you ok?" I didn't reply. I walked
over to him.
"I need a hug." He smiled and gave me a hug. Then the girls all
hugged me. Then Cole walked over to me. He smiled at me and I smiled
back weakly. He pulled me into a hug and it made me feel safe.
"Hey can we go now or do you need a moment alone?" Michaels asked.
I smiled and we headed to the common room where the movie was playing.
Our entire grade the the grade older/younger than us were all in the
large room watching the TV that was just started playing the movie, Men
in Black I and II. We all joined in sitting down. I sat next to Cole
and things started getting back to normal. But occasionally I'd look
over at Matt and see him looking at me but then we'd both look back at
the screen.
"You had me worried about you." Cole said in my ear. I turned to face him and I could tell I had really shaken him up.
"I'm sorry." I said back. He wrapped his arm around me and crashed
his lips down on mine. In front of everyone in the room. Not that
anyone noticed. They were all concentrating on the movie. But it was
like the perfect moment. I was on the verge of confusion while he was
there, prepared to be my support.
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The next morning I woke up to the smell of Reeses Puffs cereal and
milk. I slowly opened my eyes and saw Molly starring at me while
chewing with a bowl and spoon in her hand.
"Morning sleeping Beauty." I smiled. I slowly got up and walked
into the mini kitchen in the dorm. There was a bunch of kids all
sleepily sitting at the tables and munching on cereal and other
breakfast foods. I groaned and grabbed an apple.
"Look who finally woke up." Michelle said. I smiled.
"Well we have Special Operations classes today. So get dressed." I
rolled my eyes. I nodded and went back in to my room and changed into
my uniform.
"Knock knock." I heard through the door.
"Come in." I said. It was Matt. I fixed my blue head band in the mirror and turned towards him.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Nothing. Just checking if you were ready.
"Yea just about. Lets go!" I smiled. We started heading out the door.
"Listen. About last night." Matt said. I remained quiet so he
continued talking. "I know you didn't expect it was me so I kno you
didn't mean to dance that close." I slowly nodded. "We can still be
friends right?" I looked up at him and he smiled. I smiled back and
nodded.
"Yeah. That'd be fine. Mayb things were getting better now.















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