The chilly breeze blew slightly making eerie sounds that made the trees move, shivering leaves like a kid that caught malaria. The rain just stopped and as the dark clouds hovered around her head, it explained the emotions she was feeling right now.
Cold and wet, tired and exhausted, she made her way along the path through the forest looking for the cemetery she was so used to and on getting there, the grave stones were arranged in rows and walking through the path, she got to her destination.
"Anna Stone, Mother and Daughter. May 6 1992 _ January 6 2007"
Mary always comes here on her birthday to spend time with her late mother as she was the only friend she had. She was always so timid to make friends at her high school due to the fear of her being humiliated in school.
Like every high school, Mary's was no different. Standford high. Made of all shades of cliche clicks. The jocks, the cheerleaders, the popular, the nerds , the geeks , the book worms and other groups students were classified under. Mary was classified under the nerds as she was on glasses and was always in the shadows wearing her black hoodie just to blend in. No one wanted to come in contact with the popular or the jocks as they wanted to avoid trouble .Coming in contact with the cheerleaders is also a worse case scenario.
Walking back out of the graveyard, Mary started feeling self conscious and had the feeling that something, or rather someone was watching her but she ignored it and continued on her path back to her house.
On getting to school on Monday, Mary was surprised to find a letter in her locker which said:
"Are you religious? Because you are definitely the answers to all my prayers.
Love, Ashton "
She was so shocked because there was no way in hell as in no way that THE Ashton Rider would send that letter to her. NO WAY. She was so sure of it because Ashton was not only popular, he was also a jock who played football and basketball. Maybe he made a mistake and left it in her locker, she thought. She ignored every thought of Ashton and what he might want and made her way to classes. During lunch, she went to get her textbooks for her history class only for her to come across another letter again which says:
"Are you Netflix?, Because I could watch you for hours non stop without getting tired"
And looking to her left, Mary saw Ashton staring at her with such intensity that she felt so uncomfortable. What might Ashton want from her, she thought. The popular had nothing to do with a nerd like it could ruin his reputation and she wondered what his sudden interest in her was for. She couldn't come up with anything and just decided to let it out of her mind and worry less about silly pickup lines that Ashton was using on her. It was the end of school day and she went to her locker again to put all of her textbooks back into her locker, she saw another letter and she was so irritated that she walked up to him and asked:
" Are you kidding me? Three letters in a day?, What the hell do you want from me"
Of course Mary was not one for confrontation as she always try to blend in no matter what to avoid troubles but she had no choice since Ashton was already getting on her nerves.
" Read the letter,"
He said. And she unfolded the letter to see another note which said:
"I've seemed to have lost my number. Can I have yours?"
What would he want with my number she wondered. Sure, Mary had always had a little crush on Ashton I mean who wouldn't but him asking for her number was weird, really weird but something in her told her to give him her number and she did not knowing how stupid it was for her to do so. Mary and Ashton had conversations with each other, went on dates and as expected, she started falling for him. She felt he was her ray of sunshine and he would come into her life to clean her tears of sorrows. She trusted him so easily not knowing that she was not to trust a person that blindly.
Few weeks later, she came to school to see pictures of her with Ashton kissing and people laughing at her and making fun of her telling her as she was so stupid to think she could have a chance with someone like Ashton.
Crying, she ran to the gym where she expected to meet Ashton to tell him what happened, only for her to get there and he told her a lot of hurtful words in front of the students body. Telling her she never had a chance with him to begin with and that it was only a prank to play with her emotions because he and his friends noticed how reserved she was.
Mary cried so hard because it was her mistake to trust him so blindly. She was so embarrassed in front of everyone as everyone laughed at her. Getting home, she somehow convinced her dad for her to change her school as she could not bear going back and seeing the faces of all the students who mocked her. She made a promise to herself to always keep to herself. Ashton made her a shell of herself and she could trust no one.