Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-32737528-20170731223126

It was a nice summer day in Katelyn’s front yard. The 10 year old was playing with her best friend, Lilly. She had a blue knee high dress and blonde hair, which was waving with the wind slightly as her and Katelyn ran around her yard.

Katelyn could trust Lilly with absolutely everything she tells her, and she never breaks a promise. Lilly had been her best friend since she was 5 on the first day of school. She would talk to her when she was lonely and cheer her up when she was sad. Lilly, however, has a very jealous attitude if Katelyn talks to anyone but her. It might be because she too, feels alone without her best friend by her side.

While they were running and laughing together, Katelyn had started having a massive headache, it seemed to appear out of nowhere. She started leaving to go inside when Lilly stopped her.

“Hey what’s wrong?” Lilly asked with concern.

“I got that headache again, I’m sorry i have to go, you know how these affect us.”

Katelyn responded while holding her head.

“Oh, well bye…i guess” Lilly mumbled as she went to hug Katelyn.

“Be back soon?” Lilly asked.

“Yes i promise silly.” Katelyn responded, giggling.

They let go of the embrace and left each other.

Katelyn went inside with her head thumping as if her heart was right next to her forehead. She went into the kitchen when her mom was preparing lunch for her and Lilly.

“Hey mom, my head hurts again, Lilly had to leave so you can stop making her sandwich.”

Her mom had a worried look on her face

“Oh OK, i’ll stop making hers then” She put the bread and meat away, she was just about to place it on, much slower than Katelyn’s, which was strange to Katelyn, as she went to the bathroom inside 10 minutes ago to wipe her face after Lilly and her were wrestling outside, and her mom was in the middle of hers.

“You want some medicine honey? Is it that bad again?” Her mom asked, making sure Katelyn wasn’t exaggerating the pain.

“Yes mom.” She said as she squinted her face in the pain.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">Her mom nodded and went into the cabinet to grab the medicine. She also grabbed a cup and filed it with milk to wash the taste down. Katelyn drank both and headed up to her room.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">She brought out her phone and started texting her friend Ryan.

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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">Ryan answered back

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“Good, you haven’t texted me in a while :)”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“Sorry i was hanging out with Lilly and i got a massive headache.”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“Who’s Lilly? Does she go to our school?” Ryan asked.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“No, she’s home schooled.”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“Ah OK, i got to go, family dinner, see you when school starts!”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“OK :)”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">Katelyn put down the phone and saw Lilly out the window with a scorned looked on her face.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“Lilly? What are you doing here?” Katelyn questioned Lilly.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">Lilly didn’t answer and walked away. Katelyn didn’t go after though, as she will have the chance to explain tomorrow.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">The day went to night fast and she had a strange dream about Lilly.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">She was inside a school, it was old and abandoned with paint drying off the walls and the smell of dead, rotting rats that infested it. Katelyn was in a lucid state and started examining the school. The classrooms were rotting away, the same state as the rest of the building. The whiteboard was coming apart, the hairs and seats were all over the place, windows broken, and glass from light bulbs littered the floor along with paper and book bags. Then she started hearing the soft laughter of children in a brightly lit classroom, which looked like it had never been touched by whatever caused this in her mind. It had kids running around, screaming like no tomorrow, with the teacher, eyes glued to the computer, putting grades in. None of them seem to notice Katelyn walking around trying to figure out was going on in this dream, it felt familiar for some reason.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">Then, she noticed a little girl, two little girls that had got her attention, it was Lilly and her when they were 5 years old. Katelyn knew where she was at now, and as soon as she did, the room transformed into a rotted, dark, room with a message written on the walls that said

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“YOU BETRAYED ME!”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">That was the last thing she saw before waking up. Her heart was racing and her brain was going crazy thinking about what that meant. She got dressed and heard the door bell, it was Lilly. Katelyn made the decision not to speak about it, what mattered right now is to apologize for making her jealous, or should she? She then thought about all the times that Lilly has been jealous and took it to extreme levels. She made the choice to not mention that either, thinking that Lilly would drop it.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">She answered the door bell and they went outside, but Katelyn experienced a feeling of dread, that she shouldn’t be here. Right after they were in the middle of the lawn, Lilly back handed her.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">Katelyn fell on the floor and looked up at Lilly, her best friend who would never lay a hand on her, was staring down at her with hate flooding her eyes.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“You betrayed me, you promised to be my friend forever!” Lilly barked at Katelyn, who was getting up off the lawn.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“Yeah but i have other friends too, do you have any other friends, i thought you had some at school?”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">Lilly began getting angry, she didn’t understand.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“Why would i need any other friends besides you? You need me!”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">“Yeah i did, when i was 5, but i have a life and i don’t have to depend on you for it!”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">Lilly lashed out and attack her with punches after Katelyn was thrown on the ground. Lilly began screaming at her, thrashing her fists violently at the girl who only wanted another friend.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">Someone must have seen the altercation because a police officer came up and grabbed Lilly off of her and hurried Katelyn inside the car.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">In the cold, dark interrogation, Katelyn was explaining what happened with her and Lilly, but the officers said that no one else was at the scene, it was only her screaming and repeating the same words over and over again “i’ll kill her!!! I’ll kill her!!!”.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">After an examination with a therapist, Katelyn was pronounced clinically insane due to her psychotic breakdowns and violent episodes involving “Lilly”.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">A couple weeks later, Katelyn escaped the ward assuming the identity of Lilly, leaving behind a poem she wrote…

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">There once was a girl, 10 years of age, She made an unforgivable mistake, She was locked in a cold and lonely cage, Her innocence, the demon had to take, Her best friend Lilly was her only friend, Until she betrayed her with immense hate, Lilly had thought that this would be her end, That Katelyn would begin to seal her fate, but a cop swooped over much like a plane, and they pronounced her clinically insane

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:"OpenSans",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;text-align:justify;">As of the date this has been written, Katelyn, now Lilly, was never seen again. <ac_metadata title="Lilly"> </ac_metadata>