YOUR TURN

CHAPTER 3

Margaret was laying in bed thinking about what just happened few hours ago. She has never seen this guy before in the neighborhood or in school. She just hoped this guy wouldn't go about telling everyone that he saved her from jumping over a bridge. She couldn't sleep and was still deep in thought. She had to talk to this guy tomorrow at all cost. She drifted off to sleep without her knowing

Margaret woke up to her mum banging on the door.

"Maggi, you need to get up honey else you'll be late for school. Breakfast is ready and we'll be waiting for you downstairs". Margaret just grumbled an okay as a response to her mother. She stood up slowly from bed and entered the shower. All this while she kept thinking about last night.

She finished and then descended downstairs and sat down at the dinning table, she whispered a slight "good morning" to her dad. She ate little and immediately got up to leave for school. She kissed her mum goodbye and left without turning back.

She got to school late, but she didn't care. She'd be gone away very soon anyways, so who cares? She entered class and as usual all eyes were on her. She was used to it anyways and she didn't mind.

She took her seat and Mrs Kylie, their history teacher was teaching. Margaret was still thinking about last night. She has to talk to the guy from last night. But how was she going to find this guy? This is going to be difficult, she thought

She felt someone constantly staring at her across the room, she turned and what she saw nearly made her jump out of her seat. This was the guy who saved her yesterday, yes there he was!

Yes he was sure her eyes weren't deceiving her.

She looked again and yes that was him alright. Oh so she was in the same class with him all this while and she didn't even know. Is that how uninterested and introverted she has grown? She was in class with someone and she didn't even know him?

Nothing interests her nowadays, nothing at all. She was just living because she had to live and not because she wants to live. A small tear escaped her eyes, she immediately cleaned it up fast.

For the first time in like a year she started looking around her and became fully conscious of her surrounding. There was Mia her best friend. She still talked to Mia but not like how it used to be. There was Bronze, Liam, Seuon, John, Matilda, Princess, Freda, Gertrude and Michelle. She noticed all the others were new because she didn't know them.

She couldn't believe she has been in this same class and didn't even know what was happening around her. Some of her classmates have left to different schools. New people have moved into Brighton community and are now schooling here and she was sure Theo was one of them.

Her head started aching badly, she didn't want this life she was living but there was nothing she could do about it. If only Cherise was here, if only her beloved sister was here. Oh how she missed Cherise with each passing day. Everything is going to be over very soon. Everything was going to be fine. She'll see her dear Cherise very soon. She just needed time to sort things out.

She put her head down on her table and was gone.