Part 1:

The shattered glass crunched below my bare feet, the stabbing pain that reverberated through my body was long gone, replaced with numbness. I stared at the girl in front of me, her hair a crazy red mess that cascaded down to her hips. A mischievous smile was panted across her face, her lips were cracked, dirty and bloody. “You think you’ll find someone else to…” she began, her teeth yellow and stained.

“I know I will..” I shook my head, tired of her banter “There has to be someone, anyone!” I shouted in desperation, once again denying her words. Not wanting to say more, I Glared at her, hoping that she could feel my hatred growing with every passing minute through my eyes. The longer I stared into those dead, inhospitable eyes of hers the more I wanted to claw them out. “I can’t stand seeing you! You’re driving me insane!”

She cocked her head to the side, a small glint of amusement sparkling within them as she studied me. I clenched my jaw, aggravated by the fact that she had gotten her way, that she was getting the response she had wanted. She parted her lips to laugh, enjoying the pain she was causing me.

“You’re crazy..” another voiced jumped in, stopping me from clawing at her throat. Jerking my head towards my left, I stared into a pare of tired emerald eyes. The sparkle I remember her having had long faded, replaced with dread and an emptiness so deep, that it looked as if she were staring right through me. “What makes you think you’ll ever find them… huh? What makes you think you can?” Her once pretty face was twisted into that familiar maliciousness that she loved to wear. That perfect image she had once carefully adorned, long gone.

“Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!” My voice cracked as I screamed. Covering my ears, trying to shun out the voices and echoes that threatened to plague me with it’s poisonous words. It begged me to drink it’s bittersweet deceits, while it slowly ate away at my sanity. My eyes grew wide and cool tears slid effortlessly down my flushed cheeks.

“Just end it already!” A voice yelled out from behind me. I swiveled around to face her. She stared into my eyes, as she toyed with a matted russet colored curl from her head. She too, began laughing pessimistically, to a joke that only she coud understand, but it never quite touched her dull jade eyes “Oh come on you know you want too. It’s getting a little ridiculous at this point, so do it you coward!”