A Bit More Won't Hurt

6 - hAbItS mAkE mE cRaZy

TREE: What has been bugging you?
LEAFY: Nothing.
TREE: Leafy. I've known you for like forever. I have to know, I can't live with that frown on your face. Please, just tell me what's going on. I'm not "leafing" (im not funny) until you give me an answer.
LEAFY: Eh.. I'm just having a rough time. Nothing else.
TREE: Are you lying?
LEAFY: ...No...
TREE: Okay. Good night.

He left. This lying thing is a habit and I need to stop. If I don't, I will lie to everyone. And if they find out, they will hate me so much. Not even dislike, they will hunt me and murder me. I tossed and turned all night. At 01:29, I couldn't help it but took the pills. This time my vision went blurry. I went to the bathroom and threw up blood. I can't learn my lesson. I looked at the mirror. I realized what a mess I was. I saw a hand behind me, and I jumped. I realized it wasn't real, and just returned to my bed. Somehow I fell asleep fast.

NEXT MORNING
08:16

It's morning already... That sleep felt like 1 second. I saw that I had 18 notifications from Pin and Coiny.

COINY:
leaf are you up
leafy*
its super urgent get up

PIN:
Leafy did you die get up get up
Get up
Getup
Get up
Get upppp
GET UP
GET UP
Get Up
GET UP
GET UP
Get Up
GIRL GET UP OMH
PIN
PIN

They were bombing my phone, geez.

LEAFY:
WHAT
COINY:
firey died
PIN:
he went missing dumbass
COINY:
im not dumb :(
PIN:
STFU YES U are
LEAFY:
SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU WHAT DO YOU MEAN FIREY DIED
COINY:
simp
PIN:
u r a simp for me stfu
Firey just randomly died nobody kkows why

My heart sank reading that. Firey, my kindergarten best friend, just... died. I started sobbing. But then I stood up, and noticed something. I noticed blood on my hands?  I gulped hard. It's impossible. No way. I couldn't. He is my best friend. I ran to our garden and saw...

firey's dead body.

I gagged. I would never. I'm friends with firey. I started crying. I ran back to my room. I started thinking, how did this even occur..?

08:24
I arrive at school looking sweaty. Pin seemed to notice and asked me what is wrong. I stared at her.

LEAFY: Hey.
PIN: Hello Leafy, are you sad? You seem down.
LEAFY: Oh, uh, no... I'm fine. Very. Fine.
PIN: ...Alright!

School went on normally. I got that stupid note thing again, this time saying:

Dear Leafy, I really hope u saw ur surprise in ur garden!! i hope u get arrested ur friends will hate u lmao

I took the pills but strangely...They did nothing. Nothing at all. Once I came home, to my horror, police cars were surrounding our house.

LEAFY: Tree?! What happened?!
TREE: Firey... Firey's dead body was in our backyard!

I gave a concerned face. Luckily, the police didn't do much, they just investigated the surroundings, since Tree proved well that we didn't kill Firey. But me... I was traumatized. I killed somebody... That I was sure I didn't kill... And then I thought, that note...? The police were about to go, so I tried to find the note quickly. But it was gone. Gone like the wind.