"Hello" she said as she sat down on the sofa, wondering if he would answer. "Hi" he answered. It was silent for a couple of minutes because they couldn't think of anything to say. "How're you?" She asked to break the silence. "Eh, could be better, what about you?" He replied. "I'm good, what's wrong?" She said. It was silent for a little while and then he answered with "I'm just going through some stuff at the moment". She wanted to know exactly what was wrong so she could talk to him about it so she asked him "Like what?". Again, it was silent, she knew she had messed up by asking that and she knew that she was being annoying and that she should probably just stop talking and go away. Moments later he said "my depression's just getting really out of hand and I'm just sick of it". After being told this she knew that she needed to be friends with him, she didn't want to let him carry on being sad. "Is there anything I can do to cheer you up?" She asked to try and comfort him. " Not really I think I'm stuck the way I am and the only way to fix it is to end my life in total" he said. She was silent for a bit, the she said "please don't... I know I've only known you for not very long but please just keep going?". A tear ran down his cheek as he tried to talk but nothing came out of is mouth. She decided to hug him and let him cry into her shoulder. It was getting late so she told him she was going home, before she could leave he asked if she could give him his number so they could meet up the next day, so she gave him her number and then went home.
When she got home she felt terrible about leaving him in the state he was, all she could think about was him and how much she wants to help him. Not long after getting home, she received a text from him saying "Hi, when can we meet tomorrow?" . She answered straight away saying "1pm at the river?". Not more than one minuet after, her phone buzzed and it was a text from him saying "ok, don't be late because I don't want to look stupid ok? :)". She texted him back saying "ok I'll be there at exactly 1pm ok?! :')". He answered with "ok, well I'm going to sleep now so I'll text to you tomorrow morning ok?". "Ok, night :)" she replied, she then put her phone on charge, turned her bedroom light off and went to sleep.
She woke up in the middle of the night, 03:00 read the time on her phone and the only thing that was going through her mind was him. She was worrying about if he'd taken his life or if he was ok. So she decided to text him at 03:00 because she felt like she had to. "Hi, I know it's stupidly early, and I'm so sorry if this wakes you up, I just woke up and all I could think of is if you're ok. You don't need to answer this straight away, answer it when you wake up or when you want but can you just say something to reassure me that your ok?" She sent this to him and stared at the screen for a few minuets, no answer, a few more minuets and then she got an answer "I'm fine :) go to sleep now I'll talk to you in the morning". She read through the answer twice before going back to sleep again.
Her phone rang at 09:00 in the morning, and so she woke up, ate breakfast, had a shower, brushed her teeth and then got dressed. She then didn't know what to do as all she could think about was talking to him again, so she sat on her bed and sent him a text saying "Good morning, yet again, I hope I didn't wake you up, and I hope you had a good sleep, I already know one thing we can talk about today and that's my really weird dream". Then at 09:30 she received an answer "Ok, you didn't wake me up, and I can't wait to hear about it, see you at 1". "Marley! I have your friend here, she wants to talk you!" Her Mum shouted from downstairs. "Tell her to come up stairs!" She shouted back down stairs at her mum. "Hi Ruby, why are you here?" She asked "Well I came to ask you if you would like to come out and meet up with everyone today"ruby said "um.. no thanks I think I'm just going to stay home today, I don't really feel like coming out today" obviously she was lying to her friend but she didn't care about that she only cared about seeing him again.
12:45 read the time on her phone, she decided to start walking to the river at that time because she lived very close to it, while putting her shoes on, her mum asked her where she was going so she said she was going out with ruby and everyone, but her mum didn't need to know she was lying because she didn't care about that. Out the door she went and plugged her ear phones in and started walking to the lake. It was a nice day. At 12:59 she reached the river, no sight of him so she decided to sit on the river bank and listen to her music. She looked at the time and it said 1:10, then she felt someone tap her on the head. Pausing the music and turning around she realised it was him. He sat down next to her and said "sorry I'm late, I was hungry so I stopped at Gregs on the way". "It's ok, how are you?" She said. "I'm better than yesterday, thanks for sticking around by the way no ones done that before, how are you?"he said. "I'm good :)" she said.
It was a nice day, better than most of the days so far in the month. The flours where blooming on the trees and there was a sweet smell of cinnamon buns in the air. Little did she know she was going to be blessed with some bad news later on today.
