Nightingale

Prologue

The weather at best was moody. Just yesterday the sun was out, illuminating the world, bringing out all the greens, reds, yellows, purples, pinks and so on, but then, as the blue faded from the sky, and was replaced by the pinks, purples and oranges that decorated the sky like any other evening, grey and rage-filled clouds blanketed the land, hiding it and its people from the magnificent sun and pelting the people with its harsh rainfall. A young woman with hair of gold, eyes of steel, and skin of ivory sat, unfazed by the rain and drawing neatly in her journal. This girl had few friends and had many hardships. Her father abused her, her mother was a drunk and her sister got all that she wanted. The girl would go to school and only speak to the few friends she had: Rose, whom she met at the beginning of the year and automatically clicked with, Mabel, one of her only true friends, Charlie, another of the true friends, Matt, someone she held dear in her heart, Nathan, a long time companion and others that will be mentioned throughout this story. The girl had trust issues and did not let people in easily. She was a former Christian but soon realized that the religion made no sense to her. She was always anxious, never relaxed. She never knew what it was to be relaxed. She was a decent student. She kept her grades up as best she could, she did her best to understand the concepts she was being taught, she did her best to turn in papers on time, and she did well to get along with the students in her classes and get along with the teachers. She rarely smiled and always looked mad at the world. She was never one to show her emotions often, only when extremely emotional did she ever reveal her feelings. Many called a bitch. She was used to it, after all, they weren't wrong. She was called harsh, a bad person, an f-up, an idiot, a retard, selfish, cruel and many more things. She did not deny such things and only agreed with them. Others would say she was kind, loyal, smart, fun, beautiful, cute, funny, trustworthy and many more. She did deny these things, for, in her eyes, they were false. Recently, she had been getting in trouble with her parents and one name kept popping up, over and over: Sharon. Sharon was someone the girl was close with. They had dated multiple times and were best friends. The most recent problem, however, made the girl realize just how toxic Sharon truly was. The girl was in shock when she realized just how bad Sharon was to be friends with. So, that next week, the girl told Sharon that they would no longer associate with one another. The girl was crushed but she had no other choice than to drop Sharon. The events that followed the poor girl will horrify and shock you...read carefully.