Our Everlasting Melody

Our Everlasting Melody (2)

I couldn't help but notice the girl sitting right next to me staring right at me, and it was even worse than how everyone else had been staring all day. I wanted to say something to her, but I didn't know what I could say to someone who was staring at me like a crazy person.

"I remember you!" the girl suddenly blurted, causing me to jump in surprise. "I saw you in the hospital the first time I visited Dr. Carlisle! He talks about you and your boyfriend a lot! You're Leah! And oh, I'm Jaz!"

I chuckled nervously, not knowing what I was supposed to say to this girl. Now I remembered how I had seen her in the hospital. She was schizophrenic like Blake, but she was definitely a lot more outgoing than he was. I didn't know how to react to someone like this.

"Sorry, sorry," she laughed now, brushing out her hair with her fingers a few times. "I'm probably freaking you out, right? Sorry, I don't mean to. I'm just excited that I saw someone I knew..."

"It's fine," I assured, and I knew that I shouldn't judge this girl because she was essentially just like Blake. "I was just not expecting anyone to talk to me, that's all."

Jaz smiled at me, and I forced myself to smile right back at her. She seemed like a nice girl, so there wasn't any reason to not be nice back to her.

The rest of the day went by slowly, just like I was expecting it to. I was being stared at almost everywhere I went, and I visited Mrs. Sparks at lunch instead of sitting with any of my friends. I just couldn't be around that many people in the cafeteria, where Cassie sat, and I couldn't be in the place where Blake used to be every day, which was where Thomas and Jane sat at.

I just wanted to go home. Or better yet, the hospital with Blake. I needed him with me.

Drama was the one class that I didn't dread going to, and it was the last period of the day. I had taken the class in my freshman and sophomore year, but decided to take a break from it during junior year. I knew that it was going to be weird coming back.

"Leah!" Mr. Summers called out when he saw me, and I jumped in surprise at the sound of his voice. "I was surprised when I saw you on my attendance list! I thought you were done taking drama after your sophomore year!"

I forced a laugh, not even knowing why I decided to take the class again. When I signed up for my electives for junior year, I decided to take a break from drama because it just got too stressful for me. So I took art instead, and it just so happened to be one of the classes that I had had with Blake.

But for senior year, I didn't want to have a class that reminded me of Blake, so I decided to take drama again and just forget about art. I wasn't that great of an artist anyway, so it wasn't like I was upset about no longer taking the class.

"I just... thought it was time to come back," I merely shrugged to my drama teacher in response.

"That's great, that's great," he grinned now as he shooed me toward the seats in the theater. "You were missed. It was hard for me to pick the lead last year because I've always counted on you as the role."

I forced a smile at him as I sat down a few rows back. In my freshman and sophomore year, I had been the lead or one of the leads in both plays. Back then, it made me feel great that I was so important, but now all I could think about was how... unimportant it really was.

When I glanced back over to the entrance of the theater, I noticed a girl walking in by herself. This girl looked timid and shy, and I couldn't help but feel kind of bad for her. She was obviously new, and even though I had never been the new kid, I knew it must have sucked going to a school where you knew no one.

She ended up sitting right behind me, but I wasn't about to turn around to talk to her. If this had been a year before, I would have totally turned around and talked to her. But now, I didn't want to talk to anyone. Not even my friends. But there was no way I was going to get out of interacting with them...