Dahlia, mtz.reader.1029 [the reading list book TXT] 📗

My name is Dahlia Black. I have long straight black hair, clear blue eyes, am skinny no matter how much I eat because of my high metabolism. I am in cheerleading, but I’m also kind of like a goth cause I like to wear black and love skulls and stuff like death. My parents put me through therapy to fix me but it’s not helping much. I only have friends outside of school cause nobody seems to like me no matter what I do. I was hanging out in the cafeteria at lunch when the new kid came in.
Every turned their attention to him. He has long brown hair with bangs covering his eyes. He looked like one of those dangerous guys. I felt instantly repelled and didn’t really like him. I stopped watching him and went back to the drawing that I was working on. It was of a skull with the eyes shaped like beautiful crosses with elegant curves and design. I was about to put the finishing touches when someone sat next to me. I saw that it was Lizzy. Lizzy is kind of my friend. She’s also goth but not like me she’s like 1/6 goth. We hang out but I wouldn’t really call her my friend. We only hang out at school. Lizzy has blond hair and brown eyes like a deer. She’s skinny like me but she has to work out to get skinny.
“Oh my gosh do you see the new guy” she immediately said.
“Yes I’ve seen and so wat?”
“So wat?!!! Dahlia come on he’s probably now in the top ten of hottest guys in junior”
“I don’t like him”
“What!!!!” Lizzy practically screamed.
“I just instantly don’t like him”
“He would so good with you if you two went out”
“Yea last time I had a boyfriend he was only after sex. Then I find out he was cheating on someone else and I practically killed him so yea”
“That was forever ago”
“That was last week Lizzy and anyways he looks like he’ll be sucked into popularity straight away and every girl will be after him so why try”
“Ok, ok, ok, but at least give him a chance”
“Fine but if I will ever talk to him he has to be the one to start talking to me”
“Your already weird enough..hey what are you drawing?”
Lizzy snatched my notebook away. She looked at it with wide eyes.
“Whoa”
“Lizzy give that back” I said angrily and tried to snatch it back from her but she held it away.
“That’s a really good drawing and king of creepy what is wrong with you?” she asked kind of serious.
“And this is why we are not entirely friends” I said then got my notebook back and finished my drawing.
“You should enter it in the drawing contest”
“If I won’t go into art class what makes you think I’m gonna enter my drawing in the drawing contest”
“Cause you’re really good and it relates to the theme”
“What’s the theme?” I asked sounding bored.
“Death”
“Are you kidding me?” I practically yelled. The people at the next table looked at me.
“Yea I’m serious”
“There’s no way I’m entering my drawing” I said then got but unfortunately my notebook dropped and a whole bunch of my drawings where scattered around on the floor. I got down onto my knees and started picking up my papers. Someone helped me. I got up and saw that it was the new guy. He was now looking at my drawing but I snatched them away before he found out exactly what they were.
“You’re a really good artist” he said.
“Thanks”
“My name’s Gabriel” he said
“Dahlia”
“Dahlia how come you have a drawing of my name and then a x over it”
I glared at him.
“Cause I drew that a couple months ago when my parents told me that some people are gonna live with us and they said their son’s name was Gabriel. Apparently they’re my mom’s friends and have been friends since they were little so my parents decided for them to live with us for a while since they gonna be new here”
“My parents said that their your parents had a girl about my age but I didn’t no your name”
“Yea well I better get going the bells gonna ring a little bit and I have to be early or my trainer will kick my ass see you later”
I left before he could say anything else. When I left the cafeteria I practically had to sprint just to get to the other side of the school before the bell rang. I got there just on time. I quickly changed. I train in fighting. The school has a fighting class and I don’t take it but I train with the teacher because my parents wanted me to learn how to fight. I started stretching as soon as my trainer came out of his office. Everyone knows I train so no one tries to interrupt out sessions. But today there was a knock on the door.
“Come in” my trainer said. I kept on stretching.
“Dahlia’s brother is here to pick her up” I stood up straight so fast I think I heard my back crack.
“What’s he doing here?” I asked.
“I don’t know he just said to get you cause it’s urgent”
“Ok” I went and changed out of my clothes. Once I got done I went to the office where my brother was waiting. He looked like something bad just happened and when he came over to me and gave me a hug I knew something bad has happened.
“what’s going on?” I asked.
“when we get home I’ll explain everything” he said then we left. I found out that he walked here so we had to take my car. I drove home but once I got there I saw police everywhere and an ambulance.
I quickly parked and ran to the nearest police officer.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
“There’s been a little accident here. Apparently a fire started but good thing no one was in the house but apparently there is a dead animal in the room”
My eyes widened. I ran into the house. I went straight upstairs where I saw more police men coming in and out of my room. I ran to my room but stopped dead once I saw that the fire in my room. Everything was burnt even the phone in my room. I walked in not believing what I’m seeing. Then I went over to where the dead animal was and froze. It was a freakish looking thing. My brother, Damon, soon came after me.
“My room” I said.
He didn’t look me in the eye.
I soon found something that made me very upset. The drawings on my wall were all burnt up and are now on the floor in ashes. Those drawings were the best ones I’ve ever drawn. They were also the happiest. They were drawings of my dead relatives before they died and they were the only things I had to remind of how they looked like cause their photos were lost in a fire. I soon got tears in my eyes.
“Dahlia I’m sorry I no how much you liked those drawings” Damon said putting a hand on my shoulder.
“They were the only thing that reminded me of who they were and how they looked like and now they’re gone”
“Dahlia come on. Mom and dad will be here soon to discuss something with you”
“All right” we walked out of my room and went back out front where my parents were just getting home. I ran to my mom and started crying. She already knew what happened and held me while I cried about the drawing.
“Sweetie we have something to tell you” My mom said. I broke apart from her cause her voice sounded not like her usual self, almost sad.
“What is it?”
“Dahlia your dad and I are sending you to boarding school”
“What!!!!!!!!!” I yelled
“We’ve thought about it and we have decided that you are going. It was a very difficult decision but we think it’s for the best because of your condition”
“What condition?”
“Dahlia we think you like death so much is because you are surrounded with it”
“How?”
“We won’t talk about it now but tomorrow we will go shopping for clothes since you don’t have school tomorrow”
“All right”
After a week of shopping and getting new stuff for my boarding school I was finally ready. I said goodbye to my friends then got into my car with my dad since he knows where it is. After a day of driving my dad dropped me off at the airport and gave me my ticket. I kissed him goodbye then got onto my flight. After being on the plane for what seemed like forever I finally got off on my stop.
I got a taxi to drove me to my new boarding school.

Publication Date: 02-06-2011

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