“Dear reader, if you see this, don’t show the admins. Please,” I wrote on a sheet of paper. Ever since I found out the truth, I wanted to expose it to everybody else. I was tired of pretending I was like the others, yet I had to do it every day, so I could avoid getting caught. As soon as I finished writing my letter, I put it, along with a brochure that tried to convince people to come to this stupid town, a copy of their Bill of Rights, and a page of my History notes, in a bottle, tied it up with a helium balloon, and put it outside my window and watched it float away, in the hopes someone else with independent thinking could see it. After that was done, I watched the seconds on the clock tick down. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… “It is nine o’clock P.M.,” a female robotic voice said, then a lullaby played. I laid on the plush bed, knowing tomorrow was a school day, closed my eyes, and slept dreamlessly, and what I woke up to was some quite jarring jazz music. Although the alarm was supposed to go off at seven AM, I tricked it to go off at six thirty AM so I had more time to get ready. I put on my school uniform: a gray T-shirt with a cerulean dot towards the right at the heart, a gray skirt with a navy blue stripe, and brown loafers. I put my hair up in the usual ponytail, grabbed my purple bag, which was the only thing that didn’t have to be set, grabbed some quick-make toast for breakfast, and waited for the hover-bus. When it finally arrived, I got on, took my seat next to a blonde girl, and noticed the blonde girl staring at me like she didn’t know me. “Why are you staring at me like that?” I asked. “Your note, Lina. It started rumors around the school,” the blonde girl replied. “You are saying a student read that?! What if they told the admins?!” I exclaimed. “Janey, you can’t be serious!” “Luckily they haven’t… yet,” Janey said, with emphasis on “yet”. “Now we know there is an independent thinker, and the signature the student saw on the note made him infer it was you.” I was in so much trouble if someone that was like everyone else here saw the note! “Don’t pretend you’re just like us anymore. We know now, Lina.” Janey was so rude. Who was the one that discovered the note? I needed to know, and I needed to know NOW. The student had to be a boy… If I saw the student at school, I had some questions to ask him. Will he tell the admins? I didn’t even bother to listen to the songs I usually did today… it was too much… If the admins knew, I wouldn’t be able to do that stuff anyway… I would probably be in jail, or DEAD. I was so lost in thought that I didn’t even notice we were at school until Janey tapped me on the shoulder and said, “We’re at school, indie.” I got up and left the bus. You see, Janey used to be my friend, until she heard the rumor. Now, among everyone in the school, I was the “indie”, the odd one out… I bumped into a boy with red hair…
Press the heart and star if you enjoyed it! (of course, everyone has different opinions, so some may like it while others won't) The girl in the picture is Lina. Janey is pictured with blonde hair and brown eyes.
