“ Bye Katie!” Chirped my friend Cassie. I was twelve at the time. I waved and said my own goodbyes, soon closing the door, my mom smiling, and looking at me.
“ Did you have a good day?”
She asked.
I nodded, a wide grin on my face, almost sickly.
My mother chuckled and nodded, and headed into the kitchen.
“ I’ll be making dinner.”
I nodded and went upstairs, my feet dragging the whole way. I went upstairs, closed my door, and sat on my bed.
Katie sat there for some time, her heart hurting.
Every one of those bad thoughts swirled back around her head, the thoughts that threatened her heart to do bad things her parents had warned her that sad people do.
She was a sad person, part of those sad people.
Yet she never cried, and she never threatened her flesh with sharp objects.
She never did physically beat herself up, yet she never tried to mentally do it either.
But still it happened.
She would sit for hours and wonder.
Contemplate.
Ponder.
Everyone said she was a good writer.
How could that be true? They could all just be lying to make her feel better.
Her parents would tell her how gorgeous she was, how talented she was.
How could that be true? They could all just be lying to make her happy.
How could she even trust her own family?
All they did was raise her.. not like they chose her to raise.
Maybe she was really annoying but her parents were too kind to say otherwise.
Maybe the comments her siblings made about her were true.
She was an idiot.
She would work a maids job one day.
She was ( sarcsatically said ) the ‘ perfect girl who apparently did no wrong.’
She was the crybaby and piece of actual living shit.
It felt so true.
So real.
So painful.
She just wanted to know her purpose.
Maybe she had none, and really was just some delusional child.
Maybe the issues she thought she had were just delusions, and she was just dramatic.
Maybe her dad left her for some reason.
She couldnt quite ever really grip why she thought these things.
Or rather, someone slipped them into her mind.
Maybe from all those years ago when her math teacher gave up on her, it was because she really was a lost cause of no worth.
No value.
And yet, people would keep saying,
“ You’re here for a purpose.”
Then please, tell me.. enlighten me..
What purpose?
I looked up as my mom entered the room, i shifted to make it look like I was doing something.
“ Dinner’s ready Kate.”
I got up, and smiled sweetly.
We went downstairs, and we began eating.
I never could eat much, I was always the slow eater.
Yet when I tried to keep up and eat at the fast pace everyone else did, my stomach would tingle.
I ate anyways, and would feel horrible when I couldn’t finsih my food.
My parents would look at me disapprovingly, but that was a few years ago.
With my father gone, my mother now gaining back her strength and sense of confidence, she was the best mom.
I loved her, and love her.
It’s always when I think the bad thoughts, it’s like she just knows.
She’d say,
“ dinner’s served.”