Because They Told Me To

A short story written on 12/10/2013

"Why did you stab yourself?!" Alessa exclaimed.

"Because they told me to," said Skyla with a slight demonic presence in her voice.

Alessa went speachless and her eyes widened.

"Are you schizophrenic?"

"Everybody has demons... It's a matter of how powerful they are," said Skyla.

"Not everybody ha-," Alessa was cut off.

"I have monsters inside me! They never sleep!" Screamed Skyla as tears poured down her face.

Skyla lifted her arms up to grab her head in agony, and as she did, her sleeves fell down, and you could see her crimson stained wrists.

Alessa panicked at the sight of Skyla. She had never seen Skyla like this before. She thought Skyla was "normal" and not so fucked up in the head. She never predicted that Skyla would cut herself. Skyla always dressed so cute and Lolita like and acted sane at school. This was a side of Skyla Alessa never knew existed. A side she never wanted to see.

"I can't take it anymore!" Shrieked Skyla.

Tears were just falling off her pale white face like a heavy waterfall. They appeared as if they would never stop.

Alessa had no idea what to do. So, she did the worst thing ever, she left Skyla without another word.

This hurt Skyla and made her demons grow. It made all the hurt and pain grow, and then she just snapped. Skyla grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and wrote a suicide note. It read:

"Sorry for the mess."

She then carved into her thigh:

"Bruises are flowers

that bloom where the pain lingers

and wilts as it fades."

She popped 80 pills, 10 different kinds of pills. There was Vicodin, Ibuprofen, Tylenol, Tramadol, Vitamin A, Lamictal, Zoloft, Oxicodon, Gabapenten, and Lithium.

Her organs began to fail, and her stomach bled. She coughed up blood, and as she was dying she took that bloody razor to every inch of her flesh one last time. She bled out and grew woozy. She threw up multiple times and couldn't stop coughing up blood. Her body couldn't handle the massive overdose, but that's what she intended it to do. She meant to die. She couldn't handle life with her demons any longer. She died in agony along with her demons. She was 14 years old.

Her friend Alessa felt extremely guilty because she left Skyla alone. She couldn't deal with the pain and guilt of Skyla's death so she too killed herself. She was 16 years old. She shot herself in the head, and when she was found in her blood covered room there was a note that read:

"I killed Skyla Winters."