Dreaming Again

Handing out letters.

Letters of farewell, forgiveness and apologies in equal measure.

Please, don't open them yet, she cries.

And steer far from the main building at middy, she pleas.

But two do not listen. And watching their eyes scan the page, she knows she has made a dreadful mistake. One's face morphs into an expression of horror, the other of great disbelief. "Please do not" they cry, but their pleas are in vain. "Since when did you care about me?" The girl thinks as she rushes to the main block, in all it's scaffolded glory, and begins to climb.

A falling car cuts off all attempts to provide so-called 'help'

There is screaming down below as the figure takes to the edge.

She looks down below, and though her heart is consumed by despair, inside she feels nothing, no fear, no regret, she is an empty shell.

So, without even thinking about it, she topples off the edge, and she spins downward, her school skirt flapping wildly at the breeze.

Then,
she violently awakens to a jarring sense of pain, and she eases her throbbing head upwards.

She is surrounded by people from her class, choir girls and teachers.

Though some look on in horror and with a sick fascination, others simply scowl in disgust.

A paramedic tells her she is lucky,
lucky that the fall was not fatal.

A small chuckle escapes her cracked lips,
"Lucky"? she mutters with a sarcastic smirk

But then she collapses onto the ground, for once again the pain is too much.

Through her semi-conscious haze, she learns that both legs, and arm and many of her ribs are broken or cracked.

But she is jolted back to reality when Mouse offers to ride with her in the ambulance.
Ignoring the pain, she snaps her head up "No way in hell", she croaks in an angry whisper.
A reaction of something much the same is received when a teacher offers to ride.

"Louise should go", says Lola from the back,
"it was Louise who got such a nice letter".

A small groan escapes from the girl on the ground,
but no further objections are made.

So Louise, somewhat reluctantly, climbs into the ambulance,
the girl is lifted up onto her gurney,
and they drive off.

But you know it's never good
when the siren,
is silent.