Awakening

...Jade Mayfield...

Age: 17 years

Birthday: 30 August

Place of birth: Unknown

Biological parents: Unknown

Hobbies: Drawing, Reading, Singing, Fishing, Martial arts, Rock climbing, Craft

Grades: A student

Status: Unpopular, Single

Favorite colours: Blue, purple, black, red

Ace: Book smart

Pet name: Jellybean

Best Friends: Claire Mc Conner, Ethan Forbes, Bellamy Blaire, Cynthia Hanes, Sophie Moore, Benjamin Mayfield (Grandfather)

Grandparents: Benjamin Mayfield and Elle Mayfield

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"Jade! Jade! Jade wake up! Open your eyes jade"

"Please... leave me alone, I can't do this anymore"

"No one is going to harm you... Open your eyes you're safe."

For some unknown reason I opened my eyes only to find that I wasn't being attacked by anyone or anything at all but I was actually in class having a nightmare and the only attack I was getting was all the glare from around the room as everyone stopped their work to look at me.

I can't remember getting out of bed or even getting dressed and coming to school.

Nothing could be more embarrassing than having an episode in school after they already judge you as the weirdo in the class.

Correction; the weirdo in the entire school.

The girl who is an orphan twice after her adopted parents died on her birthday.

Yay me!

My parents and I along with my two siblings were going at a restaurant to spent my 12 birthday not knowing that would be the last birthday I would be spending with them.

My mom, Emily, dad, Benjamin, younger sister ,Elizabeth,10, and older brother, Kent,17, all perished in the accident but, somehow, I survived only to live the rest of my life in agony wishing I had gone with them.

We were heading to the restaurant singing along to the track dad put on for us to enjoy the drive.

Dad drove, mom sat next to him, Lizzy was at the left door of the back seat, Ben was on the right at the right and I sat between them.

Ben stared out the window because he was angry he didn't get to go to a party with his friends and Lizzy was playing with her doll Lucy.

Mom turned around to check on us and stroke Lizzy's hair after giving me a smile and I trust forward when she turned back to her seat and gave her a hug.

It took a mere matter of second between me leaning back into my seat and our car being struck instantly by a truck transporting large metal pipes.

We were struck from the right side of the car at an intersection.

The impact killed dad and Ben instantly since received the later of the hit. Mom and I pitched out through the windshield.

She got pinned by one of the metal pipes crushing her chest, causing her rib to puncture her heart, and skull.

I was thrown further.

Lizzy and I were the only ones who survived and was taken to the hospital.

She died however, during surgery.

She had sustaining a broken foot, brain damage causing her to be brain dead, broken ribcage and a broken spine.

She was in the car when the truck toppled and some of the metal pipes caved the roof of the car in and pinning her down.

I can't lie about crying because I haven't had the chance or was it the fact that the tears never found its way out of my eye.

I felt numb toward the incident and guilt built within me for years.

The thought of me not facing the fact that I lost everything was the only reason for that of my constant nightmares and the reason I may be missing time.

I looked up to see the teacher's face plastered with anger as she stared blankly and questionably at me

"Miss Mayfield, kindly see me in my office after class."

Mrs. Blake spoke in the most solemn tone she could muster and I was struck from my deep thoughts I had been lost within

"Uhm... Yes Mrs. Blake."

I blinked to see her clearly towering over me with anger plastered vividly on her face which no one could have mistaken.

The class ended in a blur and I made my way toward to Mrs. Blake's office still in a daze.

I was wearing a grey hoodie, like always accompanied with a denim blue jeans and a pair of white Nike.

I sat on a chair outside the office and pulled my hoodie over as children passed me hurriedly to their next classes each stealing a glance in my direction and muttering under their breath.

I sat there until I was called into the office.

I took a seat and with my head bent.

"Anything to say for yourself?"

Her glasses sat awkwardly upon her nose and her brows were knitted as she stared at me questionably.

"I... I... I don't know what came over me"

"Jade I am here for you and I have been saying this for quite some time now but you refuse to let me in."

"I can't have you sleeping in my class and staring blankly in every other class."

"Your grades are perfect thankfully but you don't even speak in class. When and if you do speak it is only few words and all the teachers are complaining of this."

"We are trying to help you but you need to help yourself and let us in. It has been more than five years and you still show no sign of improvement."

"What do you want to do now?"

"...."

she sighed and rose from her seat. She then walked towards me and sat next to me turning to look straight into my eyes, holding both my hands in hers and squeezing it gently.

I looked up at her and back down again at my feet.

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Everyone kept comforting me after my parents passes away.

They adopted me when I was an infant so they are like my real parents and they had never once treated me like I was adopted.

To lose every one of them left a hollowness within me and I don't know how to explain that to anyone.

It has been five years to them but yesterday to me because I keep reliving that terrible day over and over again yet no one seem to understand how terrible it is for me.

Living with my grandparents isn't that bad and they try to get me to go out more and talk more but somehow I can't.

I try to but I just can't and it's affecting everyone around me.

"Will it be okay if you take the week off and this time I won't be asking you to write an essay on how you feel or visit a therapist."

"I'm asking you to do three things."

"Firstly, I want you to recollect everything that happened on the day of the accident."

"Next, I want you to visit your parents resting place and finally, I want you to visit the man who killed your family."

"Now jade, will you do these three task for me without a problem? I would like you to answer me this time"

"I will try to do it"

she rubbed her thumb into my arm and tilted my head so I was looking at her.

She was smiling.

Mrs. Blake is a beautiful middle aged woman who loves her work more than she love her home.

She would arrive at school very early and leave very late and there has been no incident where a student would not praise her for her teaching skills.

She was just gifted with students and what I loved most about her was that she was always smiling, even if she was angry her anger always subsides quickly and she would be smiling again.

When school was over I waited outside for my grandpa's car.

He pulled into to the parking lot and I got in the seat opposite his.

He trusted a bar of chocolate to me and opened one for himself. We sat in the parking lot eating our chocolate bars silently and watching students pour out of the compound.

He knew what transpired at school today that's why he didn't ask how was my day and judging by the bar of chocolate I knew that he knew my day did not go so well.

Grandpa always gave me chocolate when I was feeling down.

We would take a drive in search of a quite place and savour a bar of chocolate as we sat and admired the view silently but this time we were in the school's parking lot watching as hundreds of students make their way out.

"I'm okay now Ben." I turned to him and placed my hand on his which was on the steering wheel leisurely.

"Do you want to go grab something to eat jellybean?"

He kept his gaze on something in the distant as he spoke.

The school was almost empty now and everything was quiet. Only the flapping of the great big flag was heard as the wind tossed it.

"Sure, can we get ice-cream too?"

"I was thinking the same thing."

He finally turned towards me and we both giggled.

Grandpa and I somehow always had this type of connection and he became my best friend.

I would talk to him about almost everything and he would listen and reply with some word of wisdom but never a direct answer.

We pulled out of the driveway and headed to Sidney's Diner.

Pulling into the parking lot I pulled my hoodie down and unbuckled my seatbelt. We both got out the car and walked inside.

Grandpa was holding my hand and I felt the courage to lift my head. There weren't many people in the diner and as we sat at a table Sid come up to us.

"Is this papa Ben and little Jade gracing me with there presence this fine day. What can I get for you lot?"

"The ol' cheer me up special and two bowls of chocolate ice-cream with a big serving of jelly beans."

Sid wrote our order down and turned to me.

"It seems the little one is feeling blue. I will get you something special today and you're sure to like it, how'd that sound for you?"

"I would like that very much, thank you."

He give me a wink and headed toward the kitchen.

Sid and Britney runs this diner and they have two amazing daughters, Sally, 18, and Clair ,19, who is a bit older then I am.

Grandpa and I are regulars here so they treat us like family.

The place is always aromatic and cozy and that's what keeps it buzzing, not to mention the hospitality here is off the charts.

Sid is cool while Britney is cheery and together they make the Sidney couple.

"Do you think you can do those three things jellybean."

"I think you should face it some point in life and now would be the best time to start. You seemed absent minded these past days more than ever and it is worrying me."

He had his serious caring face on and I wanted to talk to him everything more than ever.

"I don't remember waking this morning and I had the most terrible dream."

"I don't know what is happening lately and it is all too much."

"How can I not recall getting to school or even getting up this morning, I don't know what is happening to me and it scares me."

......🔥to be continued 🔥......

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