My Lonely Beast

Friend or Family

Neomi POV

I still couldn’t muster up the courage to perform in front of so many people, how will I present and now that it’s part of my grades, I am more nervous. 

I am walking surrounded in my thoughts when I feel someone arm around my shoulders, I look at my side and it’s my best friend Alaska 

"I know what you are thinking kiddo", she says with a mischievous smile, "Don’t worry, I talked to Mr. Adams and we will be presenting in a group of two."

My face lit brightly at her declaration, I am so happy that I am jumping up and down in the hall. 

It’s strange but whenever I am in trouble, she reads my mind or somehow knows that I need her and comes to my rescue. 

She pinches my cheeks and I am brought back to earth. “First of all, a tiny person can’t call me kiddo”,  she is smaller than me in height like 5’1 or 5’2 and wears glasses, though she makes that look completely cute with her crop top and skirts. 

Sometimes I blame myself for her being single, Guys might think she is a weirdo hanging out with me and maybe I had a couple of talks with her regarding the same but she always tells me the same thing that she told me the first time we met. 

“On your first day, when you entered the class, I felt like you were like a lost lamp who needed my protection from evil wolves” and that very same day I decided to stick by you through thick and thin. 

I felt so warm thinking those words, as I was little lost by then, I felt like I got a new home, a new home being her heart, from that day we became best friends and maybe even more like a family. 

Well, obviously I have family, but I have always seemed to find it difficult that I belong there. Like a part of me is still missing, I am missing my home. 

My parents have always been kind to me, Calling me their little angel and spoiling me a lot, the result I have put on so much weight and even though my little sister is sometimes trouble, I know she loves me a lot too. 

Like the other day when she lost her pony and send me in the dark looking for it, I was thinking to myself, when something hit me 

Wait, she never had a pony, I have never been allowed to go out in dark than what am I remembering, I try to remember more, but my head starts to pain and Alaska notice that. “You are not supposed to put so much pressure trying to remember something’ you know that right". Saying this she drags me towards her car, "Lets. Have some fun today okay, it will refresh your mood too.."

But when she says fun, I smell trouble. Please someone save me...