Free Me From My Shackles

   I had just got off the phone with Summer Breeze. She called to tell me that she loves me. How sweet.I set my phone down on my nightstand and continue reading. My phone rang again. i pick it up again. I don't recognize the number. the message say's

'I hope you f*****g kill yourself! you suck, and no one loves you.Just die already!'. I am pained by these words. I retaliate.

'For 1, I have a girlfriend. She loves me, at least. and two, me having manic depression does NOT make me suck.' I texted back.

'the one that's cheating with you with Lightning Shard, Summer Breeze? Pfft. She doesn't love you. She never did. It was all out of pity. She started dating Lightning shard a week after she started dating you, Loser. Like I said, nobody loves you.' he or she replied.

'F**k you' I replied. I blocked the number. I called Summer Breeze. She picked up the phone two seconds later.

"hey, babe? Whats going on?" asked Summer.

"I cant believe you. Cheating on me?" I said

"Meet me at the park in five minutes." She said. She hung up.

I got to the park five minutes later. Summer was there with someone else. He looked about thirteen. They noticed me. Summer approached me first.

"I can explain At-" she tried.

"You don't need to. I see how it is. you never loved me. It was him the whole time..." I said.

"You're wrong! I did at one point! I loved you! I only dated you out of pity, but when I started realizing that I had actual felling for you, Lightning came along and showed me how stupid and pathetic you were, and how he was better than you!" She said. tears were streaming from her face. Lightning walked over to me with his arm around Summer.

"You made my girlfriend cry. you are going to pay..." He said.

"you're all pathetic." I said.

"GO F*****G KILL YOURSELF!" screamed Summer.

"Fine. I will." I said. I started walking home. About five seconds later, I heard-

"Wait! Don't!" screamed Summer. I continued. walking home. I when I got home, I shut and locked me front door. I got a kitchen knife from the knife drawer. I sat on my floor, put the knife one my wrist, and made the first cut. I terrible scream Came from my mouth as I cried. My window was open. I could smell the fresh air.Thar was good... I looked at my wrist, It was covered in blood. I pout the knife near the cut, and made two more. The next scream was louder and worse then the first.

  I woke up in a hospital bed. There were two cords up my nose and My wrists had some bandages on them.. There was a blood bag with a cord that went into my left wrist. The uncut one.  A nurse was sitting down with a clipboard in her hand. She was looking at me.

"where am I?" I asked.

"Manehatten Medical center. The hospital." she said. You tried to kill yourself. Your dad walked into your room to tell you dinner was ready. When he saw you, he screamed with agony and called the police. you lost a fair amount of blood. You should be out of here in two weeks." Explained the nurse.

"can I call my dad?" I asked. The nurse handed me a telephone.

"thank you" I said. Two seconds later, My dad picked up.

"hello?" he asked.

"hey dad...Its Atlas. I'm awake..." I said.

"you're going to give me the full truth on what you did and why you did it right now!" he said.

"...Summer...She was cheating on me. she never loved me. it was all him. I wasn't good enough... She told me to kill myself. then she said not to." I tried to."

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Another nightmare. Why do I always have to relive that moment? A months have passed since his first day at CHS, and it was now January, 2016... all was well for me. I checked my grades daily, and they were pretty good. I sat with my friends at lunch, and we talked about mostly airsoft, guns, music, or Sci Fi stuff. I was really having a good time.

    In orchestra, last Wednesday, a Contrabassist, Steady Beat, opened his case for his instrument, to find it a black instead of brown. We were all baffled by this. Especially Steady Beat. Not only did he find his Bass like that, but he also found the sheet music to Paint it Black in his case too. Some of the students kept bombarding me with questions about it, because my Violin was black. They thought I did it. Lol, nope.

Today was Friday. Probably my favorite day. I set an alarm clock in my phone, because I stabbed the other one. I sit up in my bed, and get out of it. I get into my usual clothes. A quicksilver shirt, jeans and jacket. As usual. I walked into my kitchen, to find my dad flipping pancakes on our stove.

"smells good." I comment.

"Thanks. Yours are ready. Don't want to miss the bus, do we?" He replied

   I respond by sitting down and eating. Afterwards, I go into the bathroom to brush my teeth and 'do' my hair. When I finish, I grab my backpack and violin and head out the door. I wait for five minutes and the bus arrives. It also get a bunch of leaves blown into my face..

"I'm so glad it's fall" I say sarcastically under my breath as I get on the my bus. On the next stop, I feela tap on my shoulder and I already know who it is.

"You don't have to tap every time, you know. You are my best friend. You don't have to ask." I say as Lyra sits down, smiling.

"Well, you know me. Better safe then sorry." She jokes.

"Why would you be sorry?" I ask.

"I would make sure that it's okay before I just go ahead and help myself." She jokes back.

"A cute girl like you doesn't need to ask." I say. Then I noticed what I said. Lyra blushes a deep crimson.

"Did you just call me cute?" She asks. I liked her. She was an awesome friend. I had kept it from her. We have known each other for about six weeks now.

"Yes..." I said, looking away. Also blushing. Slightly!

"Hey, its okay. Cutie!" She retorts. We both blush. She blushes more, though. We reach the School ten minutes later.

LYRAS POV

I was happy. Atlas called me cute! This was one of the nicest things he has ever said to me. I hope he likes me...I like him. More then just a friend though. I walk into first period, glancing at Atlas, and blushing slightly. My friend Bon Bon notices and shoots me a glance that's like. Ooooh! She likes the new guy.

TIME SKIP TO LUNCH

(Still Lyra 's pov)

Atlas wasn't at our table yet. Thank gosh, because Bon Bon was yapping on about me liking him.

"You like him! You know you do!" Says Bon Bon.

"So what if I do?" I reply.

"Ask him out!" Says Bon Bon.

"I don't know if he likes me! But he did call me cute this morning." I say.

We are both interrupted when Octavia comes and sits down with her friend, ShadowBolt, a student who came from Crystal Prep.

"Hey guys. What's going on?" she asks.

"He's coming!" Hisses Bon Bon. Atlas is walking to us holding a Trey of Salisbury steak and other kinds of food.

"Yo." He says. We all greet him with a sups or hi's. We start talking about random stuff and then Atlas's friends like Steady Beat, Bioshock, Apollo, and Firefight came over. They start talking about Call of Duty while me and the girls talk about random stuff.

TIME SKIP 5TH PERIOD. ATLAS POV

I walked into the orchestra room with my violin. I sit down and open it up. I pull out my violin and the sheet music to paint it black.

"What the hell!?!?", I shout. Every one looks at me with confused looks. I hold up the sheet music. Everyone is like "oooh". A violist pulls out a new black viola and the sheet music also. More gasping and oohs. When we are all seated by Mr. Crescendo. He walks put of the classroom and comes back I. With the Band director, Mr. Forte. Her shows him the sheet music and the black Bass and Viola.

"Funny. The same things are happening in the band room. A Black Euphonium, Trumpet, and Flute. They have the sheet music too. This is odd..." he says.

We finish fifth period, and me and my friends walk to the ensemble room. I play the sheet music to paint it black. The sheet music is taped to the guitars. All of them. And the piano has it too.

"This is so strange!" Says Poco Mino, another violinist. We play some random music, like Paint it Black (some of us), Drums of Corona, and I play Guren No Yumiya.

School is over, so I go to my bus. Lyra Is in our usual seat. I tap on her on the shoulder.

"Can I sit here?" I ask playfully. She nods and I sit down. I pull out my phone because it vibrates. Its my friend from Manehatten, Ghost.

"Hey, Man! Hows Canterlot? everything all right?" asks Ghost.

"yeah. I'm actually first chair violin" I say.

"Nice! hey, um I have some news about Summ-" Ghost is cut off.

"I don't want to hear ANYTHING about her." I say.

"but-"

"please, Ghost. Lets just pretend she doesn't exist... You know I'm very sensitive about that topic..."

"Sorry man..." says Ghost.

"It's okay...Have you seen the new Star Wars Movie?" I ask.

"nope. Is it good?" asks Ghost.

"Yep. My phone is about to die. see ya!" I say. I hang up.

   I look at Lyra. We know each other so well...I have small crush on her... I don't know if she feels the same way, Though...

The next day at lunch, I have nowhere to sit... All but one of the table are full. A guy with grey skin and black hair with a basketball with a music note on it motions me to come to his table and sit down. I take a seat.

"You must be Atlas. I'm Clyde." said Clyde

"hey" I replied.

"I'm Fang. Nice to meet you." said a guy with brown skin, red eyes, and black hair. he had a metal canine tooth.

"sup" I say.

"hello. The name is Zero." says a guy with grey skin, black hair and yellow eyes.

"its a pleasure" I reply.

"hi. I'm Shard Storm." He said. He had Peach skin, Orange hair and eyes, and a black jacket.

"nice to meet you" I said.

"Hey. I'm Mise." said a guy with black chefs coat, sleek black hair and black Pants.

"sup" I say.

"Hi. I'm soul" said a guy with white hair and a white goatee.

"howdy. I'm Atlas. Its a pleasure to meet you all." I say as I sit down. We start talking about our interest and what we like. They also give me there phone numbers. We eventually start talking about girls.

"so, Atlas. Any crushes yet?" asked Soul.

"I think so." I said. they all looked at me eagerly.

"Lyra Heartstrings" I said.

"Nice! I hear she is first chair Lyre." says Fang.

"Yep. I'm first chair violin!" I say.

   Lunch ends, and we all walk to our classes. In Orchestra, two cellos and ten violins are black and have the sheet music. Four violas get the instruments and music as well.