"Ahhh!!!" Mira screamed as she jerked from her slumber, she chased her breath, she looked around.
She was still in the library but gazes were on her.
With embarrassment, she lowered her head, took her bag, returned her novel, and then she was on the way outside of the library.
When she was about to walk out of the library, Justin entered.
She raised her head to look at him but then he didn't notice her presence, he had his eyes scrutinizing the library as he walked past her.
She turned to stare at his back for a few seconds before she went out of the door.
She walked out of the library about to enter the elevator that would take her to the top floor where the balcony was, she was planning to stay there for a while to refresh her mind from this wicked day just like other days.
She was about to get there when she stumbled on a foot and fell to the ground then her glasses fell out, got a broken scratch.
She attempted to look for her glasses when she heard disdainful laughter.
"Ahhh... She's such a useless fellow, look at her search for her glasses like a tortoise." Maddie burst out laughing.
"Common, let's see how you would find your glasses broken eyes," she mocked.
Mira felt like bursting into tears but she needed to find her glasses, she needed to get her glasses first, she stretched her hand when she felt someone step on her hand pressing it painfully.
"Uhh," Mira growled in pain.
"Oh sorry, did that hurt you so much? I couldn't see the ugly blind duckling was here."
"I hope you don't run to the principal about us," Belina mocked and then the rest joined her laughing.
Mira could already feel the urge to cry, she had a swollen throat luckily for her, she found her glasses. With what was left of her, she wore her glasses and then she discovered that it wasn't just them that were around but people passed by and even stared at her, unconcerned just to watch her get tormented, no one was there to help her.
With a lowered head, she spoke up.
"Why do you hate me so much?" The trio stopped their laughter when they heard her speak and turned to her with disgust.
Maddie shunned, walked towards her, and then set a sounding slap right on her face.
"You're asking me that kind of question, ohh it is such a pity you don't see it yourself, look at yourself, even the mirror should show you a good glimpse of yourself and here you are asking me why I hate you? Don't you see it for yourself? You've just gotten a face to fit with your ways, goody pants. Is so bad being the ugly duckling to give it an addition."
She spat on her before leaving her alone and then once again, Mira received knocks on the head from Maddie's friends.
Mira turned to see how people stared at her, just like Maddie, everyone else hated her. Some chuckled seeing her in that kind of state others took it as gossip but they couldn't defend her.
She stood up running away feeling embarrassed, once she got to the backyard of the school, she lay on the wall and then burst into tears.
She cried her heart for minutes till she felt something, the wall swallowed her making her fall on her butt.
Her glasses fell, she immediately searched for them and luckily, she saw them. She wore the glasses to look at where she was.
"Where is this place?" she questioned in surprise.
She wore her glasses to look at the environment.
"Where is this place?" She questions in awe.
The place was dark, silent, and void, she couldn't see anything, probably.
She took her phone from her bag and she turned the touch light on. Then the place was clear, it gave her goosebumps seeing the environment, it was creepy, and looked as though the place was abandoned. There were dry leaves that grew on the wall slowly, and then the place looked as though it was an ancient place.
She turned around and there she discovered a well, her mind was screaming not to go to and check the well but then her body was curious about what was in the well, at least just a look wouldn't cause anything.
She took steps towards the well and there she saw a clear view, the well had a bucket that was hung as a pulley with a stick that was used to hold the bucket. Mira figured out that the well had an inscribed writing on the wall of the well, she adjusted her glasses and then bent to examine what was written on the well.
She gently dust the wall as she coughed a bit and then it was clear to read.
"A well which achieves all you want, desires, the heart wants are fulfilled. No worry, the desire of the heart will be accomplished and set free," she mumbled as she read.
She stood up to check the well and then she discovered that the well was full with water.
"Is somebody here?" she asked as she turned to examine the surroundings. Before she knew it, the area became blustery. Mira covered her eyes with her arm as she held her phone tightly.
"Whose there?" she asked once again but there was no response.
"Do you want a new life? Just let your heart ask for what you desire, you'll find what you want," she heard a gentle voice declare and then she gasped in shock and dropped her phone accidentally into the well.
She looked around but she couldn't hear anyone's footsteps, no one was there.
But then her phone.
Her phone must be somewhere, she knelt to check if her phone was on the ground. Once her knee was on the ground, her hand examine the environment, she felt someone touch her hand and then her cheek, she stiffed not to get nervous or scream at the time being, as she swallowed her saliva hard.
"Don't lose this opportunity, Mira. You could find a new life with this," the person whispered in her ear, shocked by how the person knew her name.
She screeched and stood up moving backward about to tumble falling into the well but she felt someone push her gently so she could fall on the floor.
The whole event processed in her head with shock, she rushed to the wall and then banged it as she wailed.
"Please, please, please. I need help, someone please help me..." she screamed banging the door as hard as she could but then, outside people passed the wall in discussion with one another as they couldn't hear a word from her.
The wall of the well which had inscribed writing began to glow as it lightened the environment, Mira gulped her saliva hard when she noticed the place was lighting up.
The only thing she knew was what she could think of, what she thought would probably send this away.
"I wish I could live a normal life with the ones I want." She uttered with closed eyes.
After a few minutes, she felt something was different so she opened her eyes.
She wasn't in the place but in her classroom waking up from her desk as though she slept in the classroom.