"New Year, New You " by Nathaniel P

     The lights of the city mixed with the full moon reflected off of the rain as it was a mirror. A young man calling from a call booth in the rain, “ Hello, Holly it's me alexander, I don’t know what I did wrong and need to know, please, answer me”. Alexander has been best friends with holly for about 6 months now and they do everything together, It's almost as if they were in a relationship, over these months there was peace and tranquility. After awhile many small fights and dumb decisions started to break them down, until the final straw. 2 weeks ago they went out to a theater to watch a movie, simple right; but it wasn’t how it seemed.
     “Alexander, park here,” said holly, “you need to pay more attention you’re always this oblivious” she gives off a little chuckle, holly was always the type to have those subtle rude things to say but alexander always took it because it’s just how she is. During this hangout alexander was seeing that things were off the whole time, but went along with it, "Hey holly, is everything alright” said Alexander, a bit scared of what she is going to say, “yeah, of course. Why do you care so much?, if something was wrong I would tell you” said holly. Alexander was hurt, confused, just a mix of emotion throughout wondering if he did something wrong, if it was how he said it, or if it's just him.  This was a massive change for alexander because, after months of just shunning how he was feeling, he was going to tell her how he felt about their friendship, and how they need to work things out.
     As the weeks passed by they started talking less and less like they never crossed paths, they sat around and didn’t say a word to each other, there was no more smiles or laughs. Everything was like they never meet and all the memories disappeared into thin air. Alexander was quite a bit of a soft guy and started to write away to tell her how he feels, how he wants to fix their relationship, many tears and torn up paper sheets spread over his blank empty room. He finally sets on one way to tell her, a single piece of paper, thin, wide-ruled paper. He seals it up into an envelope, writes her name is a weird type of cursive and puts it away until he is ready to give it to her in a wooden drawer.
     The more and more time passed it was obvious he was only there for when she wanted to do something, he always asked her to do something or tried to support her and they never did anything. She finally agreed that they should go to the city for new years together. The final night had come, new years eve 1999, the dawn of a new millennium, he took her to the city, around 6 pm to celebrate the new year with her. Once they arrived crystal clear rain started to pour over them and all the rest of the

people. Alexander was making sure she didn't get drenched after she didn't bring a jacket. As the rain seemed to never stop they finally decided to head back to his car until around midnight so they can see the city celebrate. Time passes in the car, many jokes and dumb photos document the night. 10  Minutes till midnight they decide to go back to the city center where everyone will celebrate. The whole city center is packed from the base levels always to the 30th floors of many hotels, they finally decide to pack into a bridge where even more people are shoving themselves to try to see the center.
     2 Minutes from midnight, alexander takes out a letter for holly; she askes "what is this?", alexander responded "Only open it once you get home", she agrees and the clock hits midnight, the whole city bursts in celebration of a new millennia, a new beginning, a "new start", for alexander and holly they were both cheering and uncontrollably screaming like animals with everybody else in the rest of the city. Holly takes out the letter after running out of breath, and asks "why do I have to open this once I arrive home?", alexander responded "No reason, just give it back", holly refuses and starts opening the letter. and reads it to herself... 

     Once the clock hits 12, 
      our world will never have existed; 

     As if time never continued, 
     we will return to the past
     To never have met you will be a challenge but it’s better now for me;
      for you 

     As our walls break down, 
     it’s clear to see;
     there was no relationship just me 

     As when the clock strikes 12;
     Us, You, I never existed. 

     Once She finished reading this, she was agitated and completely confounded on why he gave this to her, she left him in the crowd. alexander worried for her safety looked everywhere for her. he finds a call booth and takes some of his last pocket change to try to call her. The phone keeps ringing and ringing, no answer. It's like she never existed. a New Year, a New You