Margot: A Fictional Narrative

Margot stared at the monster that loomed before her, face to face with her worst fear: the cafeteria filled with people. Emphasis on people. The biggest obstacle of Margot’s day was taking the terrifying step into the madness. Heart pounding. Hands shaking. Head down. Eyes closed. One of her dirty, withered, off-white sneakers lifts off the ground...almost there...three...two… “Outta my way!” a hard shoulder slams into her and she crumbles to the floor as a group of boys push past her into the endless sea of people. She was a ghost to them, just a piece of nothingness, just an object in their way. Margot picked herself up and brushed away the single tear that had slipped out of her eye and slowly scuttled into the swarming sea. All Margot

So she quietly stepped into the room and tiptoed into the lunch line. There wasn’t a great selection of food on Venus, only potatoes and some other vegetables. Not like when Margot was on earth, when she was on earth she would eat cool delicious ice cream while smiling on hot summer days at the beach when the sun was shining brightly. But here on Venus there was none of that, only rain, gloom, dirt and darkness. Margot sighed to herself wishing she was back on earth where it was beautiful and sunny. As she looked up at the lunch lady who handed her a tray with mysterious mush piled on top she wished for something, only one thing; to feel full and happy again, not lonely and dull like the food on her tray. She wished for something better, maybe a friend, or at least someone she could talk to. Pushing the unlikely thought away, she took her tray and slipped out of the cafeteria and through the dimly lit underground halls of the school, walking until she got to the bathroom door. She stood in front of the door and realized there was something different about it, there was a white sign with red lettering that read CLOSED. No. No, no, no,

Margot was terrified, she couldn’t face the other kids, she couldn’t go into the cafeteria, she had to find some other place, but there was nowhere else. There were always adults walking around the halls, patrolling, so she would have to eventually step into the horrible cafeteria. As she got closer and closer to the cafeteria she heard a noise that kept getting louder and louder. The noise made Margot cower and want to go back to her safe shell like a turtle in danger. When Margot finally reached the doors she took a deep breath in and exhaled as she took a step into the cafeteria. Margot felt as small as a mouse in the big bustling room. She got dirty looks and heard laughs as she walked by the other kids. Nobody at school liked Margot, in fact they all hated her and that was not an exaggeration. Once, on the only day in every seven years that the sun comes out on Venus the other kids in her class locked her in a closet, so she wouldn’t be able to see the sun. It was dreadful, she cried and cried while she was in the closet, desperate to get out. Margot felt the same now, even though this time she was in a giant room filled with people. Thwack Margot was whacked back to reality as she felt a potato hit her hard in the face. She heard the familiar snicker of her classmate William who always pushed her around. Margot touched the spot where she was hit and she winced, the pain hitting her hard again.