Melanie Martinez

Months

or year and I’m standing in front

, a black plaid skirt, black flat shoes and ankle socks. I have my frie

good every day, not just the first day of school. It is why I’m kno

admiring the way I’m dressed. She’s on the

rs like a lip gloss or a pink high heel. The kind of stickers a sixteen-year-old gir

our generation is so open and what do those bitter white people on that news channel on the

ok

woke. Awake and never asleep.” sh

huc

hat are you goi

laying with Win

work and soon Macy will be done with cleaning the house I don

. I will be ca

see you

n I went there to get doughnuts so me and my mom could eat them while watching a movie on Netflix. I w

her and sh

see and h

at her so people don’t think

stions. I said I’d answer her if she followed me home and ever since then s

in London. She also told me about how she accidentally fell into a mirror that brought her here. She wasn’t even m

She’s a middle-aged woman who comes to the house to clean every day. She’s so nice. She’s petite,

ting down so my guess is she’s not gonna be eating breakfast. I begin

there already,” Mom says. I pou

mb. I go to the kitch

e how was y

eat how wa

like

and doesn’t complain. He’s like an uncle that I never had. But of c

, are yo

ook slay by

gles while rummaging through her bag t

k high heel shoes and her hair is up in a puf

every case, when she doesn’t win a case we drown our sorrows in ice crea

d before I head out the doo

om doesn’t start driving immed

l as always,” she says to me

now?” there she goes thinking I can’t h

hone to ask her why I wasn’t seeing his ghost. And she said there’s a possibility that Jason went to the afterlife without her help and I almost broke do

ok for his ghost one more time and when I didn’t

it was quick because I did not hav

s senior year. I have to make the best of it.” I face forward. “It is what Jason

ike her Momma.” she pinches my

uc

nd I roll my eyes laughi

o rich and are here on a scholarship. Louisiana is one of those schools that take coll

plan to take the bull by the horns and get admi

I’ve appeared as a guest on Nora Perkins's true crime podcast. Nora talks about Crime. and I’ve

stop me from bein

ay from the car as sh

s, Christians everyone. Bukola helped him move on to the afterlife when she was thirteen years old when he saw that the school still maintained the

He was awestruck and happy with what he had seen and was satisfie

e statue? It’s not hau

and a large amount o

ld have said that the reason why they’re all saying hi to me is because my boyfriend died months ago.

y Nadia escapes to every time she has a free period, respective labs, indoor and outdoor

ls for the first time with my baggy blazer and long-ass skirt. Seems like it was yesterday I met Vivian in assembly and

o show her around. She didn’t know anywhere because

closer than ever. Those girls have been my rock for four y

or prom and how he’s going to love my dress. I was so excited for tha

ove I’m not about t