There was once a girl with her head in the clouds. The earth was a place she never wanted to journey down to. How ever everyday her mom would shake her saying "you daft girl pay attention. some day you will need this." But in her mind she knew this to be untrue for anything here was completely useless. The other kids would tease her not that she could hear them from her own world. They thought her strange. There was nothing here for her.
One day the other kids decided it was time for her to deal with them. So they tied her to a tree. She didn't mind you see. She likes not having to talk to them. Her body she had left behind. Her mind to far in the clouds she couldn't even see them if she looked down. The other kids really didn't like this. one in partial was very bother by this. We will call her little miss leader. She convince the other children that they must torture the girl with her head in the clouds. For she thought she was better then them and for that should be punished. The other kids agreed. But she didn't see them her head to far from her body to even care. Lost in the clouds she truly was. They tried everything from putting sand in her food to gluing her to her chair. She didn't notice the sand just thought her mom bought bad peanut butter again. Being glued to her chair made it that she had to stay in class at break. To her this was a true blessing.
Nothing they did made a difference. Finally little miss leader couldn't take it anymore. She decide it was time for a real storm. She thought for day and then weeks. How would she make her see. The girl with her head in the clouds just kept walking just the same. She was unfazed by the other girl's unwarranted hatred. She lived each day exactly the same. Waking up and leaving this her body behind just the same. All the cruel things they did to her she really didn't mind.
After weeks of little miss leader struggling with how to punish girl with the girl head in the cloud. She finally realized there was nothing she could do. This plan fact spun her head. In that one moment she fled. She ran right up to the girl with head in the cloud and grab her. She started to shake her so hard she ripped her shirt. That is when she noticed something strange about the girl. She had bruises all over her body. Little miss leader knew not what to do. All she could do was step. Head in the clouds just laid there on the floor. "Are you okay? I would really like to know?" little miss leader asked. The girl came down from the clouds. "No i am not." Her response shocked the girl. For the first time she actually look at her. Pulling up the girls sleeves what she saw was completely unpleasing. Little miss leader right then knew. Some one was torturing this poor girl so bad she had to escape the pain. So the girl had made her own world in the cloud. It was for her the only safe place. Little miss leader drop to her knees. she knew she was wrong and had only added on to this poor girls pain. She got right up and came up with a plan to save her. She was going to go home and tell her mom, she would know what to do. Her mom called the cops and the next day they were to save the girl.
The girl never came to school that day. She was killed by her mother boyfriend. She no longer had her head in the cloud. She felt she had a friend and fought back. He killed her unintentionally. She was never saved. Now she is nothing but a memory only to live in the clouds she once hid in. Little miss leader felt awful for years to come, knowing that if she had just stop to really look at the girl with her head in the cloud even just once. She might still be here.
True to life story....so many left behind and judged for coping with, or escaping, reality in their own way.
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