Author's Note: "Currently I
am reading the book Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern. This book is about a
teenage girl who gets sent to a mental hospital and all of her adventures there.
The book is written in letters to her best friend Tracy so I decided to make my
prediction piece a letter I think Anna will write later in the book."
Dear Tracy, Day 23
You know how I told you
how Justin and I were friends... well he was a little too friendly with me last
night. I was eating my dinner (coleslaw as usual) minding my own business
when all the sudden I felt something rubbing against my foot. I didn't think
much of it until I got up to go to the bathroom and realized I was being
followed by someone. I turned around hoping the I would catch the person in the
act but all I saw was a few security guards roaming the corridor. I
kept walking, faster and faster until I reached the bathroom.… I was doing my
business when all the sudden the lights flickered a few times and then shut off.
I couldn’t see anything, but I could feel something… or rather someone. I felt
a hands touch me all over, and then he was inside me. I tried to scream but
whoever it was put a hand over my mouth before I could let one out. I started
kicking and trying to get whoever it was off of me but he or she was too strong
and I couldn’t make them budge. Then all the sudden the lights flickered back
on and I was staring face to face with Justin. I saw a pair of shoes glide into
the stall to the right of mine. As soon as whoever it was locked their stall
Justin sprinted out of the bathroom.
I don’t know what to do,
for once in my life I was at a loss for words. The whole reason I came to this
dumb mental hospital was to fix my problems, not create more. Nothing like this
had ever happened to me before. Should I
be happy since it was the guy that I liked or should I be furious because of
what he just did. I sat on the toilet motionless and deep in thought not
knowing what to do next: should I tell an adult? Finally, I decided to just go
back to my room and just forget about it, but I couldn’t. Flashbacks kept
coming back and whenever I saw him that’s all I could think about. After hours of contemplating whether telling someone about what happened
or not I decided to tell my roommate Sandy. She was shocked, she said Justin
would never do anything like that. We sat there in silence for a couple of
minutes thinking about what to do next but then Sandy spoke out. “Anna, you
need to tell someone. You can’t just forget about it. Justin needs to be punished for this.”
I
don’t know what to do. Should I tell
someone and get the guy I like in big trouble or should I just act like it
never happened. I decided to sleep on it and give it more thought tomorrow. Hopefully
it will be easier to make the decision on a couple hours of sleep.
Love,
Anna
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Anna has
always been a rebel: she likes to skip out on class, sleep all day, and do
drugs whenever she can, but when her parents decide to take her to a mental
hospital everything changes. At home Anna had no rules, but here at Lakewood they
had tons of them. There are rules for everything like how much you could eat or
how long you could sleep, but the rule Anna hates most of all was the no
touching rule. Since Anna really doesn’t like this rule I feel like later in
the book she will break it. I think this will happen because she is developing
a friendship/crush on a boy named Justin who is in the hospital as well. If
Anna gets caught breaking the rule I will be very disappointed because then it
will delay her departure from Lakewood but I feel like something needs to
happen because right now the book is getting boring.
