Dear Tracy

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.