Buverte Patiño Sofía, The Hidden Reality

THE HIDDEN REALITY

Written By Sofía Buverte Patiño

The year was 2015, in Miami country school; the wind roars as the students arrived through the gates, running and bustling down the hallways. Friends are greeting each other with a hug or a playful punch while newbies stand to look scared. The seniors stand, tall and proud, a confidence born of experiences. Soon the bells ring and everybody rushes back to their classroom and there I met Blake Gilbert, a petite girl thin, her large natural green eyes held such a charming and calmness that it was impossible for me no to be held prisoner by them. Her cheekbones weren’t just pronouncedly high but also very beautiful and her nose was a little too thin to be perfect, but there was an undeniable balance to her features and perhaps that’s what caught me so mesmerized.

It was all I could do not to continue and blush when she addressed me with her beauty. Blake was the weirdest girl in school, she loved to dress in shorts with holes and long earrings with skulls, she really liked rock music. But what she disliked was her social class. Her parents were part of the upper class of Miami Beach, and they were a very classical and traditional family. Their parents John Gilbert and Isabel Forbes, wanted their children to be part of the high society and study in the best school in Miami, but Blake had very different dreams, she hoped to be in a musical band and travel around the world playing music. Otherwise her brother Mat Gilbert, an 18-year-old boy, the most handsome boy in the entire school, with a tall body type, huge muscles and strong as a bull, the sexiest boy in the school, he had a brown short hair, and his eyes looked the same as Blake’s, the most beautiful eyes in the entire world. He has a cinnamon skin color that every girl wanted. And his dream was to continue with his family business and marry a girl of a good family in the USA. Anyway, Mat and Blake were different but they really loved each other.

During the first day of class, I arrived, my name is Tayler Bass and I stared at Blake without taking my eyes off her. I won a scholarship to study at this prestigious school. I was slim and with an average height, I had soft rosy skin color that contrasted with my black short hair, my eyes were brown. I used dressed very differently from the rich students that studied in this school, I was wearing some dirty shoes and torn jeans, everyone in the classroom turned and looked at me very badly and started saying things to each other. I started to feel bad and thinking that I was in the wrong place. But when I walked into the room Blake didn’t stop smiling, she thought I was friendly. Finally, during the break, Blake sat down with me and said: “Hello, my name is Blake, I know this school is total shit”

I said: “Hello, my name is Tyler, I feel really confused, this is not my kind of people, I think I’m in the wrong place.”

Blake: “What do you mean?”

I said: “I don’t have money, I won a scholarship, and this is not my world”

Blake smiled and said “Don’t worry I will help you to handle it”

When classes ended, Blake and I went to a park near the school, and she became my best friend, and we began to spend more time together, she was nice, everything with her was perfect.

After a week Blake and I started dating, I could not believe it and we started liking each other. Meanwhile, Blake’s brother, Matt, and his best friend Paul that were physically very similar were the most popular boys in the entire school and formed part of the football team, and they also held parties after school with their football team.

At school Mat said: “Today, party at the colosseum at 7 pm”

Blake and I looked at each other, a very fixed look, and I finally said: “You want to go to the party with me?”

Blake answered: “Yes I would love to” I said: “Okay, see you at 7”

Chloe and Sarah, the most popular girls at school, laughed when they listened that I had invited Blake to the party, and Chloe said: “Poor Blake, look who invited her to the party, the poorest child of school”.

During the party everyone was drinking alcohol, dancing, laughing and there were some drugs involved, I was a little bit drunk and I told Blake to go to a quieter place. We went to the pool zone and we started dancing around, laughing, and kissing. We were really happy and cool.

Our drinks finished so I left the pool zone for a minute to get Blake something to drink. When I arrived back at the Colosseum looking for some drinks I noticed that nearly everybody was drunk, including Mat, I found many guys under drugs effect, they were consuming several drugs. I was ready to go back to my loved Blake when I saw Paul (Mat’s best friend) coming out of the pool zone, I had a bad feeling, he wasn’t looking good, so I hurried to the pool zone. When I went to look for Blake, I couldn’t find her where we were last settled, I looked around and finally saw her, she was floating in the pool. She looked unconscious, I threw our drinks and threw myself into the pool to take her out. She kept unconscious, I turned desperate, trying to make her come back, but she was lying there without any reaction, I screamed her name, moved her but after I don’t know how much time, for me it was eternity I realized she had gone, she was dead and had several blows on her body.

A cold air felt my body and soul, I felt very scared, I didn’t know what to do or how to react. Blake was dead. I couldn’t believe it. I finally found the love of my life and that person

died in a second. I felt guilty for leaving her alone for some minutes I went looking for something to drink. Her death was a big mystery. I was just thinking about her red blood streaked in the pool like a floater. When I was still trying to figure out what had happened, I found myself surrounded by many people. A policeman came to the scene of the events and began to ask me many questions as if I knew the answers. A detective came up and asked me;

“What happened? did you do this?”

“No I was in love with her I would never hurt her” I responded furiously.

“It’s okay, everyone makes mistakes, if you tell me the truth I will help you, So what happened?” Before I could say anything else, he added. “she has several hits from a big fight, someone hit her too hard, tell me, son!”.

It was really difficult that everyone thought I was guilty. After many hours of questions, they took me home. When I arrived home I started throwing everything to the floor, and I stayed awake the entire night because I couldn’t sleep thinking about what had happened, realizing that Blake was dead.

During the first days of school after Blake’s death, everyone kept talking about her death and how weird it was, everyone mentioned I was guilty of Blake’s death, and that I could be the only culprit. Mat was very affected by his sister’s death and couldn’t bear to talk about it anymore, he even fought with his friends because people wouldn’t stop talking and gossiping about Blake. Mat’s family was very affected and only argued because they made Mat feel guilty for not taking care of her sister. Thusly after, Mat became aggressive and with uncontrollable anger. Moreover, the detective who was handling Blake’s case interrogated all Blake’s classmates to investigate their relationship with her and if anyone had any reason to harm her. But still haven’t found the culprit.

After a week I went to school, and when I came back, everyone started to stay away from me, saying “You are a killer”, “You killed Blake”, “Get out of here murderer”, In my locker, there was a big note saying “MURDERER” and one day I found inside a book and a dead bird and it smelt horrible. Everyone started saying bad things to me accusing me of murder, and this was extremely difficult for me to handle. When Mat Gilbert looked at me he threw himself at me like a lion on his prey, I fell to the floor and Mat started to hit me like he wanted to kill me, he hit me really hard, he was so angry that I could feel his heart beating so fast, everyone around us began to shout and support Mat, but finally, the director came and took him off on top of me. I was injured with several scrapes and my ribs hurt a lot, I felt really bad. Blake’s family was shattered, Mat was devastated, he looked really bad, with dark circles around his eyes and his attitude was very aggressive.

Later that day, I started to do some thinking, and I remembered that Paul had entered the pool zone before I arrived in and he was the last one who might have seen Blake alive that night, I decided to confront Paul about and also threatening that I was going to call detective but he insisted on telling me that I was lying and that I simply wanted to cover my guilt. I was sick and all I wanted was to stop feeling so bad and everyone blamed me. I was innocent and nobody believed me and Paul didn’t want to tell me what happened that night. Things around me were so dark and without any further light to come, so in a very desperate moment the only choice I found was to kill myself, it was the only way out of this mess.

I hoped that someday Blake’s family will realize that I loved her so much and that I would never be capable of hurting her. I know that the truth always comes out and that I would stop this pain in my soul and that Paul someday is going, to tell the truth, because he’s not going be able to handle his guilt

forever. I was going to miss my family a lot and I was going to fail them but it was the best I could do. I decided that the moment arrived, with two razor blades in my hands, I began to slit my wrist. It was very painful at first and after the blood started to run all over my body, I was covered with blood my entire body, it looked like strawberries juice and I started to see everything very bright, it was the end of the pain forever.

Gilbert’s family heard from the news that Tayler had killed himself and his family was devastated. It was on the news, they talked about that Tayler couldn’t stand the social pressure of Blake’s death and that’s why he committed suicide when Paul heard the news he could not manage his anger and his fear, and in amid of despair and guilt, it made him tell his parents the truth, he wanted to talk to the detective and put an end to this story.

The detective said: “I am ready to listen what is important to know”

Paul took a deep breath and said: “I was the person who killed Blake Gilbert, I was very high and at that moment with a fit of rage I reacted the way I should not, by the time I got to the pool Blake was there and she started to ask me a lot of questions, my reaction was very aggressive, I had so much in my head, I pushed her to the floor until she hit her head so hard and then fell into the water”

The detective responded: “Alright, I advise to get a lawyer”

Paul started crying saying: “I swear it wasn’t my intention to hurt her”

The detective told Paul; “You delayed confessing the truth and you lied to us and made an innocent person die for this, you should pay for your mistakes.”

The truth always comes out, and Paul learned to be more honest and take responsibility for his actions, his parents paid a lot of money for him to get a shorter sentence, but still

paid for his mistakes. Anyway, Gilbert’s family was devastated and they couldn’t believe that Mat’s best friend was the one who killed Blake and for them, their life had never been the same again.