Post by Elizabeth Toman on Feb 28, 2015 14:00:49 GMT -8
Libby paced back and forth in the reserve, her phone held to her ear. "What do you mean you're pulling out?" She screamed, her red-headedness really showing in her temper. "Please? It has nothing to do with me! I'm not the one who is at fault here! You are just using it as an excuse..." She took the phone away from her ear and looked at the screen to make sure the battery hadn't run out, but no, the phone was still glowing, the person she had been talking to; the CEO of a company who had been sponsoring her gymnastics, had indeed hung up on her.
She pushed the phone into her pocket and released a scream into the open air. Since the news of a shooter on campus being made public knowledge, she had lost two sponsors, both of them saying that it was for the best of their companies, because of course, they couldn't chance it being knowing that they supported a girl with a madman (or woman) on campus who was shooting people! She was suddenly feeling like a pariah, and this could ruin, if not destroy, her entire career, and if no one would sponsor her, there was no chance of her finding her was to the Olympics.
She angrily brushed away a tear that trailed down her cheek. "What?" She yelled into her phone as she pulled it out of her pocket when it started ringing. "Sorry, mother." She said through clenched teeth. "Ohmigod not you too! It was some loser with a gun, I am perfectly safe! Oh, now you suddenly seem to care about my future. You didn't seem so concerned for summer camp!" She fell silent and held the phone away from her ear as she received a lecture from her mother about proper phone etiquette and the respect she should be showing her mother. "Yes, mum, I love you too. Talk to you later." She pushed her phone back into her pocket again, as tempted as she was to hurl it toward the pond, and trudged toward the pond. The water was still frozen over, though she had a feeling that the ice would no longer be thick enough to support her weight.
She reached the edge of the pond and looked into the frozen layer on top of the water, which created a pretty good mirror, and tried to see what others saw when they looked at her.