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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! I wake up slowly and climb out of bed feeling miserable. It was the day after I had finished the tapes. The tapes that contained the life of Hannah Baker, a girl who had recently committed suicide. I used to be friends with Hannah and Alex Standall after I moved and began going to the local school. The teacher Ms. Antilly introduced her to me; she thought we could be friends, but that did not exactly work out. Our friendship faded slowly as time went on, especially after the list. The list of “Who’s Hot and Who’s Not.” Created by yours truly, Alex, my ex-boyfriend and ex-friend. We were going out at the time when the paper got passed around, and I was compared to her with who had the best butt in the school. I would not say …show more content…
Hannah had said that it left a physical reminder of all the things that happened to her. She also put on one of the tapes about the time I was raped, and that she just sat there and let it happen. Like, what the heck Hannah, I was being raped and you just sat there in the closet and let it happen. You could have done something. But when I heard that on the tapes I was wondering to myself what she could have done. I mean if she had gotten out of the closet and stood up for me she could have been taken advantage of and the same thing could have happened to her. That would have just added another reason she committed suicide. I would have never thought about that before though, I would have just never forgave her,if she were still alive, but now I thought about why she may have not come out of the closet, and I began to realize their are so many reasons that I would have never thought about until I heard theses tapes, and you may say you would have stopped it, but you never know what you are going to do until you are actually in that specific situation. So, I decided to not hold her to it, which I would have never done …show more content…
I have also made a lot of new friends I would never have become friends with before. I am actually friends with Skye now and Clay. I saw Skye one day and noticed she had become kind of distant from everyone and I thought she seemed a lot like Hannah, so I befriended her. I asked Clay why he did and he told me he used to be friends with her and that he had noticed the same thing, and we both thought that something might happen to her that happened to Hannah. With all the signs of depression and stuff, so we both agreed that we would become friends and try to help her just to make sure because we both did not want to lose another classmate; that would be just too miserable.
I also started talking to some of the other people on the tapes like Justin, Alex, Tyler, Marcus, Jenny, and of course Clay. We all decide we would start meeting up at Monet’s Garden Cafe, and that we would do the same thing that Hannah, Alex and I used to do. Put our hands in the middle of the table and say “Olly-olly-oxen-free.” We would talk about the tapes, and also things that happened that day or a previous

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