• Please come back...please be the sweet little girl I used to know. The one who liked to dance in the rain and eat lollipops. Remember her? I do, and it hurts me to see what you've become. Painting your eyes black just to wash the makeup away with your tears. Picking up a blade because you don't know what else to do. I don't want to look at your tear stained face. I don't know how to help you. Please come back. I miss your pink coat and your fuzzy socks. I miss you talking about hopes and dreams. Not about getting away, not about escape, but about what you wanted to be when you grew up. What you were going to do over summer vacation. What you wanted to be on Halloween. I miss eating cereal and drinking chocolate milk with you every morning because we didn't have anywhere better to go. Playing on the playground after school and finding shapes in the clouds. I don't like knowing you hang out with the scum you do. Why did you choose them as your friends? You used to be scared of them! We used to walk down the street and cower when we saw them in the gutter. Now you're as good as one of them. You say you're not, but how can I believe you when everyone else tells me otherwise! How can I believe you when you hang around people like that? You're throwing your life away. Bit by bit, piece by piece. Please tell the innocent child inside of you to come back. I need her, I need to know she's okay. And please, don't let anything happen to her. I couldn't live with myself if something happened to her...knowing it was my fault for leaving her alone. For not watching her. For not being there for her. Please remember who you used to be, remember who you are inside. I know you thought that nobody liked her, and everybody wanted her dead, but she meant the world to me. She still does. I hate watching you hurt yourself, knowing there's nothing I can do to stop you, nothing I can say to help. I miss your blonde hair, and the spark in your eyes. Why did you dye it black? Why did you destroy everything about you that reminded me of sunshine and happiness? Please come back....please dance in the rain, please dream of bunnies and sunshine, please wish upon stars and please please please smile for once. You're prettier when you do. Please...