My name is Alec. In school I have a reputation of having a 24/7 poker-face. My friend Eve was cheerful and well so was I. Now I am that nerd who studies with no intention of having fun at all. And Eve... well, she's laying in the cold ground. I had a binder in my hand while I was walking down the hall, I looked at the picture of Eve on Christmas Eve, it was her birthday and she was holding that fake smile whenever she was around her parents. Yes, she was cheerful and optimistic, but Eve was really depressed. She had a small notebook she gave to me with all her secrets in it. And the day she gave it to me wasn't a nice day.

I was fourteen and it was Eve's 13th birthday. Unlike other schools we still had school on Christmas Eve, it was around midnight. Her drunken sister picked us up from my house throughout the ride we were talking about what to do next weekend. But, before it all happened she handed me a notebook and said, "If I die would 'ya keep it?" I asked her "Why, though we're still young." She shrugged, and then the next thing I knew, her sister made collided with another car. The last thing I saw of Eve was her smile. And then the world crumbled for the next two years.

I bumped into Duncan Charles the school's high-school quarterback, and the famous bully. He was also Eve's ex-boyfriend. He looked at me "Hey, i was looking for a nerd to give a wedgie to, look like it's your lucky day." Our classmates made a circle around us. I heard whispers and watched Duncan crack his knuckles and I hit him where it hurts, "Eve Daniel's." I said. My glasses surrounded the emotion in my eyes. I noticed my bangs were covering my eyes so I brushed them to the side and looked at the paper-white Duncan Charles the great. Before I left the fight I turned my head to him "You really need to learn your weaknesses. If you really knew her, like how I did. You would've been there comforting her while she was dying. But, we can't go back in time Charles." I left the battle and walked outside. I guess I'd just ditch school.

As I was walking home I heard a person panting and footsteps coming my way. When they grabbed my hand I was ready to snap their head off, once I turned around. My mouth snapped open, then shut tight. Eve was looking at me "You know, you were really mean back there." Just a hallucination. I walked home and ignored the hallucination following me. When I got home, she was gone. Once, I got into my room she was exploring looking at things. I sat on my bed and stared at her "Ever heard of personal space or privacy?" She looked at me "I have a question," I nodded "Who am I and who are you?" I looked at her with my mouth in an 'O' she started crying I only know one thing "I have a lot of sadness and, God told me to do one thing before Christmas." I only stared at her, the same thirteen year old from two years ago had such sadness in her eyes. Eve ran to me crying, getting tears all over my white shirt.

My favorite thing about Eve was that she was brave enough to dye her hair white and always wore her hair in braids. Whenever I looked at her it reminded me of the past, I told her who she was and who I was "But, I have one question Eve."
"What is it?"
"Why are you here?"
She looked at me with pained eyes "God asked me to make you a better person by my birthday." She told me. It reminded me of a day when she was alive.

"Hey, Eve!" I shouted across the ice rink. It was my birthday and my parent's had rented the ice skating rink out. Other kids were there including Duncan, Haley, Peter, and Kate. I only invited Duncan because he was Eve's boyfriend. Other kid's were there. I was also teaching Eve how to ice skate and whenever she made a mistake Haley would laugh as expected from the school tramp. And Kate was doing jumps and spins everywhere. When, she fell once I saw how beautiful she looked the lines from earlier ice skating's and the ice behind her just fitted with her. She smirked at me "Hey, you going to help me up?" I nodded and helped her up she just smiled, but later on when I walked in on Haley and Duncan kissing in the bathroom, I looked him in the eye "You don't deserve Eve." and ever since then I held a grudge with him, but I also picture Eve in the ice skating rink. It was also the way I pictured her when she died.