"Hi there." She said to me. I stared at her speechless, my body frozen.
"What's your name?" She asked me. I looked down at my shoes before answering.
"I don't have a Name." I said. The girl looked my age. Young, maybe five or six. She chuckled before replying.
"Well that's silly everyone has a name. My name is Elizabeth. But you can call me Beth!" She said excitedly.
The girl's mother walked into the room. "Elizabeth, who are you talking to sweetie?" Her mom asked.
Elizabeth looked from her Mom to me and back again. "My new friend Mommy." She said.
Elizabeth's Mom sighed before smiling. "Ah I see you've made an imaginary friend."
"Well what's your new friend's name?" Her mother asked before stepping into the room. I backed up more against the wall as Elizabeth's mother pretended to look at me as if I were really there. Only children had ever seen before, but none of them had ever talked to me like Elizabeth.
"She doesn't have a name, I already asked her." Said Elizabeth turning to face me again.
"So..what's your name?" She asked me. Her mother turned to look at the spot where Elizabeth's eyes were.
"I told you I don't have a name." I said frowning. Elizabeth smiled politely. "Well that's alright we'll just have to give you a name. NYA! That can be your name." Elizabeth said. Her mother looked at her confused.
"Nya? Where'd you get a name like that Elizabeth?" Her mother asked her.
"I don't know she just looks like a Nya." Said Elizabeth.
Her Mother patted Elizabeth's head. "Okay well I'll let you and Nya keep playing. Would you girls like any tea for a tea party?"
Elizabeth turned to me to. "Do you want some tea Nya?" She asked me. I smiled as a warm feeling filled inside me. I finally had a friend, and I finally had a name.
"Sure!" I said.
For years Beth and I were the best of friends. Until Beth became older, and her parent's discouraged her from having an 'imaginary' friend.
"I'm sorry Nya, but I can't talk to you anymore. I have to go see a therapist now, no one believes you exist and I don't want them to think I'm crazy."
I tried to plead with her. "But Beth, if you don't talk to me, no one will. I'll be alone all over again." I cried.
But Beth just ignores me.
"BETH!" I yell at her. But Beth doesn't flinch, she just keeps ignoring me.
"Beth you can't do this, if you do this I'll become Nothing again. I don't want to be just nothing."
I begged her, but she kept on ignoring me. She left the room, leaving me completely alone.
It went on like this for weeks until I really believed that Beth couldn't see me anymore. The warmth I once felt slowly starts to fade replaced with cold sadness. It's worse than before when I had no name. I was becoming nothing. Nya the Nothing that should be my new name. Just an imaginary friend, not a real friend to anyone.
The more I thought about it the more angry I became at Beth. It was her fault that I was becoming nothing. I had to do something about it. I had to get her attention again. One day when she came home from school I walked straight up to her and slapped her across the face. My hand collided with her cheek and Beth went down. She looked up at me in shock, her hand on her face.
"That's what you get for turning me into nothing!" I yelled at her. A different feeling filled up inside me, something warm and angry. Beth looked away from me with a scowl on her face.
"You are nothing! You were never existed in the first place! I gave you a name, I made you up." Beth said standing up. "This is all in my head! You don't exist." The more Beth kept saying these things the more I felt myself disappearing, becoming nothing just like she had said.
"YOU ARE NOTHING, YOU HAVE NO NAME!!!" Beth screamed. My stomach dropped and I could feel nothing, I could see nothing, I could hear nothing. I was nothing.
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