Disappearing Act

"OH MY GOD- WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!!" Her two roommates tackle her to the floor. She forgot she left a note this time and walked right into two already mourning friends. "Don't ever do that again Lizzie!" Though half her size, Reven was smothering her in a hug and didn't want to let go.
"Elizabeth!" Adriella's voice was shaky "Please don't ever think of doing that! "
"I wouldn't be here..." Elizabeth averts her gaze "there was this guy that tackled me off the railroad tracks." There was a solemn pause at the realization she wasn't joking about the note.

She had tried several times to end herself but something always intervened. Overdoses, alcohol, razorblades, the works- and the one time she decided to do it right some random tackles her off the tracks.
"What a crock of s**t." She slams her bedroom door locking it. Mumbling incoherently under her breath, she snatches the note on her night stand stained in tears and blood- angrily crumpling it. "That f*****g close!..." she growls, slinging herself onto her bed face first. For several hours, she lay there, still unsure what to feel. She rolls over finally and looks at the time. One thirty in the morning and she was regretting choosing the tracks instead of the bridge or window. That sparked an idea- window. The house was three stories if you included the attic-room balcony. Wasn't exactly a 'window' but close enough. Or rather far enough - from the ground.
She cracks her door quietly and hears no noise or movement in the house, and figures now is as good of a time as any other. She creaks up the stairs to the attic. Cold and damp, she realizes why no one ever comes up here. She pushes a plethora of webbing aside to get to the glass doors that lead to the balcony. The intricate metal framing rusted, and the windows fogged with layers upon layers of dust. All untouched but the single smiley face in the middle of the right door. She thought it odd, but didn't care being she wasn't there to chase ghost stories, but to create her own.
Opening the door with a deafening squeak, the room is filled with a harsh gust of night wind. Looking back and listening she hears silence, assurance she didn't wake her friends. No note this time- she tosses the piece of paper in her hand, realizing she brought her previous note with her. Though she figured it would work this time, she didn't want to jinx her chances.
She steps outside - her face stung from the icy wind whipping around the small outside platform. Closing the door as quietly as possible, she turns around and spots a tattered, faded, black fedora caught on the guard rails of the balcony, making her thoughts stop.
"Wait..." she slowly and uneasily shuffles towards it, picking it up. "Isn't this...."
"Thank you for finding my hat." A voice from behind makes her spin, and gets met by a shadowed figure laying in the tree by the balcony.
"What the? How the? Are you a f*****g stalker now or something?!" Elizabeth exclaims, not realizing the volume of her voice. He chuckles, hopping from the tree, to the balcony's railing, to the balcony itself.
"How? I trailed you, not hard, but no- I'm not a stalker, just knew you'd try again." He snatches his hat and places it back on his head before stepping into the pale light.
"Why do you care? My friends i can understand, but you're some random who probably recognized me from the f*****g local paper! Stop trying to be a hero!" Her voice getting louder as she ranted.
"Little less random than you think." She has enough time to see the same crooked grin thrown at her as last time, before the glass doors bust open as Reven and Adriella have realized what's going on. She turns to cuss him this time and he's gone yet again.
"GODDAMMIT!" Elizabeth's angry scream echoes through the night. "WHY DO YOU BOTHER ME?!" She leans over the rails screaming out because she figures he has to be near.
"Are you screaming at us?" Adriella gives Reven a worried glance, and slowly inches toward her distraught and furious friend.
"NO!" She quickly snaps around to face them both "He was right there!!" She points to the middle of the balcony where she saw him before her friends burst through the door.
"There was only you out here Lizzie. " Adriella tries to put an arm around her friend, but she's pushed off and Lizzie storms past Reven through the doors, wiping the smiley face off the window in an angry swipe. They look at each other, left on the balcony in silence.
"Do you think we should tell her doctor?" Reven's face dropped at the statement he was saying.
"I don't know yet. I don't want to, though." Adriella replies, shuffling back inside, shivering. "This hallucination seems to be saving her, so why put her on more medication to get rid of it?" She says, gently closing the glass door behind them.
"I guess you have a point, there." He says agreeing. "I guess we can keep it quiet unless it gets harmful."
"That's what I was thinking. " she sighs.

The balcony fell silent once more, just as it was before Lizzie stepped out. The creak of the two friends' footsteps on the rarely used stairs fade into the background of the howling wind. A figure lifts itself back onto the balcony's ledge. She was right, he was close. Hopping from the railing back to the tree, he could see her tiredly and angrily pacing on the other side of her window. He heard the last of her friends' conversation. They were going to be staying up to watch her, and agreed to take shifts staying up at night. Knowing this, he smirks softly., mumbling to himself.
"That disappearing act has already started getting hard." He turns and fades into the shadows quietly