Run Away

Running Away(Edited)

Beep, Beep, Beep.

I quickly sit up and turn off my alarm clock before it awakens my mother. I lay back down, admiring the way the sunlight streams in through the window. 'Today', I think. 'Today is going to be better.'

Once again I get up and walk into my bathroom. Turning on my shower, I quickly strip and jump in. I lather myself in my lavender scented bodywash from Bath&Body Works. I rinse off and wash my hair in a hurry. I turn off the water, walk out of the shower and pat myself dry with a fluffy, white towel. I wrap myself into my towel before walking out of my bathroom and into my closet. I put on a matching bra and panty set, I grab a plain, black tank top and a pair of lightwash, ripped jeans. I quickly throw a cardigan over my tank top. I brush my hair and grab my bag filled with my school supplies, before running down stairs and into the kitchen to make my mother breakfast. I make pancakes, because its quick and easy. I place her plate on the dining table. I put on some shoes and run out the door to catch the bus to Hell or as most people know it as school.

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Once I arrived at school I walk with my head down, not talking to anyone. I walk inside and straight to my locker, I place my bag inside and grab everything I would need for my first four hours. While I'm doing this the first bell goes off. I shut my locker and made my way to my first hour as fast as possible, not wanting to be late.

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Finally the last bell rings. I make my way to my locker, once again. On my way Ava Harris, the Queen Bee of the school, trips me. Causing me to drop everything that I was holding in my arms.

"Watch it, Slut." She says in her annoyingly high pitched voice. Soon her boyfriend, Luke Brown, joins her side. He wraps his arm around her and they both glare down at me. I rushed to pick up everything I had dropped.

"Maybe if you weren't such a slut your daddy would still be here." Ava taunts, and at her words tear begin to prick at the corner of my eyes and my throat started to close up. I close my eyes not wanting to cry in front of them. I stand up and push my way through the crowd, that I hadn't noticed formed. I walk through the front doors of the school to discover that the buses have already left. 'Looks like I'm going to have to walk home.' I think to myself and started my journey home. On the way I had began to think about what Ava had said. And then I started to remember what had happened to my father.

Flashback

I run giggling out of my room to find my daddy. He's always the best at playing tea party with me. I keep giggling and searching for my daddy. I stop when I hear a crash from upstairs. I run up the stairs and down the hall to my daddy's office. I push open the door with all the strength a five year old could have. I walk into see my daddy's office completely destroyed and my daddy holding a gun to his head.

"Daddy?" I whisper.

He looks up at me, tears filled in his beautiful, green eyes. He was just staring at me.

"Daddy?" I whisper again. When I said that he seemed to snap out of his haze and started to cry even more than he already was.

"Baby, I love you. I love you more than anything in the world. You know that, don't you?"

"Yes Daddy, I know that. I love you too."

"I love you, baby." As soon as the words left his lips, he pulled the trigger. Daddy fell to the ground, blood pooling around him. I run up to him and shook his shoulders.

"Daddy, come on daddy wake up. This isn't funny, daddy. Wake up daddy."

Flashback Over

The thing is, daddy never woke up. I just sat there next to him crying and yelling at him to wake up, after awhile I realized that he wasn't going to wake up. My clothes had become soaked in his blood and my tears. My mother had walk into the room awhile later. And that is the day she had started to hate me, and abuse me. Mentally and physically. That is also the day when all my friends decided to abandoned me and everyone started to bully me.

I shake my head, trying to clear my thoughts. I look up to see that I had arrived home. I walk up the steps and unlock the door. I closed the door behind me as I walked in. I take a few steps before I looked up. And I looked up to see an angry Lauren Wilson, my mother.

"You're late." She says before she stomps angrily towards me. She stops directly in front of me. We stare at one another for a moment before she punches my right cheek. The pain dazes my while she pushes me to the floor. My mother then begins to kick me in the stomache. I bite down on my lip to keep from crying and screaming out in pain. It goes on for about twenty minutes, I just try to block all the pain out. Finally after what seems like forever she stops.

"Just make me dinner and leave me alone." She says and walks away. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding as I watched her walk away. It takes awhile for me to stand up because of the mind numbing pain. I walk up the stairs and into my room. I place my bag on top of my bed and get down on my hands and knees. I searched underneath my bed for my pain killers. Once I find the bottle I open it and pull out two pills. Placing them in my mouth, I swallow them dry. I walk back down stairs and into the kitchen to prepare dinner for my mother.

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I now lay in my bed wondering when I would finally be able to leave this hellhole. I turn over in my bed to see what the time read on my alarm clock. My alarm clock showed that it was nearly two thirty in the morning. 'You could leave now,' a thought pops into my mind. Well I guess I could, and then I started to think about it a bit more. All I would have to do is pack some of my things, grab my mother's car keys and leave. And that's exactly what I did.

Twenty minutes later I have a small duffle bag hanging from my shoulder, filled with my clothes, money, sketch book and pencils. I am now slowly walking down the stairs, not wanting my mother to hear me. I made it to the bottom of the stairs. I look towards the living room to see my mother passed out on the couch. I quietly creep towards the front door. My mother always leaves her keys on the key hook. I grab her keys and walk out the door. I lightly jog towards the car, opening the driver's door and throwing my duffle bag in the passenger's seat before getting in. I close my door, start the car and drove away.

(I was going to stop here, but I love you guys)

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I know sooner or later I'm going to have to ditch this car. I'm just glad she had a full tank of gas before I left. Currently I am two states west of Chicago and I couldn't be happier. I just can't believe I'm really doing this, I'm leaving.

Knowing that I had to get rid of this car, I pull into the parking lot at a bar. I park the car and leave the keys in the ignition. I grab my duffle bag before getting out. I see a red mini cooper, my favorite car. And I got extremely lucky, all I had to do was break into the car. The keys were sitting right there in the driver's seat. Looks like someone had planned on getting really drunk tonight. I quickly throw my duffle bag in the back seat and get in. I start the car and once again I just drive away.

About a hundred miles later

Before I had gotten back on the freeway, I had stopped at a dollar store to pick up a small travel pillow and a blanket. I am now at a rest stop just off the freeway. I climb into the back seat and push my duffle bag to the floor of the car. I grab my pillow and blanket before getting comfortable in the back seat. After about ten minutes I finally drift off into the wonderful oblivion called sleep.

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Ashley Green as Elizabeth Wilson

Sandra Bullock as Lauren Wilson

Ashley Beson as Ava Harris

Logan Lerman as Luke Brown

Elizabeth's outfit

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