-Gateway To Escape- *ON HOLD*

CHAPTER-1

Beep! Beep! Beep! Be-
"Stupid alarm clock.." I mumble.
It was cold this morning, colder than usual. Yawning I toss my duvet off my legs exposing my short, tan legs.
Im about.. hmm 4'6 feet at least, I haven't measured myself in ages.
Ugh, why are we so short?! I hate looking up to people. Literally.
"BRIAR?!! ARE YOU AWAKE?!" Mom yells so loud you could hear here from a mile away.
Rubbing my head a little to get out of my thoughts, i clear my throat and yell back.
"Yes mother! I am unfortunately awake!" I sigh.
"What?! Briar?!" She yells again.
I really need to get this women a hearing aid..
"I said yes!" I stood up opening my room door so she can hear better.
"Stop yelling young lady." Mom pops up at the bottom of the stairs that turn leading to my room. "Schools out today. It's snowing like crazy!" She says walking back downstairs.
I feel my face morph into this 'Duh fuck' face when she says this.
I need a shower..
"Great idea." I mumble to myself.
Yes I talk to myself.
Yes I know I'm crazy don't remind me.
No I don't care.
Yes the exit is right there..
Waddling over to my closet, I decide I'm not doing anything today. So I take out a blue and white wool knit sweater along with some black skinny jeans with of course, a new pair of undergarments and my towel.
I step into the bathroom right next to my room and set my clothes on the toilet seat and my towel on the towel rack.
Obviously..
I turn on the water and get the perfect temperature and switch the setting thing to the shower.
I strip and carefully step in the shower letting the water warm me up.
I never want to leave.
But sooner or later I have to, being that the water is getting way to hot for my liking.
I quickly wash my hair and my bod, rinsing out all the soap.
Mmm.. apples..I think..
With that thought I begin to think about apples while getting dressed.
why are apples green and different shades of red and yellow? Why not pink? Or orange?
"Well duh stupid, oranges are orange so apples can't be orange." I say to myself quietly.
Well no one asked the oranges it be orange. Why are they orange though? And how are they already cut up into little slices when i peel them?
Why do some oranges have seeds while others don't?..

So many questions.
Such little time.
After getting fully dressed and drying my hair completely, I walk downstairs to find my mom.
No where in sight.
You see what in did there right? Right? No. okay.
There was only a note. Of course.
'Briar,
I left you 25$ to get some food. I left to go see Chrissy, she's at the airport so I went to go see her.
You was in the shower very long or else I would've just told you.
Be safe.
-Mom'
Chrissy by the way, is my moms 'lover'? I guess you can call her.
Yes her. My mom's gay OMG!
Yeah no big deal.
I think I'd just be better to save the 25$ my mother gave me, this is a rare thing for me to do by the way. I can't save money for shit.
I walk over to the window and pull back the curtain, it's snowing like there's no tomorrow. Moms gonna be gone for a while then.
Yay!
Bored, I walk around the house looking for something to keep me occupied.
When I reach my room I notice my phone lite up.
'1 new missed call from Matt🐫'
Matt is my best friend. I've known him for at least two years now from school and him living nearby.
How cliché I know shut up.
I laugh at the camel emoji I put next to his name.
I redial him to see what he wanted. He had only called two minutes.
"Hey Bri." He answered on second ring.
"Hi Matt, what's up?"
"You called." He said and I could hear the smile in his voice.
"Technically you called me first." I mentally roll my eyes.
"I know. I wanted to ask if your busy today, being there's no school today I don't wanna be bored alone." He laughs a little.
"Sure. Come over. My mom left for a while to go see Chrissy so it's just me." I say.
Yeah he's met Chrissy too.
"Okay cool. I'll be over in 20, see you soon ugly." I know he was joking.
I laugh, "see yah dickhead."
"Dickhead eh, ok we'll see about that. Bye."
"Bye." I laugh.
He isn't gonna do anything.
Within 17 minutes Matt's knocking on the door.
Being the sarcastic person i ask 'who is it.?'
"Santa!" He says, "Ho ho hoe!"
"Oh yay Santa!" I cheer opening the door. "hey! Your not Santa, your skinny."
"What can I say, weight watchers work." He smiles taking off his coat.
I laugh closing the door.
"Where's my present?" I ask crossing my arms.
Still playing along Matt hugs me wrapping both arms around my back.
"There you go!" He laughs walking into the kitchen.
We talk randomly and I share my previous thought about apples and oranges and colors with him, and he totally agrees.
"How's your violin thing working out?" Matt now takes a seat on the couch.
"Good. I've been practicing."
"Can I hear some? It's fine if your not comfortable I won't force you into anything."
He's so sweet.
But I'm fine with letting people listen to me play, especially Matt, I like his opinions.
I nod and jog upstairs to my room and open my closet and search in the back, finding its case I gently pull it out along with a box that sits on the too shelf of my closet that holds the violins bow.
Walking carefully downstairs I make my way back to matt.
"Jesus, that things as big as you!" He mocked me and my height.
"Dickhead" I mumble but I'm sure he heard me.
I unzip the violin from its case and take the now out its box using this cloth to wipe it down.
Blushing a little i place the violin up to my chin, resting it on the chin piece.
I bring up my right arm, holding the bow and slowly begin to play 'Avè Maria'.
The only song in my head at the moment.
The music sheet alive in my head i play over every note, knowing when to stop and how slow to go.
The vibrations of the strings piercing through me when ever my hand shakes nervously causing me to blush which also makes Matt smile.
Finishing up the last part with one swift movement I lift up my chin and remove the violin from its place.
Matt stands and claps, assuring I did a good job.
He walks closer to me and i place my instrument down on the table next to me expecting one of his hugs.
And that's what I got.
"You did wonderful Bri," His voice was muffled slightly since he had to bend down in order to give me a proper hug so his head was kinda in my neck.
"Thanks." I said simply smiling.
"You smell good." Matt pulls away amused.
Wondering exactly what I smell like I turn my head and sniff my shoulder/hair.
It smelt like my Perfume, but it was mixed with the sent of my hair so it smelt even better.
I laugh and nod agreeing with him.
"Wanna watch a movie?" He asks.
"Yeah, you pick though." I say sitting on the couch.
I love how he just makes himself at home whenever he comes here, it tells me he's comfortable with me.
I guess.
"You want snacks or something?"
He turns his head to face me, "Just a water please."
"Such manners, I didn't know you had those." I giggle grabbing two waters from the fridge.
"What, Guy can't say please once and a while ?" He smiled taking his water, gulping half of it instantly.
"I didn't say that.. So what movie is this?" I sit on the couch playing with my toes.
"22 jump street. You've seen the first one right?" He raised an eyebrow sitting next to me.
"Yep."
He presses play on the controller to the Xbox.
No it's not mine so don't think about it, it's Chrissy's.
Once the movie starts I begin to giggle a little, I was thinking of the funny parts I had seen in the previews to this movie.
"It hasn't even started yet Bri." Matt looks at me weirdly.
"I know." this makes me laugh more.
I eventually quiet down and we watch the movie in silence, apart from my few awkward giggles.
By now Matt had finished his water. And i still had a fourth of mine, and I saw from the corner of my eye the way he would look at me and the water.
So just to tease, I opened my water and began to drink from it.
As I was putting the cap on the bottle, Matt snatched it out my hand.
I glared at him as he drank my water, i watched his Adam's apple bob up and down.
I wonder what its like to have one of those.. Would it tickle if you tired to? Do girls have one just smaller? What does it do? Why is it even there?
There goes my thinking again.
"You could've just asked for another bottle you know." I stated, watching as he threw the empty bottle at me.
"Yeah but I just wanted a sip." He smiled innocently.
"Yeah more like the whole thing!" I threw the bottle back at him and giggled when it bounced off his forehead.
"Whatever, watch the movie." He moved around a bit trying to get more comfortable i guess.
All I remember was the last bits of the movie, I remember my head resting against something but I'm not sure what, eh probably matts shoulder. I'm sure he wouldn't have minded.
With that i slipped into my peaceful sleep..