𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 𝟷𝟶 - ʟᴀᴍ

I keep running as the tears pour down my face, fighting through the branches and the urge to just collapse on the floor. Of course Dylan didn't have true intentions, when does she ever want to apologize?

She just wanted to watch me go up in flames. I guess I deserve it after forcing my brother to break up with her, so she did the same back to me.

I run for what feels like ten minutes without stopping, I can feel my lungs gradually letting in less and less air causing my vision to occasionally blur. As I slow down to catch a breath I just remember the look on everyone's faces and pick up acceleration.

The moon light lit my path as I sprinted under and over fallen trees, that was until I saw a break in the tree line.

I get to the aperture, there's a highway but a fence going around preventing me from being able to pass, I begin to climb up but I realize it leads, down way down, at the least twenty to thirty feet onto a concrete slope leading into a shallow river.

If I'm really going to run away where am I going to go? With what money? What transportation? I get off the fence and catch my breath.

I look back towards the way I came from.

"If I go back I'll have nobody, besides my family that is. Hell their probably won't want me scuffing up their image and I know Koa needs a good reputation for him to succeed. I'll probably be shunned and ridiculed until I graduate. Actually knowing the way my town holds grudges it'll last probably for the rest of my meritless life."

I look at the highway full of passing cars and trucks.

"If I leave. I'll have to fend for myself with not even a dollar to my name. No direction, no cellphone. Nothing, hell I'll probably be dead within a week seeing the way the world is now."

I look both ways trying to decide which fate I'd rather endure but both sound equally as terrible. I climb the wobbly fence again and sit at the top.

I shiver as a cold gust of wind passes, I look at the woods once more before taking a deep breath.

I wipe my cold tears that ran down my cheek and smiled.

"Maybe in another lifetime I can be the prefect sister, girlfriend or daughter. But there's no changing this one."

I close my eyes and let my body weight take me off the side of the fence sending me plumbing several feet to the ground.

It was better this way anyway.