love you to the moon and back / Annie X garcello

Part 2

Garcello' s pov:

I was standing in the midst of it, the fire that once used to be towering over us, was now nearly smoke. I, a soon to be teenager, was crying, I've lost everything now... My Teddy bear, who had always helped me sleep, my badge collection,  my toys and.. My family.  I  was sitting in an ambulance, the paramedics running tests on me, but my mind was elsewhere, my family. " where's my family?" I wailed, all of a sudden, " I want my mommy", one of the paramedics, who was a lady told me that they have died from overexposure and they tried everything to revive them but they were dead. I then bawled my eyes out, while the lady hugged me " shh now everything is going to be OK" she said. How is it going to be OK? My whole family is dead and my house is burnt to embers, I thought as I blew my nose. After a few days, I was finally found a place in a foster home which I hated so much, but one thing that the paramedic had said to me that will stick to me is that I was so lucky to be the survivor, and that helped me move on even though it was so hard. I always think about my family, who are in heaven looking over me and guiding me. But I guess that I took a misguided turn a few years later, I was going into 3rd year, one of the most important years of high-school life. I had it all planned out, to make a study schedule and to eat healthy and exercise a lot but then  I did something bad. One day after school, I missed the bus because I got held back because my grades were falling and the teacher wanted to have a word with me. " really garcello? Is this what you expect to get when you are a student of roseivy high? We only facilitate students who give it their all, who put in a lot of work to come top, but is obvious that you want to throw it all away. So far you've missed 22 regersters, missed 12 maths classes, 4 history lessons, 9 geography lessons and 23 PE lessons, and that shows that you don't meet the expectations that we would expect from a roseivy student " said the headmistress, pacing back and fort in front of me. I looked down at the ground," I'm so sorry sir.. It won't happen again.. I eh... Just had a lot of things come up and I know I was meant to give you a note but I completely forgot, you see I have a lot of people living in my house so it's hard for us" I said. " well I'm ashamed of how much opportunity you have missed already, but you better get your act together or else you won't be suited to attend this school, you may leave now" he said, " thanks so much sir, I won't let you down" I said, grabbing my bag and rushing out the door. If I kept running, then I'll just make it in time for the  us, so I ran until I made it there, and the bus was there but the bad news was that it was leaving, so I ran after it and tried my best to get the drivers attention but no luck. I was left stranded there and it was a good journey home so I was lost, so I decided to just walk around the town. I didn't want to go home just yet so I wandered around in and out of streets, it was quite a big town. After a few hours I grew bored so I decided to find my way home, which wasn't easy, it was starting to get dark and the streets were empty. When I was walking down a street, an arm suddenly grabbed me and I was dragged into a side alleyway. I screamed but a hand was clapned over my mouth to muffle my noise, " hey calm down kid" said a voice, " I mean no harm, I just wanted you to try this" they said, it was a man in his twenties, " who are you and what do want for me" I said panicking. " that doesn't matter" he said, handing me something, it was a cigarette, " smoke it, trust me it's amazing" he said, " no thank you, I'm fine really, I better be going back, my mom will be mad" I said. "not so fast, have this" he said, glaring at me, I was making him mad. I shook my head, suddenly he had me in a head lock, " smoke this or I'll choke you" he said,  so I nodded my head. So I took the cigarette from him and inhaled, and then the most amazing feeling took place, " wow this is so good" I said, coughing. " see what did I tell you," he said, I grinned as I took another puff. Now a few years later I grew up addicted to this substance, and I just wish that I could go back in time and just try and run away.

A//N : there finally got this done, I just got my covid vaccine and I'm so tired