Escaping Darkness

A Day About

        We entered the 7/11, the group excited for free slushies in Alyssa's dime. I don't know how excited everyone else was, but I am ecstatic. I love getting slushies! Especially with my new girlfriend~.

        Speaking of her, I took a peek over, oh my god she's so fucking cute! Her hair is a mess though, I should drag her home and brush it for her. Oooh! Maybe I can braid it! I can play dress-up with her! I want to put her in my dresses!

       No no no, I can't do that, not yet. I don't even know if she likes dresses! I mean, I have cute shorts for her too...

        I was shaken from my Hope induced trance by Alyssa shoving a medium slushie cup in my hand, her phone in her other hand with the calculator app open on it.

        "Heh, thanks!" She smiled and went back to adding up prices on her phone. Maybe I should pay for some of it, I can do mine and Hope's! Speaking of her, I turned and looked at her, She was looking at the flavors, more concentration on her face than I've ever seen. I wanna kiss her so badly...

        I should get my slushie, I should just get my slushie. I put my cup under the cherry one first and screamed. It got on my hand! That's not in my cup! Oh well, lick. I saw Hope give me a look from next to me, and had to try not to laugh. If you don't lick it you waste it!

       I saw Clover and Dabbson sticking their tongues out at each other as I filled the other half of my cup up with Coke flavored slush, it makes it taste like Cherry Coke, I love Cherry Coke, it's my favorite drink ever. Hope gave me another weird look as she drank hers, also Coke slush. She must have done with it while I was busy with my cherry madness.

        We finally made it up to the counter, laughing over something stupid Dabbson said when the man at the counter cleared his throat. We all looked up and I felt Hope go rigid, is she ok? "Well well well, look what little gremlin is ditching school again!" I looked at Hope as she hid behind me, I'm starting not to like this guy. The man did usual worker stuff, rung Alyssa up and we were all about to go on our way when he was suddenly grabbed by the man. She went pale as he pushed her away. What a dick!

        When we got outside, I let a breath out I didn't know I was holding in. I turned to look at Hope, she wasn't doing so good. She was pale and shaking, so much so she dropped her slushie. Alyssa caught it and sighed, giving Hope a worried look. She reached for it but Alyssa moved it back, probably worried she'd drop it again.

        "What did he say to you?" Alyssa asked worriedly, and rightfully so. She didn't answer, she just started crying. I gently put my hand on her shoulder, and my heart dropped when she looked at me. She had a look of pure terror on her face. Yeah, there's no way in hell she's going home tonight.

        I held her close, whispering all I could to try and make her feel better, I don't think any of it did. I just picked her tiny body up and everyone seemed to get it. Hope's going to feel bad about ruining the mood later, I know it, but that's for later. Dabbson just grabbed my slushie from me and we kept walking, planning on what to do for the rest of the day.

       "Oh, I know! Alyssa let's bring them over to our house! We haven't had people over in forever!" Clover seemed to give her the biggest puppy eyes ever. If I was bi I'd so kiss him just cause I could. Alyssa thought to herself while we were walking aimlessly, taking occasional drinks from her slushie as we went.

        "Alright, mom isn't home anyway." Clover cheered, grabbed Dabbson's arm, and started dragging him along. I sighed and kept walking, Hope out cold in my arms.

        "Let's move her onto your back, it'll look less weird."

        "Ah, true." After moving Hope's limbs around awkwardly we managed to get her on my back, Dabbson having an evil smirk on his face for reasons I really don't want to know.

        We continued the walk through town, heading to Clover's and Alyssa's as we went. The sun seemed to beat down on us as we went, talking about everything and nothing as we went about our way. Eventually, Hope woke up, scaring the shit out of me as she slid off my back.

        "AAAH!" I jumped back as her feet hit the ground, making us both stumble a little. Hopes freaked out more than I did at my scream, her eyes blown wide. I quickly hugged her, it seemed to calm her down. I felt her open her mouth, probably to apologize, only to feel something cold spooking us both.

        "Here, you dropped your slushie." Alyssa set it on my shoulder. That's just cruel. I felt Hope grab it as she moved back, whispering a quiet "thank you" before drinking the probably melted drink. We started moving again, Hope's hand in mine as we walked, laughing and talking, Hope and Dabbson throwing quips at each other for a good chunk of the trip. I couldn't help laughing at it.

        "At least I'm not named after a long-dead meme." Clover bent over at that one, that was funny.

        "Hey! I'm not the one named after a false proverb!" God, they're like siblings. It's hilarious watching them in the wild. It's like a modern-day documentary without the sexy announcer voice.

        We kept on keeping on, the sun high in the sky, telling us the day was still young. Minus the mishap at 7/11, it was going to be a good day.

Hey, long time no see! It's the author, hopefulbunnieZ! I'm sorry it took me over a year to update, life is strange. Thank you all for the endless support on my seemingly endless absence. I hope I can actually get to updating this regularly like a normal person but ya now I'm awful at that! Until then I have created a discord server so I have no more excuses for not updating! Until then thank you for reading and hope you like this and my few other works I will try to work on! https://discord.gg/tCTjKTNv3R

Until then, with love, hopefulbunnieZ