3 Weeks with Kate

Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Kate

Just shoot me. Please. Just have me run over. I don't care. I can't stand living here for another 24 days. I'll go insane, or worse I might kill someone. It's like hell, it has all the people I hate and instead of being able to ignore them I can't! I actually have to communicate with these imbosoles.

After I got out of Lucas's car I started walking. The only problem with that was I had no idea where I even was! I couldn't call Ella to ask for directions because she was at work, and always turned off her phone when she was working. I couldn't call Lucsas because that would mean I needed help from him, which I didn't. The only person in this god forsaken town that I could actually stand was out of town. Molly, my aunt, was in New York doing a book signing.

God, why couldn't my plane just crashed on the way here. Or a random shooter just happened to kill me in the airport? I couldn't pick which was worse. Being in Danville (a horribly small town with nothing to do), having to spend time with Ella (my mother who loved to criticize me on everything I did), or having to deal with Lucas (my ex-best friend who was the biggest pain I'm my ass).

The wort part of Danville: when I walked in the streets everyone that drove by gave me death stares. Yep death stares. I was a stranger. I didnt belong. I was an outsider here. Small towns and their small minded mantalities. I remember Lucas telling me once when he moved here how he took a class at the community center and the teacher completely ignored him, even when he needed help.

I was so entrawled in my own thoughts that I barely noticed that a red pick up was pulling off to the curb right next to me! Usually I'm to paranoid to ever get that close to an unfamiliar car. When the pick up had come to a stop a boy, about my age with short auburn hair, started to roll down a window.

"Hey! I'm Josh, I saw you at the community center earlier today. Do you need a ride?" Josh stated sweetly with genuin smile. Now under normal circumstances, when I'm not frustrated, sweety, and on the verge of heat stork I would never accept rides from strangers.

"Yea actually that would be great!" I exclaimed ready to get out of the heat and into a air conditioned car.

"Where to community center girl?" Josh asked with a huge grin on his face as I tied my hair up. Josh started to pull away from the curb on on the desolated street. His car wasn't old, but it wasn't new either. A 2004 maybe?

"Well first off my names Kate." I stated "And I'm not quite sure where I'm going."

Josh did a double take, drifting into the other lane, just to see if I was serious.

"I'm being serious!" I tittered to myself "I have no idea where I'm going!" Josh couldn't help but laugh.

"How could you not know?" Josh asked with the utmost curiosity. Glancing at me with every chance he got, with a huge smirk.

"Well I'm not from here, and I have an awful sense of direction!" I stated in a matter of fact way. Trying to keep my poker face on, but failing miserably. I wasn't much of a somber person anyway.

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Josh an I drove around aimlessly in his red Chevy pick up for about an hour. We drove by the library, it was a small two story building made entirely of beautiful gray stone slabs. We drove by an abandoned school. Josh told me it was a catholic high school that burned down but wasn't rebuilt because there wasn't enough kids to be enrolled in it . We drove by Geisinger, the local hospital that my mother worked at. We drove by Memorial Park, a memorial ground for the troops that have died on wars. We drove around the 1.6 square miles at least 4 times.