Not My Life

Chapter 2

A/N Sorry for the late update.  (Cringes) I was sick... and I have cousins over. Basically, no free time or privacy.

And the next few chapters will be of this size... short, basically.

 Enjoy!!!!

Scarlett's POV

The waves crashed into me, toppling me of balance. My rational side knew that if I proceeded I would soon meet my end , but I couldn't stop because she was just off the shore, as beautiful  as ever. Her arms widened , beckoning me to come and hug her. She was perched on top of a rock, her legs swaying in the water and she looked at me anticipatingly with a smile on her face. But the next minute, a look of horror took over  her face. The rational part of my brain was going crazy now...

Don't kill yourself over this.

She's just an illusion.

Probably, just a dream.

STOP!!!!

But I ignored the voices, I needed my mom now, I swam faster than I ever had before. But as I reached her and grabbed her hand to pull myself up onto the rock, she winced at the contact and pulled her hand out of mine.

And I toppled into the ocean again.

"You silly girl, don't do that again, your dad needs you!" she said, running her hand through her hair in frustration." I'm dead, Scar, get over it. " She leaped into the ocean and the deathly waves swallowed her...again.

I woke up sweating and panting.

Great. Yet another dream, yet another ending.

I was 12 when I lost my mom. It had been 3 years since her water bike crashed into rocks. Failed brake.

Dad attempted to sue the company, but it manipulated evidence and weaseled it's way out of it.

But, in another year, he already replaced mom with Linda.

And if it wasn't already obvious, step- mum's a bitch.

I glanced at my iPhone.

8:15 am.

Fuck my life.

I deprived myself of my blanket's warmth by tearing it off me and sat up. But I was back in the blanket the moment chilly winter air hit my skin.

Groaning in frustration , I decided not to go to school today.

What about Amber? My subconscious nagged.

I should call her. As my hand reached for the phone, Linda stepped into my room,flinging open the door.

"Why aren't you out of bed yet?" she shouted.

I rolled my eyes. "Cause I'm not going to school."

"What do you mean you're not going to school? You're so useless anyway, your grades are terrible and your friends obnoxious. School is the only sane thing you have going on for you! Go to..."

"You're right! School is the only sane thing I have going on for me, cause you definitely aren't sane. " I interrupted her.

"Don't you have a life? Just go around being a pompous bitch for all I care. Leave me alone! Ruin somebody else's day!"

"George!!!" she screamed.

"Oh yeah, and you can go suck up to my dad as well. Convince him how much of a useless retard I am! Say whatever you want to! I don't care! Just get the hell out of my room!"

Well, that didn't go well. Because the next minute , Dad stormed into my room and started shouting at me.

And that hurt.

After listening him go on and on about how pathetic I am , I finally stomped into the shower and locked myself out for an hour , crying.

Finally, I wiped my tears and stepped out of the bathroom and started to pack everything I needed for a day off.

I need this.

Here's to a crazy day.

You're homeless today , go hobo.