Cast Out

Chapter 1

Why are they always after me? They never wonder how I feel. This is
how I felt every day on the bus ride home from school. And I remember vividly the last
drive I took on that bus. Before my father abandoned me, before I met Ambrose, before
I met my friends. I was quietly sitting in my seat like every other day, the kids behind me
joking and being loud. That's when I heard a yell behind me saying catch and I turned
around and a football hit me in the face. I felt the sting in my nose as I heard all of the
kids laughing at me. That was the moment I had enough. I asked calmly who had
thrown the ball. All of the girls pointed to a boy in the back. I think his name was ashton.
He was one of the football playersAbout 6 ft tall if we were standing you would have
stood far above me but because he was sitting I stared down at him and in a moment of
rage I punched him in the face. The bus driver stopped the bus and gave me a red slip.
And sat me down In the front seat of the bus as he reached my bus stop he looked at
me and said
I'm very disappointed in you Alice. I know you're better than this. Then dropped
me off at my bus stop.
I walked down the street to my house knowing that they had already
called my dad. He hated me. I was still a girl in his eyes. He didn't want to
believe that his little girl Alice was now his son river. He was constantly
blaming me for everything that went wrong. He wasn't always this way but after the death of my mother It's like he couldn't stand the sight of me. I
knew my stepmom Stephanie would try and defend me. I didn't know much
about her or why she moved to Hannibal but she was nice to me.
When I reached the doorway of the pit of hell, A.K.A my house, I took
a deep breath and knocked on the door. Stephanie opened it. She's got a
kind look to her: a little shorter than me with short black hair today she was
in a blue sweater and blue jeans. When I was in the house I set down my
stuff by the door.
We had a nice looking house. It was A large White House with the
black inlays on the porch. to anyone from the outside. We looked like a
perfect family. But I know what went on in this house. I climbed up the stairs
to my bedroom. It seemed to me to be a pretty normal room. My dad
thought it was the worst. I had a set of black pillow sheets and some anime
posters which I guess makes me a social reject.At least according to my
dad. I heard a knock on my door. I opened it to find my step mom with a
panicked look on her face. She ran into my room and quickly shut the door.
Then she looked at me and whispered.
“You dad is Furious with you and when I tried to defend you he tried to hit
me!”
“What!” I yelled flabbergasted I think my dad was a bad person but I
never thought he would try and hit her At that moment I had started
pounding on the door
“He's after me and you! watch out! She cried out to me
you should leave!”
I thought to myself if I should jump out the window but I could not
leave Stephanie to take my punishment! I heard a loud thud. My dad was
trying to break down my door. Then it went silent. I sat there hoping it was ut then I heard a click and my door slowly opened. And my father
walked in. He was a clean looking man reminiscent of overhaul from My
Hero Academia but he was still taller and stronger than me.
He went after Stephanie and right before he could touch her I It's
filled with Feeling of pure rage and I did something that I never
thought I would be able to do. I punched him. He stumbled back and
when he regained his footing he looked at me. His eye burned a hole
in me. Never I looked at him I Was filled with pure Terror He launched
himself towards me. I barely dodged but as I turned he grabbed the
back of my shirt. He pulled me back. He said
“When I let go of you you're going to pack some clothes and
leave my house. You no longer belong to me scum ''.
Then he dropped me to the ground and walked out of the room
Grabbing Stephanie on his way out pulling her roughly by her arm. I
grabbed one of my old backpacks and packed some of my clothes
and I walked out of the house. He didn't even look at me as I left. I
started to make my way towards the woods. It was a good mile but I
thought the woods would be the safest place for me to stay because if
the police found me dad would say I was a runaway and I'd be sent to
juvie and then whenever I got home the same thing would happen
again. I needed to stay out of the sight of everybody.
it started to get dark on my way to the woods. I felt drops of
water hit my face so I pulled the umbrella from the side of my
backpack out. I didn't know what I was going to do. I had no friends and no other family. So I continued walking listening to The Raindrops
hitting the umbrella and thinking to myself.
The only family I had was my mother, my dad and my grandpa.
My mother's gone. My grandpa was the reason. luckily my
grandfather's in jail the things he did to me were horrible and my
mother confronted him about it. The next Day he got rid of her
because he had a Public Image to keep up.He was a veteran went to
church every Sunday and was truly loved by the community people
used to bring him cookies when he was sick.Little did they know he
was sick in a different way he was pretty Clueless He didn't realize I
saw everything that happened. So I called the police.
ever since my mother passed away my father always blamed
me for it as if somehow it were my fault. When I was a little kid I had
no control, I couldn't understand what was going on, I didn't know
what was happening. Reminiscing on these things always upset me.
I finally reached the crest of the Woods. The rain had started to
slow down and I started to set up camp. Everything was wet so I
couldn't start a fire. It was cold and the ground was soaked so I took a
blanket out for my bag and laid it on the driest part of the ground I
could find. just a little bit into the woods so I could still see the road but
I would be Obscured from the eyes of anyone driving by, and trying to
get a little sleep my mind was racing. I was worried about what
happened to Stephanie after I left. I could not focus on that right then I'm just a 14 year old kid. I was cast out by my family. Why me,
why is this my life, how can I just get a happy family.