Ruth-less

In the morning my knuckles hurt and I feel gross like I just killed someone gross I didn't kill him...at least I don't think I did I grabbed my phone. There's a message from Faith

"This is NOT GOOD, THIS IS YOUR LABEL!!!" she sends me a video there's text on it it says Ruth-Less,Ruth's violent outbreak my mom comes stomping into my room

"thank you little shit" she tosses a magazine on my desk. There's a photo with the teacher escorting me to the office but zoomed in on me

"oh yay i've finally destroyed your image 'Kris' so what are you gonna do, kill me?"

"its mom to you-" I cut her off

"not anymore because I wish you were never my mom" she stands there silent for a minute or so

"what i'm going to do to you is worse than killing you- your going to live with your father I have had up to here and you don't respect me you don't listen to me you-you- pack your shit" she slams the door i'm not going to my fathers place I don't know much about him except he's a drunk so I do as she tells me to do I pack my most important stuff to me which is; a lighter,blanket,phone,clothing and a jar of cigarettes I go to climb out the window but the ladders gone 'shit she removed it' I creep down the stairs quietly she's in the living room I hope she won't see me and dash to the door but she seen me

"HEY GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!" I don't turn back I run to the old car dealership and jump the river into the woods I run until I reach a tunnel then slip into the tunnel which is hard to do since the tunnel entrance is pretty small once i'm in I send a message to Zuri with the simple words

"it's over" I light my lighter there's an old lantern so I light it the tunnel becomes immediately brighter me and Faith would come here and vent our feelings out on the tunnel walls there is so much art on the tunnel I walk down the tunnel till it ends it's a pretty deep tunnel the end of the tunnel say 'it's not the end if you keep walkin' boy does that ever feel true now 'wonder how long I could stay here without being found I wanna bet on a week' when I check my phone there are many confused messages from Zuri

'What's that mean?'

'Is everything ok?'

'Ruth, what are you going to do!!'

'RUTH ANSWER ME BACK SO I KNOW YOUR OK!' Does she really think I'm going to hurt myself? Wow, my phone battery is at 25% so I have to use it sparingly for now I put my phone away and passe back and forth it seems to cut a six hours out of the day and painting took four or so hour out its six twenty-one when I check my phone again 'just a few more hours then i'll be reported missing' I think to myself just so I don't forget what the outside world looks like I pop out the tunnel and look around the woods a bit it's beautiful in the dark with the stars shining down then I remember Zuri and what she had said about the stars and the sky I miss her

'what am I doing' suddenly I hear voices shouting my name I hear a mix of names and voices "Ruth,Rulin,Ru" and almost every other nickname I have I jump up on top of the tunnel to see if I can see anything and I can a bunch of flashlights and people looking for me 'oh come on it's not like its special i'm "famous" so of course people are going to look for me' I go back in the tunnel where I stay awake most for the rest of the night I even light a cigarette just to pass the night by morning an amber alert has been sent out

'18 year old teen girl missing 5'3, green eyes, purple and black hair, white last seen wearing a black hood with angel wings and black jeans she live in the area of californian city fresno and has had experience of leaving the city, if seen call this number' and there it is my glorious missing photo the photo happens to be my school photo so it sucks there's another alert below it 'dangerous teen in the area suspect was last seen wearing a black angel hoodie and black ripped jeans' great now i'm a criminal better change my clothes now that they know what i'm wearing I can't go anywhere unless I change I pull a pink hoodie and skinny jeans out from my bag probably the worst outfit I actually owned I but my hood up and head back to town I keep my head low and pocket a few things like food what I can't go up to the cashier they'll notice me duh one of the cashiers did notice me thought it was a girl I knew in 2th grade we got 'married' during recess and divorced by lunch time she called me over