two doors down

nightime bikerides

"woahhh that's so many y/n. you must be amazing" mattie laughed stacking my awards on my window sill.

i didn't have the heart to tell him i didn't want them up so i let him do it before he sat back down on my bed.

"can i watch micky mouse clubhouse on your laptop?" he questioned timidly.

"sure, it's an amazing show" i opened it on my laptop logging into the disney account. it wasn't mine but i had an account on monica's family's.

i gave him the laptop and moved to my desk to start drawing again.  i wanted to go on a walk or ride or something to clear my mind. but i knew i wouldn't be able to until i made dinner for the animals in the lounge room aka our parents.

an email came through on my laptop and mattie read it out to me. "it's from miss goncha it's a news letter, do you need to see it?" i shook my head and he went back to his show.

"hey mattie, can i draw you?" i asked spinning around in my desk chair.

"OOO YES PLEASE! can i be uhh spider-man and like shoot webs pew pew" he seemed so exited i agreed.

i put earbuds in and started drawing looking back at the bit every now and again for reference.

half an hour later.

"OI BRAT, COME MAKE MY DINNER" my father shouted. i got up instantly knowing he's drunk and in one of his moods so i better do as he said.

"mattie stay here" i told him going out the hall to the kitchen.

without even asking i started making him a curry of some sort using whatever i could find. i saw my dad and his wife absolutely making out on the couch and i scrunched up my face not daring to look up at them again.

"fuck" i said as i sliced the top of my pinky finger off. not the whole thing but enough it was flat and bleeding a shit ton.

i grabbed a paper towel beside me wrapping it around my finger tightly but continuing to work through the pain.

after a couple minutes it sill hadn't stopped bleeding and i had to swap the paper towel chucking the old one in the bin.

i chucked the veggies in to steam and started cooking some chicken breast as a protein also putting on some rice.

30 minutes later i was serving everything up and putting aside the left overs in containers. "dinner" i announced walking their plates to the lounge room and going back to the kitchen to clean it.

by the end it had been an hour since i left my room so i went back and found mattie almost asleep on my bed. it was only 8pm but i guess that's bed time for a 7 year old.

"do you want some dinner buddy, then you can sleep in my room if you'd like" he groggily got up and i passed him a small bowl of rice chicken and veggies. i didn't know if he ate curry so i just left some aside before i added the sauce.

he finished the food and i just gave him one of my shirts to change into as he didn't want to sleep in his "day" clothes but he didn't want to go get his pjs. so he wore a ac/dc shirt of mine to bed.

"goodnight mattie, i'll be back in a couple hours" i informed grabbing my shoes phone and earphones.

"where are you going it's so late" he inquired.

"just out. i'll be okay, just go to sleep" i assured him. he didn't think to much off it and fell asleep quickly.

i put on my shoes and left my room. the others were already passed out on the couch again so i simply left turning the front light on for when i get home.

i grab my bike from the side of the house and start to ride out of the street with no destination in mind.

a lot of people had started to turn the house lights off and there was next to no cars around. a few people on walks with dogs but very little.

i passed a group of teens smoking weed under a bridge. they offered me some but i passed.

i road under a lot of bridges since our town was full of them and went through alot of tunnels. i thought about jumping the school gate to get a drink from the bubbler but decided i didn't have the energy for that. the fences were like 7 feet tall too.

i was riding in the middle of some road just enjoying the peace when a massive truck honked its horn behind me.

it scared me shitless so much so i veered left and fell off the road into some ditch.

i rolled down it on grass grazing my entire body. i knocked my head on something hard and everything went black.

when i woke up my head was spinning. and the outsides of my vision was spotty. i got up and almost fell over again.

dizzily i grabbed my bike and leant on it for support deciding to take a short cut through the field here to get home. i grabbed my phone out of my pocket to check the time. it was only 7 am but i figured it would take me an hour or so to walk home. maybe longer because of my head.

as i was walking i tripped on a rock again and tripped forward landing in the dirt. after lying there for a second groaning in pain i look behind me to see what i tripped on it was a sprinkler that just popped up meaning i had 10 seconds to get out of the splash zone.

obviously i couldn't move that fast so i ended up getting soaked. i took a deep breath annoyed and decided to just go to school early since it was closer and i had a change of clothes in my locker.

it felt like i had been walking for ages my legs were so sore but eventually i saw the school.  and there was more kids then i thought there would be.

i pulled out my phone again and saw it was 82o. meaning i was walking for almost an hour and a half.

my clothes were more dry now so i didn't think i looked that weird walking into the school but everyone was staring at me.

i got to my locker and pulled out the small bag i had for a change of clothes. and started to walk to the bathrooms when i was stopped by someone.

i look up to see monica looking at me concerned. "what the hell happened" she asks

"what do you mean. i mean yeah i got soaked by a sprinkler but why do you look so concerned?" i asked confused. did i have dirt all over me too or something.

"uh your head is bleeding down the side of your face. you have grazes and dirt all over you" she explained wanting answers.

"oh, i fell off my bike last night it's fine" i said starting to walk to the bathrooms again. she followed me in locking the door behind us.

"last night? y/n did you go home after this" she asks more questions. god it my head hurt from all the talking.

"um no i must've fallen asleep somewhere" i shrugged like it was no big deal. she glared at me and that told me she didn't think the same.

"okay so what happened last night. the whole story" she asked as i turned around to get changed.

"well i got home talked to mattie for a bit cooked dinner for them all then went for a bike ride to clear my head. i was on a road, there was a truck it honked i went off the road, hit my head and woke up in the morning i'm fine" i explained slipping a hoodie on over my outfit and going over to the sink.

monica told me how dangerous that was and that i need to stay on quiet roads and call her if anything happens.

i nodded along not really paying attention as i grabbed a wet paper towel to wipe all the blood and grime off of me.

"here give me that"