Everything is Better in the Dark

Chapter One: Flight Paths

I know I should go to bed. My kill/death ratio is a good example of that. I can't go to sleep though. If I go to sleep now the time will pass by quicker, and I will be that much closer to leaving. I never really wanted to leave, but when you're young you have no voice. So here I am, midnight on a Monday, playing League of Legends. I am still hoping maybe somehow the bank will take back their loan, maybe then we can stay here. Sometime around 3 the power gets shut off, and this becomes all the more real. I angrily slam my laptop shut and decide to lay down. I scream into my pillow until my throat is as raw as my heart. I don't exactly know when I fell asleep, but I was awoken from my restless slumber by my father's screaming. We have to catch our plane at 10:15 and its already 7:30. Dad is livid and he is throwing what little I have left into my carry-on. I still cannot feel my throat and I am unable to speak. I put on my favorite hoodie, the one with the panda hood and chains. I don my purple Chuck-Taylors and my old, checkered skinny jeans. I crawl into the back seat of the car. I don't even want to look at my dad right now, breathing the same air as him is bad enough.

Customs was Hell and a half. Once we finally got on the plane I took my seat. Father started spouting some stuff about how this new house will be better, and how things will be different. He says once we are there I am going to start having to treat him with more respect. "I am your father. You make damn sure you start treating me like it, -" he says. That is all I can hear before I shove my ear-buds in. I quickly build a barrier between us out of the pillows. That is the end of the conversation. For the next nine hours I drift in and out of sleep. When we land Kerli is screaming in my ears. Walking on Air. I chuckle to myself, and whatever deity may be listening. The flight attendant motions for us to grab our things and we slowly waddle off the plane. Jet-lagged and ripe from sitting still for so long. Our family quickly finds us and we pile into the van.

For the entire ride home all I can see is trees and rocks. I start to wonder if we are just trapped on a movie set or something. I realize something quickly. I fucking hate this place.