Lady Blue

The Map

By summer of 09 my parent's though it would be a good idea to send my brother, Travis and I to my god mothers house in Portland Oregon. The two of us together weren't a good pair. Iv'e been arrested three times and some how I still managed to stay in my private school, at least for now. But now summers here and instead of being at home in beautiful New York with the sun bright and hot I'm currently sitting in a local library trying to find a city map to this damp place.

"Excuse me miss do you happen to have a city map?" I asked the librarian with short blonde hair who was surround by a bunch of children who were very dirty by the way. She waved her hands in a hurry, whispering "There in the back" which then she proceed to turn me around and push me that direction. I looked around the area for about 5 minutes until I came around a big board with a glass shield protecting it and saw that it had pin points of every major building here, along with what I believe would be all the street names. Underneath the huge board I saw that there was an empty box area where I assumed where would have been the maps. Shit, guess i'll just have to get lost a couple times.

"Looking for this?" A deep voice spoke from behind me. I turned around to find a very tall boy with hair way too long for my liking and Ray Bands covering his eyes, leaning on the wall straight across from me.

"Well I don't know are you gonna give it to me?"

"I'll rip the map in half" he stated blankly.

"and why would you do that? does that make any sense to you?" I replied with a dumb expression on my face, letting my eyes trail down him to get a full view and that's when I noticed the lighter sticking out of his pocket.

"It doesn't have to make any sense, nothing ever really does anyways, I was just being nice."

"Well you don't seem like "the nice guy" so i'll trade you that map for half the pack of my cigarettes?" I said while pulling out my pack to show him. He let out a laugh, grabbing the pack from hands, stepping closer bringing it back to my back pocket.

"I don't smoke cigarettes , I use my lighter for other reasons. Keep them. Take the whole map"

"and will you ever tell me those reasons?" I whispered back.

"Maybe not, you gotta earn it"

"I'll eventually find out" then I grabbed the map out of his hands and made my way out of the library. As I was walking back to my god mother's house I made a quick stop to smoke behind an abandoned building, trying to ease my mind and find a way to get the hell out of here.