Hideaway

Chapter |4|

(Outfit on the top)

Chapter |4|

I could hear the bustling outside my door early in the morning. The shrieks of Alicia regarding her suitcases echoed through the hall but I kept on laying on my bed, in my precious duvet and snuggled into the softness of the mattress.

Dad didn't bother to show his face after that. Though, I was glad that he understood what I felt, a tiny little part of me wanted him to keep trying to win me. Just because I had verbally banished him from my life, it wasn't easy to totally throw him away from my mind. After all, he'd been a part of my life for good eighteen years.

The only plus point I got out of this was space and avoiding Alicia and her mother.

Thank God I didn't have to bear their taunts.

Now since I had told dad that I was going to drive by myself, I relaxed and enjoyed the feeling of turning a year older. A birthday was supposed to be full of happy surprises given to you by your family. But since I didn't have one, I wasn't going to complain.

A big smile was pasted on my face as I enjoyed the cool temperature of the room and hugged Joe, my big brown teddy.

I didn't realise I dozed off until I was woken up two hours later by my blaring alarm clock that read 9:00 in big black letters.

Groggily, I got up and pushed my duvet aside. I nearly fell down since my thigh belts had slipped down. Pulling them off, I breathed a sigh of relief as it's weight came off. Along with it, I pulled my stomach belt off too.

Taking some clothes, I hopped into shower and washed my caramel-brown hair.

After scrubbing myself, I got out of the shower, wrapped a towel around myself and examined myself in the mirror.

The towel hugged me tightly, showing off the body I'd gotten due to my work out sessions.

With that, an idea struck me. Since I was going alone to Silver Valley, I could wear my belts after I reached there. A small part of me nudged my mind, urging me to discard these belts forever but I knew no matter how tempting this idea was, I couldn't do that until I was totally out of this family's grasp. 

Even though I had told my father that he was out of my life, it wasn't the reality. He and his family had quite a hold on my future which I couldn't neglect.

Throwing that thought out of  my mind, I concentrated on the temporary happiness I was going to get when I actually got to be Skylar for the rest of the world, without the races.

It wasn't as if anyone was going to recognise me anyway.

The thought itself brought a huge grin on my face. I could be me for at least four hours, that too on my birthday.

With these happy thoughts, I exited the bathroom and went towards my cupboard.

There, in an unnoticed corner, lay my old clothes. I grabbed my light blue denim shorts and a cute white crop-top.

I sipped on the clothes and walked towards the mirror.

An ear-splitting grin was etched on my face as I saw my reflection. The shorts reached a little above my mid-thigh and showed off my toned legs. The crop top came down till my belly button, showing a bit of my equally toned stomach that I was proud of.

I curled my hair a bit, to make them fall in bouncy waves and applied a bit of mascara and my favourite Chapstick.

With that, I was ready.

I glanced around my room to see if I forgot something when I caught the sight of my messed up cupboard.

I don't know what came over me but I went up to it and grabbed a few of my old clothes, the ones that weren't so shabby and dumped them in the suitcase.