Dont Play Dumb. (In Progress)

The Start of Something New

I look out the car window as we pass by the line of red, yellow, & brown leaf trees. It's so close yet so far away. Its beautifully dangerous. This is the start of something new.

I'm passing all this by as my best friend, Daniel, drives and my closest friend, Caitlyn, sits in the back seat listening to music. We're leaving everything behind, to start over. A new start in a new home in a new place with new people.  

I'm looking off into the distance of this big harsh world from a truck window. I'm just a daydream away from having a life worth the living. Not much longer later my eyes begin to shut and I gave into the darkness.

I open my eyes to see a sign that read 'Welcome to California'. I had woken up for my dreamy nightmares just in time to see the sun rise and light up the gorgeous horizon. I feel the heavy weight lift off my shoulders knowing that I'm a long way from Mississippi and seeing the Cali Welcome sign made me realize how lucky I am to be gone and not be found yet.

You're probably wondering what she means by not found yet, well here's a little backstory on her Mississippi life......

"What the heck were you thinking!?!?" My mother raising hell at me while standing in the small, ugly, dirt colored kitchen. All I did was crept out. It's not like I killed anyone. I did have a few beers, which is illegal since I'm only 17 but it's not that big a deal. Though my mom would say otherwise.

She's 'Catholic' and she wants me to be like her. Instead, I'm what she calls a 'Satanist'. I wear black band T-shirts, black skinny jeans, and combat boots which are also black. My hair is long and blonde with black, blue, green, and purple highlights throughout it all. My mother hates me, my dad is a drunk, and I'm a high school drop out, since a few months ago.

"Hello! Alison Hope!?! Are you even listening to me?" My mother yelling at me still and snaps me out of my trans. "Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry. I messed up (I'm not even close to sorry). It won't happen again (lie). I'm going to go clean my room now like you told me to (Oh, look! Another lie!)." I walk out the room and up the short stairs to my bedroom and flop onto my bed. I stare at the band posters all over my ceiling (since my mother burned the old ones and she never checks the ceiling). Yes, she is insane.

I hear the screen door to the front porch open and heavy boots being dragged across the floor, which means my dad is home drunk. So I rush down stairs and walk him to the couch while my mother finishes dinner. My dad can be very abusive and or very sleepy when he's drunk. Right now he is abusive/sleepy so I kindly lower him to the couch. Then he demands for me to get him a drink. Of course I do as I am told, just so I don't get any more scratches and bruises along my arms and legs. Mother finally finishes dinner so her and I sit and eat and dad goes to sleep.

*After Dinner*

I run upstairs to my room and grab my bags that are packed and double-check that I have everything. Tonight is the night I leave. I have been through hell here. My mother never gives a shit unless it's about how it makes her look. All she keeps saying is," I don't deserve this. I could have a better child. I wish I never had you. I deserve better. (etc.)"

She has never wanted me and my dad... well he can't stay sober to go to work and get the bills paid. I'm tired of being physically and verbally abused 24/7. I'm tired of the depression I have because I let my mother get to me. I want these feelings to be gone.

I sneak out my window onto the roof and down a tree and run to the end of my driveway, which is about half a mile long, in the rain. I see Daniels truck lights waiting for me. I hop in and there Caitlyn has a warm towel waiting for me.

"So... Where to?" They both ask me.

"Cali?"

"Cali, here we come!" Daniel says all excited. He has always wanted to go there.

*Present Time*

I sat up and I hear a stranger's voice fill my ears

'Goodmorning, sleepy head'

I look over my shoulder to see a young gorgeous girl in the back seat with long black hair and hypnotizing green eyes.

"Hi...?" I respond with a confused tone.

"Oh! Sorry! I'm Hazel! Your friend here picked me up on the interstate!" She says all giggly patting on Daniels' shoulder.

"Oh, really? How nice of him!" I say to him sarcastically. She hops back into the conversation with her head in between the two sits, "I know right! He is so sweet!" she responds all bubbly. I see Daniels face drop because now he knows that she is into him and he isn't a huge fan of relationships.