There was nothing I could do but wait. Wait for the school year to be over, wait for friends to come along, wait to go back home. But for now I am stuck. Trapped between real life and a fantasy world, a fatal in-between. I don't care too much, yet I do. I have okay grades, but am never the star student. My mother drinks away the days while my father is always on another plane, at some new location. I feel a longing for something more. I don't want love, or money, or anything in between. I want to be free. I just don't know how to be free yet. My name is Lauren, and this is my escape.
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Away
Teen FictionLauren needs to get away from everything. School, her alcoholic mother, even her father, whose constant absence is a weight that plagues her family . ******* This is a really, really rough draft, like the roughest, version of a story I'm hoping will...
