Left Abroad

Chapter 5

So last night happened. As usual that left me with no sleep and an overactive mind. When the sun started to rise I went to the bathroom, going to the bath and opened the faucet. As I lay in the bathtub the hot water soothed me, relaxed me and made my mind drift away into nothingness.

I laid there for a while, feeling alone in this world of mine. I examined my arm trying to see how bad it would look. It was starting to turn a bit blue where my dad had put his death grip on me. I sighed at the sight, longs sleeves from now on. After a while of just resting I actually started to wash my hair and body, finding a bit of comfort in such a simple routine thing.

I got out and put on my black jeans, a long sleeved red T-shirt and my boots. I looked on my phone and saw it's already 8:50am, no messages. I didn't have a lot of friends, just a very few but not even they took the time to find out how things were going. I pocketed my phone and wallet. Should or shouldn't I go out that door? How would everybody react, how would they look at me and most importantly, what would my dad do? I made my way to the door, unlocking it, but I couldn't turn the handle. I knew he would see it as my fault. I sighed again as I looked out of my window, stared at the pool and just stared. I looked to my feet and saw the small ledge outside against the floor to ceiling window and the window would be just big enough for me to fit through. There weren't many way get down.

Except for the small gazebo that had all these metal rods on top for the ranking plant to grown onto. It was almost completely covered and I knew there was a small seating area underneath. I took a deep breath and opened the window, talking motivation into myself I slowly made my way onto the ledge and hugged the window. Small steps, that's all it's going to take, just calm down. I took my first small step sideways and felt the wind blowing. It's only about 3 meters away and I know I can do it but falling would not be good. Slowly and steadily I made my way over and very slowly walked on the steel rods until I could reach one of pillars.

I took another breath and slowly lower myself over the side. When my feet hit the ground my legs almost gave way as I saw someone sitting on one of the seats.

"Mic," I exhale.

"Where are you going Nathan," he asked cocking his head to the side and looking me up and down.

"Anywhere but here," I say and started to leave.

"I'm sorry. . ." he said it with a small crack in his voice.

"Yeah me too."

"I can take you to where you want to go," he said it with kindness but I knew how awkward it would be for both of us and shook my head.

He didn't say a thing as I walked around the house and then turned down onto the road. I put my hands in my pockets and walked, just walked down the sidewalk. I walked for I don't know how long, my sense of time was always screwed, and reached a small plaza of stored. Just a bit farther on you could see the city's higher buildings rising. Some clouds had started to gather and it was starting to get cold fast. I scanned the stores in front of me, I'm sure I couldn't afford to buy anything at these places but saw a sale sign in one of the windows.

The wind picked up and I went inside, even if I couldn't afford anything it didn't mean I couldn't at least look. I didn't spare a glace at the inside but went straight to where the sale sign was located on the top of a rack. I looked at the rack and saw some jackets, leather to be precise and that was all that was on sale. I looked at the tags, $300, it was a bit pricy.

"Welcome to Crystal City's one and only X-Generation, those are some great jackets you are looking at, can I help you with anything?"

The guy was my height, coal black hair and blue eyes. He was well built and looks like he wore only clothes they held in the store, rocking it by the way.