Fugitive

The invite

My alarm clock goes off, followed by my moms voice " M come on you're going to be late" everything is good repeated that in my head over and over as I got dressed. I wanted something to change my life to be different than how it was because I just went through the same old thing. I go downstairs to see my mom " morning sweetie " that's my mom a hard working parent that supports her daughter and the things that she expects, in other words I was never to do anything wrong in her eyes nothing was ever enough and I was never allowed to do anything dangerous. I scramble through the mail "M what are you doing?"
" looking for college letters to see if they accepted me"
"M come back to reality nobody wants to come over going to be late"
I sigh and get in the car. See what I mean she never went to college so I can't go either.I had to live my life the way she wanted I hated that she did that to me. I didn't dare tell her since it was only two years since my father died she still hadn't accepted that he was gone. I put my headphones in as my mother's mouth continues to move I was in the mood for a lecture only for change. We arrive at my school it's called Devon high, it was old but still a getaway place for me. Voice through my music saying I love you I was going to respond but instead I just close the car door. I didn't realize that was my last chance to tell her I loved her but no one gets a warning to when they are gonna die. I had to the locker room and hear my friends talking.
". Team one takes a person from team to team to take her some printing one and they drop them off wherever they want to and team one had to find their victim and team two had to find theirs and all the victim has is a phone, the first team to find their victim wins"
" and what is this called?"
"Fugitive"
Kate looks at me " M do you want to play"
I hesitate "it's not really my kind of game"
Kate laughs "told you she wouldn't do it"
Rachel walks over to me "come on M, are you gonna live in that shell of a life forever"
I look down and shrug.
"That's it your playing"
I flench "Rachel no I-
"Need to take some risks in your life yeah I know so your gonna play this game tell your mom your spending the night at my house and then come with me and we will go play ok?"
I look at Kate "I guess I don't have a choice "
My heart beat gets louder as the thought of danger comes into my senses.
Throughout the whole day everyone was asking me if I was really going to play the game. It was almost like I was suddenly popular because of the game it felt different so I started to like the idea of this game. Maybe it was what I needed to get out of my normal life routine. I see Rachel as I have a lunch tray in my hand she walks over "so come over to my house after sundown ok?l"
"Why the sudden change?"
"Jake is coming to my house since my parents aren't home were going to-"
"TMI Rachel " she smiles as she sits next to Jake and kisses him. There's something even more embarrassing not only am I the only golf in high school that has never smoked or drank alcohol I've never kissed anyone. I roll my eyes at them and try to keep my food down.
The bell rings as everyone cheers for the weekend I walk home thinking about this game. suddenly my phone makes a noise there was a tweet about the game, the caption read "everyone tweet me who you want the two victims to be for tonight's game-T"
I didn't know who T was but I'm sure it was just Tanner because he's the quarterback of the football team and was one of the most popular guys in school. As I get home I play some one on one volleyball before going on a bike ride. I road up to my favorite tree in town and I would climb it and look at the town as the sun set. The sunset with some good music was always my favorite thing it inspired me to dance and create things. I watched the sun set and biked over to Rachel's house where I saw a cute red mustangs and a black truck the two cars for the game. I took a breath and entered the house.
"Mal you made it" Rachel hugs me.
"Wow I thought you were gonna ditch" Kate laughs.
"Here I am" I see Skylar over by Jake and Tanner and feel my eyes lock on him I knew I liked him but tonight was different. Tanner stands on the table.
"Ok the tweets were counted and we have the two victims "
Everyone cheers including me I felt alive and was ready to play.
"The victims are cad for team one and team twos victim is Malory "
Everyone cheers as I freeze, Rachel shakes me and jumps up and down and Kate rolls her eyes. How was I going to get through this night?