Street Love

Chapter 3

David's pov.

It's about 5:00am and I just woke up to get ready for school. Today is Friday so I have the weekend off after today. I'm packing up my back pack when my phone goes off. Who on earth is calling me at 5 in the morning? who ever it is must be crazy! I stroll over to where my phone is and glance at the screen only to find out that no one was calling me, it's just an amber alert. I pick up my cell and read the alert, It's of a girl my age and she's only a couple towns over from us.

I feel bad and wish I could help, I can't imagine what it's like for her family. To be scared about where they're daughter might be, it's not like she lives in the safest part of town, and they don't know if they'll ever seen her again. I wonder if she has any siblings and what they're thinking if she does. I have a baby sister, she's 4 week's old and if something were to happen to her I would kill somebody. At the same time though, why did she leave, what's going on that made her think it's best for her to leave her home? Is she okay? Where is she now?

I push away those thoughts so that I can focus on the homework I was supposed to do last night but was lazy after having play practice so I skipped it. I'm not a bad student, I never miss class, I have good grades, I'm in the theater program and in choir, but with having theater practice tell 8 every night and having to help around the house with my baby sister, I don't always have time to do my homework. Some nights I skip it because I need the sleep and some nights it's just because I'm lazy. On nights where I'm just lazy I wake up early to get it done and on the other nights I miss it completely.

Now that I've got my homework finish I put it in my packed backpack and grab and change of clothes and get in the shower. After my shower I brush my teeth and hair before going down stairs to eat breakfast.

"Good morning David, how'd you sleep." My father asks looking up from his magazine. He drink coffee and it's a bagel everyday for breakfast. I don't know how he can handle eating the same thing day in and day out but it doesn't seem to bother him so why should I care?

"Good, thanks. Did you get the amber alert this morning? It's of a girl just a couple towns over, says she my age and that she ran away."

"No I didn't David. Poor girl she must be scared to death and frozen too, it was the coldest it's been in a while last night. Well I hope she's safe. Now our going to Ace that Math test today or not?" He dad laughs. I'm not the best at math but I try and he knows that. He never really gives me a hard time about it as long as I do my homework and take to him when I don't understand something. Dad and I continue our meaningless conversation while I eat my breakfast, soon mom comes in carrying the baby and holding the phone with her new shoulder.

"David can you please take Avery? Thanks hon." My mom whispers so the people on the phone don't hear. I take Avery from her and bring her to her a cradle that's meant for dolls but holds her. I can hear mom and dad talking about something and why she's on the phone but I have no interest in what it is so I tune it out and turn on the TV.

It's now 7:20 and school starts art 7:30 so I grab my bag give Avery to dad and head out the door. It takes 6 minutes to walk to school so I have time and decide to take a different route that takes 8 minutes. I know it's cutting it close but it goes by through this abandon road with little alleys and empty buildings, I think it's pretty cool, mom thinks it's dangerous but I still come around often to listen to music and clear my mind.

As I'm walking down the abandon road and looking through all the buildings I hear mumbling and a shadow of someone on one of the top floors of a building. Maybe they're going to rip everything out and rebuild. That would be a shame my quite place would no longer be only to me but on the other side there might be a game store within walking distance of my house. That would be cool! I hope that it's it. I also nothing one of the tiny (maybe the smallest) alley is blocked off by boxes, I think nothing of it and consider it something for construction and continue on my walk to school.

I get to school just a minute or so before school begins. I run through the hallway so I'm not late to class, my school is huge and we have very little time to get from class to class so if your don't run you're guaranteed to be late. I take my sit and pull out my notebook for class and a few pencils and pens. I start to writ the warm-up off the board and class begins, just like it does everyday.