Don't Leave Me

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"All you had to say was sorry, but did you mean it."

I'm Anthony, a girl at age 14 (at the peak of my teenage years). Named after some Punk rocker my mum was obsessed with. I was confused, weird, a rebel, and a middle school drop out. I know what you are thinking, "She dropped out of middle school?!" Yes. I was in the 8th grade and hated it, so I stopped going. Easy. Now I'm back to school, well now high school and boy, I'm not ready. Because of my rebellion I did change from the quiet hippie to the outrageous definition of grunge. I smoked cigars and drank wine like a "civilized" human in the 1930s. Where are my parents you may ask, well dear, my father is a gambler/drug dealer and my mother, well I've never met her I do know that she lives in Oxford, England and wanted to focus on her career, whatever she does. My dad actually wishes I'm a druggy but I would prefer to drink wine with a good film, than getting high with my father's stupid excuses for friends.

It's the first day of my freshman year of high school and like all the others, I put on a face of determination and got my helmet, while putting it on I whispered to my self, "This year is gonna be different." Although we all knew that was not gonna happen. I got on my bike and road to the stupid high school, with stupid kids and stupid smarts and crap. I pulled up to the school and said, "Fuck this" Putting my helmet down. I began to walk to the front while people began slowly moving away. Alright, let me set the scene, I'm walking through the halls as everyone looked down on the "Drop-out" kid. Silence. Whispers from my peers of confusing and fright. What can you do? Then I reach the popular girls at the end of the hall, they looked at me and with no hesitation said, "EW, stand away drop trash!" I was not gonna deal with this so I didn't, let's just say I should find a way to apologize to my dad for getting suspended. Long story short I punched her and her dad managed the income taxes for the school, great.
So they called my dad and handed the phone to me,
"Hey Popps, what's the happs?" I told him, trying to say it in my most monotone voice on the planet.
"What do you mean what's the happs? You got in trouble didn't you, you bitch." The teacher heard him and looked at me in disbelief.
"So what if I did? Do you at least wanna hear what I did?"
"Shoot" he told me.
"This motherfucker started talking crap so I ransacked her in the face, no hesitation." I was thinking he would start laughing and tell me to come home like he usually does but he didn't this time. He was silent.
"Popps? What's wrong? Are you okay?" Nothing.
"Look Ann you need to come home we need to talk. It's important." He said that in a dad voice, I was worried. As he said that I put the phone back on the hook and ran out of the office, I needed to get home. The last time he spoke to me like that it was a month before my grandmother, his mom died, my poppa was different after that he started getting into drugs 2 months after she died. I stepped up to the house and walked in to see my dad on the couch with his head in his hands, horrified I walked to him.
"Hey Popps, why you down?"I lowered my voice to sound caring.
"I can't tell you this without giving you this." He handed me a note.
I was written in cursive in beautiful writing, saying:

"My dear girl Ann I have written this for when you are old enough, you shall come to live with me in my home town Oxford, England. Here you and I will make a beautiful life as mother and daughter farewell till then, My Love."

                                  ~Your mother
At that point I was crying like crazy. My dad was as well he gave me a hug and we both cried for a while. This letter had meant I had to leave my dad alone here and go to Oxford, my poppa always depended on me to pay the bills and help him with his depression. I couldn't leave my dad, no one would be left like I that...

"Don't leave me." He muttered

Authors note
Hello! The name is Alex and this is one of my first projects. I hope you enjoy more coming soon and feel free to leave your thoughts, ideas and reactions in the comments. :P ~Alex

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