Captured

Part 1~ The easy life

    " Sam, wake up!! You can't be late for your first day of school. It's your last year. You got 30 minutes," That was my dad, Charlie. He's the only guy that would be able to make me wake up on a day like this. He's lucky I like him because if I didn't, I'd still be in bed right now, but NO. I woke up just like Charlie told me too. Everyone thinks my dad is the coolest person ever, just because he lets me call him Charlie. The fact is, he lets me call him Charlie because that's just how he is. He doesn't want me to have to call him dad, and never to be able to call someone mom. He thinks that if I WAS to call him dad that that would bring up the missing of my mother. But he's wrong, because all I think about when I hear the name Melissa Parker is a woman who was coward, and abandoned me and Charlie a long time ago. In fact, it was so long ago that I don't even remember what she looked like. I'm sure we have pictures of her somewhere around the house, but it's just not worth my time to look for them.
    So as I was saying. I woke up and dragged my lazy butt out of bed. I threw on the closest thing to an outfit I could find and walked into the bathroom. I had this whole plan of how I was going to do my hair and makeup. But I was just too lazy, so I decided to just walk out of the house the way I was. If I would have known who was going to be in my homeroom class. I would have probably dressed nicer. I got to school and found my locker no problem. It was easy because it has been my locker for all of highschool. It was great because I was in the middle of my two best friends, Jessica and Thomas.
We've been best friends since the third grade. I don't know what I would do without them because to be honest they are my only friends. I mean, I'm sure people know who I am and consider themselves my "friends" , but I wouldn't call them that. Right when I got all my stuff settled into my locker and I got all the stuff I needed out, I began my walk to homeroom. I was just down the hall from my homeroom class when I saw them. They were yelling my name and trotting down the hall. Jess and Tommy flew at me and snugged me into the tightest hug ever.
" Oh my god, Sam. We missed you so much," they yelled at me.
" I missed you too guys. Hey, we have to meet OUTSIDE the lunchroom so we can walk into lunch together. And guys, we're seniors. We are the bosses of highschool," I said!
" OMG, I literally just realized that bae, this is totes gonna be the BEST.. YEAR.. EVER!!" Tommy said.
" Ok babes, well I got to get to class, so I'll see you at lunch. Bye!" I said. I then hugged them and started walking down the hall to homeroom.
" See ya bae," Jess said, yelling after me.
    I got into homeroom 3 minutes before the bell rang. I looked around the room to see who was in my homeroom class. I didn't see anyone I needed to impress, but that was before he walked in the classroom. Literally a second before the bell rang, the hottest guy in school walked in and took a seat right next to me. I'm so stupid, I knew something like this would happen. I would come to school wearing the stupidest outfit ever and then he would be here. And guess what, the thing I was dreading was actually happening. He sat right next to me and I was wearing sweatpants and a baggy sweatshirt. I literally thought that this was the most embarrassing part of the day. I was totally wrong. The worst part of the day happened 15 minutes later. I was sitting there listening to the announcements like a good little, angel child would be doing, while my crush, Lucas Janson was flirting with the girls in the back of the classroom when the phone rang. The teacher walked over and picked up the phone. She started talking and then out of nowhere. She looks at me. What did I do to get a phone call about?
" Samantha Parker?" Ms. Hallenstein said.
" Yes?" I said worriedly.
     " You're wanted down in the office!" she said with a snarl.
I grabbed my bag and began to get up when Lucas talked to me.
" What did you do? Sneak into the janitor's closet and make out with Jess?" As soon as Lucas said that the whole class roared of laughter.
" No... Not with Jess," I said. "But I did do your mom!"
I stormed out of the classroom furious. I didn't know what I just said. It was all a blur. All I know is that I hope it was good. Because nobody can talk crap about me and get away with it. Charlie taught me about how in the war. You got to trust that your  soldiers will protect you no matter who they are. Because if someone wants to stab you in the back, they could. He said that you have to deal with them. Not by fighting back with guns but by using your words. And that is exactly what I was doing. So I am proud of whatever hateful thing I said back to Lucas because he deserved it. He was a jerk, but I still had the biggest crush on him.
When I got to the office, they said that my dad was on the phone. I picked up the phone and there was my best pal, Charlie on the other end.
" Hey Charlie, what's up?" I asked.
" Hey kiddo, I just wanted to call and tell you that I will be out of town for a bit. They called me down to Fort Bliss for the job so I told Nancy to come and stay with you." Charlie said.
" Charlie, you know I don't need supervision, I'm 17! I can take care of myself." I said back.
" I know you can kiddo, it's just I know you. You'll try to pull a party together and now's just not a good time to make a mess." Charlie said.
" But Charlie, It doesn't mean that Nancy needs to stay with me. She has a job in Connecticut. Can't we just leave her alone in peace? Let her live her life with her fiance?" I fought back.
" No, your sister doesn't mind spending some time with you. She said she needs to talk to you about something anyways." He insisted.
" Ok, whatever," I gave in.
" Ok, well I don't know when I'll next be able to talk to you baby girl! I'll try to call you tomorrow but I'm might be going into the war. So I'll try to talk to you as soon as possible," Charlie said.
" Ok Charlie, don't forget about me!" I said.
" I won't kiddo, I love you Sam," He said.
" I love you too Charlie. Bye," I said
    I then could hear the buzzing of the other end. Charlie hung up on me. I then was given a pass back to class. Luckily homeroom ended and it was time to go to my 2nd period. The day went slow until lunch arrived. Then time speed up. It felt like only 2 minutes that I got to hang out with my best pals. Luckily. Jess was in my 6th period class. So that class went fast. Then of course 7th period went slow because I had nothing to do, and 8th seemed like it took a year. I then was able to leave this place and go back home. When I pulled into the driveway and saw a red SUV parked in Charlie's normal spot. That was when reality hit me. Charlie could be in war right now and I would never know. I stormed into the house and threw my bags on the floor. They flew somewhere but I didn't even care. My mission was to turn on the news right away and see what was going on with the war. All I could see was death. Death over here and death over there. People dying all over the place. And that's when I realised what was really going on.