Luca's Challenge

Chapter 1. Excuse me?

Another boring day I have to get up and get ready for school, I brush my beach blonde waist length hair into a messy bun like I do everyday. At least at school I get peace and quiet and actually look forward to seeing my friends.

I know I don't like school (although I'm good at it) but I love seeing my friends, that's the only reason I come to this shit hole everyday.

At home there are always fights between mostly my brother Caleb and mother Heather.

My brother is renowned for not being the best in school, yes he does drugs and hangs out with the wrong people but I believe that when he's older he will grow out of this.

I love my brother, and if anything ever happened to him I don't know what I'd do with myself.

Caleb recently got a job, and with that money he wanted to buy a dog.

This was yet another reason why there are screaming matches in my house. In the end he bought the very, very expensive dog anyway and brought him home.

To be more specific he bought a long haired German Shepard who's dad was the best in the country, he came from very high pedigree and is literally a work of art.

He bought the dog at a very high price and the second he brought him home I just couldn't resist him, Caleb and I made a decision together to name him Shadow because he follows you like a shadow.

I personally wasn't against him getting a dog because I absolutely love dogs, but I knew he wouldn't be consistent with Shadow so I took the roll as Mum, something I never really had.

I feed him, I walk him, I train him, I brush him and most of all I love him. He might not be a little fluffy dog anymore but he is still my little baby.

Me and my mother Heather don't really have a relationship. Yes I live in the same house as her and we still interact but I keep this to a very minimum because I'm sick and tired of the screaming and fighting and the hurtful things that have come out of her mouth. She is dead to me.

I remember I use to run up to my bedroom and cry all night and skip my meals just so I could skip seeing her, she never abused me but she really left a scar where it hurts.

She has a alcohol addiction problem, she's an alcoholic but will not admit it. Every time we have a fight I will scream back saying that she's a alcoholic with bipolar and needs help but she refuses and just keeps drinking her wine.

Whilst she's around other people she is completely and utterly normal, when she's around friends it actually looks like she is happy with our family and that she could actually be my happy mum.

Both Caleb and I stopped calling her mum a few years ago when they started fighting. I haven't called her mum or said I love you in forever that I can't even remember.

But on the flip side there is my dad, Samuel. I love my dad so much, we have the strongest relationship and he has supported me through everything.

He's supported me in sports that would otherwise be called 'guy sports only' or 'this is not ladylike' and oh boy does that make my blood boil.

How dare does anyone even make assumptions in my life saying that I can't motorbike ride because I'm a girl? Well that's what my mother said.

Caleb started riding bikes when he was 4, I on the other hand started when I was 12! Are you serious? 8 years difference in age because I was a girl? My dad though I had no interest in bikes and randomly took Caleb's old bike to our holiday house.

And that's where my passion for motorbikes grew, Dad taught me how to ride.

When I was good enough to ride properly, I rode my bike to the state forest down my street and rode my bike with my brother all the time. That was the only time I could ride because my Dad wouldn't let me ride without him or Caleb.