When life brings us down

Part 5

October 1,3016
I'm sorry. My house...it's ...gone and, I don't know what to do. Mark tells me that we can stay at his place as long as we need but honestly, I feel like him helping me, is going to ruin his life at school. Speaking of school I have to go tomorrow but I haven't showered or even changed in I don't know how long. I'm pretty sure about 1-2 weeks. Mark showed me where Haylee and I can sleep, and it wasn't until then that I realized how BIG his house is! I was like,
"Wow your house is huge."
"It always feels too big."
"Huh. Anyway what are we going to do about school? I mean NEITHER of us can just walk in after, like, four weeks of not being at school and expect them to just shake it off."
"That's true and the doctors note that we had from when you fell out of the tree got incinerated. Why WERE you in a tree anyway? I guess I understand why you ran off and I get that, but why climb a tree?
"It's complicated."
"I understand, say no more. Unless you want to of course." And then he waggled his eyebrows like a worm and I actually giggled. I haven't giggled since my dad was alive. He would chase me, Haylee and Caleb around the house and when he caught one of us he would just keep tickling us. And It wasn't until I had slapped my hands over my mouth, giggled some more and told Mark what my dad used to do, that I saw the sparkle forming in his eyes. I knew that sparkle. My dad always did that when he was about to chase us. The moment I saw it, I started running as fast as my legs would carry me. I had taken a wrong turn and ended up in a dead end hallway. He came around the corner and poked his fingers into my sides. I started laughing so hard that I was crying. When I noticed the sparkle I was talking.
"- so that's why I covered my face"
"(snicker) Ok."
" Wait... NOOOOO!" I said as I ran off.

October 2,3016
We were getting ready for school when I remembered that my bag and all of my school textbooks where in the house when it had caught fire. I was like,
"Well crap."
"What?" He asked. I simply gestured to my back that very obviously had no backpack on it.
"Oh. Well what did you have in it?"
"Hmmm I don't know maybe all of my school textbooks."
"Well crap." He said. Exactly.
We got into his car and rode to school, and just his luck all the jocks were outside watching for cars, more specifically, this car.
When they saw the car they all ran up and I quickly put up the hood of the sweatshirt Mark let me use. I thought they wouldn't bother and just pretend I wasn't there but no such luck.
"Who 'ya got in the car with 'ya Mark? One of them asked.
"'Ya got a girl?" Said another.
"No, so back off." Mark said
"Ohhhhh, somebody's gettin mad!" Said the same guy.
"Hang on." Mark muttered through his teeth to me. Right after he said that he floored on the gas.

October 3,3016
I'm. Freaking. Out! Mark was driving off from the guys when the car hit a huge rock in the parking lot. The car jerked to a stop and, believe it or not, my seatbelt, snapped. As if it could not get any worse, the car crashed into a street light pole. I jerked forward and hit my head on the glass. The guys were still where they were but when they saw that the car had crashed, they ran over to help. I could see stars. I know I know "She's going to the hospital again?". No actually, they dragged Mark out of the car and he was ok, so he ran over to help me. Wow this seems like a really weird life. Eh. Anyway, I had a gash on my leg, and it hurt. We went to the nurse, she saw my leg and called the ambulance, yada yada yada. I'm in a cast but also a freaking wheelchair! Haha, I've gotten hurt so much that they no longer trust me on my own two feet. Great.

November 12,3016
"Mark!"
"Yeah?" I giggled, like a adorable but crazy girl.
"Am I crazy?" He picked me up bridal style.
"It depends. What kind of crazy do you mean?"
"Psychopathic, loco crazy, you get it."
"No of course not!"
"Hm" I said and poked him in the side. After I did that I jumped out of his arms and ran. He was close behind. We've gotten very close, in relation I mean, not in distance. And surprise surprise I haven't gotten hurt, and that's saying something. Haylee is now very popular at school. Aron has found out that I'm staying here. Aron is in a way my ex, but we were never really dating people just thought we were. He never cared about me, he just abused me. I'm scared of him. He came over here yesterday to talk to Mark because they are friends. I was upstairs and when I heard his voice I ran to the closet of the room I was staying in and threw on a thick coat and some work pants, because I was wearing yoga pants and a tank top and I didn't feel comfortable wearing just that with Aron around. I ran to the bathroom to hid and I heard Aron ask Mark who else was here,
"Who's upstairs?"
"What do you mean?"
"Mark don't play dumb I know that when you walk around upstairs you can easily hear it down here."
"It's just a friend" Mark had said. He didn't know about Aron.
"Ok, well I've got to go."
"K bye"
"Bye" After I heard Aron walk out and close the door I ran down the stairs with tears running down my face. I had forgotten about the clothes. I had a plan made. I knew I would cry so I decided that I would take of the coat and work pants before I went down and just pretend that I slipped or something. I ran and when I got to the bottom of the stairs I ran over to Mark and when he saw me crying he just hugged me and asked,
"How long?" I was dumbfounded.
"H-how?"
"The clothes, the tears, the fact that right after he left you ran to me, and with the look in your eyes I could tell you were scared to death. How long?"
"Since my d-dad d-died."
""Wait so this has been happening for three years?!!"
"Y-yes." Then he just hugged me. We stood like that for a while. Soon he picked me up and sat on the couch and put me down next to him while I was still hugging him. Eventually I fell asleep right there on the couch in his arms.

November 13,3016
Mark and Haylee together is adorable. Mark acts like an older brother to Haylee, like when we go to the store Mark puts Haylee on his shoulders and runs around while Haylee yells,
"Run like the wind, Bullseye!!"
"YEEHAW!!" He would yell still running. Haylee would slap him on the shoulder,
"No, a horse says, nayyy!"
"NAYYYY!!" It's so cute. We went to the store yesterday and when we got in the car he yelled,
"TO THE STORE!!" It was absolutely adorable. School sucks. Everyone is still bullying me, and by everyone I mean everyone. Rylie hates my guts because Mark dumped her. It was hilarious, he walked up to her and poured milk on her head,
"Hey babe guess what?" He said.
"What?" Then he poured the milk on her head.
"WE ARE NEVER EVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER"
"WHAT ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!"
"SERIOUS AS F***!! BYE FELISHA!!" Then he ran off. I was over in the corner laughing my head off when two things happened first, MARK ASKED ME OUT, and of course I said yes! But then the bell rang and everyone left except for me and Rylie. It was hilarious but naturally I felt bad and offered to help her clean up. She rejected my offer and brought her knee up into my gut and kicked my temple saying,
"One day, Annie, I will kill you." Then I blacked out. Thank god I was bleeding because when she kicked me with her stiletto she tracked blood into the halls and Mark asked her what she did. She told him,
"I got rid of that ugly stupid vermon."
"WHO?"
"Whats her name? Annabella? Yeah Annabella that's her name. I got rid of her." Then Mark slapped her and ran. He found me and I had a gash in my temple. This thing took 38 stitches to close up. I just got a message from, Dr.Yeshalkavits. It says,
Annabella,
You need to leave now. You must finish this week of school and then you must leave. Take your sister and your boy.
Ok well that was strange and how does he know I have a sister and a bo- Mark that's creepy
anyway I'm only allowed to eat Simply Balanced fruit strips. Once you eat something for a while it tastes disgusting. Bleh. Anyway Mark and Haylee are here at the hospital and I told Mark about Dr.Yeshalkavits and he said maybe we should leave. So that's what we will do we've told Haylee and the school knows that we are leaving so I need to go pack up.

November 13,3016

We get on a plane first thing friday morning. Today is wednesday and I'm nervous because I've never been on a plane before. Mark has and says that it will be fun. Yesterday he started singing the FUN song with Haylee it goes like this
F is for Friends who do stuff together
U is for U and me
N is for is for Nywhere at Nytime at all down here in the deep blue sea
Now it is stuck in my head.