Ray's Rainbow Camp

Chapter Nine, The Law And Withdraw,

(It's going to curse within the song and within the story btw.)

Sirena's POV

Ever since I woke up, I have been right beside Phoenix. We lay together on my bed, reading each other's favorite books. I've never felt this calm in my entire life. Knowing that everything would be okay, that I wouldn't be a ward of the government, that I would stay right here. 

Now that we know Phoenix's parents are coming for her, Ray has put special precautions on and around the campground. She hired a couple more security guards and made sure everyone stayed in and around there cabins. I am worried about Phoenix though, at the mention of her parents, she flinches. I try to make her feel better with cuddles, books, and music, but nothing seems to work. Maybe it's because Phoenix knows that she's not free anymore, not with her parents coming for her.

At the moment we are eating dinner in my bed while listening to some random musicals on her phone. This musical seems to calm her a bit at least, but she still seems to be somber. She has barely eaten her food and is slowly picking at her green beans. I ate my entire meal in a minute flat because I hadn't eaten in three days. A new song in the musical comes on and she slides off the bed in time with the music. She starts to dance slowly along with the music, pointing her feet, taking precise and delicate steps.  Phoenix is mesmerizing when she dances, it's as if she has this intoxicating aura around her when she dances, drawing everyone in.

The singer in the music begins to sing, but at the moment Phoenix stays silent.

Then she begins to sing at, "And everything else goes away....everything else goes away,"

"You play till it's perfect, you play till you ache, you play till the strings or your fingernails break! So you'll rock that recital, and get into Yale, so you won't feel so sick, and won't look so pale! " She sings in perfect harmony with the singer on her phone.

She then does eight turns and then goes straight into a split. She doesn't continue with the song. Slowly she stands up, making her way over towards my bed and her food. She starts to eat her food and my muscles untighten themselves. She's going to be alright. We are going to be alright.

Phoenix's POV

Any moment now we are expecting my parents to come. I stand in the parking lot with my suitcase even though Ray says she will talk to them and make it all better. Ray doesn't get how truly cruel my parents are. They take your words, your mind, your feelings, and bend it too there will. On those occasions when the bend gets to tense, it breaks, and that's when they hurt me. They hurt me on those occasions because they fear weakness, like an animal fighting for its dinner. Sometimes I did fight for my dinner because sometimes they wouldn't feed me because I didn't win. Those nights I would cry myself to sleep in my small bed in the RV, earbuds plugged in, and a special playlist I have to calm myself on repeat. I get out that playlist now, because I know I'll need it. 

My body is tense, my nerves all shocked and crazy. Sirena holds my hand tightly, smiling at me sadly. She keeps telling me that Ray will make them change their minds, and everyone will live happily ever after.

I know something they don't. It's the reason I told Ray to make sure everyone stayed away from the parking lot, it's the reason I'm so nervous......

My parents drink a lot, and when angered, use illegal substances to help calm them. They also own guns, tons of them. My father keeps two shotguns loaded in the front of the RV at all times. He used to threaten me with them a lot, saying if I didn't win that he'll shoot me. 

I see the RV on the horizon. I clench my hand that's not holding Sirena's into a tight fist. The RV's color is bright yellow and pink, with glitter spraypaint on the side, giving a name to my mom and dads company, my name. In bright yellow glitter. On the side of the RV. It even lights up at night, so I can get fangirls no matter where I am.