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I sit there akwardly fiddling with my thumbs. I try to avoid eye contact. We come to a sudden stop and I jerk forward. "Sorry kid that red light came out of no where." He presses on the gas pedal again and the car started going full speed again. "I told you my name was Sam." I saw looking out the window.

There was a car wash but no one seemed to be using it. The concrete was black but was wet because the hose wasn't turned off all the way. My focus shifted and I saw my reflection in the mirror, realizing I havent seen myself without hair clearly. "Sorry SAM."

I fell asleep in the car. So many things we're rushing through my head that it made me sleepy. I had a dream in that car. It was my mom and dad sitting in the couch watching a movie. They looked a few years younger than they actually are now. Then a little girl came in with a pink dress and a small plastic tiara. "Mommy, daddy look at me! Look at me!" As she started running in circles around the couch I realised that it was one my memories when I was only three years old. "Aw look at my little princess" My mom fixing my tiara and softly pushing my hair out of my face. "We love our little girl" My dad said hugging me. But then for some reason the mood shifted..... It felt like the air in the room was getting denser and the walls we're closing in.

"Wake up were here" Mark says shaking my shoulder. "You were really tired weren't ya? You slept like a baby." I don't answer back and I open the car door. We were at the school that he mentioned earlier that day. It didn't look safe but according to him, this was the only place I could go where I wouldnt get easily caught. "Over here, this is where you can crawl through to get into the school." He pointed to a narrow hole in the corner of the main entrance door.

"So all you have to do now is survive, here's some change and I will be on my way." He proceeded to drop three dollars into my hand and walked away and unlocked his car. "That's it?" I said angrily. I can't believe we went all this way for him to drop me off like a useless dog..... Not even like a dog.... More like a rock. "You're just gonna leave me?" I stand back up and drop my bag of stuff. He paused and walked back "is that how you thank me kid? I give u a hideout, a ride,and some change and you can't even give me a thank you? You're lucky I drove you at all, let alone care about you!" He stomped his way back to his car and opened the door and it swings back almost knocking him off his feet. "This is why I don't trust or care about people anymore. You live in this world you have to go through with it in your own. You can expect people to always have your back because the last time I checked is that people dont." He sat in his car and lose the door. "No wait..!!!" I y'all running for the car. But it was too late. He was already driving away with a face hard as stone. Something happened to him earlier something was wrong.....