I can't say that being me is very interesting. In fact, I'd say that I'm the exact opposite. My life is actually very boring. Or, at least it was. Stories like this never end with someone's life being boring. No, there's always an unexpected change.
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"Lana" my mom called from three rooms down, "go to bed! it's almost midnight." I couldn't imagine why she was still up anyway. Normally, I'm the last one asleep. Especially in the summer, but mom must have been keeping the midnight watch, so that when my dad came home drunk to insanity, she could calm him down. He got pretty mad when he was drunk. I closed my laptop, hoping that the thoughts would close with it. I reached across my desk and flipped the light switch. I ran across my room and burrowed my face in my comforter, like you did to escape the monsters when you were a kid. The sound of a door slamming echoed faintly beneath me. My dad was home. Great. Normally he didn't come home at all on Friday nights, but I guess the call of a warm bed instead of a ditch won the drinking war. Soon I heard yelling, and a crash echoed around the first floor of the house. I really didn't want to leave the safety of my bed, but I also knew I had to. I grabbed the plank that I used for propping up my window off the windowsill, and slid my legs over the side of the bed. I tiptoed down the hallway checking every room for my dad. Finally I saw a shadowy figure in the corner of my mom's room. He turned slightly and I gasped. The man standing in front of me was not my dad. He stuffed another necklace from the vanity into a black bag, and grabbed a baseball bat from the floor. He hit it in his hand twice and my last thought was, this can't be the last thing I see, so I turned and looked at my mom's dresser. There was a picture frame that caught my eye. I looked at it and saw a picture of my mom and dad in their wedding day, happy. It was even more painful then when the bat connected with my skull. Everything spun, once, twice. It was a merry go round and I was its rider. Then suddenly, everything went to dark.
