"hello ? hey- hello? hello?" i screamed over the pouring sound of the rain and the loud horns of the cars on the street.
"yeah ,go on I can hear you" the voice on the other side of the phone spoke unhesitantly.
"where the heck are you ?" I screamed over the phone
"at home , duh!" she replied
"why the fuck are you at home ,you moron! I've been waiting for you for 2 hours !"
"wait ....what? ...ahahahaha....well the plan got cancelled , i guess nobody told -" I cut off the phone before she could finishwhat the fuck?!
I looked down at my boots that were now filled with water , I was completely drenched , I guess I should be on my way home now..how dare that bitch ! she can go fuck herself.
"sephora ! Yo ! babe! " someone called out and i turned only to see walter, JAKE WALTER , the creep ..Oh my god ! did i just say that loud?cauz he's expression just turned from a happy smiling emoji to a not so happy emoji .
"yeah?" I ask not sure if I just called him a creep"Babe! I heard you on the phone .Are you all by yourself?" he asks . Okay, I did not call him a creep. phew.
"yeah , why do you ask?" I ask suspiciously "uhh..nothing, let's go, I'll take you to my hangout spot !" he says cheerfully with much enthusiasm
okay I don't know why I called him a creep ?Because everyone in school does . Sure. But he doesn't seem to be such. Judged too soon .
honk....honk....I turned to see a white ford honking at me .
" Yo ! chill! dumbass" Jake yelled .
The person in the driver seat came out and in a moment of seconds I realized it was my dad . Wait did he get a new car?
"Jake ! it's my dad! " I whispered ."oops.." he whispered back.
Dad came speed walking and grabbed my hand and dragged me to the car ."Get into the car . I thought you were with Cloe .." he said" I can explain, dad ""NOW!!!" he screamed
I obeyed , trying not to create a ruckus on the street where people had already started to stop what they're doing to look at the drama happening on the street.The drive was surprisingly long and I had to hear an earful that I was out of discipline . Dad believed that I lied to him that I was gonna be out with Cloe and instead I was with a guy who apparantly is not a good company .
Dad would listen to no expostulations. Not even the truth. He's a cop so, here I am ,getting treated like a criminal.
After we reached home, we had a heated argument cauz dad just would not listen to me . Everything I said was pointless.
"You're getting out of control !! you are grounded !! And now off to your room " he yelled
And that's when it really got on my last nerve. All my life or almost , I'd been grounded . Every small issue led me to be prohibited over something. When my friends went out to hang around late at night or on sleepovers ,i was there inside my house doing my homework.
I was chained with rules and tied with discipline .And mom was of no use as a defending stratergy. I was forbidden to upload many pictures on social media, wasn't allowed to have guy friends.
"That's it ! You can do whatever you want ! Enough of your clumsy rules .. you know what I guess you should stop calling me your daughter... I don't think I ever was anyway . So you can now leave me alone to die . For god's sake act like a parent ,Mr. Cop " i screamed as tears rolled down my cheeks.
I ran to my room upstairs and shut the door hard and locked myself.He was screaming at me but all I could do was ignore . I wiped my tears and calmed myself down.
"now, " I said to myself ." It's time to leave."
I grabbed my backpack and a suitcase . I shoved all my clothes into the suitcase and everything that I could find in my room . My perfumes, important novels, some artifacts that i can sell later, packed foods, more food from the fridge and my piggy bank money that had $1000 .
I shoved the money into my wallet, my pocket, my jacket ,my backpack, inside my socks , under my bra . It's called defragmentation , incase my wallet gets stolen.
I saved quite much for this day. Right from middle school , i bought cheap stuff just to save my pocket money , never bought those fancy ice-creams ,pastries ,those branded makeup .
And finally , i pulled out a paper and started writing:
Dear MOM and DAD,I'm leaving home and don't try to find me else next time i won't run ,i'll kill myself . I can't handle your demeanour , it suffocates me ,it feels like there is objection to everything I do . And I'm your daughter not a stranger or a criminal , don't you treat me like one . Dad, if you had listened to my point of view or acted like a proper responsible parent , i think everything would be different.Parents shouldn't be like you guys , else they would end up like me .Take care of savanha.Don't treat her like you did to me. Yours daughter
i looked at my watch,it was about 11 pm . I should be going now. I tie one end of the chain of blankets to the door knob and other end around my stomach . I climb out of the window and jump to the roof of less height and jump off.
owwwwwww. Appareantly the chain of blankets was too long and I crashed on the ground. Talk about being weak in Mathematics.I hear the lucy barking, the neighbour's dog . shit shit shit . I should probably run.
I rushed to the nearest subway and got on the train which went to the airport . It was quiet ..there were only afew people on the train .A bald old man in his late 50's , a guy who looked like mafia with his shades at first ,then i realized he was blind after i finally saw his stick, a lady in her forties whose clothes and expression looked as if she had just returned from a funeral and a guy about my age ,who had a well toned body because his t-shirt couldn't hide his well-built body.
The guy's body reminded me of my boxing classes , how troublesome i felt it was at first and then how i learnt how to cope with it.And oh my god my gymnastic classes !! Absolute torture..
As the train stopped , I rushed inside the airport . I googled the cheapest yet the most amazing place i could get to , and after a lot of research , I decided to go to Nepal , with my transit point 'Bali' of indonesia.(#VisitNepal2020)
I got on the plane and sat on my window seat . It was so not right .. i left my house, I'm flying on a plane all by myself . All these years that I've been on my own on a plane , I've never felt so away from my family . And till my family wakes up in the morning tomorrow , I will be gone .
"umm, hey ! so you'll be my mate for the journey , so lucky of you!!" an ebullient toned voice says as it sits besides me. I turned to look at the guy only to find the guy that i had seen recently on the train.
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THE RUNAWAYS
Teen Fiction" My life was perfect dammit....until " I paused and stared right into his eyes " until i met you, who are you? look what you've done you asshole -" He moved swiftly and pulled me into a hug " I know . I love you too " he whispered in my ears. ...