Chapter 1

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by kyrst1

by kyrst1

Song of the chapter, How you reminde me by Nickelback

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I look up, from making the cookie dough into balls, at the full length mirror we have on our kitchen door. I scrunch my nose at my apperence, dirty blonde hair that looks like it is starting to turn light brown, my zit and acne infested face, and my 5' 2'' height. I guess the only thing I remotly like about my self are my eyes; from far away they look hazel, but up close they are a faded green.

I quickly turn to take the cookies out of the oven when I hear the door open, "Heck yea! Keep on cooking like this and we might consider not selling you!" I hear my brother's friend Adam yell

"Leave the cookies on the counter to cool you idiot!" I yell at him slapping his hand with the spatula

I look up at his freckle face, dark brown hair, green eyes and his 6' 4'' frame, "Why you gotta be so mean?" He complains.

I look over at my brothers other friend, Mitchal, and i'm met with hazel eyes, blonde hair and a 5' 7'' frame, "Why don't you ever listen to her? You do this every time she bakes."

"Because her cookies are amazing!" Adam replies

"Leah!" I hear my twin Lee yell

"I'm in the kitchen with your two idiot friends!" I yell back at him

As I take out another batch of cookies and put another in the oven and set the timer again; my brother walks in. Out of the corner of my eyes I see his dirty blonde hair, 5'6'' frame and his eyes are the same as mine, but he doesnt have any acne.... I guess he is the lucky one.

"Hey sis, I um.. I kinda need yo-"

"No, I am not being bate for your stupid gang! I told you this once already, I don't want to be in this life. Our parents and our uncle said that I didn't have to be in this because no one knows of me! Do you want to take away their dieing wish!?" I yell at him

"Our parents died when we were 10 and out uncle died when we were 15, ya know last year!" He yells back, "I need you support in this! I need your help sis!"

"Well I can't! And you knew that since we were little."

"Well I don't care! This is me asking you, me begging you for help! I can't run this gang by my self! I'm just a kid, we're just kids we're 16!" He yells throwing his hands up

I quickly brush a tear from my face, "Lee I can't, I just can't" I whisper

"Fine be selfish! You know what why don't you turn that dang oven off and get out of my house!"

I look up at him, "Mom would be dissapointed."

With that I turn the oven off and run up to my room. I grab my nike duffel bag and start shoving some clothes into it. After I finish shoving clothing in the bag I grab my back pack and throw my brush, hair ties, tampons, pads, chocolate, and all of my other stuff I need. After that I grab my purse and I throw all of my cash into it and I make sure my wallet is in it before I grab everything and walk out to our garage.

I pull out the keys to my truck, its a navy blue chevy pick up truck, and I toss my two bags in the back before opening the door and tossing my purse on the bench seats and I pull myself behinde the wheel.

"Leah, don't go! You know he didn't mean it!" Mitchal yells walking over to me as I start to back out

I roll my window down all the way as I yell, "You know as well as I do that he meant it!"

"Come on Lala, don't go! Plea-" I cut him off by tearing down the drive and down the main drag of our town.

I turn up the music as loud as it can go as I start singing along to the lyrics

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as
A poor man stealing
Tired of living like a blind man
I'm sick of sight without
A sense of feeling
And this is how you remind me

This is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am

I take a sharp turn, turning off of a paved road and onto a dirt road. Ok I know that my family runs a gang and all that, but i'm the only one who loves the country and getting muddy. I hate shooting people even though I love shooting guns. Weird right, considering my family.

I stop my truck and I jump out and I pull out my sleeping bag I keep shoved behind the seat and I lay it down in the bed of the truck. I relize that it is almost pitch black when I crawl into the sleeping bag, as I fall asleep I ignore the animals walking through the woods.

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Ug school, it took me a week to write this because of school and ugh...
Have fun!