Alleys.

The Mind Is A Strong Thing

|Brianna's POV|

"What are you doing?", I ask myself, I saw tears on my younger face but a smile when my presence has been noticed, "We're hiding from our parents, they want to split up..", she whispered with unsteady breathing, "Why?". "Because of us, I hate that it's our fault. Mommy wants us but Daddy does also", she says before a unexplainable noise was heard, "Get out quick before they!-", "BRIANNA GET OUT HERE". Next thing I knew, I saw a bottle thrown and smashed against the wall she was hiding behind, "Ah!", the younger me screamed before covering her ears. "BRIANNA, LOOK WHAT YOU DID!", all that said seemed to be repeated as I started running away from that horrible memory.

Only an hour of nothing, that was it-- an hour of nothing but horrible memories of my childhood. I was buried in my tears, it was almost a pain that I had to live through it again. I sat in this blank box for what felt like.. a day or two. I couldn't stop the flashes that appeared in my mind, they were all of how I got here. All because of my mother. I wasn't about to let that happen again, "I am not going to die", I whisper to myself before getting up and appearing in another place, in an alley, those alleys-- they look all the same.

I look upon the alley to now see 'the other me' rushing then hiding behind the alley, I saw a bunch of men from the corner running there, "Please help me", she says looking terrified, I was so scared I didn't know what to say or do, I saw the men rushing over, "A-are they still there?", she says before getting knocked out when they smashed her head on the wall. They took her bag and left.

Once I turned around I saw another alley, I started out into the distance to see two dark figures, I saw a hand gesture to call me over but it was almost like an illusion and it got brighter every time i'd run faster. I got to the edge of that light and I felt as if I was pushed over and down into wherever but then I realized, my vision was clearing up which meant I was waking up.

I blinked rapidly to clear my vision some more, I saw Chresanto and Trudy sitting there will relieved expressions, "Brianna", I hear a voice say but not by either of them so, I looked around to see more people, Chresanto's friends-- they all smiled at me in relief. I connected that voice to Ray who seemed to have less worries but then I hear Jacob say, "Umm, Brianna I need to talk to you, see um-- this lady came in our house saying that-", he tries before someone came barging in-- my mother.

|Chresanto's POV|

She just stared in fear which made me worry, worry a lot. The woman that stood there looked quite horrible-- her face was very old but it looked as if not her real age, her teeth were a bit darker-- she was in a bad condition. All she wore was a robe around her, a pair of jeans and a torn top, "Where is sh-- Oh my god, baby!", she says with a big smile on her face revealing her 'pearly whites', Brianna looked almost embarassed-- so embarassed she was lost for words. "Who are you?", my mother asked the woman who was playing with her fingers, "I am her mother", she shared  a smile at everyone but some were confused who were my friends and some were disgusted to see her stand here who has to be my mother and a bit of me. "What are you doing here?", Brianna asked in a croaking voice, "No, sweetie-- rest your voice, I'll do the talking... can we have some time alone?", she says in her 'smooth voice'. With that, we left and everyone decided discomfort my comfort zone, "OKAY-- tell us quick, you have five f*cking seconds before we molly your *ss!", Franklin tries to threaten me and I pried Malcom's hands off of me. "You all need to sit and calm down first", I say before everyone surprisingly listened to me.

"Okay," I began talking.

"She's not my cousin or my sister-- she's not related to me in any kind of way. We found, she had no home so, we gave her a place to stay", "WHAT THE F*CK", Craig says screwing up his face, "Tell us more", they before I gave Craig a nod. "Remember when Blue was missing, apparently Brianna found him and kept him safe-- which I appreciate. How she's homeless? Her mother threw her out because apparently she likes cocaine more than her daughter", "Then why did she come back?", Jacob asks with a sad expression. "I have no idea... I don't think she's good company. I found her in an alley and she looked almost ripped apart from her own soul-- dirty and reckless".

"I can't believe it", Ray says shaking his head, "Are y'all mad?", "Yeah, we're mad-- you should have told us!", Malcom says before rolling his eyes, "But we'll try to cope with it", he says and I gave him a small smile to that I appreciated that. "I feel bad or her", Franklin says with the others to agree.

|Brianna's POV|

I let her speak but folded my arms, "I tried getting back to you, noticing you were already gone and I thought you wouldn't leave me but you did-", "You told me to leave", I corrected her. "I tried contacting Miya and her sister but they were so disrespectful and rude-- they refused to tell me where you were." I raised my eyebrows, "I'm proud they did that", I say to her with no regret and she looked shocked, "W-what? Baby , I went all over looking for you and stuff but you left me, why would you leave me? WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE ME?", she cried out but I wasn't falling for it, "I left you because you were a mess and my mother wouldn't throw me out of the house so, you are not to be called my mother", I pressed using her own words as a back fire.

"HOW DARE YOU", she screamed with tears down her face but barely left mine, I've been hurt too much, "HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO YOUR MOTHER-- HOW F*CKING DARE YOU!", she says grabbing me by my shoulders furiously shaking me and I just sat there watching the whole thing happen, more tears left me eyes and that's when I received a slap right across my face before the doctors came in to pry her off. She screamed as if it was her life but I doubt that.

I talked to the man in black who seemed to be en-charge of this whole predicament, I couldn't help but watch my mother being arrested and to make it much worse, the pack of cocaine dropped out of her robe, "YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE I HAD", and those words haunted me whole day.

~

I remained in the guest room in Malcom's house, I cried my eyes out whole night, I can only hear my sobs but not that long. I began to hear the door open and creeping footsteps then two arms appeared around me hesitantly and another my back, I looked to see Chresanto and Trudy. To my surprise, Roc was trying to comfort me but I didn't fuss, I needed that so, I instantly fell in his arms and continued crying before receiving a hug from Trudy, "I have to go set the table for dinner", she says with small sniffle but there was still a bit of mischief in there and I didn't know why, Chresanto gave her a short glare which seemed to put a smile on her face before leaving us there-- cuddled up?

Author - Hope that was enough for you guys and I will be starting a new story and.. it won't be Mindless Behavior, just a quick hint-hint. (Just to try something different, don't me mad, k.. PS : This story might come to an end soon, hopefully because I have SCHOOL ;( ) And I know some people were like : |It's been eight four years| and I hope your happy! Stay awesome and mindless...BYE.