Closer to Hope

Chapter 2

I take a deep breath, grab my board and find a way through the trees and back to the main road. I sigh and skate back to my house relieved that no one was awake yet. I grab my camera, sketchbook and pencils and set it on my bed while I go and find my backpack. I grab everything and set in my backpack and zip it up. I sling it onto my back. Just before I walk out of my bedroom I grab my phone and headphones and then walk back through my house to the door. Just as I began to step outside I hear my fathers alarm clock go off, and I hurry and exit my house. He is an ass in the mornings, I think to myself while I skate to the park.

I get to the park and smile at how peaceful everything was. I walk over and sit down at a bench pulling out my phone and plugging my headphones in and putting them in my ears. I go to my music and turn on City lights by Motionless in White. I then grab my backpack and pull out my pencils and sketchbook. I rummage through my mind, thinking of something, anything I could draw. But I keep zoning out, drowned by all the thoughts hitting my mind at once. Every thought that I don't want there. I stare down at the blank paper, and suddenly it hits me. I could draw something about motionless in white, Something about Chris!

I smile at all the possibilities that come flooding into my mind and I settle on one. I could draw the back of Chris and I holding hands walking off somewhere in the distance. I grab a pencil and push it on to the paper and begin to sketch an outline of Chris and I. I smile even brighter when I get to the part where we are holding hands. I stop and put the pencil down, grab my phone and change the song to Destroy Everything by Motionless in White.

I pick up the pencil again and begin to draw again when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I sigh and pull my headphones out of my ear and turn around. I see a man, his wife, I think and their two children. "Excuse me, but I don't think you should be here!" the man grumbles rudely.

"And why the hell not?" I ask getting pissed off.

"Because you are scaring my two children!" the man replies.

"Well fuck you too, you stupid idiot, maybe you should be the one that should leave. This park is to wonderful to have people like you ruining it!!" I yell, standing up and glaring at the man. The man and woman growl and walk away taking the hand of the youngest child and pulling her along. The oldest child smiles and waves, "I'm sorry missy, they can be real jerks to people." I smiled right back at her forgetting about her ass hole father.

I sit back down and go to put my stuff away, realizing how overdue on gum I was getting. I put everything away and slung my backpack on my back and walked to the road and skated to the nearest convenient store for the best gum ever.

After about ten minutes I get to the store and see a couple people in all black stepping out of a nice vehicle. I think nothing of it knowing that I will probably see them inside. I walk to the candy isle of the store and find the gum sitting in its section. I grab a pack and walk to the beverage part and grab a water. I turn around and walk to the cashier handing her the water and gum, and then pull out a couple bucks from my pocket. I then hand it to her after she rang up everything and she then handed me back the correct change. I walk outside, and the group of people I saw before were standing and talking by their vehicle. I sighed when I couldn't see their faces, frustrated I couldn't see them, I walked a bit closer to see them.

The tallest one looked over and stopped talking. We met eyes and couldn't stop looking at each other's eyes. Right as I smiled and then he smiled back his arm was pulled by a shorter person with long black hair, and he was then pulled into the store. To me the face looked familiar, but I couldn't place it. I shrugged and sighed. I stepped back onto my longboard and headed back to my house to start job searching, not being able to get the thought of the familiar guy out of my head.