For Me

Surroundings

My eyes start to slowly open and I take in the scent of strawberries. I sit up and look around the room I was in. It looked like a boys room with dark blue colored walls and it was kind of messy. I looked down at myself and sighed in relief that I was still in my clothes. I wasn't panicking or anything yet because I hadn't seen my father. Yeah it seems weird, but anywhere that isn't close to him makes me feel safe.

I scratched my head and started to wonder where I was until I remembered what happened. "Oh my god, did I pass out again?" I questioned myself. Whenever I would shake I'd pass out, I didn't know why, I've never been to the doctors to find out. I was scared to leave the room but I wanted to know who's house I was in. Looking around one more time I lifted myself from off of the bed and pressed my ear against the door. If I've learned anything from movies it was to check your surroundings, I wasn't gonna walk out if I heard someone talking or coming in the room.

I turn the door knob and peek my head out the door. It was a pretty nice looking hallway, It had family pictures and bright lights. I looked down the hall and stepped out. I walked towards the stairs and looked down, trying to see if anyone was there or not. I smelled pancakes and of course I wasn't gonna leave this amazing house without eating. I'm not crazy.

I braced myself for anything and began to walk down the stairs. There were a lot of stairs so this had to be a house HOUSE. When I stopped at the bottom of the stairs I saw no one there so I followed the smell hoping it would lead me to the kitchen. I took notice of the decorations placed in the house and the colors.

I kind of like to remember certain things people wouldn't just in case something happens, survival tip. I kept walking and looking around until I bumped into a wall. I hissed in pain because I hit my toe and I had no shoes on, " Ow ow ow" I tried to keep as quiet as possible not wanting to draw attention to myself in case someone might come out and kill me.

I limped to my destination and saw 3 men sitting at a table. So I was right, they were eating chocolate covered pancakes, eggs and toast. It looked like they were drinking orange juice, I saw a woman at the stove still whipping up something. "She must be a cook or someone's mother" I thought to myself, they were talking and laughing like they were a family.

I wondered why I couldn't hear them earlier but not taking much thought into it, I walked into the kitchen acting as though I was lost. "I read in books that you have to act like you don't know what's going on in order to get approached, I hope they ask if I'm hungry or not because I'm starving" I said in my head looking at each one of them with wide eyes.

I shifted my weight on one foot to the other and rubbed my arm. After a few moments of silence the woman smiled at me and spoke, "Hi sweetie, are you hungry?" everybody looked at me and I nodded. She came over to me and guided me to sit down in a chair across from the guy with an ombre of black and blonde dreads.

She set a plate down in front of me and I looked at everybody else's plate to see if anything was different. When I seen that it wasn't I began to dig in, I was almost done with my eggs until I heard a high pitched voice. I looked up and saw a really pretty female standing in front of me glaring. I shrugged and continued eating my eggs, I looked back up and saw her still standing there.

I raised an eyebrow at her and saw another figure come into the kitchen, I ignored it and got up to wash my plate. As I was walking towards the sink I heard her hiss just like a cat, I giggled and tapped the nice lady that gave me the food. "Can I help wash the dishes please?" I felt as though there was nothing else I could do but be nice and help out. "Of course you can" she gave me a warm smile and handed me another wash cloth and we began doing the dishes together.

"What is she doing here?" I heard the high pitched voice ask, "Mind your business Kamila" I heard a deep and raspy voice say, "No Shawn, what the hell is she doing here!" she screamed and I visibly winced and tightly closed my eyes.

Screaming is something that I hate, especially when it's really high pitched and loud screaming. "Don't cuss in my house lil heffa" the lady said turning back and glaring at her with her hand on her hip, the girl just simply smiled and rolled her eyes. I shook my head, how can somebody be so rude when your in someone else's house. After I was done drying the remaining wet plates I turned around and saw the guy I was captivated by at the mall.