If you were to walk in my shoes..

Chapter 1

It was a light breeze watch the sun go down kinda day, in Miami Florida. I was walking downtown with one headphone in, jammin to some punk rock music. My brown wavy hair was lightly blowing in the summer breeze, it went down to about my middle to lower back. I was in a white cat t-shirt and some red skinny jeans with a black pair of vans. A back pack on my back, or how my little brother calls it, a "pack-pack" I was taking my time, shuffling through the songs on my iPod to find a good song to walk with, when I looked at the time, 5:20 and realized I was late, I quickly turned my volume up and slid my iPod into my pocket as my pace went faster. I arrive at a pet store, open the door, pull out my iPod, turning my music off as I walk to the front desk, wrapping the cord of my headphones around my iPod, I say "I'm here for an interveiw." The lady looks up at me "sit down and I'll get the manager." The smell of animals reeked, people with cats, dogs, lizards and rats. I look around and sat in a chair against the wall, fixing my hair. "Miss McCrackin?" A tall slender man looks at me as I stand up. "Yeah?" He says "come with me" I walk with him down the hall and we enter an office he sits at a chair behind a desk, I take a seat in front of the desk, he slides me a paper. "You know you're late" I look down. "Not a good start if you want a job here. I need you to fill out this paper, just for records here." I reach for a pen, and start to fill it out. Last name: McCrackin Middle name: Zo First Name: Roxxane. Height: 5'4. Weight: 147. Age: 16
I slide the paper back to him. "Sorry, I didn't mean to be late my school is kinda far" He looks at me, scans and then puts the paper away, in a folder on his desk. "Do you have any siblings?" I look around, his desk name tag says 'Rob Wellington' "Yes. I have 4 other siblings. 2 younger brothers, an older brother and a younger sister." "Wow" he says as he organizes his desk. "Who's your parent or guardian?" I pull and tug on my sleeves of my jacket, trying to not freak out, I don't want to mess this up, I need a job. "I live with my mom" I take my backpack off placing it next to my chair.
"My dad is out of the picture" "Do you all have the same father?" I look up and playing with my fingers "no me and my two younger brothers have the same dad, my older brother has a different dad and my youngest sister is adopted." He taps a pen on the desk "tell me about your at home life, what grade are you in, do you live in a house or a apartment?" I take a quick look at my iPod to see what time was, 5:50 "well, I'm in 10th grade, I currently live in a rent house that has 4 rooms. Even though there are 6 of us. I go to South gates high." He nodded, "well, we have to look at your records and call you if you get a job. Well have you a call by Tuesday." I stand up pulling my jeans up and my shirt down, picking my bag up and putting it on my back, "thank you." I get my iPod undoing the cord and putting an earbud in, walking out of the hallway, I start heading to the door, I open the door and press play on my iPod starting my way home at "6:00" I'm singing under my breath walking about 2 blocks away to my house "ii don't wanna say goodnighht, the city comes alive when we're together, why can't Thursday last forever." I listen to this song every Thursday. And sure enough, that's what today is. I put my hands in my jacket pockets as I walk I see a billboard covered in flyers, I walk past it everyday and it's usually empty. I look at the flyers, most of them say "HOUSE PARTY TOUR: ALL TIME LOW feat A DAY TO REMEMBER AND PIERCE THE VEIL. FLORIDA
November 30th. If you don't come you're an all time blow!" My face just lights up as I read the works, I grab the bottom of the page ripping it off. I grab the tack that they used too and place it in my pocket. I turn my volume up, can't help but to smile knowing my all time favorite band was going to be in my state. Later I took two steps onto my front porch, pulling my iPod out "6:32" I turn my music off and walk in through the door, the smell of my mom cooking fills the air, We have a medium size front room. My younger brothers gathered around the tv, my older brother, Oliver,
sitting on the couch, looks up from his phone at me, his dark brown curly hair in his face. My little sister, Claire, was playing with her toys. I stumble over my little brothers, rolling all around the floor, "Charlie, Alexander, MOVE" they grab onto my legs, "where have you been Roxxi? With your boyfriend?" They giggle and pull on me, I kick them away as I head to my room, I go down the hall past a room and a bathroom, I throw my bag down and headed for the kitchen, "mom." I enter the kitchen watching my mom cook, "hey Roxxi, how'd it go?" "I don't know, they'll call me by Tuesday, OH on my way home look what I found," I reach in my pocket and grab the flyer, unfolding it then handing it to my mom . She takes it reading and give me a face. "Roxxi you know you can't. We're poor, we're lucky we're even eating tonight." My mom was very pretty, she was blonde wavy hair, with hazel eyes. She's had multiple boyfriends. She worked a full time job, gone most of the day. We are extremely low on money, but we are all extremely thankful for everything we get. I won my iPod at school and I had a government trac phone. Me and my brother Oliver both have trac phones. Oliver and I go to the same school, he was a grade ahead of me, in 11th. He was a 5'8 dream boy with hazel eyes. We'd have girls down the street just waiting for him to come outside so they can attack him. I've had multiple girls try to be buddy buddy with me just so they can come to my house and see Ollie. This is somewhat the reason I don't like to talk to people at school. Other than them being stupid and not creative. This generation is filled with pricks that think they're cool but they're non creative posers. I hate my school. Everyone there is so stuck up. I want to punch everybody in the gut. I have 2 close friends and I didn't meet them at school, Jessica and Alice. Alice's mom and my mom have been friends since they were teenagers. We just grown together like family. Then Jessica, I met her online. We had some similar friends. So I said if she hangs out with people i know, she can't be like a grown man right? We ended up hanging out when we were about 10 and became best friends. She never left my side and I never left hers. You put the 3 of us together? Were the 3 musketeers, stealing your cigarettes and eating your biscuit dough. All of us are in 10th grade. My younger siblings, Alex is 13 he acts like Charlie, Charlie is 10. They're so close you'd think they're twins. Alex and Charlie are almost the same size. Alex is a slight bit taller with a bowl cut, he has brown eyes. He's in 8th grade. Alex and Charlie go to the same middle school. Charlie is the same but his hair is always messy and gross looking, him and I both have blue eyes. He's in middle school a little 6th grader, a "sixlet." Then Claire she's 6, in first grade, she's a little red-head. No freckles but big green eyes. I sat at the table, checking my phone. "how was school?" I sat my phone down and rubbed my face with my hands. "Stupid, just another day at school." My mom sighed as if she was stressed out and got 6 plates out "will you set the table?" I got up grabbing the plates, and setting them down with silver wear and napkins. I started to make drinks. My mom yelled "Dinners done." Ollie walked in the kitchen holding Claire, he sat her down and she grabbed his hand pulling him to the table, "Owie sit by me" she sat in the chair, pointing at the chair next to her. I was bringing 2 cups of water to the table when Alex and Charlie run into the kitchen and sat down. I finish setting the table, me and my mom sat down we start eating. After we're done eating, I head to my room. I got lucky and don't have to share a room. Alex and Charlie share a room, my mom has her own room and Ollie and Claire share a room. We all have pretty small rooms. "Goodnight guys" I give everyone a hug and go to my room, it was 9:39. I walk through the living room to the hallway passing Alex and Charlie's train wreck of a room, the bathroom, and then at the end Of the hallway, my room. There were a million signs on my door "keep out" "don't feed the animals" "Roxxi Drive" and Scooby doo stickers covering the open space on my door. I have a twin size bed.with the same green, white and blue blanket I've had since I was 6. It has many rips in it but I can't sleep without it. I plugged in my Christmas lights hanging around my room, my walls covered in pictures that people drew for me and pictures of me and my friends. I had a teenage room, I pulled the flyer and the tack out of my pocket and hung it on my wall. I plugged my iPod in, hit shuffle " diet Mountain Dew -Lana del Rey " straightened up my room and got my notebook out, sat on my bed, doodling and writing. I threw it down, got up to look at the flyer, I looked at my phone, by this time it was 11:11. As I looked at the all time low picture, I ran my fingers down Alex gaskarth. "I wish that one day. I could see you. I wonder what it's like to be in your life?" I turned my iPod off and unplugged my Christmas lights, jumped into bed, and fell asleep.