The Escape

Chapter 2- Work

"Luna, get your head out of the gutter and take the damn customers order" Dave, my boss, yelled which snapped me out of my thoughts. The diner is very busy today and very noisy might I add. It's a miracle why I have not yet been fired for mostly spacing out half the time while working. I scrunched my nose thinking of what would happen if I did get fired.

I tie my curly brown hair using the black scrunchy that Leon gave me a few months back. Summer Side is the first actual job that me, Luke and Leon have gotten. It pays enough now that Luther moved out and started a family of his own. We couldn't blame him for wanting to be selfish for once, plus he let us borrow his money and doesn't bother asking it back.

"Lu, why don't you wash the dishes while I take care of the customers?" Luke said snapping me once again back to reality. Ugh, if you do that you'll get stuck with Ms. Sunflower a voice in my head says. Yeah that backstabbing chatterbox I hear another voice say. Soon enough more voices appeared.

I grip my hair when it turned too chaotic for me. I have not even realized I accidentally pushed another waiter and broke all the plates he was carrying.

"LUNA CLEAN THIS UP RIGHT NOW! THIS WILL GO ON YOUR PAYCHECK THIS MONTH" Dave was fuming. Are you just gonna let this idiot order you around? "Shut up" I mumbled.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY LENBROUGH"

I swear, he looked like Rudolf the big nose reindeer. I uttered a soft apology, scared of losing my job.

Oh boy, my brothers are already carrying my problems on their shoulders what more if I turn jobless. We were making a scene and almost everyone was looking at us. "Relax Dave, I'm sorry about my sister. She just didn't drink her medicine today." Leon says a hand on Dave's shoulder. He immediately calmed and touched my brother's hand giving it a tight squeeze. I couldn't help but give him the stinky eye. For a fat 40-year old man without any hair left on his head to take interest on my 17 year old triplet is disgusting. In the corner of my eye I see Luke frown in the scene in front of him.

"I can't believe you're just letting that man harass you Lee" Luke says as we walk home after I got many hours of scolding from Dave and washing dishes with Magnolia Adams, my ultimate bully ever since 7th grade. You could smell plastic even by just looking at her.

I rub my shoulders and wondered why I only wore a tank top and shorts in the middle of September. My brothers were walking ahead of me as I look at cars probably on their way home. The street lights were already turned on illuminating the beauty and busy streets of New York. It would've been pretty calming  if it weren't for the sound of honking trucks and the images of red eyed shadows that I would see on alleyways that we pass from time to time.

I didn't even realize I was already in front of the door to our apartment. The lights were off but I could hear the sound of the television.

As we turned on the lights we were greeted by the sight of my dad with a woman, her bare chest in all its glory. My dad was on the sofa while the woman sat on his lap. Making out.

This kind of situation was common. Dad would bring different women everyday and most of the times one of us would walk in on them doing things that I will not describe.

Leon closed the door as we quietly make our way to our room. I sat on my bed as Leon and Luke on theirs. We weren't sharing a bed anymore (thankfully), just the room. Lucas being in the other room linked next to us. It's all because my 2 older brothers have a job and and could afford to rent a bigger room in the apartment.

I remembered that I would eventually need to refill my antipsychotics. I go and look myself at the mirror. Blank face with eye bags under my crystal hues. There wasn't anything pretty about me, that I learned from Magnolia and chaos. I'm the freak with no friends but the voices in my own head. Are we even your friends? We aren't friends with you. You are too stupid.

Sighing I once again get succumb to chaos. I was shaking involuntarily. Leon was clearly alarmed as he noticed me, quickly stood next to me. I was breathing heavily, the voices ran across my mind. Stop. Stop. Please. Why does this have to happen to me?. Why me?. I could no longer see my brothers nor the room. It was like I got teleported to another dimension.
Do I deserve this? What did I do to have this kind of punishment?. The voices started getting louder than before as I hyperventilate in god knows where this place was. "Help!" I screamed as tears were pouring out my pale face.

"Someone help me"

I suddenly felt a violent shaking. It was as if I was in the arms of someone.

Luna Luna Luna Luna Luna Luna

With each call the voices grew louder and it felt like there was a stinging pain on my cheek. I dealt this for like hours until I was left numb and the world turn blur as I once again get snapped back to reality.