My Blood is on Your Hands

Chapter 1 - Leap of Faith

"I am NOT wearing this!" I scream at my best friend Lily.

"Oh yes you are!" she says back to me in a high pitched voice "Don't worry you'll look amazing."

"No. I will NOT wear this" I say firmly

"Oh well don't say I didn't warn you" she says as she lunges at my tackling me to the floor. We roll around on the floor for about fifteen minuets until she comes out on top. I look up at her in disgust realizing that I'm going to have to do what she says.

"Alright fine" I say annoyed

"Yay!" she squeals "Alright we'll do hair and makeup first then dress, shoes, and voila! perfectio!"

"Umm Lily that's not Spanish you know that right?" I ask quizzically

"No duh, I know that I take Spanish remember?" she said sarcastically

"Oh really you take Spanish" I said back to her sarcastically

"Yup, totally"

"No you don't" I said smiling.

"Yes I do!"

"No"

"Yes"

"No"

"Yes"

"No you don't! now hurry up and do my hair before I get really angry" now she was really getting on my nerves.

"Yes! See see you admitted you are going to wear the dress! I knew it!"

I just sighed and got up off the floor walking over to the bathroom. when I got to the door I pushed it open and sat down on the stool already waiting for me. I watched as Lily put my hair up into a bun. I couldn't believe how effortlessly she made it into a bun fit for a queen. I couldn't even put my black hair up into a messy bun! I closed my eyes and waited for Lily to finish my makeup.

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I opened my eyes to see Lily staring at my face. "Ahhh!" I screamed

She jumped back so quickly I thought she was going to fall on her but.

"What? What's wrong?"

"Nothing, you just try opening your eyes to your best friend staring at your face like its a science project."

"Oh sorry"

"It's ok" I said looking in the mirror only to gasp at the amazing makeup job.

"Are you ok?" She looked at me concern written all over her face.

"Yeah I'm fine I just don't know it I can get over the fact that I look like a pop star" I say. she laughs at that and then studies my face closely.

"You ready?" she asks

"As I'll ever be"

"Ok, then let's get started!" she says excitedly

I watch her scurry over my bad and grab the dress that's draping over it. she hands it to me and says

"Go change"

I walk over to the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror. This will be the last time in look in one before I leave my house and stay at school for twenty-two hours straight. Great I thought to myself. How in the world am I supposed to survive this. I groan and strip down to my undergarments before sliding on the dress. I step out of the bathroom just in time to see my other best friend, Maddy, walk in and stare at me with wide eyes.

"What?" I say

She just silently walked me over to the mirror next to my closet and pointed it towards me. I stare in shock at what I look like. I'm wearing an emerald green dress to match my green eyes. it splits at the bottom and works its way all the way up stopping at mid thigh. At the top of the dress is one sleeve with light green flowers winding their way over my right shoulder and across my back to the left side of the dress. On the flowers are pearls doting the flowers making them sparkle. At the edges of the flowers in an outline of each one in white thread. My black hair is pulled up into a tight bun that makes me look twenty five. My eyeshadow is the same color green around my eyes. Then it darkens into a smokey black with fake stick on jewels peppering the rim of my eyeshadow. I have very light green lipstick on. As I look at myself in the mirror I can't help but think how much Lily was right.

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I looked up at the stars and thought of everything that has happened to me in the past couple of weeks. it all started with the big fight that my mom and dad had. After that my brother turned eighteen and left to go live with his girlfriend in South Carolina. He was murdered in a hotel an hours ride away. After that my mom just kept getting drunk every night. Eventually she sold me to a thirty-seven year old man to be his slave.  After that i escaped and went to a hotel down the road, when i walked into the hotel the news was on a big tv screen in the back og the room.  I watched curiously as a photo of my mom popped up on the screen, a photo of my DEAD mom.  My origional plan was to leave home head east to my aunts house and to stay their until I turn eighteen.  I still had six months to go, but now, everythings changed.  Now I watch as my aunt and uncle's faces come up on the screen.  The headline says that they died in a car crash after serious impact at an intersection and the car rolled down a hill into a river, there they drowned.  It's amazing how just one crash can take away all that you had left and leave you with nothing.  So now my plan has changed slightly, now i'm currently balencing on the edge of a window sill preparing to jump.

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hey guys this is my first book hope you like :-)

peace

-May