Double Rainbow (Katy Perry Fan Fiction)

Lost

     l am 9 years old. l live in Las Angelos, California and l have always wanted to meet Katy Perry ever since l heard her on the radio, but my family is poor so l can't even get the worst seats at her concerts. l wish l could just run away. lt wouldn't really be that much of a difference than what l am living in now. l barely make it through going to school. l don't have any friends because l am not rich. l don't have enough money to buy an outfit for every day of the year. l barely have enough money to buy an outfit for every day of the week.

     lt's a normal night in my house. l am upstairs silently crying and listening to my idol, Katy Perry, while my mom and dad are downstairs fighting about how we don't have the money to feed me. l never knew l was going to be such a pain in the butt to take care of. lt isn't like l ask for everything in the world, l just want to know what love feels like and what having friends feels like. For me, well, l never see that happening. l sit and think every single day if l should run away and l think l am going to run away this weekend. l already have a little sack packed. lt has some snacks and water and a blanket in it. lt is only Wednesday. lt isn't like l am counting down to the day that l am going to leave, it's just l want to get away from all of the crap l get told that l know are lies. l want my family to be able to eat 3 times a day instead of only once with a little snack before bed. l am the skinniest little twig because l don't eat enough. l always get made fun of for being "anorexic" when l'm not. 

     The last couple of days go by so slow, but the clock strikes Midnight on Friday night. l make sure that l have my locket around my neck and that my parents are asleep and l grab my little sack and sneak out. l walk around until l find the way out of my apartment complex. There is a big freeway. l just decide to follow that road until l feel like taking a rest. l wander aimlessly around for hours until l find myself lost. l don't remember which ways l turned. l am definitely lost now. l regret running away. l regret everything. l am lost. l sit down on the corner of a street and bundle up in my blanket.

     l wake up in broad daylight and l see these girls walking by. l approach them to see if they can help me find my way back home. They see me getting up and they see how scrawny l am so they laugh. They just stand there and laugh and point. An older, more mature-looking woman walks up to them and says

"Girls, get away from that freak-show," as she pushes them along

"But mom... She's so scrawny and,, and homeless. Such a loser," one of the girls say as l sit back down 

"l know, l know, but we aren't going to help her," the mom says as she keeps walking away. All day long, cars drive by, but none stop to help me. The people inside the cars are cold-hearted. 

     lt is getting dark and a car passes by me, but stops just in time to be out of the way of the people driving on the road. l see the car door open and a tall man gets out. He has gray hair. Well, of what hair he had was gray. He carried a little plastic bag and a blanket. He approaches me and sits next to me, but keeping his distance so he doesn't feel like an intruder. He sits the bag and blanket next to me.

"Here, you need this more than me, young lady," he says as he grunts to get back up

"Wait," l croaked. l hear him turn around, but l don't have the strenght to look up at him

"Why are you helping me? Why aren't you laughing and making fun of me for being so scrawny?" l ask

"Because l take the high road. l am not the kind of person to put another person down just because they don't have as much as l do. l believe that the more someone has, the more they should give to others," he says as he turns around and walks back to his car. 

     l put the blanket around me that he gave me and l open the bag. lt has food in it. Not snacks, actual food. lt was food from a restaurant. l loved the sight of it. l whisper thank you even though the man is long gone. After l eat the food, l have a little more energy to walk some more. l grab my bag and put it over my shoulder. l start to walk and it feels like miles and miles and miles. l get to a point in the road where all l hear is car horns. l have never experienced this before because we always took the back roads to avoid traffic. l never even really knew cars had horns until l accidentally hit it one day. l look back and realized that l have been walking for a long while. l find a bench, but there was already a person sitting there. They definitely weren't homeless. l guess they were waiting for the bus. l sit across the bench from him and when he sees the bus he hands me money so l can get on the bus. l get up and follow him on the bus and give the bus driver the money. Everyone stares at me as l sit down in a seat with nobody around it. l sit on the bus until everyone else gets off. The bus driver un buckles his seat belt and gets up