Least I Can Say I Stand For Something (Jeremy McKinnon FanFiction)

Chapter 1: The Dispute

It was exactly 1:45 as Alexandra was walking to her car after finishing her last class of the day. She got to her car, a 2003 Kia Spectra, and unlocked the drivers side door. She tosses her book bag onto the passenger side seat and slides into the drivers seat.

Alexandra wasn't a very shy girl, actually she made friends with almost everyone who talked to her. She wasn't the most beautiful girl, but she wasn't ugly she had shoulder length, edgy hair. Her bangs were a bluish-purplish color, while the rest of her hair was white. She had angel bites and her ears were stretched to a double zero. She was 19 years old. She went to college as a full time student and worked two full time jobs also. Her parents had divorced when she was 13 and both of them had remarried.

Alexandra put her car in drive and pulled out of her parking space to head to work. She got on the interstate and drove to Harrisonburg, where her patient lived. Alexandra was a Certified Nursing Assistant, something she had gotten when was a junior I'm high school through a technical school.

Alexandra finally got to work, and hours passed by. It was about 7:30 when she got the text message from her dad.
'Come by my house on your way home.'
She read it over a few times with that nauseous feeling growing in the pit of her stomach. She replied back with a simple '0kay.'

Alexandra's dad wasn't a mean or rude person to your face and actually a lot of people didn't know who he had become when he had married Susan. Alexandra's dad was very controlling and manipulative. If he didn't like something then by god he would try his damn hardest to change it. His tongue was sharp and judge mental. He wasn't allowed to be wrong and he would say some of the nastiest things to someone. Susan grew up an only child so most of her life she had be spoiled. Everything she wanted she got and she was even more judgmental than Alexandra's father. She had only one child from her previous marriage who was even more spoilt than her. He was almost 10 years old and she still hand fed him everything.

As the clock on Alexandra's phone told her it was 8 and time for her to go home, she signed heavily. The pit in her stomach grew more as she drove closer and closer to her dads house. As she pulled into the driveway she saw that the living room lights were on. She took one more deep breath, turned her car off and headed inside.

When she walked in her dad was sitting on his laptop, he looked up at her, his nostrils flaring letting Alexandra know he was angry.

"Sit down Alexandra." Her father stated. Alexandra sat quietly down on the couch across from him, trying to figure out what was wrong now, she couldn't remember doing anything wrong.

"Do you know what you're grades are?" He asked.

"They're all A's and B's." Alexandra replied avoiding eye contact with him at all costs.

"Yes Alexandra. A damn B! You should know better than to get a damn B." He shouted throwing his laptop to the ground. Alexandra flinched

"What's wrong with a B? I am passing a extremely hard course. You should be proud." She whispered.

Alexandra's dads face turned red. He got close to her and screamed in he face how she should be doing better, how stupid she was and how she wasn't allowed to leave or drive her car.

"Give me your phone." He demanded. That's when Alexandra looked up.

"No. I am 19, I pay my phone bill. I pay my car insurance, put gas in my car, feed myself and by myself clothes. I am a damn adult and you will not tell me what to do any more." Alexandra stated. She got up off the couch shoving Susan out of the way. She grabbed her car keys and ran out of the door. She dived into the car started the it and pulled off not even caring to put her seat belt on.

Alexandra drove through Harrisonburg and got on the interstate. Her phone kept ringing and she eventually got tired of it turning it off.

Alexandra drove for hours and hours. She had actually lost track of how long she had been driving. It felt like weeks when it had only been about a day.

She saw an exit sign stating that the city of Ocala exit was one mile away and she decided to stop there for the night. She got on the exit ramp and drove to a hotel near downtown Ocala.

She checked herself in using cash and walked up to her room. She stripped down to her underwear after realizing she had no clothes and climbed into bed. She sent a text message to her best friend requesting her to send all her clothes down to her ASAP. And then closed her eyes and slept peacefully
for the first time in years.