If you can catch me

Chapter 3

In a small town, there's only one high school, which was fairly easy to find. Normally I doubt the school would be open on a Saturday, but for some reason the faculty was inside the building. The corridors were a light beige colors with cliche blue lockers. I wondered the halls for a few minutes before finally finding the office. There were three office ladies, who were in light conversation with each other.
"Excuse me?" They all stopped talking and looked up at me expectantly.
"I was wondering if I can enroll." They got right to work.
"Of course darling, we just need your old school to file over your papers." I felt my eyes widen and a lie was out of my lips before I could stop it.
"I was homeschooled. There's no school to fax over the papers from." I was impressed with that, I've never been able to lie or come up with topics on the spot. One of the women looked at me.
"Okay. We'll need your parents to come in for some verification." I felt my eyes pool up, I hadn't thought this through. I must've looked pretty pathetic to them or they wouldn't have tried to comfort me.
"What's wrong sweetie?" I sniffed, my eyes probably red.
"They aren't with me." Not a lie but not the whole truth." I'm almost old enough to live on my own, so my aunt told me to go. I just want to go to school. I didn't think it would be this hard!" Once the words started coming they just kept flowing, the tears were dripping too. I needed to be at school, or someone would alert authorities, when authorities figure it out he will come with them. All while my little white lie was going on, they had surrounded me and tissues were being wiped on my face. I guess my tears hit a empathy nerve because I left that office with a cup of coffee, a sugar cookie, and a paper with my schedule starting Monday.
With a smile on my face, I walked back through the town. Even though I'm starting to get comfortable here, I have to be ready to leave at a moments notice. No attachments to this place or the people in it, I sighed sadly at that thought. Tugging at my hair, I watched my shoes as I walked back through town square.
"Look out!" My still bruised tailbone for a few months ago hit the ground hard and a weight of a body was now sprawled on top of me.
"I'm sorry." I look up to see a girl around my age offer me a hand up. Her hair was braided pushed over the side of her head. She was a shorted than me but from a look at her said her attitude made up for the lack of height.
"I wasn't looking where I was going, I was racing my cousin back to my house." She smiled at me.
"Guess he's gonna win now. Hey I haven't seen you around here before, you new?" I nodded yes. She stuck out her hand for me to shake.
"Jessie, Jessie McZealy." I took her hand.
"Alex, Alex Greys." She nodded.
"I gotta go, but I'll see you around Alex Grays." With that she stepped back in her skateboard and left. I continued my walk, when I found myself on the beach. My family never really liked to go to the beach and my ex forbade me from ever going. Just the thought of him gave me the creeps. What will he do if he finds me? I shake that thought away, it's to dark and will ruin my perfectly good day. I got a job, got into school, and met someone who I might be able to call a friend. I continued my trek down the cool sand till i found a rock, in a secluded spot far away from prying eyes. Looking back at the town, my spot is a little ways out of it even out of the abandoned places. I sat there watching the sun go down on a wonderful Saturday, one of my nicest days I've had in a while, where luck was on my side. I sighed in contentment.
"What are you doing on my rock?"