Before the HitA Chapter by Alex This is a very long chapter just to get things going. You will learn about the main characters life and see where the book is going from there. I wake up to my alarm. It's the generic iPhone alarm and it sounds like I just broke into a bank. I know this noise is probably a bad way to start my day. The annoying noise should make me mad but it doesn't. I get up slowly and grab my phone. I hit the top button and the time shows. "10:23 AM" "Jake that noise is so annoying!" My little brother yells from the other room. He is 15 years old, has brown hair just like mine except his isn't as curly. He's 5' 9" which is almost as tall as I am. He's extremely skinny though unlike me. I'm not fat or anything just more built with much bigger muscles. "Sorry Nick" I say sarcastically. I leave my room and head to the bathroom for a shower. I look in the mirror and see my brown messy hair and my extremely dark brown eyes. I turn the water on and stand outside the shower until it gets hot. I strip down and climb in. The shower is the only thing that can wake me up in the morning since I don't drink coffee. I don't have anything against it, I just cannot stand the taste My shower ends and I walk back into my room with the towel around me. I get to my room and I have a text message from my girlfriend Sarah. She used to be the most beautiful girl to me but recently I have been growing a little tired of her since we have been dating over a year. This is the first time i have been in a relationship for this long and I'm just not so sure what to do anymore. "Goodmorning cutie :)" the text message says "Goodmorning babe :) how did you sleep?" I reply I put on some clothes. A short sleeved shirt and some sports shorts. The one thing I do like about my job is that i can wear whatever i want. Since it's the summer, even though right now its not very warm, it probably will be later. I grab my phone and my car keys and head up the stairs. I have to be at work by 11. I have plenty of time to get there but I need to get going. My phone vibrates in my pocket "Oh fine i actually had a bad dream tho :( me and you were being chased by some sort of monster that i never actually ended up seeing and you were holding your head yelling something about how you couldn't help me and I woke up all scoffed!" I think scoffed was supposed to be scared but the stupid iPhone auto correct kicked in. Even though the auto correct was annoying it helped out more than it did damage. I text back "Awwww sorry Sarah! don't worry that won't happen btu i have to go to work so i love you and ill text you soon" I realize that i didn't spell "but" right and don't change it and i see that I'll came out as ill. Apparently my autocorrect doesn't do much. I get into my red 1990 Jeep Wrangler. I turn the key and it takes a couple tries to start. It's kind of a crappy car but i still love it. It starts and i let it warm up. My phone vibrates and i look at the message from Sarah "Ok have a fun day :) i love you!". I text her back "I love you too" My next-door neighbor Mr. Shaw and his six year old boy Karl walk out of their house walking their Husky. I love Huskies and i think they are beautiful dogs. I have always wanted one but since i live with my parents at the moment i can't get one. Jason was tall about 6' 4" and he has short blonde hair. His son is just a little guy and is about 4' 5". He's a very polite little boy and looks just like his father. They see me sitting in my car and both wave. I wave back. i start my car and start driving towards Star Bucks where i work. I pull into the parking lot and go inside. I absolutely hate my job but I need the money to put gas in my car. I talk to my coworkers and nothing really happens for the first couple of hours. Eventually Jason and his son Karl come into the shop and walk to where I'm standing. "Hello Jake!" Mr. Shaw says "My son and I will have two hot chocolates please. Karl say hello to Jake." "Hello Jake." Karl says while hiding behind his father. He is a pretty shy little boy. They moved in a couple of months ago but i still see them around all the time. "Hey Karl how are you today?" I say. Karl just smiles and pushes his head into his fathers thigh. "That will be 5.14$." Mr. Shaw hands me the money and i give them their hot chocolates. They walk over to the tables and Karl pulls out a small brown journal and starts to doodle it in. It looks like it has a leather cover but I couldn't see from so far away. They sat and sipped on their hot chocolates having what seemed to be nice conversation because every once in a while one of them would laugh. Karl would draw something in the book with his pen and then show his dad. They were best friends because Karl didn't have a mom. I wasn't so sure what happened to Karl's mom. I dunno if she left Mr. Shaw or if she had died. It has never came up in conversation and i don't really feel like it's my place to ask. Eventually they left and I kept going on with my long nine hour shift. With about an hour left i receive a text message. It was from my friend Keith. We used to be best friends back all through middle school but then in high school he started smoking a lot of weed and we grew apart. During my junior and senior year we started to hang out a lot more but were still not really good friends. Me and my group of friends would get together with him if we wanted to drink alcohol or something because he always had some. It's not like I drink a lot, just as much as any other teenager would. every couple of weekends but not a lot. I would just drink, and would never smoke anything. Since it's the summer after senior year right now my friends and I would get together a lot more often because a couple of them would be going away to college soon. The text message read "Hey what's good for tonight." No question mark or anything but the text was obviously a question. "I dunno I haven't talked to anyone I had to work all day." I text back. He was probably trying to get something started at Peter's house which was where we all usually hung out. Tonight would be a good night for me because I didn't have any plans with Sarah and I didn't have to wake up early in the morning so staying up until three wouldn't bother me. It was closing time and I was cleaning up behind the counter. "Jake go wash off those tables over there." My boss orders me. He wasn't the nicest man in the world but if you got your job done, which i usually did, he was alright. I reach the tables and start wiping them down with the wash rag. My foot hits something on the ground and I look down. It's the journal that Karl had while he was in here with his dad. It's small, about three inches wide and six inches long. It has a leather cover and back. I quickly flip through the pages and see that there is no writing in it. I think it's kinda strange but maybe i just didn't look well enough. I put it in my left pocket with my car keys so i can return it to him when i get home. My phone vibrates and i get a message from Keith. "We're all thinking Peter's at around 10 or 11 are you trying to get drunk?" This was his way of saying "Hey if you want to drink my alcohol you better bring money!" he has said this a dozen times before to me and I just text back "Yeah ill bring some money to throw down" I walk out to the parking lot and start my Jeep. It take a little bit of time but not as long as usual. I can see the sun setting behind me while I'm driving home. when I'm almost home I see something run across the road. It's a fox that has a very full orange coat. Usually foxes around here look all scraggly and rabid but this one seems very healthy. I stop my car and it stands looking at me from the middle of the road. I take out my iPhone and try to get a picture of it for my Instagram. Right when I'm about to take the picture the fox sprints off. I put my car back in drive and head home with disappointment I reach my house and park my car in front of it because I know I will be leaving soon and going to Peter's. Before I go inside my house i walk over to Mr. Shaw's house. I knock on the door but quickly realize that no lights are on. They must have went away for the weekend. I put the small book back in my pocket and walk over to my house. "Hey Jake!" My mom says. "How was work?" "It was fine nothing special where's dad?" "He's driving Nick to a friends house." My mom says "Ok, I'm going to head over to Peter's so I'll see you in the morning." "Ok sweetie have fun." My mom says I go down stairs to my room and grab my back pack. I put my laptop in my bag and some clothes for the next day. I run up the stairs and back out the door. Right when i leave my house I realize that I haven't texted Sarah yet and she's probably pissed. I take out my iPhone and the time says "9:43". I bring up her inbox and send her a message. "Hey babe sorry I didn't text you how was your day? :)" Hopefully she won't be mad that i forgot about her. I get into my car and drive to my friend Peter's house. His house isn't very far away from mine. I see all the cars parked in the drive way and around the house. It looks like Keith, James, Connor, Mark, and Luke are all here. i park my car and walk into the house "Hey guys whats up?" I say as i enter the big room. It's open with two big couches, two chairs, and a big tv where we all play Xbox. Everyone one looks up and greats me. Keith is closest to the door. He has short blonde hair and blue eyes. He is about 5' 7" and wearing a dark black shirt with long pants on. I don't think he has ever worn shorts. Keith is a nice guy but is kind of greedy even though he would never admit it. He also has a pretty intense ego but gets very defensive when it's brought up. I can never tell if he is high or not because now a days he is so laid back that it always seems like he is high. "Sup man?" he says to me. James is sitting the next closest to the door. He is my best friend out of the group probably because he is the most mature. When he was young his parents got a divorce so he had to grow up quick while everyone else is still very kid like. He has long blonde hair and ALWAYS wears his hat. When i say always i mean always, i don't think i have ever seen ti with it off. He is pretty athletic because he runs track and will be going to school because of a track scholarship. I sit down next to him. I face the Tv and look to my left. Next to me is Connor. He is the newest member to our group. He is a cool kid but can get really annoying at times when you hang out with him too often. He has short black hair and is about 5' 7" just like Keith. He came into the group because he is good friends with Keith and also smokes a lot. He's a good guy though because he always brings chips or sodas to mix with the alcohol. Peter is sitting to Connor's left in one of the big chairs. Peter and I are also very good friends. I come over here a lot and hang out with just him. He is kind of a nerdy kid and has never had a girlfriend or hooked up with anyone. He is kind though and very generous. He is about 5' 6" and has curly brown hair. Mark and Luke sit on the couch to all of our lefts. Mark and I have been friends ever since middle school but have been growing apart lately because he has been hanging out with Keith and Connor a lot. We all know what that means, he has been smoking a lot more weed recently. He has short black hair and is about my height of 5' 11". Me and him are the tallest ones in the group Lastly is Luke. I have only hung out with him once or twice before. He smokes the most weed out of all of them and barely knows whats going on half the time. Still he is a nice guy and i don't see anything wrong with him besides that. Everyone in the group smokes besides me. Some obviously more than others but I'm the only one doesn't. I have tried it before, a year or so earlier while i was hanging out with other friends. Nothing really happened when I did and I decided it wasn't worth the risk of doing it more because if my parents found out i was on drugs they would kill me. Drinking was one thing but smoking was another that was way worse in their eyes I honestly don't know which one is worse. Of course no one has died of smoking too much weed like you would for drinking but this do nothing life style just doesn't seem like one for me. Eventually I want to move out of my house and get out of this small little town and make some real money. Lately I have been thinking about being a psychiatrist but I'm not 100% stuck on anything yet. I still have some time to decide Peter and Mark are playing Halo on the xbox. Whenever one of them killed the other they would yell some swear and continue on with the game. My phone vibrates and i check it. It's a text from my girlfriend "It's fine baby and I had an ok day pretty uneventful tho what are you doing now?" I text back "I'm just hanging out with the guys for the night what are you doing?" I put my phone back into my right pocket right when Keith says "So let's get this started." he pulls out a bottle of Captain Morgan from his back pack and puts it out on the table. "Alright but bring the cups outside. My dad is still awake so we can't be in here while doing that" Peter says. Peter's dad always hung out in a side room that shares a wall with the room that we hung out in. I am honestly completely surprised that his parents didn't know what we were up to when we all came over to his house, because of course we were all 18 and underaged. We all grab a cup and start to walk outside. We reach Keith's car and some of us lean on it while others sit on the ground in the street. We fill our cups with Captain Morgan and Coke and sit and talk for an hour or so. Nothing really memorable, we just talk about how summer has been and how none of us want to leave our small town and go out to college. Through out the time we are sitting there me and Sarah text back and fourth. Our conversation goes something like this: "Sitting in my bed bored :( i wish you were here with me!" she texts "Awww me too babe" I reply "But youre with your friends and i dont want to annoy you :/" she types At this point I'm talking to Mark about the girl he saw at work today so i wasn't really paying attention to my phone. "It's fine" i text "What do you mean?" she texts Now the alcohol is starting to affect my judgement and skills with the tiny key board. "You know jutst don't warry about itt" i say in completely broken english "You know i hate when you say that to me Jake..." She texts back quickly "I meants im sory lke wat do u want from meee?" i text her. My texting is getting hard to understand even for me but now I'm angry and am getting a little defensive. "Jake i hate when you get drunk and it's a little annoying when we don't talk all day and you don't even seem to care. You make me feel unimportant and i hate that. I want you to be trying in this relationship too." When she uses periods in her texts then I know she means business and is mad. "Can u plss leave me alone? like damm babe I'm jut truing to relxs with my y friedss" I know this is probably the worst thing i could say at this moment in time, if she could even read it, but I sent it anyways. "We will talk in the morning when you are sober. Goodnight" She texts back almost twenty minutes later. I don't reply and just put my phone in my pocket deciding that i shouldn't even bother until the next day.
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