Chaper 2

I slowly closed my eyes and allowed the darkness take me into a deep slumber.

"Get up mum shrieked into my room."

Of course my immediate response was just to lay there, why would I do what she says?

She has never shown me any kindness, so I see no use of showing her any kindness in return. Treat people the way you want to be treated they always say.

I slowly started to drift back to sleep until I was yanked out of bed by my hair. "When your mother tells you to get up, you better get the f**k up." He shoved me into the bathroom and slammed the door closed. "School starts in an hour, don't be late or else you won't see food for a week."

I sighed and though to myself, you ungrateful pig.

I rinsed off my face and released my hair form it's braid. I didn't have time to do anything else. I walked back to my room and chucked on some skinny jeans, that were covered in rips and tears. Put on a shirt that was way to big for me and tied it up with one of my mothers belts and then put on some boots.

I picked up my side bag that only contained one book and one pen, then I walked out the door without bothering to say goodbye to my parents.

Lake Gloria, the place that always looks like it is in Autumn. Situated in the middle of nowhere. Don't even bother trying to look it up as you will never find it. Population? Oh about 5 000. 100 of them are attending high school, 200 in primary school, 300 maybe in their younger years, the rest? Well they are mainly farmers, or people who run convenient stores. It was worse than jail. And I am stuck here in the confinements of the land of nothing.

You want to go to the movies? Oh they have been playing the same movies from back in the 1960's on a projector. You want new clothes? How about blue jeans and a flannel shirt? You want to get your hair done? A five dollar dodgy hair cut at the only hairdresser. I hope you lie the only hairstyle, a bob? There was literally nothing to do here, so I had to find something to entertain myself with...something to keep me occupied, otherwise I will go insane.

So I walked up the dusty dirt road over the hill and into the main part of the town. I stopped quickly at the grocery store and bought myself an apple to munch on. Then I continued making my way to school, oh fun.

Finished with my apple I threw it on the ground and made my way to the front office. The receptionist in the office glanced over at me with disgust. Just by looking at her you could tell she was one of those pristine farmers wife. Always get's up early, makes the kids breakfast, makes sure their is lunch for her husband, goes to work and takes care of other business, does the shopping on the way home, let's her husband have is 'fun time' with her and then falls asleep. Then she becomes a machine and does these things day after day, slowly stealing her life from her, as she slowly decays into  life of nothing, becoming nothing more than the farmers tool, her life going exactly the way he pleases.

"Hi there," she says through a fake smile of pearly whites. Her smile indicated that she didn't really like me and that she couldn't wait till I was expelled.

Reviews

[Emily]

Nice story you got going here!
Keep it up!!

[alifeacoustic]

A town of nothing to spend your teen years, how delightful. Actually, maybe it's city living or maybe it's getting old, but the quiet life where you can go unnoticed sounds very appealing to me, but would be torture to be uprooted to without any say in the matter.
Add to that, less than caring parents and a new school to go through and I can feel the despair clawing at your skin already.
The matter of fact-ness of the story so far, almost like the character is already programmed to not feel, works well with the short chapters and lends an air of dissociation of the character, which isn't hard to see why she is like she is, living in a loveless environment.
Progressing well. Enjoying so far.

[Angelique]

Thank you very much, I ma really glad that you are enjoying it so far. And yes being in that environment for a teen with not much to do doesn't sound very fun at all. The character does sound a bit programmed already, but as you say with her upbringing and with the new school it is easy to see why she is the way she is.