Chapter Two

well. chapter two. lol. I know its not the most exciting thing in the world, but... wanted to explain some stuff. XD

          Chapter Two

 

 

 

   “Harley, how many times have I told you not to argue with that teacher?” I rolled my eyes at my aunt’s voice. The voice I liked to call the I’m-trying-to-be-stern-with-you-here-so-just-bear-with-me voice.

   “Sixty-seven,” I muttered, resting my head on the palm of my hand while I stared at the blank, off-white wall.

   “Do you need to hear it for a sixty-eighth?” my Aunt Rena asked. Though Aunt Rena was only twenty-nine, she graciously offered to take me in after my parents had been killed when I was three.

   Apparently she hadn’t realized what kind of trouble she was getting herself into.

   Although, despite all my flaws and such, Aunt Rena has always been gentle with me. Even after getting expelled six times from each school I’ve gone to, she still keeps me here and never gets overly angry.

   I’m sure that would all change if she what I was.

   There was only one person who knew about this. And that one person was probably not the best person to know it.

   My Uncle Paul. Paul was my Aunt Rena’s recently divorced husband; they’d only been married for about four years before everything just fell apart. Paul started drinking more heavily than normal and was never himself anymore. Obviously this bothered my aunt, so she divorced him.

   Despite all that, I’ve always liked my Uncle Paul. I trusted him with this secret. He’d only found out about it about a year before the divorce when I had blown up at him for making my aunt unhappy. I’d been doing very well at keeping everything under control with this, I rarely even changed anymore. Only when I was infuriated beyond the point of common sense did I explode. When I did, Uncle Paul immediately stopped drinking as heavily as before and tried to make things better. He really, really tried �" and failed.

   Aunt Rena has always been the type of person who questions absolutely everything. She saw Paul’s sudden decrease in drinking as a threat; like he was trying to get her to forgive him, and then start up again. She didn’t go along with his honest attempt to cut down, and threw him out, keeping full custody of me.

   I only got to visit him at least once every six months.

   That was hard.

   Not being able to see the only person who understood me, who knew, was keeping my whole life isolated. Uncle Paul was the only person I could ever open up to about anything. I couldn’t even go to my aunt who raised me since my early days with anything. If I tried, she always thought it had something to do with friends or a boy or something.

   Like anyone would even dare to approach me, let alone become my friend, for God’s sake. Aunt Rena’s voice pulled me out of my thoughts.

   “Harley, you have to improve this behavior. I know how many time’s I’ve said that, but its true. I just can’t keep enrolling you in so many different schools like this; do you realize how that’ll look on a college application?” I stood up.

   “I don’t care about college,” I nearly snapped. “I’d never get into a good one, anyways.” I turned on my heel after grabbing my bag and headed towards the door. Before I could walk out and slam the front door behind me, Aunt Rena caught me by the shoulder.

   “Where do you think you’re going? We’re not done talking about this �"” Her sentence was cut off when I held up my hand to stop her and turned around, shrugging her hand off my shoulder.

   “I think we are.” My tone was unexpectedly calm for the emotions running through me at the moment. I honestly had no idea why her comment about college had mad me so angry; I was used to this conversation. It was the same very time I got thrown out of a different school. “And I don’t know where I’m going. I just need to get out of here.” I didn’t wait for my aunt’s response before I walked quickly out the door, letting it slam behind me. As soon as I reached the end of the street, I whipped out my cell phone and dialed a familiar number.

   “Uncle Paul, I need you to come pick me up.”

Author's Note

Well, as usual, any typos shall be ignored... nothing mean, yada yada yada... XD but, i hope you liked it!!