Hello my name is Dante.

Hello my name is Dante; I was just recently orphaned a few months ago. My parents were in a car crash on the out skirts of town. I’m 17 years old, so I am allowed to live on my own. I still live in the same house that I did when my parents were alive. It’s not easy, in fact sometimes it gets to the point where I just want to give up and move in with other family members, but then I remember what it was like for my dad. He had pretty much lived on the streets when he was my age, so compared to that I’ve got it easy. It gets a little depressing to still live here, ok so it’s really depressing to live here, but I some how manage. My parents left me a good amount of money, luckily they had life insurance. Anyway to day is a big day for me, I have my first job interview after school. You’ll find out more about that later.

 Oh your probably wondering where I am right now or what I am even doing. Well I’m lying in bed. ‘I should probably get up now.’ I turned to look at the clock. “Man, it’s still only five am. It’s going to be a long day.” I some how manage to roll out of bed. Once up I begin my morning routine. Go down to the kitchen and start the coffee, take a shower while it’s brewing, get dressed, go get my coffee, fix breakfast while I drink my coffee, eat, then clean the dishes. Yeah that is how it is almost every morning. Once I got the coffee started I go back up stairs. My house is fairly common in this neighborhood. It is a two story house, 3 bed, 2 and a half bath, traditional home. All most all of the walls are white, and the whole house is decked out in carpet. They had done that so when I was a little kid when I fell I would have a softer landing. It’s hard to take care of the whole house, but I manage, somehow. When I get up to my room, which is my parents old room. I start my water for my shower. I go back out to get my clothes; I stop to look around my room. It was a nice big room. The walls in here are a different color than the rest of the house, they are a dark reddish color. I really like it. I had always wanted this room when I was younger and now I have it. Its one of the few good things to happen in the last few months, I was grateful for that. I go in to the bath room and checked the water and made sure I have everything for when I get out; once again I stop to look around. This bathroom has got to be one of the most extravagant bathrooms I have ever seen. There is this light gold color on the wall; it has garnet marble on the counters. The shower was made for two people, it has these dark stone on the walls and it has a water fall shower head. I know this bathroom is kind of hard to imagine, trust me its hard to explain. Well any way I get undressed and take my shower. When I get out I wrap a towel around my waist while I shave, and yes I shave, I am 17 after all. When I got done I look at my self in the mirror. I don’t look the same as I did a few months ago, but I don’t look all that different either. I have short dark brown hair that I normally have in small spikes. I have dark almost black eyes; I have some what full lips. I’m pale from not getting out and doing much, I used to have a slight tan. I’m about average height, I was a little smaller than average at 5’5”. I think the normal is 5’7” so just a little short but not too bad. I have a slightly athletic build, which I had gotten from years of martial arts training. Once done in there I go and get dressed for the day. I had picked out a black t-shirt, with a pair of dark jeans. I guess you could consider me something like a skater. I heard the coffee machine go off so I hurried and to finish getting dressed. I hurry down stairs and make my breakfast. In about 30 minutes I had finished my coffee, ate my breakfast, and did the dishes.

 

After I had gotten all my other chores done I hurried to get all of my stuff together. I then had hurry out to my car. It’s a nice car, it’s a dark blue Nissan Murano. It was a 16^th birthday present from my grandparents. I stopped to make sure I have everything I need then I made my way to school. Some how I manage to get there early.

 

Now for most people school was the worse place to be. But for me school is my ticket out of the house and away from loneliness. You see when I’m at home I am constantly reminded that I’m alone. But at school I get to forget that for a little while and just be a normal teenager. Speaking of which, I feel like I am forgetting something. ‘Crap, don’t I have a math test today? Man, I can’t believe I forgot. Oh well all I can do is try my best.’ I get out of my car after parking in my normal spot and make my way towards the school building. My friends are already waiting at the gate for me. Almost all of my friends in my group I’ve known since I was a kid. So to say that we were close was an understatement. Our school is an average high school. It’s made up of three different buildings all smashed together on a small area, it isn’t really small but it isn’t big either. Almost all the buildings are white with a blue trim. We don’t have a lot of students due to the fact that we are in something of a suburban area, so that made it easer for us who did go to school there. What I mean is that it’s not crowded there.

 

Any way there isn’t really much to say about my friends right now, meaning that you’ll find out more about them later. We meet up then go to our first class, we all didn’t have all the same classes, but we had most of the same classes. My first class was English, it was my favorite class. I consider English to be easy, I was one of the few who think that. The English that I have is like a college level, which is why most don’t find it to be easy. I really don’t know why I found it to be easy, but I did. I walk to class with a couple of my friends. Their names are Demitri and Felix. We are all really close. Demitri is my closest friend here; he is almost like a brother to me. He is the same height that I am; he has sandy-blond hair, and some what tan skin. He is really nice, but he can also get upset over some things, like if you lie to him or something. Felix is a big guy, he is training to be in the army so he works out, a lot, but he is still a very nice person. He is easy to get along with, but he is really protective of his family and friends, trust me that can be a bad thing. Felix has dark brown hair and dark brown almost black eyes.

Any way like I said we have English first. I’m not going to go into detail about how that went, it is really boring. After that we had math, then science. Then we had our favorite class, lunch. After standing in a long line to get our food, Demitri, Felix, and I headed over to our table. The rest of the people in my group are; Mai, she is a short girl, with long black hair and bright blue eyes. She is almost always happy, in truth I’ve only seen her upset a couple of times, one when her computer quit when she was in the middle of a report, and the other is when her last boy friend broke up with her, for reasons still unknown. Sitting next to her is Jessica, she had originally come from Texas so she has a southern accent, and I guess if you want to go with stereotypes she would be the perfect southern bell. She has long blond hair and blue eyes, her skin was slightly pale, but still has some color to it. Then next to her was my girlfriend, Bella, she has shoulder length dark red hair and beautiful brown eyes. We began dating before my parents died, she has put up with a lot from me. I love her a lot and I have given her every opportunity to leave if she wants, but she won’t, not that I want her to. She is a very stubborn person, not a mean one just one that refuses to let others help her some times, but along with that stubbornness she is also very loving and very kind. She has helped me out a lot.

Sorry guess I got carried away, but that is every one that makes up our group. I go and take my normal seat next to Bella; she had already started to eat her lunch. She leans over to give me a quick kiss then goes back to eating. “You didn’t finish your home work did you?” I ask her.

“No, I still have a little bit to do.” She looks at me innocently. I know I should be a little annoyed, but I can’t be mad at her.

“So Dante, we still on for after school?” Jessica asked. I’m confused I have no idea what she’s talking about.

“What?”

“Don’t you remember we were all going to the movies?” That’s when it hit me.

“Dang it, I totally forgot. I have a job interview after school, if I would have remembered I would have told them that today wasn’t a good day for me.” She looks so angry. Did I mention that she can has a bad temper, no, well she does.

“What how could you forget, we have been wanting to see this movie for the longest time.” She is yelling by now. I look around to see that people were starting to stare at us.

“I’ve had a lot on my mind lately.”

“What so much that you totally for got about your friends, and even your girlfriend?” That hit a sore spot with me.

“You know it’s not like that,” my voice raised slightly, “if I could I would go with you, but I really need this job.”

“Oh, why? That’s why we have parents, they pay for everything.”

“Jessica!” I hear Bella yell at her. I’m beyond mad. I feel so betrayed.

“Yeah, well that’s why you have parents! But just incase you forgot, mine died. And unlike you, I need to find a way to support myself! Because I don’t have any one to do it for me!” I yell as I get up to walk away. I haven’t really ever gotten into a fight with any of my friends. I could hear every one yelling at her for what she had said. Then I herd someone calling my name, I wasn’t really paying attention to who it was.

“Dante! Dante, will you wait a moment?” That’s when I realize that it’s Bella. Once I figure that out I stop to wait for her. “She was out of line.”

“I know.” I don’t mean to sound so emotionless, but I really don’t like people to make me remember I’m all alone. I hear her sigh.

“Dante, you know how she gets sometimes. You can’t hold it against her.” Did she really just say that?

“It’s not what she said. I mean it is, in a way. It’s hard to explain.” She grabs my arm and makes me look at her. She looks a little upset about this whole thing.

“Try me.” Was all she said.

“Well when I come to school I come to get away from all the loneliness that I feel at home. I come here to feel like I still have a true family. You know. I come to see my friends, and to be with you. But then I leave, and I go home, to that empty house. There is no one there to greet me when I walk through the door. So when I come here I don’t think about the fact that I feel alone outside of school. So when she brought it up it reminded me that I was alone. And some times it’s a little hard to handle.” I haven’t done something like that in a long time. When I look back at her I see that she is crying. I feel horrible. I didn’t mean to make her cry. “Babe what’s wrong? Did I make you cry?”

“In a way. I never knew you felt so alone. If I would have known I would have tried to help you in some way,” she looks like she is getting angry, “you idiot! Why didn’t you ever tell me all this? Why did you make yourself suffer like that?” Yup she’s angry. But I can’t really blame her, I mean I would have been angry also.

“I never wanted to feel like you needed to do something about it.”

“Well, I guess that is a good point. But I am going to help you one way or another.” There is no point in even trying to argue. As I said before she is really stubborn.

“Alright. Look lets just get to class, maybe I can help you with your homework.”

“Ugh, fine” She looked defeated. At least I get to win something today.

 

The rest of school went somewhat smoothly. The only time it didn’t was when I had to work with Jessica, who for some reason was mad at me. I asked her what her problem was, all she told me was that I was extremely rude. I just brushed it off and went to my next class. Once school was over I walk out to my car with Bella. She was on the phone talking to her mom about something. I look at my watch just as Bella got off the phone. “Crap I got to get going. I’m going to be late if I don’t I’ll call you later. Wait what time are you all going to the movies?”

“Um at 3:30. I don’t think that you’ll get there in time. I’ll call you later. I haft to go also. Maybe we can hang out some time. Oh, hey what sounds better; Italian or Japanese?”

“Uh, I guess Japanese.”

“Alright.” I know it’s better not to ask questions. I give her a quick kiss and a hug and jump in my car and go to my interview.

 

The place that I am getting interviewed at is the library, I’m trying to get a part time job for now. Now I could go in to long detail about what happened there but trust me when I say that it would put you to sleep. But I do know one thing about it was that I did good. The person the interviewed me was really boring, even the suite that he wore was boring. It was all grey, the shirt, coat, and pants. Like I said really boring. When I got out I didn’t know what time it was. But I decided to try and get to the movie theaters, I mean at least I tried to get there right, that might not make up for me forgetting that we had plans, but it can’t hurt to try and show them that I really did want to go with them.

 

When I get there I see all my friends standing outside the theater. I run up to them. Almost all of them seem happy to see me. Well actually all but one. Felix was the first to speak. “Dante, dude you came.”

“Yeah did I miss the movie?” They all look a little sad.

“Yeah you did, but it wasn’t as good as we all thought it would be.” Bella said as she walks over to me. I put my arm around her and give her a quick kiss. Everyone is used to us dating so there are no problems.

“You know you are a bad liar.”

“Ok, its was really good.” They look upset again. Then all of a sudden Bella looks like she just had an idea hit her.

“Why don’t we go see it this weekend together? I won’t mind seeing it again.” I smile.

“That would be great.”

“Hey I got to go. Felix do you want a ride home?” Demitri asks. He looks really tired. Now that I really look, they all look really tired.

“Why do you all look so tired?”

“Because the movie was just that awesome!” Jessica says. I see all the other people in our little group roll their eyes. It’s then that I knew.

“Jessica, would you just tell me what I did wrong. I know I should have remembered that we were all supposed to go to day, and I apologized for that. I really didn’t mean to. I tried to get here on time. I really wanted to see this movie. You really think that I wanted to miss this?”

“Well no, but still you should have remembered what we had planed.”

“Jess, listen to me. I really need money to pay bills so that I can continue to live here. Do you want me to move?”

“Well no.”

“Then why do you continue to be angry with me. Think of all that I do during the day and the weekend. Besides school I haft to cook and clean, I still haft to go home and vacuum. By the end of the day, I am extremely tired. So for once can you just forgive me?” She sighs in defeat.

“Fine, but try to remember next time ok? I’m sorry. But I really do need to go home.” After that was over we all left. I still have to make a run to the store to get some things, and after that I get to go home.

 

When I drive up to my house I see a light is on. I think that I could have left a light on. I go park my car and go inside. When I open the door I see something running towards me. All I know is that one moment I’m standing the next I’m on the floor. For a moment I’m afraid but then I decide to look to see who or what is lying on top of me. It was Bella. “Bella! W-what are you doing here?”

“Well I decided to start spending some time with you here. You know I was thinking that I could start staying the night over here a couple nights a week.” My heart feel like it’s going to beat out of my chest. I really like that idea. We have been together for over a year and we decided about 7 months ago that both of us wanted to wait to have sex after we were married. So both of her parents trust us to be together alone.

“I would love that.” She smiled. That night I figured out why she asked what sounded better. She had went out and bought some take out. That night we spent time eating takeout and watching movies. I let her pick the movies. We wound up watching Twilight and Harry Potter, a lot.

When it’s time for bed she goes up to my old room and changes then comes into my room. “Hey, I think its time for bed, we still have school tomorrow. Oh I forgot. How did you do on your math test?”

“Good, I think.” I’m sitting on my bed reading, something that I do a lot.

“What are you reading?”

“Vampire Hunter D.”

“Ah, you really do love vampires don’t you?”

“Yup.” I say with a stupid grin on my face. “Are you going to bed?”

“Yeah.” I got up off the bed and walked over to her. She was in a pair of pajama pants and a tank top, while I was just in a pair of pajama pants. I give her a hug and a kiss then watch as she makes her way to my old room. I go back over to my bed and start to read again. After a while I could feel my self start to drift off to sleep.

 

“Dante De Luca?” the police man said.

“Yes.”

“I’m sorry, but it appears that your parents were in a deadly car accident. We need for you to come with us to the hospital.” I was in shock.

“Alright.” When we got to the hospital I was taken to my mother, who was apparently still alive. When I walked in I couldn’t bare to look at her. She had tubes coming out from what seemed like every where. I broke down and fell to my knees.

 

“Dante! Dante, love, wake up!” When I wake up I can feel myself crying. “Shh, it’s ok. Dante it’s ok.” I wrap my arms around her and cry to her. I haven’t cried in front of any one since my parents died. I feel so weak. But at the same time it feels good. I feel her crawl in bed with me. Bella holds me until I stop crying. Then I took her and pull her to my chest and hold her. I know she was upset about what had just happened. We fall asleep in each other’s arms. I know from then on life was only going to get better for me.

Author's Note

Please tell me what you think. This is something that I had to write this for school.