Run Away

This is told from a little girls point of view. Her brother has anger problems and reacts terribly to everything. Not knowing what made him tick today, Rose protects her mothers belongings.

Mom and I were having a great day together, for once. It was a pretty nice day, warm winds that were lovely to drive in with the windows down. My older brother, Keegan had been home, like always. He was waiting to fight with mom.

"I'm running away!" Keegan dramatically shouts from the front porch. 

The hood on his sweatshirt covered his left eye, while his pants barley covered anything.

"To where, Keegan? What happened now?" 

Mom knows the buttons to not push with him, but something already set him off today.

I stepped outside of the car with my mom and she began shaking bad. She needed my help. I could see the desperation in her eyes. 

"Rose, you need to get my purse and hide it with you, NOW!" 

I saw my mother's face, so pale. Her blood sugar was dropping again. She forgot to take the grape sugar candies to keep her blood pressure positive. I was worried that my brother and his actions were going to make her sick again.

I grabbed her purse and locked myself in her room while she was still outside trying to calm my brother down. My hand almost went numb from gripping the purse so hard, terrified for my own life. Keegan was coming. I knew I had to leave. Crying to him and begging him to stop never worked. He wanted our mother's credit card and all of her money to leave us and be content on his own. But I could not let that happen.

I could feel my heart racing 120 miles per hour.

Keegan has a knife on him. When he held the knife up, trying to get through my mother's window, he all of a sudden dropped. Something happened to him.

"CALL 911!!!" Mom said hysterically.

I never knew what happened after that. 

I ran... 

I left.

I hope Keegan never ended up getting mom's purse.

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This is a great imaginative story that's true-to-life & well-described in relatable terms. You've done a good job of crafting the story with a balance of description, dialogue, & action. These little vignettes are the perfect length for a website where attention spans can be short, but you've covered a complete slice of life here.

[Ghania]

Very Well-written story.
Sometimes we can't get to do anything due to fear. Can't control our senses and at moment what seems right, we just do it.
Best of luck!