Run Away 1

Run Away

By kassie peterson

Dedicated to:

People who feel unhappy (I don't suggest doing what this character does)

You can find happiness if you look hard enough.

My New Life (1)

Hi my name is Jayden Marshall oh wait dang it I did it again I mean my name is Jayden white., today we are moving from one side of salem to the next, my mom just married a guy named Marshall white, he’s helping us move, If I remember correctly he has a son named Nick Kasye or something,

“Marshall can you tell me about your son Nick please” I asked politely.

“My son” chuckled Marshall.

“More like my daughter, and she keeps to herself so I really can only tell you that she’s almost sixteen years old just a bit older than you” he said. That was the last thing I said to him the whole car trip, I just put my earbuds in to listen to my favorite song which is New York State of Mind by Billy Joel.

I watched the trees go by until we hit the highway, it took a while because we lived in the country on a three acer land with sheep goats and chickens, we ran out of money so we had to sell all of them I got to keep my dog which is a corgi and his name is soda because I love to drink soda.

It took an hour to get to the new side of town, and I was supposed to meet new people so I checked myself out in the camera of my Iphone to see if my hair was okay, I moved my jet black hair into a position that made me look some what decent and I put eyeshadow on my eyes which makes my blue eyes pop out like no ones business.

When we finally got to the house I was shocked that the neighborhood was nothing like I expected it was older, I looked at the house and realised that we lived in an apartment. We walked in there was a bunch of people on the couch with a girl laying on a blond guys lap with an Ice Pack on her face. All of the people sitting around or on the couch were boys except the one girl.

“I swear Nick you need to stop getting into fights at school” I hear Marshall yell at her.

She wasn’t even listening to him she was just flipping her switchblade in and out like he wasn’t even standing there. When she finally got up she said “by the way i’m suspended from school for two weeks I’ll be out of your guys hair, come on guys let go”

“I swear she is a hood but I’m still not sure who caused it them or the way I raised her or if it was her not having a mother around” he said

We took a tour of the apartment and it was the biggest one there was three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The two biggest ones were the master bedrooms and those were already picked out, Nick had the smaller master bedroom, it looked like she didn’t have much in her room other than a dresser an bed a desk and a bookshelf with CD’s and S.E Hinton books on them. What I could see is that she kept her shoes and shirts in her closet. What I could see was that she had a leather Jacket and Leather pants that looked like she bought them at the goodwill. She also had a lot of converse and knives by her bed stand that had a lava lamp on them.

After that he showed me were I’ll be staying which was a room right across the hallway from the bathroom that was right next to the kitchen, and the opposite side of the hall way was my mom's room that she slept in with Marshall. I unloaded my stuff from the U Haul and I moved them to my room where I unpacked them. I made sure that I put my furniture in there first. By the time I was done unpacking it was dark, my mom and Marshall were making dinner and NIck wasn’t even home.

“Marshall is NIck coming home tonight” I asked out of curiosity.

“I have no clue, she ether comes home late or not at all she’s always seen with those boys I wouldn't’ be surprised If she’s pregnant with one of there babies” he said “but we will find out later if she comes home” he added.

Nick didn’t come home that night, I didn’t see her all that weekend. I looked through some of the picture frames in her room one looked like she was a fifth grader with bruises and one for every year after that. All gave by the same people Jayce, Jayson, Sal, Mad-dog, Hot-topic, Tito and Jessie. The newest one was on her night stand. She had close ups from when she was a baby on her wall, she had green eyes and light blond hair like her dad's but now her eyes are ever green and cold, she had reddish blond hair. She had a picture of her dad her mom and herself on her dresser when she was a baby, I could tell that she got her mother looks. There was another picture of two children playing on a blanket with those big blocks that you buy at toy stores for babies, the kids looked about six months old. Where the other kid now. Then I heard the door open and I thought that I was okay because my mom gets off of work around this time but then I realised that she still has the same job back in south salem so it's going to take an hour to get home. Nick walked into her room with me in there.

“What are you doing” she asked.

“Looking around sorry, your dad said you kept to yourself so I decided to get to know you by looking at your pictures” I explained. She cocked an eyebrow.

“I am actually very open and outgoing Marshall has never actually paid attention to me, I never caught your name new girl” She said.

“Oohh my name is Jayden” I introduced myself.

“Well jayden do you know what day it is” she asked.

“Tuesday morning, now get out I need my space” she said as she went over to the window opened it pulled out a cigarette and light it took a drag and was away in her own world. that's when I left I can't stand the smell of smoke. I went into my room and took a nap. There was talking in the other room it sounds like they were talking about jumping people whatever that means they are now both talking about smoking and why the originally started smoking it turns out she started smoking that pack yesterday after she pick pocketed someone named Nick, “I’ve decided that I hate Hoods all they do is smoke steal and Jump people whatever jumped means” I thought to myself.

She left after that conversation I heard an old truck engine, but then my phone got a call from my best friend, Alex., she was talking about how since I moved her life has gotten worst and how she’s being bullied again by all the boys in the mechanic class, so I told her that they were just jealous that she is beating them all in that class. When I finished talking to her on the phone I painted my nails and wondered if I could maybe get to know Nick a little better, when I was done getting ready for school next week Nick came home, quietly but you’ll have to be pretty quiet to get past me because I can hear the faintest of sounds. She went into her room, then about an hour after she went into her room I heard her open the window then there was a guy voice, then all of a sudden the lights clicked off and she got in bed. By the time I heard another noise was when I heard her wake up around three in the morning. I really wanted to go in there to see if she was okay but I decided against it, I thought about what her dad said about her probably being pregnant with one of there kids and then I thought that if I went in there I would see they naked. But I could tell she went back to bed, but she got up to get a drink of water. That's when I turned my light off. And crawled in bed.