A Different Beginning

A Different Beginning ~ Part 2 ~ Updated 12/22/14 Mid-Evening

A Different Beginning ~ Part 2 ~ Updated 12/22/14 Mid-Evening

Shaking harder than before, I slowly step away from the glass window pulling off my backpack and my poncho hiding them into the door to the attic. Looking down at my hands I gasp as I slowly look at the damage. Blood was slipping down the palm of my hand and I could feel the throbbing of pain as my brain registered that it hurt. 

Taking breaths in I slowly pulled off the rest of my dripping wet clothes and laid them out to dry tucking them into a corner. I winced as my hand brushed my stomach and bit my lip pulling pajamas on before slipping quietly down the hall to the bathroom. Closing the door, I quickly looked threw the cabinet pulling out some bandaids and slipping them onto my hands before putting the box away and getting rid of the evidence. 

Carefully peaking out of the doorway, I slipped out when I made sure no one was around and made it back to my door when I heard someone behind me on the stairs. Surprised I turned and Marie stood there a bit stunned. 

“Mom said you had to stay in your room. Are you trying to get a thrashing?” She looked annoyed as her nicely waxed brow rose and fell. 

I nodded a little opening my door not turning around. “Bathroom.” I whispered and slipped back into my room. I heard a sigh, a door open and then close. Letting out a shaky breath I barely managed to pull myself into bed before I fell into the darkness of the dream world. 

The next morning, I was up at eight and in the shower warming my ice body with the warmth of the water. Tears stung my eyes as the scene flashed back into my mind of that boy walking off alone in the rain. I forced a breath in and out and slowly climbed out of the shower drying my wounds carefully and re-bandaged them before slipping back into my room. 

Opening the trunk I pulled on a some shorts and short sleeve shirt before I moved down the hall to my mother’s room. Knocking lightly on the door, I slowly opened it. “Mom I am going to make breakfast are you hung-“ 

Something struck the door and it smacked me into the wall. Wincing, I backed out of the opening. “GET OUT OF HERE!” Her voice screeched and I quickly shut the door and rushed down the hall hoping she wouldn’t follow. After a long pause of silence I rushed down the stairs and out the door to the sweet freedom of the open yard. 

Glancing down the hill I looked at the bottom of the driveway remembering and then rushed into the woods. I wondered around for hours before finding a suitable tree to climb up and settle in. My hands stung in pain as I climbed but I ignored it. Placing my back on the tree I watch the sky and the clouds moving above.

I could have stayed like that for hours. The sky was amazing and it was the only thing that seemed to keep me sane. Knowing there were other places in the world I could disappear to but still be protected by that pure blue sky. 

Humming softly I soaked in the rays of sunshine when I heard footsteps down below. Quieting down quickly, I peered down to see who was approaching. A male with brownish red hair was walking the trail down below. He was different from last night’s male, striking, in his own way. I was silent watching. 

“Kota? Hey was that you outside my house last night in the rain?” His deep voice called out and my eyes widened quickly. The memory flashed back as the male from the night before appeared at the bottom of the tree. His name was Kota. It made me shiver with happiness to learn his name. 

“Yeah…” Kota replied stepping forward to the other male. “I was trying to help a bird. But I think I scared her more.” 

Bird? I knew I felt like one but it was funny that he called me that this made me even more curious and I stared down at the two. 

“A Bird?! You mean one of the girls that moved across the street? Which one? The one with all the makeup?”  Deep replied shifting to lean against a tree getting comfortable. 

Marie. My eyes flashed between Kota and Deep nervous. So they knew who we were. Wait had he said across the street? I thought back to the night before and remembered the lights in the house across the street flashing on. He lived across the street. 

My breath caught as I put the pieces together. 

“No the smaller one. She looked scared out of her mind Nathan. Max jumped her… she was bleeding and wouldn’t let me get close…” Kota looked lost bent a little his hair shifting over his face a little. 

 So Deep voice was Nathan. My hands found my lips as I watched the two below listening with interest. 

“Bleeding? And she wouldn’t let you help? Wow you must have done a number on her Kota.” Nathan’s eye brows were raised. 

“It was Max… I am going to go stop over at her house to apologize before Victor comes over.” 

NO! No no no they couldn’t go over to my house. My mother would kill me. No no they couldn’t. My breath hitched and I had to force a few before my eyes flew back down to the ground and my heart sank as they moved down the path toward my house through the woods. I reacted climbing down the tree stopping at a branch that was close enough to the ground that they could see me but not close enough to be reached by either of them. 

With a gulp of air I forced my voice out. “Don’t!”