The Opportunity

prologue (not actual story)

if you had an opportunity to choose to live as you always have or... destroy the fabric of the very world you live in, which would you choose? in the end it doesn't matter what you choose - or rather what I choose. some would say this to be a marvelous opportunity, but in reality its a heavy burden I will be forced to carry.

My name is Demi Harper and im texas born and texas raised, in a small town called Reager. im 16 and still no car- thanks to marcus! marcus is my best friend, he has soft brown eyes and short black hair, with a long white mane. i guess i should mention marcus is my clydesdale horse, i bet you though he was a friend from school... yeh right! but some wierd things have been happening lately, i swear i heard marcus say something last week, LIKE ACTUAL REAL WORDS! dad thinks i might have hit my head when me and marcus had our fall. he was ruuning and all of a sudden the ground was getting closer fast, his medical bill basicly said i could forget about a car anytime soon.

any minute now my dad might holler the dreaded words... 'dinner is ready' its not like i dnt like food its just that ever since mom passed dad has been the one cooking. dont get me wrong i am vey gratefull, but i would also be grateful not to get food poisening. mom was a great cook but when she got sick with luekemia dad had to step up and start cooking. since then ive learned to listen to him very carefully, because there is a big difference between 'dinner is ready' and 'dinner is here' if he says here- it means delivary or take out! and both of those are better than what he usually makes.its not like my brothers did anything when she passed to help out with the situation at home. my oldest brother, brandan harper, has been overseas for 4 years now, he didnt even get to come home when she passed. ever since he was 19 hes been a us marine. Jackson my other brother, the middle child didnt come home either. he was too drunk and too far away.

jefferson or as i call him jeff is a bit of a bar hopping partier unlike his polar opposite brother. he used to be the most antisocial of us all now i bet he has a new girl in his bed every week. its not like he is a bad person... just a little preocupied so to speak. even though i dont think he even found out about her death until months later, and instead of hearing the news and trying to do better, he just got worse from what i was told. who knows! i havent even seen him since before mom died. to be completely honest i dont want to see him, he completely abandoned us. he doesnt call, write, or visit. for all i know or care that prick could be dead!

brandans absence however is alittle more understanding to me, i mean hes out fighting for my freedom. he told me a couple years back that jeff would occasionally call or write to him asking for advice on a private topic. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT! HE'LL TALK TO BRANDAN BUT NOT ME AND DAD! I CAN GIVE HIM ADVICE, ADVICE TO COME HOME AT SOME FRIGGIN POINT IN HIS LIFE! anyway it doesnt matter now i guess considering he hasent even contacted brandan in a year or two.

next week will be moms 2 year anniversary of death, maybe one of them might come home for that. ill probably buy some flowers and go to her grave before i eat at her favorite restuarant,  Alligator Allens. we didnt go there often but it was still the best food in her eyes. dad said he might go, but that all depends on if he can get off from work. my daddy works as a truck supervisor for a bread company. he usually works nights but his schedule gets a little wonky some times, leaving us guessing for his availibility on holidays and such.

even though marcus is my best friend, i do have a couple of chill friends at school though. ryder, rocky or rockelle, and then theres josey. me and josey are in different grades but we sit together at lunch, ryder and rocky however sit with a different croud. im a little older than josey but a little younger than the other two. me and ryder have almost every class together, and rocky also has a few of the same classes. even though im younger than them im still in the same grade unlike josey.

i guess you could say josey is the innocent one of my friends, probably because she doesnt talk to the others much. i swear, but shes starting to get into anime but its mainly the slightly older anime. inuyasha and yu gi oh are her two favorites, now that i think about it i dont think she actually watches any others. shes also really into minecraft videos, I MEAN REALLY INTO IT!  ive watched some but theyre really not my thing.

rocky is probably the most relatable in some ways for me, i guess you could say i wish i was her. shes gorgeous, shoulder length black hair and a pretty brown tone to her skin. i swear her and ryder have a 'UNIQUE' relationship, even though he has a girlfriend. me and rocky are both big fans of alternative kinds of bands. we also have similiar hobbies, like drawing, watching anime, and occasionally writting or reading stories.

That brings us to ryder, hes usually pretty chill, but occasionally he choses to become very hyperactive and annoying. he used to write stories and he occasionally draws, but hes a bit more on a normal teenage boy side of life. well... except that hes not a normal teenage boy. hes already lost his dad