"What have I told you about getting into fights?" My dad yells at me
"well it's not my fault, that fat bitch cussed out mom" I yell back as a tear falls down my face
He looks at the report card "suspended for two weeks?! Are you serious......Jaya I just don't understand why you are the way you are, we live in this nice big house, We're wealthy , you get everything you want yet your still act reckless!" He yells
"I MISS MOM!" I yell now full blown crying
"Too bad your moms dead now get the fuck over it, it's been over 5 years" he snaps at me
His final words just blew me off the edge I stormed up to my room changed my clothes and stormed right back outside the house again
All I'm doing is walking, I don't know where I'm going. the cold breeze glides across my face making the tears that sit on my cheeks dry up
I walk for a while until I realise that I'm getting closer towards Birchland neighbourhood
(I made it up)
My dad always told me to never come down here as it was the "poorer" part of Atlanta
The grass isn't as green over here and the houses are much smaller, outside people's houses there are a bunch of washing lines with clothes hanging from them
I make my way through the neighbourhood and I see an abandoned broken down park with little kids playing in it...that looked happy...something I've never been
I carried on walking and spotted an abandoned house, I walked right in and it looks like this house had caught on fire before, I looked around and noticed a mask on the floor, it's red camouflage and it looks like it had a shark mouth on it
I payed no attention to it and I sat on the window ledge as I watched the sun go down
Living with my dad is really not easy
Before mom died My sister and I lived with her but we wasn't rich and we wasn't poor we were just average people
My sister Maya took to the lifestyle of a wealthy person really well, she has loads of friends and she goes shopping with them all the time and it's like she totally forgets about mom
Unlike me, I have no friends because I either beat them up or they've pushed me away
I then get snapped out of my thoughts to the sound of footsteps
This is an abandoned house...who'd want to come here?
A tall guy with dreads then walks in and picks up the mask that's on the floor then he notices me
He looks at me then sits on the opposite window ledge
I scan his face and take in all of his features
His caramel skin and his big brown eyes and how his dreads dropped over his eyes slightly
"What brings you here?" He asks
"I needed somewhere to get away so I can just think but it's okay...I'm going now anyway" I mumble pulling my hair into a messy bun
I jump down off the wimdow ledge and I hear glass shatter under my feet
"Do you want me to walk you back home...it's really dark outside" he suggests
