Finding Love

Chapter one

I stand there looking in the mirror. My face doesn’t look bad today. It’s good enough for me to go to school. My body on the other hand still needs time. I can’t take being here any longer though. So I walk out the bathroom to my room. Grab my sweater and book bag. Then head out the house. I can only walk in and out the back door.

Ms.Gomez doesn’t approve of me walking out the from door. Trash like me shouldn’t be allowed to use that door. So i can only us the back. Which I’m okay with. At least I can use. Door to get out of here. I start walking to the bus stop. It’s about a fifteen minute walk front the house.

I live in the middle of no where. In Gators Ville Texas. It’s literally in the middle of no where. There’s no neighbors in sigh or anything. We live in this big fancy house. It’s a two floor family house. Five bedrooms with four and a half bathrooms. There two bedrooms on the first floor with three on the top. We all sleep upstairs. Ms.Gomez’s doesn’t let me sleep on the bottom by myself. They need to keep an extra eye on me.

I live there with her and her son. She’s not my real mother. She’s my adopted mother. I would be appreciative and call her mom. If this was a great situation to live in. Her and her son make my life a living hell. He’s a very disturb person. So is his mother.

I make it to the bus stop right on time. I see the bus is already coming down the street. I stand there waiting for it to get to me. So I can get on. It’s about a forty five minute ride to my school. Or at least that’s what the directions say. I’m starting in a new school. Almost at the end of the semester. Just cause little baby Henry. Can’t or more like won’t stay out of trouble.

We had to move and start over in a whole new town. Not that I mind anyway. It’s not like I have friends or anything. It’s just all my school work. The teachers were great. They new my situation and helped me every time. Now I’m stuck in this me place. I know I won’t make friends. I just hopes the absents won’t hurt me. It’s not that I’m a sick person. It’s just if the beatings are bad. They leave marks. Than I won’t be able to go to school.

That’s how’s my life has for the last three years. Thank god in a month it will all be over. I’ll be eighteen and free to go. Get away from these crazy people. The bus driver announces that we’re almost at the last stop. Which is in fact my stop. I start stretching out my body. I had a nice little rest on the ride. Now I have to walk four blocks from the bus stop. To get to the school.

The bus stops and I get off. I look at my directions just to double check. Make sure I’m in the right place. Turns out I am. I start walking down the street. I get to the next corner and see so many different store. As I walk by and smell the different smells. My stomach starts to rumble. I picked the wrong day not to eat. Then again me eating doesn’t happen often.

I started to walk faster because now the smells were really getting to me. I finally get to the corner of the street. I can see the front of the school. It doesn’t look like it’s a ad school. Everyone looks pky so far. I don’t know how true is that since I don’t know anyone. I’m just going to assume. I make my way across the street.

I can see there’s a parking lot on the Sid of the school. The bike racks are by the stairs. That’s by the entrance of the school. I start walking so that I can get my days started. As I’m walking I’m looking around. My eyes stop on a group of kids hanging around the car. One of the guys notice me looking. I turn my head back around and head straight for the school.

I don’t want anyone to think i want to be there friend. I can’t afford any right now. Maybe when I move out from that hell hole. Just not now. I head straight to the office on the first floor. I the lady sitting there and ask her for help. Mrs.Sims sends me to the counselor. There i will get what I need she say. So i make my way there.

I walk down the hall and knock on the door on the left side. I walk in when i here the “come in”. I see a lady sitting at the desk with glasses.

Hello my name is Ms.Ganes. You must be Ms.Daria Smith right?

Yes I am, they told me to come see you for my program and locker information.

Yes darling I have that for you right here. So here’s the program. It has all your classes with the room numbers. All your classes are upstairs. Except for gym and lunch. They’re both down here on the first floor. You are allowed to go out for lunch. Just make sure you’re back on time okay. Also Daria if you need anything. You can always come to me. My door is always open okay sweetie.

Okay thanks you. I say as I grab the papers and walk out. All my classes are ap classes. I’ve always been a smart girl. I’ve just been giving a shitty life. I look for my locker first before heading to my class. I don’t need to put anything in right now. I just want to know where it’s at.

It’s not hard to find.After I find it and play with the combination really quickly. Then head to my first class. The day is going by quickly. Before I know it it’s already lunch time. I grab a lunch and head outside. I decided to sit on the grass. So that I can eat and read in peace. As I sit down I look around. I see the same guy I saw earlier. He’s leaning on a gray Mercedes. Looking my way. I can’t help but stare back at him. It wasn’t until I saw the girl Jump on him that i stop. He’s group seems to be coming back to him.

I steal one more glance at him. Before I turn my head completely always from him. He’s so tall with such a body. He’s built in all the right places. You can see it just from his clothes. His hair is black. He has it in a half up and half down style. I stop looking before I get myself in trouble. I open up my book and start reading.

I eat my sandwich and fruits in peace. With the sun coming down on me. It’s felt so good. I didn’t want this moment to end. Sure enough if had to. The bell rang which meant lunch was over. I grab my things and headed back inside. The rest of the day went by pretty fast. Which I was very disappointed about.

Today was Friday. Which meant that I will be home all weekend. With these crazy people. I went to the locker first. I had to drop off some of the books I was given. To have them all in my bag made it pretty heavy. Since I didn’t need all of them for my homework. I figured I would leave some.

I put the books away and head to the door to go. When I step a girl jumps right in my face.

Hiya! You’re the new girl right. My name is kimmy nice to meet you. She sticks her hand out to shake my. When I look at her face I notice she’s the same girl from earlier. The one who jumped onto of that god.

Hi my name is Daria. I tell her. I go to look at the spot where I saw the guy standing at all day. Before my eyes can reach him. They spot someone else. Henry. I’m sorry Kimmy. I’m not allowed to have any friends. It was nice talking to you but I have to go now. Please leave me alone.

I didn’t give her a chance to respond. I just turned around and walked away. I didn’t even bother to see if the guy was standing there. If Henry were to notice that I was looking at a man. He would die. I get to the car. Henry is standing on the outside of the driver side.

Get the f**k inside you w***e. We’re going home now!

I get in the car and buckle up. I didn’t didn’t do anything wrong. All I did was go to school I tell him. I didn’t do anything wrong. Why are you here?

The b***h thinks she can talk back now. Just cause she goes to a different school. Whose the girl you was talking too?

I don’t know her. She was just introducing herself to me. That’s all plus she’s a girl. Not a guy. I didn’t break your mothers rules.

That’s not for you to decide. We’ll talk about this later.

I sit back and close my eyes. I know this weekend is going to be hell already. As we drive off I couldn’t help but steal one more look. Before we go. That’s costed me a slap in the face.

Who he hell you looking at b***h!? Looking at guys right you w***e! You useless b***h wait til we get home!

I hold on to my now throbbing face. I really hope he didn’t see me get slapped. That would be super embarrassing for me. I close my eyes. Mentally preparing myself for what’s about to happen. I should be use to it by now but I’m not. I mean who would ever get use to something like this. No one would.

I must have fell asleep during the ride. All I felt was a hand on my chest then my body hitting the floor. Which gutted like hell.

Get up b***h! We’re home already!

I get off the floor and start walking towards the house. Before I can make it to the three steps. Henry pushes me down again.

Hurry and get in the house! He punches me right in the face. Get up b***h!

I get up really fast. I tried to run inside the house. To make it inside my room. That didn’t work though. Ms.Gomez was waiting for me right at the door. I only knew she was there because of the hit I got with the bat. Yes I said bat. I fell to the floor. I felt kicks on my body and heard yelling. I just couldn’t move. My body was still healing from last weeks beating. I tidied but really couldn’t. Everything was going black.

When I finally woke up I was still on the floor. By the door. There was dried blood on the floor where my face was. I look around and so one. I got up slowly. My stomach was in more pain than it was earlier. I basically crawled up the stairs to my room.

I finally made it to the top. I can see there’s no one in their rooms. I crawled straight to my room. I went to dresser got the rest of my clothes out. Trust me it was nothing. I put everything in ma bag. I went to Henry’s room to his table by his bed. I know he keeps cash in there. I grab everything that was in there. I went back down.

I left out the front door. The back door has a camera on it. So they can see when I walk in and out. So I walked out the front door. I make my way towards the bus stop. Instead if getting on it I walked the route of it. Since we are surround by nothing but woods. It want hard to for me hide and walk.

I don’t know where I was going. I just followed the route. It took me all night to walk. It was very painful as well. By the time i reached my school. I had to take a break. It couldn’t be a long one though. I don’t know how soon they were coming after me.

I sat down for a while. I don’t know how long exactly. I don’t have a phone or anything else that will tell me the time. I just know I needed to sit. When I see a car come into the parking lot. I got up and started walking again. There shouldn’t be a car coming into a school that’s closed. I found it weird so I walked into the woods again.

I honestly don’t know where I’m going. My body is almost giving up on me. I’m starting to have a hard time breathing. I don’t know how long I was walking. I just know that I made it to a waterfall. It was so beautiful and peaceful looking. I made my way to the rock next to it. I payed down on the floor and just listened to the water coming down. It was such a relaxing sound.

I felt my eyes get heavy. This is it I say to myself. I’m going to die in the middle of the woods. By myself isn’t this great. I didn’t have anymore energy to move. I just laid my head back and closed my eyes. I don’t know but in my dying moments. I saw the strangers face. I don’t even know him. Why would I see him before I die. God he is a great face to see before dying.