Day I Met Him

August 1, 2008 . 5:39pm

Today’s gonna be terrible….

Today’s my first official day living at the mansion and the end of the road, in the very center of town. Perfect right?

“Why Vermont mom? Why not Florida or California??”

“I like it here, it’s my hometown actually. I plan on staying here for quite some time.”

“Are we ever going to move?”

Her phone buzzed and she looked at me, giving me the answer, then walked away taking the call.

Great….I started walking around the new house, and then walked up to my room.

It was huge, just like every other place we moved into.

As I moved through my room, I ran my fingers over every trophy on my wall. None of them were mine, they were my mothers. I rolled my eyes and walked to my bed, then jumped on it and laid down.

This is soooooo boring…..

I lifted my head up and looked over to the balcony. I sat up and studied the designs on the wood. Hand carved. Only the best for my mum.

*knock* *knock*

“Yes?”

“Miss Larvotte, it’s Miss Khloe, your maid...I’m here to wash the laundry, and bring your tea.”

“Oh, come in Khloe.”

She opened the door with a white cloth and stepped into the room lightly. She made it only a few feet before she covered her nose with the same white cloth.

“Ooh, I’m so sorry Miss, this might seem extremely rude, but your room smells horrible…..”

I laughed, “I know.”

She reached in her pocket and took out a floral scented perfume bottle. Then sprayed a little bit every few feet. By the time it was done my room smelled like a greenhouse.

Thanks…

She grabbed all of the clothes I had spread out across my floor, since I was starting to unpack, but then I got bored. Everything just seems so boring lately, I don’t know why.

“Khloe? I’m gonna take a nap, so please don’t interrupt me. I would like to be left alone for the night.”

“Oh sure,” she nodded, “I'll just put your clothes in your bathroom. Oh, and I believe the right grammar to use is ‘going to.’”

“Right,” I smiled tensely.

As soon as she walked out of the room I grabbed the key sitting on my nightstand and locked the door behind her. Then pulled an outfit out from under my bed. Ripped jeans and a red tank top, which apparently ‘isn’t fit for a lady.’

But it was better than the dresses Miss Klhoe put me in or long skirts with like, 5 different shirts on.I still don’t get why there has to be so many layers.

I shoved my feet into my white shoes, and then walked quietly over to the balcony. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, then opened the door and walked out.

I ran my hand across the stone ledge, and decided it would work. My watch was on my wrist, so I knew how long I had, which was only a few hours. But I’d make the most of it.

I held onto the stone and climbed over to the other side, then placed my foot on the ledge of the window below my room. I grabbed the vine surrounding the window and jumped off it into the bushes.

I quickly stood up and rubbed my leg, then ducked. Khloe was about to see me, luckily she didn’t, she was facing the other direction. I moved to the side of the window and crept around to the back of the mansion.

When there was no one looking, I sprinted. I didn’t bother to look and see if anyone was watching when I started running, I just wanted to get as far from that mansion as I could at the moment. I released my hair from the tight pony to let it free in the wind.

I heard there was a skate park a few miles from our house, so it was a good distance. I always wanted to learn to skateboard, so it was perfect.

After running for a few blocks, I was able to start walking. I studied every little detail on the outside of every kind of shop I came across, and different trees I saw. Mum didn’t like the outdoors much, it ‘invaded her space.’ She only have evergreen trees on our property, and the grass was fake, so there wasn’t any weeds, or imperfections.

I took everything in and welcomed the fresh air into my lungs. I felt like a prisoner with my mum, and anything she’d have time do was just too boring. I needed some excitement for once, and this was it.

I was almost there, my eyes were fixed on the tall structures the skaters would skate down and jump off of to do tricks. I grinned ear to ear, excited, I never did anything like this.

But then a light shone in my eyes. I rubbed them and looked to my right. It was a few boys, and a girl. They were all dressed in black, and the girl had red lipstick on. I stopped and watched them, they were each holding something in their mouths, it was white and orange. some of them were burning down, and when they took it out they blew smoke out of their mouths. The others were being lit by a flame coming out of a metal casing. But one of the boys was playing with the wheel of their skateboard.

I looked to the skate park and then looked back at the group of people. Maybe this is my excitement….

I could go to a skatepark and ask to borrow a skateboard, or go up to these people that look so different than everyone else.

I pulled up my jeans and pulled my hair back, then walked towards the group of people with a small smile.

As I approached them they started to watch me. The girl turned her body to me fully and crossed her arms, and gave a smug look. She leaned in closer to one of the guys, showing there was a bond. A relationship.

I looked away from her and looked at the other guys, the one she was leaning closer to had short blonde hair, and was really skinny. The other one sitting next to him had curly brown hair, that was a little longer, and had some muscles. Then there was the one on the very end, he had short black hair, with a hat and sunglasses covering his eyes, and he stopped playing with the wheel of his skateboard.

My smile disappeared as I got closer to them, my eyes narrowed and I was determined to impress them. I walked confidently up to them, and as I stopped only a few feet from them, the girl turned her nose up.

I laid my hands on my hips and shoved my butt to the right.

“Hi.”

They only stared back, but then the guy the girl was right next to spoke up.

“Hey.”

I tried keeping my emotions hidden, but I think I did a terrible job.

“What do you want?” the girl asked harshly. She took the tube out of her mouth and blew smoke in my face. I waved my hand and replied, “So...you guys...look pretty legit.”

I look at the guy all the way to the left, he grins back, “As legit as it gets.”

I smile in return, I did it, if I could just impressed one of them, the rest would have to welcome me. I could make myself a place to fit in, and this is that place.

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