Everyone Leaves Eventually

It was a nice Saturday morning, I was out for my morning run. Summer is my favorite time of the year. It's when I can run , and run, and run. In the winter it gets really cold, too cold. I don't like to run in the cold, but running is my escape, so I do it anyway. I had just finished my run and walked onto our porch when I suddenly heard a loud crash, like a glass vase smashing against the wall, and then yelling. It was my mom's voice, it was full of anger, she was probably drunk again.

"You lied to me, when Ashlynn gets home I am taking her away and you will never see her again!" I heard my mom yell.

"You can't take her away from me, she is my daughter too. I raised her-!" my father started yelling, but he suddenly stopped and I wondered why.

The next thing I heard was loud stomping and the front door swung open. I was scared and I didn't know what to do. My father was right in front of me, staring at me.

"Ashlynn?" He started. "How long have you been there?"

"Dad....what's going on in there... where are you going?" I asked, it was all I asked, all I could ask. I already knew the answer though, he was leaving, everyone is always leaving.

"Ashlynn, it's all going to be okay." my dad started to comfort me, but my mom wasn't having it. She came out screaming her head off.

"Get away from my daughter!" was all I heard before a bunch of stuff was thrown out our front door. My mom came out, gripped my arm, and dragged me back inside.

Before I realized what she had been doing, the empty wine bottles confirmed what I already knew. She was really drunk. I was probably going to have a hard time with her for the next few weeks. Now that my dad is gone, I have no one else to go to, it is just me and her.

"Ashlynn, Ashlynn, come on, pack your stuff, we are going to move in with Grandma Linda. We have to be gone before Jared, I mean your father gets back." My mother was talking, but I could barely hear her.

Looking around the room, all I could see were a bunch of boxes stacked in the living room, out of all the boxes, there were only three small boxes with my name on them. She went and packed my stuff and she probably didn't even get everything that I needed.

"Go check your room for anything that I could've missed. We leave tonight and we aren't coming back." I looked at her, grabbed a small box off of the floor, and went to my room. As I walked into my bedroom, I realized that everything was different. The small desk lamp was now on the floor, shattered to pieces. My closet didn't have anything organized neatly how I liked it, and the snow globe my father had bought for me when I was little was now broken into small glass shards. She had torn it all apart and it felt like there was nothing left. It felt like I had nothing left.

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