A New Life
Prologue
5 August, 2013
Public Housing Projects, Southeast DC
Jacob Baker has always had a rough life. For one, he was a white guy in the projects. Most people might not think it ever happens, but it does. In Jacob's case, it did. He liked to play basketball, but the other kids would never let him. He was always being harassed in school, so his grades were falling. Who said discrimination only went one way? Finally, he always keeps a rope handy in his room if he ever wants to end it all.
However, tonight he had a different reason for wanting to use said rope.
It was ten o'clock at night and Jacob was staying up contemplating his life. In a month, he'll be a junior- another year of being harassed by minorities. By this point Jacob couldn't help but have racist prejudices. He felt bad about it- that being what caused his problem in the first place, but what would anyone else do in this situation?
He walked over to the window of his tenth-story apartment he shares with his mother who is only twice as old as he is- this being the reason he lives here. Disowned by her parents, there was nowhere else to go. He thinks about these things as he watches smoke rise from the street below.
Wait, what?
A loud thump could be heard as the building begins to rock- pieces crumbling off the sides. The explosion threw Jacob off his feet back into his room. The fire escape, worn by years of torment by other mischievous kids trying to sabotage the Baker home, fell the other way- into the street. it was still intact from the eighth floor down, so if he could get there safely, he might be able to make it out.
This is where that rope comes into play. Jacob got up, desperately searching for the rope which had somehow fallen off of the dresser, if he could find it, it would get him to the eighth floor safely.
However, he was not watching where he was going- he pointed his head his head at the ground searching for the rope. That was when his head bumped into the TV.
Jacob knows there are no black voids in his room, so he examined and found that he did, in fact, enter the TV. Figuring that was his best odds for survival in a burning building, he stuck his hand in, and jumped.
Author's Notes:
This is a very short chapter meant to introduce my new story. There will be plenty of canon characters and a few OCs like Jacob in this adventure, the course of which even I can't predict at this time. If you read my other sorry attempt at a story, which I don't believe anyone did, I will most likely not be continuing that and solely working on this. Unless you liked that- in which case tell me! please!
Please review this! I want to know if anyone actually read it and I would really appreciate getting suggestions. Also, If you have any ideas for where this story should go or any OCs you would like me to add, please leave a review, I can't read your mind and having multiple people coming up with a plot, as opposed to just poor me, would make this story much better.
I plan on updating this regularly. Either every day or every other day depending on what's going on. Other chapters will be longer than this one, don't worry.
So, please review! Or do something to let me know you're reading this!