A Hundred Miles From Death City

The woman with two hair colors sighed. She pushed her azure bangs out of her eyes and whistled. She looked up in the distance towards a huge, bright mansion.

"Not sure if that's a mansion or a castle." She said as she dug into her hefty bag. After a few minutes of searching, she pulled out a black and red baseball cap and placed it upon her dark brown and azure hair. "Better go find out!"

She started off with a smile on her face, but after ten miles of walking up a hill, her smile fell. She paused for a moment and wiped the sweat off her forehead. She looked at the mansion once again. "Only two to four miles left." She said to herself. She positioned her cap once again and started off.

The sun's hot rays that seemed to mock her made her brow twitch. If only she could punch the sun in the face, then they'd see who was mocking whom. The four miles seemed like nothing now that she was standing at the gates of the large mansion.

"Yep, it's a mansion alright." She said to herself. She walked up the small path and past the gates. The young woman looked around, a delicate smile reached her lips. "Wow… Never knew that a place in the middle of the desert could have such a beautiful garden."

"Oh! You're here! T.K., I've been expecting you!" A man's voice called out to her. She looked towards the voice.

"Yeah, I'm finally here. It took a while, but it was worth it." T.K. smiled brightly to the man. The man was wearing dark blue jeans, solid white shirt, red handkerchief, and two rings that had a skull on them. She rushed over to hug him. "It's been a while."

"Indeed it has, T.K." He hugged the girl tightly. "Now that you're here, your mother can rest. After all, she needs it." He shook his head. "She's been working too hard lately."

T.K. listened as her uncle went on and on about work and his garden. "So, why is it exactly that you live out here in the desert? Are you hiding from something?" She asked in a playful voice. His eyes hardened for a moment.

"No. I just like the silence that comes with the desert. The city was too noisy for me." He relied.

"Uncle Kale, there is a place called the country side. It's rarely noisy if you live in the right place and there are rarely any neighbors." T.K. said to her clearly delusional uncle.

"I know, T.K. I just wanted a place that was secluded and away from everyone. You know that I don't like people all that much." Kale said as he picked up her bags and headed towards the house with T.K. in tow.

"Doesn't it get lonely being by yourself all the time, Uncle Kale?" T.K. asked as she followed her uncle through the house and up to the second floor.

"Not really. Besides, I have you now. That's enough for me." Kale led her to the end of a long hallway. "Here's your room. There's paint in the basement if you want to paint or do whatever on the walls." She opened the door and her jaw dropped to the floor.

"Oh my god, Uncle Kale…. This room is awesome." She said as she walked around the ginormous room. Kale placed her bags on the bed and opened the door to the closet. "That's what I call a closet…" The closet was the size of her room back at her mom's house. Her new room was the size of her mom's house. "This is really awesome of you, Uncle Kale." She smiled.

"Anything for the best." He patted her back. "Now rest up and I'll give you a tour of the place tomorrow when you wake up. There's food in the kitchen if you're hungry." Kale said on his way out the door.

T.K. placed her bags into the closet. She unpacked her things and placed her pants into the drawers that were built into the closet's walls. She hung her shirts on the racks of the enormous closet. She placed her hats by color onto the hooks that were all around the closet. T.K. placed her shoes at the far end of the closet and her socks in a drawer above the shoe rack. She placed the rest of her clothes into some miscellaneous drawers within the closet and closed the door. She stretched, took off her shoes and hat, and fell onto the extremely soft bed. T.K. closed her eyes and drifted off into a peaceful slumber.

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T.K. awoke to the screaming of an alarm clock. She drowsily turned to her side towards the bedside nightstand and clumsily turned off the alarm. She rolled back over to her right and snuggled her face into her pillow. Fatigue still lingered in her system.

"Tora Kyra, breakfast is ready!" Kale yelled from the kitchen.

"M'kay!" T.K. yelled back drowsily. She gently kicked off her baby blue blankets and sat up in her bed. She stretched her arms up over her head and leaned to both sides. T.K. let out a soft yawn and clamored out of bed. She walked to her closet and exchanged her old clothes from the day before with dark blue jeans, a baby blue T-Shirt, torn up black and white Chucks, red handkerchief with yellow smiley faces, and a black hat to top it off.

T.K. laced up her shoes and bounded out of her room and down the stairs. Kale met her at the base of the stairs. "Good morning, sunshine. How did you sleep?"

"I slept good, real good." T.K. smiled at Kale. "What's for breakfast?"

"Eggs, bacon, toast, and there's coffee if you want it." He answered as he handed his niece a plate piled high with food.

"Thanks, Uncle Kale!" T.K. looked hungrily at the plate filled with the delicious breakfast foods.

"After breakfast, I'll give you the tour." Kale said as he led T.K. to the kitchen area. She sat at the kitchen table with a marble top. "Drink up." He said as he placed a cup of coffee in front of her plate.

"Uncle Kale… This is the coolest coffee mug that I've seen." She said as she looked at the steaming cup of coffee. The coffee was placed inside a Star Wars themed cup that was decorated with Luke Skywalker in different poses. "They even got the color of his pale blue lightsabor right. Awesome sauce." She took a sip of her coffee and finished up her breakfast.

"How about that tour?" He said as she placed her dirty plate and fork in the sink. She refilled her coffee.

"Sounds good." She said as she was led to every part of the house. There were twenty seven rooms total (she counted). "Uncle Kale, you have a big house."

He chuckled. "Yeah, I suppose I do." He looked down at his watch. "Oh shoot, I'm going to be late for work." He pulled T.K. in for a quick hug and a peck on the cheek. "I'll be home around six or seven. There's plenty of things in the fridge to eat if you get hungry." He said while exiting the house.

T.K. watched as her uncle jogged out to his truck and drove off. She waved and locked the door after him. She set the alarm as her paranoid side was seeping to the surface. T.K. washed the dishes from breakfast and cleaned out the coffee pot. The silence of the house was enough to create a mad man.

She walked into the living room and turned on the stereo. Safe and Sound by Capital Cities played through the speakers and gave T.K. the noise she needed. She walked over to the white couch and curled up around her coffee. She sipped at it every now and then and eventually it was gone. She headed back to the kitchen, washed the cup, and placed the dry dishes in their proper places.

T.K. paced throughout the house, boredom was taking control of her. "So… bored." She said as she slinked back onto the couch. She turned off the stereo using the remote that lay on the couch. She lay upside down on the couch, her hair sweeping the floor. Her cap fell off and she crossed her legs and closed her eyes. "Bored…" she dragged out the word. The ceiling fan was on and it made a swishing noise. She looked up at it and her eyes followed the motion of the fan. After a few minutes, she looked at the clock that was on the wall.

"You've got to be kidding me. It's only been ten minutes? Holy crap…" T.K. let out a long sigh. She placed her hands firmly on the floor and kicked off the couch and she pushed herself up off the floor and stood perfectly. "Huh, it actually worked this time." She picked up her black baseball cap and placed it back upon her azure and brown hair. "What to do, what to do…." She trailed off as she paced around the house. T.K. decided to walk outside in the gardens.

She disabled the alarm and headed out the front door where warm air greeted her as if she was a good friend. She took a long stroll around the huge house's garden, only stopping to examine a few desert roses. After an hour or two she went back inside, set the alarm, and went down to the basement. She grabbed a few colors of spray paint and headed back up to her room. T.K. shook a can of yellow spray paint and began to paint a soul, her soul, on the wall. T.K. finished the piece off by putting a pale blue around the edges of her soul.

The teen took a step back and examined her art work. She tilted her head to both sides and then quickly added her signature at the bottom of the wall. "There, that adds a bit of me into the room." Satisfied, she went back down to the basement and placed the paints back onto their proper shelves. Once back upstairs, she glanced at the clock. "It's only noon? What am I supposed to do until Uncle Kale gets home?" T.K. said, practically pulling her hair out. "I know," she snapped her fingers "I can…. I can… do something." She fell back into her bed.

"Why exactly does he live so far away from civilization, anyways? There's got to be another reason than the noise." T.K. wondered out loud. "And why are eggs classified as a breakfast food? I eat them other times of the day besides in the morning. Who decided that?" She kept rambling about eggs and Kale. "He's probably hiding something. If so, I wonder what it is…. Maybe, while he's at work all day, I can investigate the house!" T.K. quickly got up out of bed and repositioned her hat. She ran du the stairs to his room and looked everywhere.

She looked in his closet, in his dresser, even under his bed. She came up empty handed and retired to the kitchen to get a bottle of water. She looked at the clock. "One o'clock, oh joy..." T.K. said as she sipped her water.

The rest of her day included of the normal: Playing with Kale's rolling office chair, making food, walking in the garden, spray painting, having the music blast through the stereo, etc. Can't you tell that she was bored? She's a teenager, a teenager that was left alone in an empty house for twelve hours. She was going to be bored. T.K. went back to her room and lay in her bed. It was now four o'clock and Kale was to return in an hour or two. She decided that she would sleep those two hours until he got home.

Author's Note:

Um, hi! Sorry if that first chapter was a pain to read and it bored you to death, but the next chapter will be better. I promise. Also, I will be updating every day or every other day if you're that person that actually likes this fanfiction. So hope you enjoyed, and if you didn't please tell me, and if you have any tips that will help me with my writing, please tell them! Thanks! ^~^

-TKH