Jackie Jones walked across the surface. She knew she wasn't supposed to be out after 5:30, but she didn't care. She was 17 years old. She felt that she was old enough to make her own choices with out her parents, making choices for her. When Jackie thought about her lack of freedom, it angered her. She usually had no choice but to keep her emotions bottled up inside, because if she expressed them, she was afraid she would get scolded.
Jackie secretly dreamed of being a pirate. To sail the seas on a huge ship, to control a crew, to know other people besides her parents. (Who she barely knew)
Jackie felt as though she had nobody to talk to but herself. She had no friends, and she couldn't talk to her family because she felt as though they didn't care what she said. Her parents were too busy fighting with eachother. Sometimes she had the urge to kill herself.
Jackie had a very boring life. She just finished school, which gave her nothing whatsoever to do, her parents are barely making any money, which gives them very little to eat, she had no siblings, and nothing fun to do around the house. The only thing she could do, was dream of being a pirate.
"I wonder what it would be like to have an exciting life..." She said to herself. She gazed out to the sea. "The sea inspires me...to try to follow me dreams...if I can." She thought to herself for a minute. "No..I'll never be able to live that dream...so why do I even bother dreaming it? I'm only getting my hopes up." She put her hands in her pockets, tilted her head down, pulled her hat down, covering her eyes, and trailed home.
"Jackie Mary Jane Jones, where have you been?!" Jackie's mother, Annie shouted, as Jackie walked in the the door.
"Calm down mother." Jackie said. "You'll give yourself a nosebleed."
"Jackie, this is not funny! You know you aren't allowed out of the house after 5:30! You didn't even tell us you left! Something could have happened to you, and we wouldn't of known about it!"
"Oh stop mother, you and father wouldn't even care! You want me out of the house because now that I am out of school, I'M USELESS!" Jackie scremed. "I have nothing to live for mother! And I have lost my desire to!" Jackie sobbed, and stomped to her room.
Annie had a combonation of heartbreak, and anger. Jackie had never shown signs of depression. She had to realize that her good little angel was gone, replaced by a young woman.