Pivotal Moment

Grayson was fighter. She was someone that was used to fighting for what she wanted. Gray had grown up in a rough place but she would never admit that. Grayson was used to picking up the pieces of the lives around her and keep herself going. Grayson had grown up observing but could definitely could hold her ground. She could be loud and evident when she wanted it to be. Gray did not want to be forgotten in her life, no she wanted to be remembered. She knew too many people who were forgotten.

Even as a child, Grayson wanted more than what everyone thought her to be. She was used to the people around her slumming their way through the same mud and not doing much to reclaim themselves. Grayson had grown up learning how to cheat her way through life and come out fine. Her parents were two people that did not do much to change the way that people thought of them. They were gritty and more often or less with their heads in the clouds or their heads on the floor passed out. Grayson had grown up taking care of them as they were passed out on the couch.

Grayson never really understood why her parents were the way they were. At an young age, Gray had caught onto the fact that people knew her parents as low-lifes. She did not really know what that meant at that time but she figured it had to do with the fact police were constantly bringing her father home. Grayson loved her parents but she hated who they were. They would lie, cheat, and steal their way through life. Gray would not lie that she did not do the same at times when she had no other option.

Grayson loved her family especially her siblings. They only had each other. Grayson had seen her parents walk in and out of her life especially her mother. Her mother would disappear and reappear like she never left. It always started out fine with dinner on the table but then something would crack and she would be laying in bed for weeks. These were times when Grayson found her at her mother's side. It seemed like these times would never end and then one day they would wake up to find her bed empty. Her father would walk in that nothing was wrong that he did not do countless things to screw over their family.

Being the middle child always proved to be interesting. There was four of them total: Wilks, Grayson, Cash, and Evie. They were all very different from each other. Wilks being the oldest had taken care of his other siblings making sure that they would have food. Grayson was the next and was willing to help Wilks. She proved to the brains of the home. Cash was next and he proved to be the trouble-maker but was the one that they each would come to if something was wrong. Then, Evie who was a wild child that could capture anyone's heart. She was still too young to understand anything.

Grayson was a sight to see with her brunette tendrils of hair, clear skin, and doe-like eyes. Grayson was charming and it proved to work to her advantage. That is what caught her peers off guard was that Grayson 'Gray' Duchane was an interesting, caring and charismatic person. Once people actually know the girl, she was funny with side comments that people could not help to laugh or smile. She was charming and lovely with a side grin that could leave anyone on their knees. If Grayson was born into a different family than maybe she would had the possibility to go anywhere.

It was not till she was sixteen that Grayson realized that life was anything in what she had been told. She had already gotten in trouble countless times and spent many times running away from the cops. The Duchanes had quite the past with the police from the countless run-ins that each one of them had. It was a running joke that their family had their own drawer filled with each of their records. Grayson was intelligent and many tried to tell the girl that she could do better than what she was doing. Gray could not see herself really leaving the beat-up home. She did not believe that she could leave behind her family.

Grayson had been given an option one day and did not see any way but to take it. Gray had no real plans for the future but Wilks had saw the bright future for his sister. He put in countless applications in for her. He saw that his sister could go live a life that each one of them dreamed of. Grayson had came home to find the letters congratulating her that she was accepted to study. She had read over the letters countless times. She had been given scholarships that would help her and she did not know what to think of it.

Grayson walked out of the home with a trash bag filled with her items. Gray did not know if it was a goodbye from the home. She had chosen a college that was far enough that she could start over but close enough to visit. Each one of her siblings put in their change and money they made to get her a train ticket. Grayson had hugged each one of them before getting on her train. She did not look back knowing that if she looked back that maybe trouble would find a way back in her life.