Based on Love, Stargirl
Story title: Normal life.
Chapter title: Hope
AN: This is the summary: 'You have lived your life, let me live mine!' I screamed.
Stargirl is fed up with her life, her mum is out-of-control and her dad is always away on business trips.
She is lucky to have Dootsie to help her along. But she has her eye on young boy named Leo.
This isn't set like a diary entry, it's just a story from Stargirl's POV
Story:
"You have lived your life, let me live mine!" I screamed
She threw a vase at my head, I luckily ducked in time. My mother was always like this, we weren't like a normal family. My father goes overseas for his career, so he's never around.
This all started with me playing around till late in the night with Dootsie, my best friend. Even though she just turned 5, I had always loved her.
Our fight over me staying out late was over, we weren't rich we had just enough money, my mother didn't work but my father visits occasionally to help around.
I locked myself in my room. And fell asleep listening to the rain.
I had dreams of a normal life until…
"Get up!" screamed my mother.
I rolled out of bed and got dressed, I looked into the mirror. I wasn't a pretty girl; I had freckles long brown hair and hazel green eyes.
My mother and I never had normal conversations like "How was your day honey?"
Our conversations were like:
"We've run out of mayonnaise"
"Why didn't you say so before I went to the shops?" she would yell.
I had breakfast and went next door. I collected Betty Lou's mail and donuts and went inside, she had agoraphobia so she never exited her own house, and it was getting worse the day before she didn't want to leave her room!
Dootsie made her way inside right after me.
"Hi Stargirl" says Dootsie
"Hi Dootsie" I said
Betty Lou was in the kitchen making some hot chocolate for us, she knew we were coming. We came every day to give her, her donuts and her groceries which were delivered by a 16 year girl named Alvina, the same age as me.
Dootsie didn't like Alvina; Alvina was going through a hard time, just growing up.
We spent the afternoon with Betty Lou, gardening for her. I loved to do gardening, I didn't bother with our garden as my mother would have ruined it but Betty Lou's garden was paradise. I spent afternoons here; she was like a granny to me.
It was getting late.
"I think we should be heading home" I said taking Dootsie's hand.
"But I vanna thtay wit Betty Lou" Dootsie never wanted to leave once she arrived.
"Come again tomorrow, Dootsie" Betty Lou said
"YAY!" screamed Dootsie, Betty Lou and I had to hush her down before the neighbours said anything. I let her hold Cinnamon, my pet rat. Cinnamon had brown fur and was tame, no one liked rats but Dootsie loved 'Cimmamum' as she would call him.
I walked Dootsie home, but I saw Leo, he had been nice to me since the day I had arrived here. I secretly had a crush on him. He wasn't faking nice, he was naturally nice. But he was with the girl who delivered Betty Lou's groceries, Alvina. I was crushed.
"You like him, Stargirl" said Dootsie
"No" I said, turning away knowing a blush was creeping up.
"Bullpoppy!" Dootsie yelled.
I laughed. "What's Bullpoppy?" I asked between laughs.
"My daddy always said it when I lied" she said looking at me serious.
She was good.
"Okay, I do but this is a secret between us" I whispered
"Okay" said Dootsie skipping ahead of me with Cinnamon.
She walked inside her house and gave me back Cinnamon whilst I walked home.
Leo
Was the last thing I remembered once I fell asleep.
AN: That was my first chapter, I hoped you like it! If you did please review and I'll keep writing.
Vivv.