~ Memories of a broken dream~
By Twilight Ketsuni
Screaming voices could be heard all throughout the gray house at the end of Nova junction. A girl with dyed green hair ran up the stairs leading from the main room to the hall in which the bedrooms of the family were. The girl stopped at the top landing her eyes red with tears and her throat thick with the ones yet to come.
"You bastards just don't understand" Her voice wavered as more tears brimmed over the edge and slid down her pale face. She turned quickly and ran towards the end of the hall and into the room marked with a sign declaring 'Nora's room: Enter and die'. She opened the door and slammed it closed locking it and pushing her back to the door. Her body was shaking with fear and sadness. She pushed herself from the door and removed the belt that hung limply around her waist and slung it over the computer desk chair and sighed ad she pulled off the baggy hoodie and tossed it to the side. Nora walked over to her dresser an old picture of her and her boyfriend Scott sat at the top. She smiled faintly at the old memory then she frowned again and grabbed what she needed out of the old chest –of-drawers and slammed the drawer shut. She walked towards her bathroom. The door was covered in stickers of various kinds. Some came from shampoo bottles others from old coloring books for children and maybe a few old bumper stickers she'd stolen from her grandparents.
Nora pulled the door open and pulled her shirt off while placing her night clothes on the counter. She pulled the knob for the shower and the water came out in a burst of hot water and steam. Nora stripped her clothes completely and tossed them into the black wicker basket and stepped into the hot water. Her chest was on fire she hadn't taken her medicine for her heart that day and the pain was becoming unbearable. She pulled her arms across her chest and sunk to her knees tears flooding her eyes from the pain. It hadn't been this bad for a long time.
"Scott, help me it hurts!" she screamed clenching her chest. The pain soon subsided and she finished her shower. Nora walked out of her bathroom in a cloud of steam as she sighed. The baggy lime green pants hung low at her hips and the black tank top hugged her curves. Nora flopped down on her bed and grabbed her cell phone, the black words on the front read '3 missed calls'. She sighed and looked at the missed calls list.
Scott 7:45
Kayla7:53
Scott: 8:14
She hit the send button and heard the ringback tone on the other end.
'Hate me today, Hate me tomorrow, Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you' Then the phone picked up.
"Nora, are you alright? Jake, told me he heard your parents yelling at you again…Do I need to come pick you up and give you a place to stay?" Scott's calming voice soothed Nora's worries and she sighed.
"No babe, I just need to take a pill and calm my heart. I'll wait till the bastards go to bed and sneak out to the kitchen and grab one." Scott sighs on the other end and Nora could tell he was getting annoyed but he wouldn't yell at her. "I'll see you at school tomorrow alright Scott just go to bed I'll call if I need you." Scott grunted in reply and they both hung up. Nora lied back in her bed clenching her chest tightly as her phone rang again
'Put me to sleep evil angel, Open you wings evil angel, Oh Fly over me evil angel, why can't I breathe evil angel?' [Continues until answered]
"Yes Jake, I'm fine the yelling has stopped I just need a heart pill now go to bed" Nora hung up the phone and turned it off before her friend had a chance to speak. Songs started filling her head as she drifted to sleep as did old memories but none that she remembered clearly. A hand gripped hers and felt to be pulling her out of her body. She tried to pull back but didn't know how so she let herself be carried into her dreams. Waiting to meet with the happy inhabitants only to not remember in the morning.
"You can't go away yet you still have to save our world"