Everything You Ever Wanted
Disclaimer: I do not own The Chronicles of Narnia or any of its characters--C.S. Lewis does--nor do I own he song "Everything You Ever Wanted"--Hawk Nelson does.
Chapter 1: The Loss
I just wanna say goodbye.
Disappear with no one knowing.
I don't wanna live this lie,
Smiling to the world unknowing.
-Hollywood Undead, "The Loss"
"Come back here!" a woman yelled, but Lacey didn't listen. She ran up the stairs to her room and slammed the door loudly, not wanting another fight, or as her mother called them, "a heated discussion".
Lacey locked the door, even though Lacey knew she had a key and would be up as soon as she dug through a drawer and found it. But Lacey would take however little private time she could get.
She flopped down on her bed, and, as the tears started welling up and then burning her cheeks she turned face down and buried her face in her pillow. She couldn't take another day of this; another day of the stares--glares, really--and conspicuous giggles at school; the constant teasing; the teachers promising to intervene and then doing nothing; coming home and being told, "That's just part of life in the real world. Get used to it, 'cuz life isn't like all that fantasy stuff you read."; getting yelled at for making a B; and more than anything wanting to escape this 'real world' her mom spoke of.
Oh God, she prayed silently, there has to be some kind of out, or else something you can do to change them. She had prayed this prayer a million times, but in her eyes God had answered her with a no, or else hadn't answered her yet at all, and her faith--what little she had--was starting to diminish even faster than before she'd started praying constantly.
Are you even real? she nearly yelled at the Heavens, but she knew if there was a God up there, he should be able to hear it in her thoughts.
"Lacey, if you don't open this door, I WILL!" came the voice she'd been expecting all along.
She wasn't going to open the door. She quickly turned her pillow to the side that wasn't wet and wiped her tears away roughly as the key started turning in the lock. Lacey was now completely prepared to get yelled at some more.
She averted her eyes from the door to her large bay window, then quickly glanced back at the door to see if it was open yet.
I finally have my out, she thought as she quickly tiptoed over to the window. She unlocked it, which took alot of strength, then slid it open as quietly as she could, which was also a real task.
It was so big she got out easily enough. I don't have time to close it, she thought.
She knew she would have to be careful of the bushes right below her window. She glanced down to estimate how far out she would have to jump to avoid them, when she noticed they weren't there. Okay... maybe this really is a miracle of God.
She jumped straight down and somehow landed on her feet; Lacey looked at her feet and noticed she no longer had her black converse on, her feet were bare. This is too weird.
She started running though, so her mom wouldn't find her standing in the front yard. She knew she shouldn't've, but she risked a look backwards...and stopped in her tracks. For her house wasn't there anymore; in its place was a large expanse of forest, but the trees were not as close together as in a normal forest or wood, but they were spread apart so you could see what was in the distance.
Lacey gulped. This is definately not my front yard, she thought as she slunk down into the greenest, healthiest grass she'd seen in her life.