A/N: Hey guys. This is just an introduction to the main character. The other characters will come into play in the next chapter. This is a prologue of sorts. So please review!!!!
Disclaimer: I own Riley, and nothing else.
Riley opened her eyes as she awoke from a restless sleep. She gazed at the roof of her car. "Looks like I got some sleep after all." She said to herself. She sat up and ran her hands through her long brown hair, and wiped the sleep out of her eyes.
Riley reached down and grabbed a bottle of water. "Another day, of nothing but the open road." Riley laughed bitterly to herself as she took a sip of her water. "Ugh, I need toothpaste and I need it now"
Knowing this was impossible; at least at the moment, Riley reached into her pocket and pulled out her keys, and started up the engine. She backed out of the parking space she was in, and quickly found her way to the highway. The scenery was beautiful by anyone's standards, but for Riley, it was the same as it had been since she had left her hometown of The Bronx. Riley shuddered as she thought of her home town. Hometowns were supposed to leave loving memories and you were supposed to look back on them fondly. Riley, she hated her hometown. Despised it. Wanted everyone in it, well her section anyway, to burn and rot in hell. And she wanted to be the one to put them there.
Her mother, what a mother. How many times had promises been broken? Her father, God, instead of being a father, he was his mothers bitch. Anything she wanted. Her lazy as hell uncle, her father's brother. Never did anything. Riley was the one going to school, and she never got to go on school trips, or anything, cause why? Her uncle needed money. He was 35 for God's sake. Get a job! The one thing to mention to Riley, if you wanted to get her mad, was mention how her brother got to go to one of the best colleges in the country. But when Riley graduated high school, she couldn't go to college. Her parents said no. Why? There was no money. They had to pay her brothers rent and bills, they had to take care of her uncle and grandmother. Riley's eyes flared in anger, as she thought of her supposed family. As soon as she graduated, she picked up and left. She took her used car, her clothes, and her savings. She had been saving since she was 13. All her birthday money, holiday money, allowances (the little that she did get). She rarely bought anything for herself. A cd at most. It wasn't a hell of a lot, but it was enough to keep her going.
Riley smiled as she remembered what she had told her classmates, at graduation day. What she had said to everyone. She was the valedictorian. Everyone else had on nice pants, shirts, dresses under the gowns. Riley? A pair of old khakis and her Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet t-shirt.
*Flashback*
"And as for my fellow graduates…" Riley turned and gave them her most winning smile. "You made my life miserable." Riley heard gasps from the audience. "And I know, you all think the lowest of me. But mark my words, the only way I will ever go down. Is in a Blaze of Glory"
*End Flashback*
Riley shook her head, to clear it as she heard a trucker blow his horn. Riley's eyes grew wide and she swerved. She shut her eyes as she saw the tree that she was about to hit. Then it all went black.