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The Trail

Chapter one

A lot has happened since I returned home. I wanted see Van for quite some time, it was hard being away but it has been two years since I last saw him and I kept up my hope that I would find away to get back to Gaea.

My dad and little brother died in a car crash; two months after I came back to earth. I quit running and my mother and me grow distant. She got remarried almost immediately, the guy was an ass hole and it seemed as if my mother died with my father and brother. I spent about two thirds of my time in the hospital and at school or fighting with my mother the rest of the time.

It's been a year and a half since the crash and my mom remarrying, and we were fighting again.

"Mom I just got out of the hospital, do we have to do this know?"

"I want to know, why do you hate your father so-"

"He isn't my father. My father is died and you could care less about him or your son!" I was getting mad at her for always saying things like that, Kazuo had been sitting in the living room like always listening to us bickering until he felt that it was the right time to intervene. "Why are you even keeping me around? Huh. I don't even know you anymore! You're not the mother I grow up with, I don't know you!"

"Hitmoi, how can you say that? I'm your mother-"

"No, No you aren't otherwise you wouldn't have gotten remarried the day of the funeral, you would be coming to see me in the hospital, you would be worried, you would be coming with me to go and see them at their graves, remembering them! But no you let that, that monster take away every little thing about them, it was as if they didn't exist!" I was surprised that my step-father hadn't come into the room yet to beat me for what I was yelling at my mother, at the same time my fury with my mother kept growing to the point I said something I knew eventually I would regret. "I HATE YOU! I HATE THIS P...PRISON! I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS PLACE! AND YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER! MY MOTHER IS DEAD!"

With that I stormed to my room and packed my duffle bag. I was about to leave when Kazuo stop me.

"Apologize."

"What?" I had started crying when I started to yell everything I had kept hidden for a year and a half now.

"I said apologize to your mother."

"No, you're not my father you can't tell me what to do."

"I am sorry this is how you feel but you shouldn't be rude to your mother." I stared at him in disbelief is he for real, normally I would be getting yelled at and getting a beating about know that would have me in the hospital for half a year okay maybe not that long but I would end up there for that long with small breaks in between. "I realize I haven't been the greatest father but I will improve that with the child on the way."

Wait a minute did he just say child on the way I looked to my mother and she was holding her just below her stomach. "I can't believe you. This is all the more reason to leave; I want nothing to do with your NEW family."

"Wait." Kazuo spoke up again. My mother seemed to be shaking her head no "she has the right to know."

"Know what" right then a knock came from the door Kazuo opened it and said "we registered you for a military program."