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Escape to the Stars
Chapter 1: Preface
Do you claim to have the perfect life? Maybe even you scored perfect grades at school. Were you the teachers pet? The one who chose to not blend into the crowd? The kid with the perfect smile, perfect hair, perfect family, you know the perfect everything? That was me. I dressed weird, some people call it emo, others call it being different. I have jet black hair, it comes down a little past my shoulders. And I have the brightest blue eyes. No I'm not conceited, I hate people who think of themselves too highly, I really do. I also had the perfect boyfriend.
Luke was amazing, he was my best friend, he ditched me in the end though. That's another story for another time. Today started out like a very normal day, then it crashed and burned, literally. Why my name is Phoebe Nevaeh and this is my story. I'll take you through everything. Heartache, loss, suicidal thoughts, love, hate and probably more. Everything was so perfect and normal, I just had to go and mess everything up…
"Phoebe! Wake up! It's your last day of school before summer break, you don't want to miss out on the fun day school has waiting for you, do you?" My mom screamed from down the stairs. She was cooking breakfast, it smelled wonderful, eggs and toast. That's all she could really cook. "Wake up!" She kept yelling.
I popped out of bed, tumbling face first onto the hardwood floor, I rolled on my side and my glass of water knocked over and poured all over my face. Call me crazy, but I think I just got bad vibes for the rest of the day. Actually, now I was dreading going anywhere today, everything felt off. I tried to shake the negative thoughts from my mind. Dwelling on it wasn't going to make the feeling any better. I wiped furiously at my face, the water was soaking me!
I hopped up and almost tripped, but I caught myself on my bedpost. My mom started yelling again. "Mom! I'm awake! Calm down!" I yelled down to her, she seriously did tend to over react most times.
"Don't tell me to calm down little missy!" She threw back at me. I just rolled my eyes and retreated back to my room with a towel. I partially dried my hair and then cleaned up the remaining water on the floor. I readjusted the empty glass to where it wouldn't fall at all now. I shook my head.
"Phoebe! Are you awake?" Asked my dad walking into my room, with little Bingo trailing after him. He was our new baby Corgi, he was a pale brown color with white splotches tossed all over him. I was a cat person, but he was too adorable, I automatically took a liking to him. He usually sleeps with me, cuddled in my arms every night, but last night he didn't.
"Yeah, I'm awake." I told my dad, bending down to ruffle up Bingo. He was adorable!
"I can't believe how grown up your becoming! Your Sophomore year is ending, and next year you'll be a Junior, then you'll be free!" He started tearing up.
"Oh no, dad, you aren't going to cry are you? Because I'm not good with tears…" I trailed off. I know it's rude, but I seriously wasn't good with emotional things.
He made one long sniffle. "I'm good baby." He shook his head sadly. "It's just that just yesterday you were in diapers, then me and mom were sending you to school, and now were about to be sending you into the real world." I started to tear up then.
"See what you just did old man?" I playfully pushed him. "I think it's safe to say were both going to be bawling our eyes out at my graduation." We both nodded. "What are the plans for after school anyways?" I asked really eager, my parents haven't told me about anything, they said it was top secret.
He tsked. "What did your mother tell you darling?" He said. But I knew it was killing him not to tell me. It was my dad! He couldn't keep anything a secret.
"She told me not to worry about it, and that it's a surprise, but, you can tell me right?" I gave him a puppy dog look, then picked up Bingo and held him next to my face. Both giving the puppy dog look. "Please, please, please?"
"Ohhh alright." He caved. "I'm only telling you one part though, it involves a whole lot of driving, and it's far away!"
"Awh, dad! That isn't a clue!" I frowned. Adjusting Bingo better in my arms.
"But you get to drive there while we give you directions, just to keep you wondering." He said slyly before taking a few steps towards my door. "Now get ready for school!" He hit the side of my door before exciting. He closed it quietly.
Today was going to be weird, I already knew. I placed Bingo in the center of my bed and glanced at my clock. I had 20 minutes to get dressed, but I wasn't about to rush, it was the last day of school. I changed into a pair of tight black Capri's, threw on my white converse with cartoon animals on them, and a band tee shirt. These converse were so old and worn out, and they wear out on the insides from I guess where my feet rub together when I walk. I don't know no one else's shoes do that. My feet must be unique.
I sighed and sat in front of my mirror, not it was time to do something with this bland hair. It was naturally straight so I don't have to worry about straightening it. I decided to push my hair back with a skinny headband and leave my bang down. I pulled everything else up into a lazy ponytail. Makeup was next. I liked to wear only makeup on my eyes, like eye shadow, eyeliner, and mascara. I put on a black base and only darkened it deeper, and then I lined my orbs with a heavy amount of eyeliner. The mascara was my favorite part, it made my eyes look huge and innocent.
If you couldn't tell, black was my favorite color, and somehow I managed to be popular. Usually people tend to make fun of the weird kid, but in my school all the attention just stayed there, and I took an opportunity and now I'm popular. At first people would just talk to me and be playing around, and then it would turn into making fun of me, but I wasn't going to take that. Then I just started laughing along, clowning them back, and somehow it took me to the top. I don't know how, but I'm glad.
I've made some really interesting friends. I talk to everyone, to the nerds to the cheerleaders. They all welcome me. There isn't really any cute guys here, and there was one particular nerd who wont give up and keeps trying to ask me out, but I only see him as a friend, or brother. His name is Sean, and he's super short and looks Mexican, but he's half black. We joke and call him Beaner. I'm the Jew loving Nazi, and my friend Tara is the Jew. I know, were some weird high school kids.
The nerds are my favorite to hang out with, before or after school. Because when they get into their heated games of Yu-Gi-Oh it's kind of embarrassing to be around. I'm the only one who dresses in black, so I'm just kind of there. Our school is very creative in cliques. We have the Nerds, Jocks, Rednecks, Cheerleaders, Weird kids, Quiet ones, Fakes, Wrestlers, Skateboarders… well you get it right?
I linked my chain on my belt loop and put it between my wallet and shoved it in my back pocket. I loved wearing chains, and this is the only kind the school allows. They call them pocket chains. I wasn't going to bring anything with me to school, because we'd most likely do nothing all day. Except for math, it's always math. I rolled my eyes at the thought. I had Clevenger, he's a tough math teacher, of course he'd give us math homework on our last day. I shoved my pencil in my back pocket just in case. Stupid math.
"Phoebe get a move on!" My dad called from downstairs. I jumped out f my ranting and started rushing around. I kissed Bingo quickly on his little head and rushed out my bedroom door. I rounded down the stairs and I was ready to go. "Are you sure you should leave your stuff at home?" He asked eyes questioning.
"I'm fine, trust me. And if anything I'll need math stuff, so I just brought a pencil, any of my other classes should go by smoothly with a movie or something. I hope." I laughed. "You guys worry too much." I smiled.
"Well, we only worry for your best interest." My mom said. I loved her, she was my best friend, I could go to her for anything, and not have to worry about her judging me. I remember the time I had my period, and I was freaking out, because I thought I was dying. But she carefully explained and enlightened me in the world of tampons and pads. It was super awkward though.
"I know you guys do." I smiled again. "But do you know what? I cant wait to get rid of Creggett. I swear he hates me." He's my psychology teacher, he almost failed me, apparently I'm unorganized, talks all class period, and I don't do my homework. Ok first off, how would he know if I'm organized or not, he never checks. I do talk all class period, but at least I do my work. And he never gives out homework, plus I finish everything in class.
"It's ok darling, we don't want to get you going on him, because we know you wont be able to stop!" My mom laughed. True, once my rant on him starts, it never ends.
Pretty soon we arrived to the last place I'm going to be seeing in a while. My school. "Bye guys, pick me up at regular time okay? I love you both." I said before hopping out of the car.
I had to wait for a bus to pull out of the way before going in though, stupid inconsiderate busses, not caring about students. I walked into the lobby and it was decorated in farewell banners, saying bye, and that were the best school ever. I made my way to the cafeteria to wait until the morning bell rang. I stood by my nerds. I didn't really talk to them, I just stood there waiting, with nothing better to do. Just then the wind was knocked out f me and a pair of arms wrapped around my waist. Damn.
"Fi-Fi!" My stalker screamed. She's not really a stalker, she's just always talking about me and stuff. Freshman year I dated this kid named Austin and he was new to this school, my stalker, her names Rikki, well she would always walk around with him. And she used to run up to me and hug me, at first it was cute, then it just got out of hand. She tried to bite me on the neck, I'd rather not go into detail about it… she's my stalker, that's all you need to know. I shook my head.
"Hey." I said to her. Yeah I still talked to her, but I just felt bad for her, because people are always making fun of her and stuff.
"Fi-Fi! I'm going to miss you so bad, I'm not going to see you until next year!" She fake cried, yelling in the process. Gaining a lot of unwanted attention.
"It's ok, I'll miss you too, and just think about it, the summer will be over before you know!" I said trying to cheer her up.
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The rest of my day was super boring, and like I called it, my first period, which happened to be math, made us do a ton of work. It was a test or something, and I'm pretty sure I failed it, I didn't really know the area of a pentagon, using only sin, cos, and tan. And after Psychology class was over I made sure I was the first out of the door, I yelled FORGET YOU CREGGETT! As loud as I could, I was still too scared to cuss, it was bad.
Lunch was pretty boring, I sat with my other friend Tara. I knew two, and I loved them both, I don't know what I would do without them. "Don't look now, but Richard is totally checking you out!" Tara number one said from the lunch line we were standing in.
"Which Richard!" I said, because I've had the biggest crushes on both Richards for the longest of times.
"Light Richard!" She said excitedly. There was light Richard and dark Richard. Blonde hair and Brown hair. We get that bored in class trust me.
"He can't be!" I whispered back. "He has a girlfriend."
"Sooooo…." She trailed off.
And that was lunch, nothing happened between me or Richard. It stayed pretty boring. By the time 5th period got here I was rocking back and forth, I was so pumped for it being the first day of summer! Me and my friend Faith were freaking out! We were planning on spending most of the summer looking for jobs, and having sleepovers. Sounds like a perfect time to me.
"I'm going to miss you so much!" I gave her a huge hug. "Remember I'll text you and let you know if my family's going on vacation or what. I still haven't figured out what this whole after school surprise is." I was too happy.
"Don't worry chick, it'll be amazing, don't you worry about it." She was the best friend anyone could ask for, she's always there for me no matter what I need.
The bell rang!
There were woots, and shouts throughout the whole class, and the school shook with enthusiasm, we heard the students trampling around the floors fleeing to their busses. Me and Faith quickly and quietly walked the long way to the front of the school, just because its simpler and less crowded. He hugged each other bye and she started off on her walk home.
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I've been driving on the empty countryside road for the past 3 hours? Or for all I knew it could have been longer than that, because the shy was dark. I was strapped in at the drivers side, my mom rode shotgun, and my dad sat behind me. "How much longer do we have to drive? My eyes are starting to hurt, and I'm getting tired." I complained.
"Aw honey, quit your complaining, were about half way there." My mom stated matter-of-factly.
I felt my eyes bug out. "Half way there! I've been drive forever!" I dragged out the word forever, just to make it sound super whiney. Plus I was itching to text, I'm just so reliant on my phone, and I guess I'm having withdrawals. I laughed at myself. I guess I could wait out a few more hours.
Both my mom and dad were fast asleep when everything happened. I faintly noticed something coming towards me in the same lane as me. I shook violently at my moms leg. "Mom! Dad! Wake up hurry!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.
My mom jolted awake, she took the wheel and swerved it to the left lane, but as soon as she did that, the idiot driver decided to go that way too at a last second resort. We had a head on collision. The last thing I remember was hitting the airbag, my moms screams, shattered glass, and the sound of metal screeching. I remember being in the worst kind of pain, and the red and blue flashy lights, and then pitch black.
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