Chapter 1---
Beads of cool autumn rain fell harder and harder onto the crimson and gold leaves.Candice Proctor sat gazing out the window of her grandparent's Manhattan apartment,watching the tiny droplets run down the pane.
It was a few minutes before her silvery-hazel eyes clouded, and the storm of tears came.
Who could blame her? Both of her parents were dead. Her older brother had gone off to Venice-or so he'd told her just after they arrived at the apartment. He never really explained why, so Candice just assumed it was so he wouldn't have to worry about her getting into trouble, which seemed to happen more and more often.
It seemed to her that the only reason her mother's parents-the only family she had left- agreed to take care of her was because they felt guilty for her mother's death, felt that if only they weren't so caught up in their own lives, they might have been able to save hers.
Candice snapped back into reality,wiping her eyes on her sleeve. She concentrated hard on the plan for what would happen while her grandparents were asleep yet another time-she'd sneak out the window and down the fire escape with her small leather bag, containing just a change of clothes, her hairbrush, a picture of her parents, and about five dollars, and set off to her best friend Anna's, where she'd planned to saty until they got tired of her or something better came along.
Candice lay down on her bed with her bag beside the open window, drifting through the few hours of sleep she would have that night.
(AN:This is my very first chappy of my very first fanfic! Pleeease review!! There are probably tons of thigs I can improve- just tell mee!!!)
Beads of cool autumn rain fell harder and harder onto the crimson and gold leaves.Candice Proctor sat gazing out the window of her grandparent's Manhattan apartment,watching the tiny droplets run down the pane.
It was a few minutes before her silvery-hazel eyes clouded, and the storm of tears came.
Who could blame her? Both of her parents were dead. Her older brother had gone off to Venice-or so he'd told her just after they arrived at the apartment. He never really explained why, so Candice just assumed it was so he wouldn't have to worry about her getting into trouble, which seemed to happen more and more often.
It seemed to her that the only reason her mother's parents-the only family she had left- agreed to take care of her was because they felt guilty for her mother's death, felt that if only they weren't so caught up in their own lives, they might have been able to save hers.
Candice snapped back into reality,wiping her eyes on her sleeve. She concentrated hard on the plan for what would happen while her grandparents were asleep yet another time-she'd sneak out the window and down the fire escape with her small leather bag, containing just a change of clothes, her hairbrush, a picture of her parents, and about five dollars, and set off to her best friend Anna's, where she'd planned to saty until they got tired of her or something better came along.
Candice lay down on her bed with her bag beside the open window, drifting through the few hours of sleep she would have that night.
(AN:This is my very first chappy of my very first fanfic! Pleeease review!! There are probably tons of thigs I can improve- just tell mee!!!)