Prologue
Long time ago, Jessie Augustin believed that she was adopted, that she wasn't who they said she was. Jessie loathed her life. It was all oh so boring, sometimes she wanted to shoot the walls. She hated, and still do hate her family. They are so pathetic, useless and spineless mess of human emotions. You can say she's a sociopath, heartless, emotionless, the most common is uncaring son of bitch. Though Jessie couldn't say that it wasn't all true, but she didn't say that they were right, ya know. There was a point in her life, well multiple points in her life where she thought life ain't worth it. Don't get me wrong, Jessie wasn't one of those sorry ass, self observant people who cut themselves in depression. Please, she is self observant, but she like the thought of living.
When she meant that life wasn't worth it, Jessie meant that it was stupid, it didn't deserve the effort to 'mingle', or be 'social'. Thats when she started writing stories. Fiction really, but every time Jessie started a project it ended up not finished, which really annoyed her. Then Jessie started writing her own version of the Sherlock Holmes series. Before Jessie didn't really give it attention, or effort in it, but later on she started working on it whenever she had time. Jessie strangely ended up falling in love with my own characters. Like they were her own. What the hell, they're just fictional characters, she thought.
One day Jessie locked herself in her own room. She didn't want to talk, let alone see her own family. So pathetic they are, Jessie thought. The whole day Jessie was working on her sherlock project. She didn't have a title for it yet, since it's just random free writing. Just thoughts and ideas of the characters. In the story Jessie didn't really describe what the characters look like or sound like, though in her mind she knew what they look and sounded. Meanwhile Jessie was working on the senseless story, her brother Jeffrey is fighting with their uncle Jonathan. Something about work, she thought it was stupid and senseless to fight over this especially to Jeffrey, he won't get it through his thick skull. And personally she thought their uncle shouldn't be lecturing about jobs or money since he doesn't have either, just stupid. Jessie misses her other brothers; Alex, Henry, and Joel. Henry is in the military doing a tour, somewhere in the middle east; Joel is a doctor in europe, in italy she thinks; and Alex is a scholar, also in europe or asia. Both gone, left her with this sorry of an excuse of a family, let alone human beings.
Reality sucks, she thought. She wished this place was some dream and she would wake up in some place with much better family, but with Alex, Henry, Joel, Jeffery and little Alaina; her little sister. while everybody is gone or fighting, Jessie takes care of Alaina. When Alaina was born Alex, Henry, and Joel were already going off to college or finishing high school. Which left her and Jeffrey to take care of Alaina, since her father is an alcoholic after mom died. Jeffrey barely helps, so it's left to Jessie to take care of her. Jessie had to finish school early, get a job and go to college. Her father has a job, but it only pays minimum wage. So here she was, working three jobs and getting a degree in psychology, art, culinary and folklore. Jessie does these things not just for herself, but for Alaina so then she'll know that shes loved growing up.
Jessie was typing her story into her laptop, where she keep most of her writing projects, the more adult stories. The ones she write on paper, that are scattered all over my bedroom floor, are the ones Jessie writes of Alaina to read. In the middle of her writing she hears a light knock on her door. Jessie opens her door and see a little girl with dark brown hair, pale skin, light pink lips and green eyes; wearing a navy blue dress with pastel colored flowers, holding a brown teddy bear with a pink ribbon tied around its neck. Jessie goes on her knees, making her height smaller than Alaina. Jessie puts both her hands on the little girls shoulders, giving her a slight smile and pull her in a hug. Alaina wraps her small arms around Jessie's neck with her bear in one hand. Jessie then picks Alaina up, closing the door behind herself; walking to her bed she places Alaina there, sitting at her desk thats next to the bed. She gives Alaina another slight smile before turning back to work on her writing once more. For a while Alaina sits there playing with her bear, falling asleep then waking up continuously. She then pull on Jessie's sleeve of her marvel comic t-shirt. Alaina look towards the wall opposite of her, there hanging on the wall is Jessie's acoustic guitar. Jessie pushes her rolling chair away from my desk towards the guitar, she then rolls herself back to the bedside with the guitar in hand. Before playing Jessie check it if its tune, then she start playing and singing 'Gone, gone, gone' by Phillip Phillips.
When life leaves you high and dry
I'll be at your door tonight
If you need help, if you need help.
I'll shut down the city lights,
I'll lie, cheat; i'll beg and bribe
to make you well, to make you well
When enemies are at your door
I'll carry you away for more
If you need help, if you need help.
Your hope dangling by a string
I'll share in your suffering
To make you well, to make you well
Give me reasons to believe
That you would do
The same for me
And i would do it for you, for you
Baby i'm not moving on
I love you long after you're gone
For you, for you
You would never sleep alone
I love you long after you're gone
And long after you're
Gone, gone, gone.
When you fall like a statue
I'm gon' be there to catch you
Put you on your feet
You on your feet.
And if your heart is empty
Not a thing will prevent me
Tell me what you need
What do you need.
I surrender honestly
You've always done the
Same for me
So i would do it for you, for you
Baby i'm not moving on
I love you long after you're gone
For you, for you
You would never sleep alone
I love you long after you're gone
And long after you're
Gone, gone, gone
You're my backbone,
you're my cornerstone.
You're my crutch when my
legs stop moving.
You're my headstart,
you're my rugged heart
You're the pokes that
I've always needed.
Like a drum baby don't
stop beating
Like a drum baby don't
stop beating
Like a drum baby don't
stop beating
Like a drum my heart
never stops beating
For you, for you
Baby i'm not moving on
I love you long after you're gone
For you, for you
You would never sleep alone
I love you long after you're gone
For you, for you
Baby i'm not moving on
I love you long after you're gone
For you, for you
You would never sleep alone
I love you long,
long after you're gone
Like a drum baby don't
stop beating
Like a drum baby don't
stop beating
Like a drum baby don't
stop beating
Like a drum my heart
never stops beating for you.
And long after you're
gone, gone gone
I love you long after you're
gone, gone, gone.
As Jessie finished the song Alaina was fast asleep, cuddling with her teddy bear. Jessie puts the guitar away and went back to writing. She lightly touched one of the charms she has on her necklace, the one Alaina gave to her; a brown teddy bear with a pink bow, one that matched Alaina's stuff bear. Next to it where a navy blue shield, a silver scroll, a black stethoscope, a beige bat, a gold music note and two moonstone rings that connected. They all hang from a silver chain, each charm represents each person she considered as family. The shield being Henry, the scroll being Alex; the stethoscope, Joel; the bat, Jeffrey; the music note being Jessie and the two rings are her parents.
After a few hours, it was already 9pm. Jessie picked up Alaina and carried her to her bedroom, laying Alaina in her bed. Jessie then covered Alaina with her pink princess quilt, when Jessie was about to turn off the light next to her, Alaina pulled on her sleeve once again. Jessie looked down at Alaina's sleepy face, she held her teddy bear towards Jessie. Jessie gave her soft smile and shook head and lightly pushed Alaina's teddy bear back to her. Jessie then pointed to the charm on the necklace, giving her a bigger smile; Alaina then returned the smile with one of her own and fell back to sleep. Jessie kissed her on her forehead, turning the light off then walking away closing the door, leaving it slightly open. Jessie went back to her room continuing her work. Hours pass by, Jessie looked at the time on the laptop screen, it's 12:30am. She saved her work, closing the laptop. Jessie then layed in bed not covering herself, thinking what it would be like to be a character in her own story. As Jessie's father's truck pulls up in the driveway, the headlights light up her room and disappears as he turns off the truck. She turns on her side, facing the wall; disappointed in her own father for coming home drunk once again. Jessie slowly lets the dark unconsciousness take over, a few seconds later she's fast asleep. Little did I know that her whole life was going to be turned upside down
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