She woke up in the morning and slowly rised up, while putting one hand on her head from yesterdays event.
"What is this!?" Her father screamed as he looked at the stash of money you had saved so you could move one day.
"It's mine! And it shouldn't matter since it's none of your business!" She bursted out terrified of losing the money more than the man before her, she and her family was in a accident around 2 years ago, and only she made it out of it alive but as she was only 17 years old the authorities made her dads cousin her guardian. Of course he only did it for the money they pay him that is supposed to be for "child-Support" but he didn't care about her.
"You stole this from me didn't you! There is no way you could have saved this much otherwise!" He screamed and pushed her away when she reached for the money, She had a part time job he didn't know about since he would just ask for money from her instead. She should have already moved but cause she repeated a year as a result of the accident they kept on giving support money to him.
"I didn't steal it! I earned it by myself!" She screamed feeling the tears slowly and surely threatening to drip down out of anger and fear.
"Can't believe you kept this from me!" He screamed and she finally snatched the money back and pushed him out of the room, but not hard enough to actually hurt him. She locked the door and he started to bang and scream at the door.
He wasn't like this when she first came but it changed around 3 months ago, he had always gambled but that night 3 months ago he had bet more then he could pay as he got tricked by some people and that changed him.
He wasn't much of a family guy before but he let her be and didn't do much then he thought he needed to, but now as he was walking on a thread he became more violent with his word and obsessed with alcohol and gambling meaning that he was always looking for money. but this was it, She can't stay anymore or she might do something she will regret as it's to late to help him.
She walked slowly out from her room, fully dressed with a huge backpack she had bought before filled with essential items she could possible need + food and water. She saw him lying on the table sleeping and sighed out, it hurt her more than it should seeing him like this but it did. It breaks her heart since he used to do what she needed and gave her the space she needed, but that man was gone yet the shell looks like him.
"Why did you abandon me Henry?" He mumbled in the sleep crushing her heart even more, seeing him call out for her dad as he was the one who made sure he never went to far, never walked down the wrong path but now that her dad was gone so was the man who he used to be. She grabbed a blanket and laid it on him and left the note by him, before she left she bowed her head down.
"Thank you for everything, and I'm sorry that I couldn't help you with anything"
And so she left him behind her, he had never hit her, nor tell her what she should do, never asked for anything, always made sure she had lunch and extra money once in a while for school or other stuff. He had screamed at her a few times before but mostly because he was frustrated and never directly at her to hurt her but she had to leave, she couldn't take it anymore as she couldn't watch him become worse.
She walked down the road through the forest as she wanted to see where she would end up since she is starting anew, She can feel how her heart is finally starting to heal and how her emotions is becoming less numb. As time had gone on her feelings became more and more numb until she could barely express anything, before she was cheerful, always smiling and friendly to the people around her. Cute and silly but also slightly innocent.
But that part had frozen, as if the time for that person inside her stopped the moment her eyes opened in the hospital. But even though her heart might be starting to heal the wounds that sides time has not yet started to move.
A few hours later down the road she traveled she comes to a split path, with a sign that had 2 arrows sticking up where the roads parted. One was pointed towards the bigger road saying "Town Homanes" which was the town that was nearby, she knew she should go there so she could get what she needed and then move on and go far away.
But the other arrow pointed towards a tiny road that goes deeper into the forest, which was more tempting and brings some sort of peace. On the arrow it said "Willawind Forest go with caution" but the warning was a little blurred, She sigh and walked on the bigger road knowing it's the logical answer and reason to do.
But after 5 minutes of walking down that road something made her turn around, she felt that for once doing what feels right instead of what is logically right was better, and so after another 30 minutes of walking she was so far deep into the Willawind forest that she couldn't see the road anymore which was amazing, the sun was high up on the sky.
She was happy she choose the forest as it gave her protection from the sun, as she is slightly sensitive to the sun and she becomes dizzy after some time and as she had porcelain skin and was slightly red haired as her mother was a ginger she knew how easily she get burned which made the forest tall trees the perfect cover.
After several hours past and she had lost track of where she was the sun had almost set already, she walked more as she still felt at peace and tempted to keep on going never stopping until she found a big river connected to a pond. The trees seems to part way so you could see the sky clearly which showed so many stars that she just had to stop.
As it's dark she quickly made up a fire, and made a tiny shelter out of stuff from the nature as she had learned how to do it from her parents once. She was looking out on the pond watching the darkness that seems endlessly deep, She walked to the water and stopped right by the edge. She saw her reflection and the stars above her, her mom used to tell her a crazy story about how you could travel between worlds as long as you truly wished for it and knew what to do.
She grabbed her backpack and threw it over her shoulder with everything in it and closed properly. As a joke while staring down at the darkness she was gonna try it out and so she placed her hand over her heart and closed her eyes, she took out a super tiny glass bottle that had a crystal in it, and gently pressed it on your forehead.
"I have just one wish, even if it's not real or it's all a fantasy I still want to believe that there is a place for me to go where I can start over. Where-" She bit her lip, her heart beating like crazy since she has never said it out loud since that would just make it real to her.
"Where the real me, the one that got lost in that accident, where her time will unfreeze and finally move again" As she said this a tear fell into the water, still with closed eyes making her not see the crystal had lit up and so she made it touch the water and when she did she opened her eyes. She saw reflections of the girl that got lost in the accident whose time has frozen.
She reached for it ignoring everything else and so her body felt warm, protected and at peace, like she was in her mothers arms again. Her body was light and her mind was clear. She wanted to smile but knew that even this warmth couldn't made stop this numb feeling she had inside her, she wanted to smile but a tear fell instead.
As if she had slept for hours she woke up again feeling heavy and with a headache, she had her backpack on her back. She sat up and looked around, She had no idea where she was. She knows that this is not where she's from and she starts to panic, All memory from creating a fire and after completely gone. She looks around and realizes she's on a boat.
She looks around and sees it's empty, she finally looks up and the sun is at it's top making it hard for her to look but she sees it. A flag hanging at the top, The flag she had seen so many times on the screen at home before the accident. The flag that belonged to her favorite crew in an anime called One Piece.
She was on the Thousand Sunny ship that belonged to The straw hat crew lead by Monkey D. Luffy, She sigh laughed that sounded as empty as she felt. Somewhere she wanted to believe it was true, but in her head she knows it's not possible cause if it was why would she be the one who ended up there?