Chpt. 2

Well I decided to update again haha! I felt like the first chapter was a little to short and I felt like the story needed something else to start on as well lol:) I'm planning on making this story pretty long. I'm not sure how long because I only have the first few chapters written. I hope you like this one!

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Shaking. Someone is shaking her shoulder. It awoke her from her deep sleep and immediately her mind goes back to that place. Darkness. Pain.

She snaps out of it. That part of her is done. At least that's what she hopes. She opens her eyes and sees the young mother from earlier.

"We will be in Southport in about five minutes. I thought I would wake you so you could be alert when we got there," she says with such enthusiasm.

"Oh okay. Thanks for waking me up."

"No problem. This little guy here needs a nap," her gaze immediately falls to the boy hiding his face in the crook of his mothers neck. "Can you say hi?" The boy immediately smiled and hid his face. "He's a little shy. I'm sorry, I didn't ask your name."

Name.

"What is my name now", she thought to herself. She can't use her given name, Jennifer or JJ for short. So she says the name that pops into her head first. Her sisters. "Umm.. Jessica. Jessica Smith."

She doesn't know where Smith came from. Common name, hard to trace. It almost seems awful to use her dead sisters name. It was the first thing that came to mind and she might as well get in the habit of using an alias of some sort.

"Nice to meet you. My name's Chloe and this little man's name is Tyler."

"He's very cute," JJ, or Jessica now, says.

"Thank you. Well we're here. It was nice talking to you." Chloe says.

"You too."

As Chloe walks away she sees Tyler's little head come off of his mothers shoulder and waves at his new friend Jessica.

She waves back and wonders what it would be like to have a child one day.

"No," she tells herself. Out of the question. Totally different life. How would she be suited to be a mother when she isn't even sure what SHE is going to do? Will never wanted kids. Said they were an inconvenience. She learned the hard way to never disagree with him.

She walks down the aisle of the bus and on to the uneven pavement. She sees fisherman and little families. Old houses and fish restaurants line the water's edge. So full of life; old and new. That's just what what she wants: new. It's like this town was made for wiping the slate clean and giving a new start.

That's exactly what she needs. A new start.

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