Halllowww yes this is my story and i own nothing except the clothes on my back and elliot. muahaha.
My eyes shot open as the bright sun shocked me. I blinked a few times trying to comprehend my surroundings.
Now there were a few adults and kids running around, and cars driving by non-stop.
I quickly stood up brushing my jeans off and working the creases out of my shirt.
Walking slowly I made my way through the park, over to an old little store that had a Beaver painted on it in blue. "Beavers" was next to it.
I walked in. This place didn't have sensors by the doors, it was just an old grocery store.
The cracking linoleum below my feet squeaked with every step I took.
I walked down the frozen section at the corner of the store.
Little packaged sandwiches were calling my name I hesitantly picked it up, slipping it in my pocket and laying my arm over the bulge in the side of my pants. Then walked over to the registers and grabbed a little 50 cent candy.
"Hi darling how you?" an older woman wearing a blue smock that said "beavers" on it with grey hair and a sweet face, like a grandma, spoke to me taking the candybar.
"Uh, im good." I replied sheepishly.
"I don't think I've seen you in here before, I'm Nettie." She smiled.
"Yeah I don't live here, I'm Elliot."
She ringed up the candy then handed it to me.
"Come back soon ok, have a good day Elliot."
I slightly waved back at her, feeling guilty walking out the door with the five dollar sandwich stashed under my arm, when this woman had been so nice to me. I felt like I was taking advantage of that.
Trying to brush it off I quickly walked down the sidewalk to a busy street not stopping until I reached a quiet neighborhood. I stopped on the corner of the sidewalk and took the sandwich out from under my arm.
Opening it up I quickly took a bite, I was starving considering I hadn't eaten since yesterday afternoon.
After I was finished I got up and started to walk through the neighborhood passing by kids playing, a pair of little girls selling lemonade.
I smiled as I walked passed.
The never ending sidewalk took me about 5 miles to the outer part of town, I could tell because now most of the stuff is more rundown and old.
I stepped onto railroad tracks that went through the town, I started to walk on them.
"Where am I going?" I questioned myself silently.
Then I thought about it, where do I want to go? Maybe I'll go to Denver, it's the capitol of the state, the mile high city. I bet I could go there and find a job or something.
So I jumped off the railroad tracks and headed into the nearest store.
"Hello, may I help you with anything." A man asked me.
"Uh, yeah can you tell me how to get to Denver from here?" I just came out with it.
"Oh sure, from Fort Collins to Denver.." Oh so I was in Fort Collins. "All you have to do is follow that street over there.." He said pointing out the window. "To i-25 north then keep heading up till you reach the Cormack Castle hotel, and you're there.
I smiled sincerely, " Thank you." I started out the door, " no problem."
That's where I'm going. I'll stay at the hotel for the night, hopefully. One step closer to further way that's all I needed.
I started walking to the street. Denver is only an hour away from Fort Collins by car, so I should be there by tomorrow.
I'll just have to grab a few things. I smirked to myself.
Walking over to a little corner gas station that stood right before getting on i…25, I was just going to get a few things, like a bottle of water and another snack or something.
I walked out of the gas station and started on my way to Devner, Colorado.
I looked up at the sky, it was a beautiful bright blue with very few clouds, felt like those summers I often longed for. A nice breeze and the fresh air, I was getting a new start.
A new start to nowhere, but at the same time anywhere.
I walked on the side of the road not too close considering I was about five feet from the highway.
The cars zoomed by whipping my hair in front of my face. I didn't bother to move it too afraid that one of those cars belonged to Mr. Harris or Darren.
My body shuddered at the thought of him.
If there was one thing I wanted more than anything right now it would be to never see his face again or hear his words every one of them dripping with venom.
My feet hit the uneven dirt with patches of grass repeatedly, it looks like I'm walking in one place, my feet move but I don't feel like I'm moving.
I smirk at the thought of a song often on the radio.
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're 'here' not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can u see what I see…
The lyrics ran through my head over and over again.
--33
I don't know how much time had passed since I started but the sun was slowly retreating behind the rocky mountains, giving them this blue tint as the new clouds in the sky were colored different shades of pink and orange.
The same damn lumps of grass and dirt were still beneath my feet.
Slowly the sky turned darker and the wind picked up. I wrapped my arms around myself as the cold enclosed on me.
Lights zoomed by me quickly lighting my way then fading away, and again, and again, and again….
Suddenly, as if someone through an ice cube at me, something cold hit my hand. Then soon it started falling all over my body. The freezing rain felt like a thousand knives.
I looked up scrunching my face as if to shield it from the rain and saw the lights I'd been looking for, "Cormack Castle Hotel." Illuminated from across the highway.
My lips pulled up at the corners shaking with the intense rain.
Quickly I walked as fast as my soaked jean covered legs would take me to get to the nearest exit. It wasn't too far ahead, maybe a block or two. I quickly wound down the exit on the soggy mud.
The rain was starting to seep through my shoes soaking my socks. I guess my converse weren't water proof, uncomfortably I walked faster following the road. My arms crossed across my chest covering the almost see through white t-shirt.
My feet hit pavement roughly as I leapt onto the sidewalk walking a little bit slower this time, the cold really started to get to me.
"Damn wind." I muttered under my breath my eyebrows pulled together. The rain wouldn't be so bad if the wind didn't insist on blowing cold air .
I walked passed a sign made out of concrete that was lit up with a light letting my know I was at the entrance of the hotel. I walked through the parking lot, weaving through cars and trucks.
As I got to the sheltered, lit up, entrance I smoothed down my hair hoping that I didn't look to bad. Then wiped off my feet. This place looked amazing. I stared at the double glass doors in front of me. The inside looked so warm and inviting, the crème yellow tile floor and the lobby with the coffee. The warm steaming coffee.
My mouth hung open. I shook my head to snap out of it as I took a step forward sheepishly walking into a heaven. The warm air exploded on every inch of my body.
I walked up to the front desk unsure of myself, I knew how I looked right now my jeans have a hole in the knee plus are all wet and muddy, my shoes trailing mud behind me, and my white shirt sticking to my body making it clearly visible I was wearing a blue bra.
"uh, hi." I muttered unsure.
"Hello, what can I help you with?" A middle aged woman with strawberry blond hair pulled up a bun with cherry red lipstick and an ironed burgundy shirt asked me.
"Well… uh.. how much is it to rent a room for the night?" I asked anticipating the answer.
"Oh, its fifty dollars a night and one hundred for a suite." She answered back robotically.
Shit, excuse my French, but I only have about thirty dollars in my pocket. Back into the rain.
I smiled shakily, "Um, thank you."
I shrugged off the counter and started walking towards the door, back into the cold rain.
As I walked to the door I glanced behind me to the coffee machine, oh what I wouldn't do to just gulp the whole thing, the warm liquid running down my throat warming me up…..
My thoughts were interrupted as I forcefully ran into someone causing me to retreat to my butt on the cream colored tile. Leaning on my elbows with a dumb struck face I looked up to find a boy about my age im presuming, or a year or three older. He had dark straight brown hair that was soaked just the same as mine and his face looked just as flustered.
"Uh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to run into you." He said sweetly offereing me his hand to help me up. I stood up about a foot away from him.
"Oh, no its okay, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. Hehe." I laughed nervously.
This boy was cute I'm not gonna deny it. ;P
"Well bye." I said walking around him grabbing onto the door handle and pushing it slightly causing the cold air to engulf me again.
"bye." I barley heard him say.
I walked around under the area that was covered for a few minutes wondering what to do. I mean its raining, its night, and I don't have enough money for the hotel nearest to me. I guess I could walk about another two miles into town and get a motel or something.
Unwillingly I walked out from under the dryness, and started around the hotel.
I walked around the corner that's when I saw a huge black bus taking up at least seven parking spaces probably more, sitting right in front of me. It had giant letters across it..
"Jones Brothers…" I said silently to myself while squinting my eyes trying to get a better look at the black bus in an already dark location.
I had an idea, I don't know if it would work but I would try. I walked over to the other side of the bus to find one of the windows slightly open.
Yes! Ok I know I'm crazy, I'm breaking into someone's oversized Winnebago, or whatever it was. All I know is I'm desperate, and all I want to do is stay in for at aleast an hour or till the sun rises or rain stops falling that's all I swear.
I glanced at my surroundings quickly to make sure no one was near me or able to see me. Then I grabbed onto the window that was perched open from the bottom and gently placed my foot on top of the tire checking my footing so I wouldn't fall since my shoes were already slippery.
Then I hoisted myself inside, using all my strength to slide through the ten story high bus.
I dropped onto a table with a thud.
"Crap, ow.." I moaned sliding off while rubbing my lower back.
I stood up and tip-toed slowly through a doorway. The dark was overwhelming, I could barley make out any objects.
My hands guided me dragging along the wall until the wall disappeared and I fell onto a very comfy area. A bed? I dunno. All I did know is it was good enough for me.
I situated myself so I was laying down with my legs bent over the side of whatever I was in.
Struggling to keep my eyes open after ten minutes was a battle, a battle that I soon lost. Crap.
Oh shiz what will happen when she wakes up?
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