The school called. Again. Wanting to know when I would be coming back to school and I wasn't sure if I was ready to go back to school after losing my parents. It has been a week and the whole town has heard about the accident. They also heard that it was a company truck that hit them. Not that I blame them for waiting on my decisions but I wasn't sure if I wanted to sue them or not. I mean, how could I? I didn't even have the money to hire a lawyer to help defend me to help resolve the case. The guy who did it is behind bars from what I heard from the neighbors. I sighed as I walked up the stairs that always creaked. I walked into the carpeted hallway, that was lined with old pictures and memories. I tried my best not to look at the walls and I couldn't help but think about my parents. I was supposed to go to the morgue today to identify their bodies but I didn't know if I even had the strength to do that. Let alone plan a funeral for the both of them. I had so much on my plate between work and school and trying to plan the funeral and the wake.

I walked into my parent's room and leaned against the door frame as I began to look around. They always had their bed closet to the door in case I needed them. Their dresser across the bed, with dad's x-box one on top with his sixty-four-inch flat screen TV. Of course, there was mom's bookstand next to it and on the opposite side of it was her make up the table with all of her jewelry and her perfumes. I sighed as I walked into their closet. I chuckled as I saw that they had his and her's side of the closet. I ran my fingers along the clothes. I sighed once again as I began to walk out when I bumped into Alex. He smiled shyly as I almost sucker punched him in the face. I took a deep breath as my heart slowed down from racing. I sat down on the unmade bed as he watched me. I looked around the midnight blue room and it took me back to when I was younger. I would run in here every Christmas and jump on their bed to wake them up.

"You doing okay? I'm sorry I scared you. I wanted to see if you wanted to go pick up your school work. It's okay if you don't want to. I can go pick it up myself but I figured you wanted to go with me and get out of the house."

I smiled a little as I slowly got up and walked to the bathroom. Mom really wanted to have the bathroom look like the ocean for some odd reason. I guess she liked the ocean a lot. I sighed as I felt a hand on my shoulder and I saw him again with a little smile on his face. I mean, he was very nice but something told me this wasn't gonna work out. I mean why wouldn't it, was it because he was the nice guy and I was emotional and easy to get kind of girl. I brushed off the feeling as I brushed my hair and then brushed my teeth while he watched me. I gave him a questioning look while I put on my combat high heel boots and looked at him. I adjusted my faded skinny black jeans and my white lace butterfly crop top and he looked away. I sighed as we walked downstairs and he grabbed his keys as I grabbed my wallet and made sure I had my license and stuff. He watched me after he put on his sneakers.

I walked outside after reaching for my hoodie in case we were out later than we were supposed to be and my phone charger and phone. He eyed me as I gave him his phone and phone charger.

"Thanks, you didn't have to do that you know." He said as I chuckled.

"I know but I'm being nice enough to grab it for you so shut your pie hole and let's go get my class work and stuff from the hell hole that I call the school."

He laughed as we climbed into my dark blue 2004 Hummer H3t. He stared at it for a moment and then he climbed in. I smiled as I turned it on and then put on the heater. He sighed once he put on the seat warmers. I watched him as he stared out the window and then turned on the radio as we started driving towards my school.

(Flash Back)

"Mom, hurry up before I'm late for work. You're gonna be late for your date with dad anyway. I know dad needs the car anyways."

Mom rushed down stairs as I passed her the shoes that she needed. My dad has surprised my mom with some tickets to some charity ball event and it was some sort of masquerade ball dinner type. Basically the rich coming together. Not that I called my self part of the rich society. I mean dad did own a big company and was a billion air but he kept that hidden away.

He had put every last cent aside for me if anything were to happen to mom and him. As if anything were to happen to them. I kissed their cheeks and sought them out as they rushed to the mustang and left. I took the old beat up Chevy avalanche that my grandfather had left for me and left for work not that I didn't mind. I worked at Home Depot in the mornings from six am to two pm then go home and be there for two thirty pm and fall asleep until about ten maybe ten thirty pm. I worked over nights for Walmart from eleven thirty pm to about five or five thirty and slept on the days I had off. Walmart agreed for me to do three days a week because I worked full time during the day at Home Depot.

I hated Home Depot because the mats were cheap as all hell. The floors were concrete and the assistant manager of the company was a total bitch. She absolutely hated me for whatever reason. She wouldn't even look at me unless she needed something from me. Soon enough one of the girls discovered her stealing money and then tried to frame me for it even though it would be after I was gone. I was almost arrested for something that I didn't do til the girl who witnessed it stepped forward and said something. She was frightened of the assistant manager and everyone soon knew why. She had been torturing and beating the poor girl whenever they were alone with no cameras around.

We soon got a new assistant manager and she was alright. I mean I didn't mind her but still. I hated meeting new people. I wasn't much of a social person. I would rather have my nose stuck in a good book with the TV on for background noise unless it was a good movie or something. I hated Walmart even more because the night shift was so quiet and boring. I was the only girl out of the night crew. A lot of it was the girls came in later or a lot of it was nobody wanted to help me out. Not that I don't mind. It just meant more time with the guys. Despite it all, I told them not to be sexist, because the last group of guys who were had to deal with my dad. My dad can be pretty scary when you mess with me. I was his number one girl besides mom. I was precious to him and they were all scared of my dad anyways. They knew not to mess with him because they slacked off before while I did all of the work and they almost got fired.

Work was always long and tiring and I had enough money saved to buy a new bedroom set and redo my room. Maybe even add more space to it if dad will help me. I finally made it to work (or as I called it, personal hell) and the cops were there. Again, for the third time this week. I sighed as I shook my head and knew that somebody tried either stealing or getting hurt. I walked inside and soon realized that they were trying to stop a huge mob fight. No wonder there was so many cop cars outside. I watched in amusement as they arrested some people and walked out back to punch in when I got pulled into the office.

"Everything okay?" I asked.

"Of course. I just wanted to ask you about yesterday is all. The whole incident with your friend."

Shit. I had forgotten about that. I remembered that my friend had tried stealing from the store and we had almost gotten into a fist fight over it.

"Yea about that. She tried stealing from the store. I told her it wasn't a good idea when she told me about it and despite me telling her not to do it, did it anyway. She and I had almost gotten into a fist fight over it and that's why I left for lunch five minutes early. I needed my medicine from home and I needed to take a breather. I'm sorry about that Ashley."

Ashley smiled as she had finished her report and nodded. She was the new assistant manager after the last one, Jenna or Jamie or whatever her name was, got fired and arrested. She was nicer at least and kinder. I didn't know that we would somehow be together in the future but something told me that she be my downfall or whatever you wanna call it. She was beautiful to some but to me she was gorgeous.

She had icy blue eyes with hints of electric green eyes, and her hair was to her elbows. It was a chocolate cosmos red color. It reminded me of the flowers that were that colors. Black eye Susan I thought they were called She was five feet and six inches tall maybe five foot seven. She looked like she worked out a couple days a week maybe less and she had three pit bulls and two Siberian huskies. She also had three Alaskan Malamutes. I smiled as I saw her three persian cats and two Maine coons.

She watched me as I blushed not realizing I was staring at her and looked away from her. She giggled as I looked at her as she walked up to me and hugged me. I hugged back shyly and smiled as I punched in and sighed softly. Work went by quickly as Ashley stopped me and we gave each other phone numbers. I smiled shyly as we went our separate ways and I couldn't stop smiling.

(Flash back ends)