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Dakota woke to someone knocking the front door. She rolled of the couch and opened the front door. Molly was standing in shorts and pink t-shirt, her blonde hair in two ponytails. "Molly...what are you doing here?"

"I came to play, Jack's asleep and told me to go away."

The girl pouted. Dakota closed her eyes and sighed. "Molly, I was sleeping too. I am a stranger, you don't go and play with strangers, so go home."

Molly folded her arms and glared at Dakota. "I don't wanna!" Dakota growled and walked out before knocking on her neigbours door. It swung open.

"What?" Snapped a woman with blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. "Control your child, it's eight am and she's banging my door down asking to play!" Dakota yelled back. Molly's mom pushed Dakota out the way, picked Molly up and slammed her front door in Dakota's face.

"Bitch."


Dakota woke up again at eleven, She lazed around until four pm. She showered and dressed into denim jeans and white t-shirt, a red plaid shirt tied around her slender waist. She brushed her brunette hair that rested just past her shoulders, and pushed her fringe out of her eyes.

She grabbed thirty dollars from her dad's wallet and left the house, locking the door and placing her key in her back pocket. She lit a cigarette and placed it in her mouth before making her way out the building. She was going to meet some friends at the park, probably get a little tipsy before getting chinese take out and going home.

"Kody's here." Dakota waved at the large group of troublesome teens. Her best friend Chrissie gave her a big hug. "Kody you need to get drinks, Paul always gives you free stuff." She rolled her eyes and started to walk off, stopping when she heard someone yell her name. Alex, her friend, caught up with her. "Thought you would want some company." She smiled at him and they continued to the liquor store.

10pm.

Dakota was already having a fight. You see, Kody was known well for starting fights at school and 99% of the people she fought with lost, badly. So when one of school populars showed up at the park and started to say stuff about her, she just chuckled.

"Why are you laughing? 'cause mommy and daddy beat you so hard they knocked your senses out of you? Speaking of your mother, I didn't know she was a prostitute, I sa_"" The girl didn't get to finish her sentence as Dakota punched her hard in the face. The girl, called Melanie, was on the floor with blood pouring out her nose. Melanie got up and tackled Dakota to the ground, scratching at her face.

Dakota managed to flip them over and started to punch Melanie repeatedly in the face until one of her friends had to pull her off. "Jesus Kody, she's knocked out." Dakota shrugged and walked off, Lighting a cigarette as she opened the gates.

"Hey Kody, where are ya going? You can't leave us with her!" Dakota ignored them and continued to walk down the dangerous streets of the Narrows. A drunk emerged from an alley way.

"Hey sweetheart, want some of this?"

"Piss off."

She muttered before carrying on. "Oi bitch get back here!" She cursed under her breath before breaking into a sprint, she could hear him chase her. Looking over her shoulder she saw another drunk with him.

"Ow!"

She ran into something and fell on her butt. Looking up she saw, who she presumed, was Molly's older brother with two friends. One was short with spiky black hair, the other was tall and dark skinned. All three raised their brows at the young girl on the ground with a cigarette in her mouth and blood on her shirt. Dakota got up quickly and speed walked the remaining seconds home.

"I'm home."

Her mom was sitting at the kitchen table, coffee in her hand. Her father was watching television drinking beer. "Did you get into a fight again Kody?" Her dad asked, looking at her scratched face and bloody t-shirt. "Yeah but I knocked the bitch out in less then a minute." Her father grinned. "That's my girl."

"Don't fucking encourage her Jim, she'll be in prison before she's twenty. And Kody, stop smoking." Her mother whined. "I'll stop smoking when you stop drinking, and we all know that will never happen." She smirked and walked out, her father's laughter echoing around the house.

She opened the door to her small, dingy room. The bed took up most of the space, as did the Chest of drawers and desk. Her room was painted Black and red, graffiti and tags from her friends covered the walls. She took off her bloody t-shirt and replaced it with the shirt around her waist. She heard her parents fighting and opened the window before jumping onto the fire escape.

After half an hour of admiring the Gotham skyline, she decided to go back inside, but she could sense someone watching her. Dakota looked over the railing and saw Jack or whatever his name was watching her, his friend was talking to him but he wasn't listening. She glared at him before going back inside.

"Creep."