Oh by the way- when Audrey runs around the house and her mother asks her why...that was me when I was little. I used to run around the house like speeding and my mom would ask me why I was running, why I was in such a hurry. :D Thanks for the reviews. Except I feel like it is all one person (troubled.writings.x) and a few others.
Free
(the feeling)
When Audrey ran, she felt free.
She felt free like a bird. She felt she wasn't Audrey Rose Archibald. She felt like a different person. Like an ordinary girl. Without a trust fund, inheritance, apartment in New York City, home in the Hamptons, track scholarship, twin brother.
She didn't have to think about anything. It was like being at the ocean for her.
Like the song 'free falling.' Except that song was so not about Audrey. She didn't 'love Jesus and her boyfriend, too.' Okay maybe the boyfriend part but certainly not the religion part.
Running was freedom to her.
When she was little, she used to run around the apartment. Mom once told her it made her dizzy, trying to keep track of her. Mom asked her why she was always running all over the place. ''I have to be everywhere, Mommy!'' Audrey had replied.
Track meets were similar for her; being free with not a care in the world. The only thing she didn't like was when her mother told her she could do better next time and win. Coach was often on her ass to eat lots of carbs and her grandmother (her mother's mother, of course) would tell she was a pig.
Running with her father and brother...that wasn't so free. Her brother was often telling her she ran too fast, that she was hard to keep up with. Her father often told her she needed to run with them not farther ahead. Audrey thought it was ironic because Dad and his father used to run together, but not exactly at the same pace.
She had to run with her iPod. There was something about running with music that made her feel even better. On her running playlist there was Free Falling by Tom Petty, Running with the Devil by Van Halen, Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, Don't Stop Me Now by Queen, and Road Runner by the Sex Pistols. All songs related to running, well, except for the Tom Petty song.
When she came back from her daily run, she was sweaty which annoyed her mother. But Audrey loved the feeling of sweat dripping down her face. It, to her, meant she worked hard and got what she deserved.
Running for Audrey was feeling free.
