Yayy another chapter! Whoo hoo, go me! *does Sparky Vilasky's dance from "Bring it On"
ZigZag: God, If you get THIS excited over putting up a chapter, I would HATE to see you when you win a million pounds of chocolate ice cream!*rolls eyes*
Me: OH MY FREAKIN GOD! MILLION POUNDS OF CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM? WHERE!?!?!?!?
ZigZag: *smacks his forehead*
Me: I saw that!
Chapter 6 (wow im moving right along! Sorry, I cant seem to find the time to update faster anymore, being 15 and all…….lol)
*Flashback*
Ginny's face looked mortified. She couldn't believe what Sarah had just told her to do. No, she wouldn't do it. She couldn't run away, leaving Sarah with their mom, where she would probably be hurt. Sarah's eyes burned into hers. She was talking with them. She was telling Ginny to go-but that connection with Ginny was broken when Linda seized Sarah by her legs and swung her into the wall. Sarah's screams were all that filled Ginny's head. Linda looked up at Ginny, leaving Sarah unconscious on the floor.
Ginny panicked. Linda was about to leave. Somehow Ginny felt it might be forever. Even though she was cruel and an alcoholic, Ginny couldn't let that happen. Somehow, deep inside of her, she loved her mother. She had to stop her. She set Debbie down on the floor, crying.
"No!" Ginny screamed, punching her mom, causing Linda to stumble, shocked, back into the apartment. Linda growled. She grabbed Ginny by the hair, swinging her into the apartment, hitting a lamp. Ginny screamed. She fell to her feet. She cursed herself for being weak.
Linda picked up Debbie and opened the window. Ginny's scream was so deadly loud Sarah stirred and sat up. Her eyes widened farther than Ginny's as she saw Linda dangling Deborah out of the window.
*End of Flashback*
Ginny couldn't take it any more in that room. She had to get away. She had to take a walk. There were too many memories filling up her head.
She had just made it past their tent when she heard footsteps behind her. She looked at the ground and saw the person's shadow; it had a hat and a toothpick. She groaned.
Squid was behind her.
HE caught up with her, but didn't say anything. Neither did Ginny. She didn't even look at him. She just kept walking. After about 10 minutes, she got annoyed with having Squid beside her, glancing at her every 5 seconds.
"What do you want," she snapped.
Squid took a breath. "Um, well, I wanted to see if you were ok. You seemed pretty mad," he said. When she made no response, he spoke again. "Um, is there something bothering you?"
Ginny gave a hollow laugh. "Ha. Yes. There are millions of things bothering me! I just, just sometimes I don't know how to deal with big situations!" This must have stroked Ginny's nerves because she began crying.
"Ginny, its okay, he was just offering you his bread! He is paranoid of it!" Squid said, trying not to laugh. But she looked at him with big blue eyes. His heart stopped and it silenced him. She was so pretty, behind all the black.
"Not that, ignoramus," she muttered. "My family! My sisters! Me! My mom! I don't know how to cope with it all! I just upped and left and I can never forgive myself! Always the bad one! Always in trouble! My whole life, filled with guilt! It was always ME doing it wrong, getting it wrong! And I ruined it all! Me! I ruined my family!" She shrieked. Her moods were changing so quickly. She started crying again.
Squid stopped walking. He looked at this tiny, shaking person beside him. Something bad must have happened to her family, he thought.
She collapsed. She was crying so hard, she couldn't stay standing. Squid gave an uneasy glance around the camp before he knelt down. "Ginny, shh. Its okay," he soothed, playing with her hair as she cried. He grabbed her hand and ran with her into the woods. He sat down and so did Ginny, crying. He didn't want the whole camp to see this. They were aniumals, they would make fun of Ginny for being a "crybaby." Ginny rested her head on Squid's shoulder, crying harder. Squid just let her, stroking her shoulder and telling her it would be okay every once in a while. After a few minutes, her tears slowed. She sniffed and looked up at him.
"Sorry," she said with a small smile. "I-I seemed to have wept all over you."
He grinned. "Its okay, it will dry."
Her eyes flickered to the ground. "Im sorry if I scared you. I didn't mean to talk about my family in front of you, having just met you and all."
Ginny should have known better to mention her family, and memories came flooding into her mind.
*Flashback*
Sarah swore so bad Ginny even wanted to cover her ears. Sarah's head was dripping with blood, but she ran over to Debbie and Linda and grabbed the baby. Sarah gripped Linda's head with her right hand and thrust it against the window sill. Linda crumpled to the ground. Ginny was crying. Why couldn't it have been her? Why couldn't she be stronger and do all the things Sarah could? Why, why why?
Sarah ran out the door, Ginny behind her. They ran, down the steps, silently, out the door, heading across the street to Ellen McCready's apartment. Sarah didn't speak to Ginny, and Ginny's face was covered in streaming tears. Sarah burst through the door, greeted by Ellen. Ellen was her best friend. She lived alone. She was 19, one of the few older children in the ghettos where they lived. Most kids past 10 had ran away or were taken to group homes, but there were lots of small children. Ellen had short hair that she chopped by herself, close to her shoulders. She had skin the color of coffee with one cream in it. Sarah and Ginny's was more like the cream without the coffee.
Ellen didn't even ask any questions. She knew what was going on. She closed the dark curtains on all of the windows, locked them, and put a chair in front of the front door. The back had been boarded up before Ellen moved in. The girls always came to her when Linda went on a rampage. Linda didn't know Ellen, so the girls were safe because she didn't know where they were.
Ellen scooped up Debbie, and Sarah ran to the couch. She sat down, wringing her hands. Ginny just stood there stupidly, crying like a 5 year old. Ellen swept Ginny into a hug. "It'll be okay baby. You guys can stay with me as long as you want."
Ginny pulled away and sat beside Sarah on the couch while Ellen went into the kitchen with Debbie.
Sarah stared coldly at her twin. "Why didn't you just run when I told you?" she hissed. Ginny's mouth opened wide.
"Well what was I supposed to do, Sarah? Leave you there to get maybe KILLED?" she screamed.
Sarah shouted. "Yes! At least Debbie would have been safe! Instead, you stayed, and she got hung out of a freaking 9 story window! You always mess things up! Stupid!" Sarah fell back on the couch, sobbing. She sat up one more time. "And you made daddy leave!"
Ginny couldn't take this. She slapped Sarah across the face. "Did not! Mama killed him and you KNOW that!"
Sarah glared at Ginny. She stood up and ran into Ellen's bedroom, locking the door. Ginny curled up on the couch. She fell asleep, and didn't wake up for a long time.
*End of Flashback*
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That was a long chappie, I know you're happy with that! LOL I was listenin to Liz Phair…talley
