"Okay so I'm here in Willowbrick Forest, so the main road should be just over there. I think. If I can hitch-hike a ride to L.A then I could get a job and try to get my music career started." She gave a contented sigh, folded back the map and stuck it in her backpack. She truged on trying to forget about home. 'I can't go back now. Maybe later after I've made it big but not now! I've come so far, I'm almost out of Virginia'. Sapphire kept telling herself. She had run away from home after a fight with her parents about her "future". Sapphire and her friends had a rock band called Cure for Chaos, but her parents were'nt to cool with her love of music.
"Your 19, for goodness sake! Go to college, and move out of the house! You cant pretend to be a singer forever, you have to do something with your life." Her father would say.
"But I am, music is my life! Me and my band just have to get discovered and then we will be rich and famous and then maybe I'll go to college. But it will work."
"Oh stop pretending honey." her mom would say back. It doesnt seem like much but those words really killed Sapphire. So that was the last straw. Sapphire packed her things, quit her job and left with a plan for fame. Sapphire suddenly tripped over a root and fell flat on her face snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Ouch!" She cried as she got up and brushed herself off. When she looked up her eyes met a wonderful sight: The main road. Sapphires face brightened and she ran to the side of the road.
"Hey! Hey can someone give me a ride please?" Sapphire yelled at the many cars passing by. Unfourtunitly no one responded to the nice Sapphire.
" FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOULD SOMEONE GIVE ME A RIDE?" Then she spotted a red mustang slow down next to her.
"You need a ride, honey?" The driver asked. The owner of the car was a tall blond woman with brown eyes, she looked to be in her mid 40s and had a strong texas accent.
"Yes! Thank you so much." Sapphire said as she opened the door and hoped in the front seat.
"So were you going ,honey?" The woman asked.
"Um... Los Angelas. I'm going to see if I can get a career in music." Sapphire answerd. The woman whistled low.
"Wow, Virginia to Califonia. Thats quiet a ways, I'm afraid I can take you to Fairfax."
"Oh that's alright Miss...?"
"Waters. Evalen Waters. And whats your name?"
"Sapphire Forester."
"Well its nice to meet ya darlin'." After that the ride was pretty quiet, and Sapphire amused herself by staring out the widow.
"Thats a mighty big scar you got there, hon. How'd you get it?" Ms. Waters said noticing a long pale white scar that went from Sapphires left eye to her jaw.
"Oh it... its nothing, really nothing. Just some scar, I don't even remeber how I got it." Sapphire rambled, but the sad truth of the matter was that she did rember how she got it. From Brian, her ex. He was drunk that day, Sapphire could still smell the beer on his breath. NO! No I wont think about that anymore. She thought to herself as she pushed the memory to the back of her mind.
"You can stop here, Ms. Waters." Sapphire said as the kind women pulled over at a gas station in Nevada. "Thank you so much for the ride." Sapphire said.
"Oh your welcome, honey. You just keep safe."
"I will thank you." Sapphire said and giving a final wave to the disappering car, she headed into the convenience store just as it started pouring down. Once inside she adjusted the straps to her backpack, and went in search of some food. As soon as she had purchased a box of dounughts she sat down at the counter and started eating.
"I have to make some more cash." She said out loud as she noticed her money running low. A tall brown haired man sat in the stool next to her.
"You need to make some quick cash?" he asked her, smiling.
"Yes I do." she answered, but thewn she realized what he was asking. "Oh! Oh no, thanks but definitly no. Im not like that, you see im only 19 and I really need to be going now." She said hastily and ditching the dounughts she quickly ditching the dounughts she quickly exited. My God the nerve of that man! she thought fuming as she crossed the street. In her state of anger she did not see the large truck coming her way. BEEP, BEEP the driver honked. Sapphire turned around unable to move.
Sunlight streamed through the trees as Sapphire woke with a groan. "Oh God what happened?" She asked herself an then she remebered. Sapphire sat up, nothing apprered to be broken. Where am I? She thought as she looking around the beautiful forest.
"I was definitly not- Oh God I'm dead!" she said as she looked around Frantically and started running. "I can't belive I'm dead I haven't even-" the last statement was silenced as an arrow whizzed by just missing her head.