A Single Star in the Sky Chap 3
"Where have you been!" It was late by the time Jessica got home and her father wasn't happy about it. "Dad. I-I just got side tracked."
"You are supposed to come straight home after school! There is to be no daydreaming!"
"Dad, I wasn't daydreaming!" Jessica said in her defense.
"Then what were you doing?" Jessica realized she was stuck. She certainly wasn't going to say she found a little green prince rolling around a ball called a Katamari.
"I-I…..was talking to Maria." Her father gave her a questioning look.
"For a half an hour?"
"Y-yeah... See, she found this awesome um…thing in her backyard and wanted to show it to me!"
"What kind of thing?"
"It was a...um..." Her dad stopped her.
"Forget it. Go to your room until you remember how to tell the truth. You obviously forgot." Obviously? Am I that bad of a liar? Jessica thought. She wasn't going to argue with her dad though. See, even though he never has hit her, she always knew that he might. She trudged up to her room. On the way she saw her mother in the guest room sewing. "Hey mom." The woman looked up and smiled lightly at her daughter. She looked exhausted.
"Hello dear," She said in an airy voice, "How was school?"
"Fine." Jessica heard her father from downstairs.
"Did I say talk to your mother! I said your ROOM young lady!"
She decided to keep going. When she finally got there she plopped all of her things on to her bed. She took out her homework and sat at her desk. She stared at the math problems in front of her. It was simple pre-algebra, but her mind was all over the place and she couldn't concentrate. "Ugh…" She got frustrated quickly and decided to give up on the homework for right now. It was getting late anyway. She laid down and tried to get some sleep. Her thoughts went to the Prince and the large figure several times until finally she dozed off.
A few weeks passed, and Jessica tried to forget about what had happened, though she would always think about it. She hadn't really told anyone, except when she found herself sketching what she remembers of the prince and Maria asked her what it was. Jessica sort of told her. She said it was something her brother saw on T.V. So actually, she hadn't told anyone. Then again it wasn't the only thing on her mind. Her parents' arguing had gotten worse. The night after she saw the prince she woke up in the middle of the night to her parents screaming at each other, and her little brother crying. She could've sworn that her father had hit her mother. Jessica herself was becoming more and more depressed because of this. She couldn't stand her broken family and deep down, she wanted to find that little green guy and his Katamari again. But she didn't for about two months, until one of the coldest winter nights of the year.
Oh…no KD stuff again. Sorry! From here on out I think it will be mostly with Jess and the prince and the cousins and the king and…well you know. So stay tuned and R/R.