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CHAPTER SEVEN: Welcome To The Jungle, Part 1

It was 3 PM in the afternoon and I still had not come out of my room. I had been holed up in my bedroom for over four hours now, so that I wouldn't have to go out and be put under their scrutiny. I was so hungry and began to debate whether or not I should just go out there, when something occurred to me.

My bedroom window, I had momentarily forgotten that my father's house was that of a ranch style, with no second story. It would be simple for me to go out the window, but there was another thing I had to worry about. The house was L-shaped and my bedroom was adjacent to the kitchen. Nonetheless, I threw caution to the wind and as soon as I felt ground under my feet, ran like hell to the nearest fast food joint.

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I re-entered through the front door later that evening around 8 PM and walking into the family room, I took a seat on the leather sofa near Scott and proceeded to focus my attention on that night's edition of SMACKDOWN!

All through the rest of the evening, Kevin kept looking at me and tapping his watch. Which I knew meant that time was running out. Around 11, I found the perfect opening to let my father know and finally be done with it. So when he got up to go into the kitchen, I followed him on the excuse that I wanted something to drink.

I leaned against the counter and watched my father's movements. "I need to tell you something?"

He spoke without turning to look at me. "I'm listening."

"Remember how I said I was moving out in September, well see I'm kind of not."

I watched him turn around with a hopeful look on his face. "You changed your mind?"

"No, see I'm still moving out. Just that it will be a lot sooner than we originally thought?"

"Exactly how much sooner are you talking?"

I turned my head so I wouldn't have to catch sight of his reaction. "I leave early Monday morning on the red eye flight to North Carolina."

"Erin, look at me." I just kept my head turned wishing I was anywhere but here. "Damn it, look at me."

I turned to face him. "I just want to know one thing. Are you doing this to get back at me?"

I glared at him. "Not everything I do is always about you. I'm doing to this because number one, I want to spend sometime with my friends before I leave to a school where I might not see any of them for months at a time. Besides, I don't know how much longer I can take staying in the same house as you."

"Oh, I see what this is about. You're still holding our prior conversations against me. You know I didn't raise you to be like this."

"Oh really, you didn't raise me to be like what?"

"Resentful, harboring ill will towards a person, you know like that."

I laughed, though the situation was humorless. "Well hey, when in Rome do as the Romans do. I've just been following your lead, father."

I stood up from leaning on the counter for support. "Look I've done what I was asked to do. Now let us just leave things as it is, before they get worse between us."

I walked back into the family room and took my seat back on the leather sofa. "How'd it go, kiddo?"

"Just leave me alone Uncle Kevin, okay. I did what you forced me to do and now I just want to be left alone for the night."

I curled into the fetal position and closed my eyes, welcoming the dark nothingness that seems to have emulated my home life.

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Early Friday Morning.....

"Hello," I sleepily answered, noticing that it was four o'clock in the morning.

"Erin, its Ames. Did I wake you up?" Talk about a question with an apparent answer.

I yawned, rubbing my tired eyes. "Did you want something Ames that it couldn't wait until some time other than 4 AM?"

"Oh my god, I totally forgot about the time difference. It's 7 AM because I'm on the west coast."

I was starting to get a bit irritated. "Today would be great, Ames?"

"Okay, I just wanted to see if you were just about finished with your packing?"

"Yes Ames, I just have one box of small things left to pack and then I'm done. Now can I go back to sleep now?"

"Yes, I'll talk to you later."

I hung up the phone happy to get back to my peaceful slumber.

Okay well, that's that. I apoligize if this chapter is all that great. I personally felt I could've done better, seeing as I've been working on this one chapter for a while now. Anyway, I'll be back shortly with another chapter soon. Leave me some reviews will ya, even if they are flames and such. I could you use something to vent my misery at. Later!

YoullNeverKnowMe: Thanks for the review. I'm glad that you like the story and chapter six. I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well.

huntersgirl: Yeah, they should talk things through before she leaves. But then that'd take away from the ever-so-thickening plot. Eventually, I'll have them sit down and talk, but not that won't be anytime soon.