Chapter 9: Starting Over
A/N: This chapter also roots from the ideas that GSD gave me in the review. Thanks again!
Meg had been walking endlessly for a very long time. She was exhausted, and her clothes smelled, as she could not find a decent place to change her clothes. By now, she was resting underneath a freeway bridge outside the city limits of Quahog. She sighed, "My life is so depressing. But then again, now that I'm all through with that Griffin family, or whoever the hell they were, I can start a new life. I can move to a place where people like me for who I am rather than wanting me to be something different. Yeah, that's it!"
Meg's spirits had suddenly lifted at that moment. The problem for her, though, was that it would be difficult for her to know where she could go where people would like her. Basically, that meant she had to be a wandering nomad, moving from city to city until she finally found a place that would accept her.
She then got up from under the bridge and started to walk up the exit. She was entering a town about 2 hours away from Quahog called Rimmersville. Indeed, it was a strange name, but perhaps Meg could find a better life there than in Quahog.
Meg walked along the roads of Rimmersville and passed by a public high school and a suburban neighborhood. "Good, it looks like I've got an experimental home here. If all works out well, I'll stay," Meg said. "But wait…I can't be Meg Griffin anymore. That was my old name and my old life. I will now be…hmm. Hadn't thought about that. What should my new name be?" Meg thought for a while. Finally, she settled on the name Samantha Jones, or Sam Jones for short.
She then entered the suburban neighborhood and began knocking on the doors of all the neighbors, requesting a room to stay. To her dismay, all the neighbors shunned her. Meg was in despair again, and she started to cry. She decided the only place for her to stay was in a house that was under construction. She wouldn't have much privacy, but it was the only place she could stay. Meg entered the house through the wooden beams and went down to the basement. The basement walls were nice and solid, so they would provide more privacy for her. Meg set her bags down and laid down. She would attempt to go to her new school the next day.
The night passed quickly, and Meg soon prepared for school. She left the building where she stayed and entered the large school building. It was called Rimmersville High. There were many glass windows and skylights on the building. It looked very pretty. However, the students inside did not seem to reflect the professional nature of the building. There were all sorts of students smoking in the halls, and Meg could hear several gangs wailing on poor little nerds.
Meg was a new face in the crowd, so she feared that the school would discover that she was attending illegally. Fortunately, though, nobody seemed to be suspicious of her. She looked at a map of the school and tried to find an interesting class. She settled on home economics. She made a mad dash for the class before the bell rang.
Suddenly, someone grabbed her by the shoulders. Meg feared it was an administrator, but to her surprise, it was some large, buff teenager with a blonde buzzcut. "Who the hell are you?" he challenged.
"S-s-Sam Jones," Meg said.
"No you're not. You're the fourth new geek that used that name," he said. He pointed to four nerds that stood together with white T-shirts that read "my name is Sam Jones." "What's your real name?"
"M-meg," she stuttered.
"Well, Meg, I'm going to give you a present," the buff teen replied, sounding a bit nicer. Meg felt a bit more comfortable, thinking that he would be nice to her. Suddenly, he threw open a locker door and stuffed Meg inside. "HA HA HA!" he shouted. Meg screamed for help, but he slammed the door in her face, then smashing her glasses. Then, the rest of the school started to laugh as well. Meg started to sob from within the locker.