Third Person POV

When Calloway woke up she sat up on the couch to see her cousin, Dallas, Steve, and Soda looking at her. Without a word she crossed the room and grabbed her bag out of her room. "Ready to go?" She asked coming back in. There was a moment of silence everyone looking at her. "What are you guys staring at?"

"Are you sure you want to go?" Two Bit asked her.

"I'm fine. Let's go." Calloway made her way to the door and into the backseat of the black truck they were taking in which she hugged the window staring out. Slowly everyone piled in. Dallas sat in the back with her while Soda and Steve crammed up front with Two driving.

Soda put the radio on and conversation was loud between all the guys about football, the coming concert, Christmas, and a few other things. They tried to engage Calloway but her mind drifted. As the road stretched ahead to the big city the scenery disappeared and was replaced by a flashback.

She felt the leather seat underneath her and smelled that new car smell. She was in Derrick Allen's car on the way home from a drive in movie well she hadn't really watched the movie she'd been too caught up keeping her lips busy. Derrick was talking animatdley and Calloway was responding but mainly she was caught in the moment. She was fifteen and instead of being a freshmen like the rest of the kids her age she was a sophmore and she had just been on an amazing date with a junior who was pretty popular. Derrick's family was extremely rich, it was rumored if she could make it to a holiday with him then she might get a nice diamond or two, his last girlfriend did. But Cal didn't really care about that she really did like Derrick.

As Derrick pulled down her street they saw the red and blue lights. "Hey Cal, isn't that your house they're at?" Calloway stammered for him to hurry up. When they reached her driveway Calloway jumped out and ran to a police officer demanding to know what was going on.

"Ma'am who are you?" The police officer asked politely.

"I'm the daughter who lives here! Now what the hell is going on?" Calloway was now fighting tears. Derrick was standing near by awkwardly. She turned to him. "Hey thanks for tonight, I had a great time. I'll call you." Then she turned back to the police officer, "Well?"

"Your mother passed out. She fell down the stairs she stopped breathing but she's okay now. She's at Mercy Hospitle." The officer paused. "There's an officer inside though interviewing your father."

"What'd he do?" Calloway's face scrunched up and she shivered slightly it was rather cold out.

"Well, there's suspsion that he pushed your mother."

"Why is that a suspison?"

"The emergency responders said that she mumble something about being pushed. So we're trying to firgure out if there was any violence. Do your parents have a history of domestic or physical violence?" As the police officer spoke Calloway studied her. She was a tall thin woman, with a notice able nose, dark coffee skin, and eyes that had seen too much. Her hair was pulled back in a tight buun that rested just underneath the back brim of her police officer hat.

"No. My parents get along perfectly. They are the perfect parents. When can I see my mom?" Calloway asked. "And what's your name anyways?" In the dark it was hard to read the woman's name tag.

"My name is Officer Radley. You will be able to see your mother in the morning they want her resting right now. Go inside to your room, and get some rest yourself." Officer Radley walked with her up the stairs and into the house. She followed as Cal passed by the living room where her dad was being drilled by two male police officers. She didn't get to stop but from the look on her dad's face he was pissed. Officer Radley was close behind her as Cal went to her room.

"Um, here I am. You can like leave now." Calloway said opening her door slightly.

Radley gave her a smile. "Stay out of trouble kid."

When Calloway laid down that night she didn't know that her mom was two days away from getting diagnosed with a cancer that would lead to her going to private online schooling so that she could spend more time with her mom. She didn't know that in two years she'd be a totally different person who had seen a mother struggle for over a year with that cancer, or that she'd be another girl who was ''almost'' raped by her own father. She didn't know any of that. She was just a stupid teenager who didn't give a crap about the rest of the world. She was stupid. In two years she would hate herself for being that way. But not at that moment.

"Calloway! Calloway wake up!" Dallas's voice woke Calloway. She shivered with the memory of that night before she had acknowledeged everything was wrong. "Cal, we're at the motel we'll be staying at. Do you want to go in and like get freshened up before we go to the mall?"

Cal rubbed her eyes and sat up from leaning against the window. "Yeah." She looked around. The truck was parked infront of the hotel's front office and she could see Two Bit inside getting the room keyes. The hotel wasn't the nicest one but it wasn't trashy. Like an older Holiday Inn. Cal smiled to herself at the thought of these two days of awsomeness.

~~~Switch to First Person (sorry)~~~~

Two Bit came back and handed a room key to me. "Your rooming with Soda and Dallas. Make Dallas sleep on the pull out that is in the couch got it?"

"Yes sir." I saluted him. Dallas made a noise to indicate he was not happy about that.

Two Bit pulled into a praking space near our rooms. "Dallas, get my bag." I walked into the room. It was bigger then it looked on the outside. I hummed reading the welcome card left on one of the beds. Dallas brought our bags in and Soda brought his in then said something about going to see what Steve and Two Bit were planning on doing to kill time.

Dallas approached me. I watched him in the mirror and gave him a flirty grin. "You aren't really plannin' on makin' me sleep on the couch are you?"

"No." I answered turning to face him.

"Good." He pecked my lips softly. It would have lasted longer but Steve walked in and we pulled apart. "Good." He repeated. I began to fix my hair and make up. Tonight was going to be amazing, I had a feeling.

But really I had no idea just how amazing it would be.