Chapter 4- Cole
It had been nine years since my dad had left my mother and I. To this day she wouldn't tell me why, only that he was unhappy with life here in California and took my twin sister, who's name she wouldn't say along with my father's name, and left. Personally I thought it was a lie, I couldn't see how anyone could dislike life here in California. I had come to dislike him quite a bit. He had left me and my mother with nothing and we've been just scraping by ever since he left. Mom says that it's not his fault, that he did leave stuff for us but she didn't want to rely on him. Another lie in my opinion. She was always trying to justify his actions whenever the subject came up which wasn't often.
I was starting my junior year in highschool in a week so I was enjoying the last of the summer by hanging out with my two best friends on the beach. We stayed away from the water though since I didn't like it much thanks to Mom warning me against it. I pushed my floppy black hair out of my face as we found a nice place to sit.
"I can't believe school starts next week." My one friend Samantha, Sam, complained. Sam had black hair like me that was choppy and about shoulder length with light brown eyes. She was older than me in terms of age, 17 meanwhile I'm 16, but in the same grade as me. She had a sort of goth/emo look and wasn't afraid to start a fight.
My friend Daemon sighed. "Yes Sam, we know, it's all you've been complaining about the past three days." Daemon was pretty average with his brown hair in a common style with brown eyes that were close to black. His personality is pretty much the opposite of Sam's. He tries to avoid fights and is nice to everyone that deserves it but isn't necessarily nasty to those who don't.
Sam just frowned and went silent with a small huff.
We spent a few hours there before getting up and going our separate ways to go to our homes for dinner.