Introduction
"Does it look like I care about what your sick of?"
"Maybe you should just run away if you don't care?"
"Maybe i will."
This is the argument from the parent you had the night you left. The next day you told your friends your sick of your parents and that your leaving and if they wanted to leave with you they can. Now your heading on a bus on your way to Indiana. It being the first bus out of the state.
Girls:
1:Holly Mitchell (Forget~Me~Not)
2:Mercy Frost (Constellations)
3:Emily Flagg (Me)
Boys:
1: Johnny (Me)
2:Derek Cox (Forget~Me~Not)
3:Zack Mitchell (Jayhawker010)
Name:
Age: 15-19
Race: ethicity
Eye color: self explainatory.
Description: I want a real picture AND a description
Reason: Explain why you left the state
Personality:How do you act?
Background: How your life was before you ran away
Plans: What do you want to do? where do you wanna go, be creative
Items You Brought With You: What did you bring
Money: if you have it how much?
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"Johnny, When um aren't you stoned?" Emily asked jokingly she grabbed hers and Johnnys bag from the bus. She tried it once and she didn't like it. "Well. The first thing i would do is find a hotel and get some rest. Thats just my opinion." She said getting the rest of the bags. She could see for miles in this state. This was just the first bus out of New York city.
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She was feeling jumpy as she silently followed her friends off the bus, listening to but not actually hearing their conversation. It was something about drugs. She didn't care though. She was starting to get jumpy. The razor she had was burning a whole in her pocket, her unbleeding wrists screaming for more pain.
She sighed in relief when she heard Emily suggest going to a hotel to rest. Yes, a hotel. A hotel meant some amount of succlusion. Not much, considering she wasn't traveling alone. But she could get a few minutes alone in the bathroom to cut her wrists, real fast.
She was already in a better mood, knowing that pain was on the way.
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Derek stood besides Mercy, "you okay?" he whispered a little concerned about her.
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"Johnny why are you um, so lucky?" Emily asked. It wasn't the first time Johnny was lucky like that. Johnny had a nack for finding stuff either its drugs or money. Either way Johnny was always lucky. "Are we just going to walk around," She pulled out her ticket and read it. "Bloomington, Indiana?"
"Yeah until we find a motel with a vacancy sign." Johnny said. He was starting to doubt his reasons for leaving. But he knew he could never go back to that abusive house hold.
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"You okay?" he whispered.
"Fine, fine," she mumbled, "I'm fine. Just tired. I haven't had anything to eat in a while either."
That was true, but she didn't mention that she was tired and hungry and weak by her own accord. Now that she was going to be spending most of her time with these people, she couldn't risk them finding out about her masochistic tendencies. If they found out, they'd make her stop. And then she'd have no more options. She wouldn't be able to manage going off on her own; she was too young and too weak and too poor to do anything by herself.
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"Would you umm, kindly shut up Johnny. We all know that we're umm, hungry. You don't need to point it out." Emilys stomach also started hurting. She could devour 3 double cheeseburgers at the moment. She hadn't eaten anything since yesterday moring. Though a egg sandwich would do nicely.
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Derek looked at Mercy and as everyone else were not looking pulled out a thing of tasty cakes and handed them to her. "here" he whispered.
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She held back a self sacrificing sigh and took a bite of the snack cake. It tasted amazing. She hadn't eaten in days. She continued to munch on it while they walked. With every bite, the hollow feeling in her stomach lessened more and more. The hunger was gone, replaced by a nearly satisfied feeling in her stomach.
She hated that feeling. It felt too good.
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"Well as much as i um would love to um wander around Bloomington. I think that all of us need to um sleep before we even think about food." Emily said. She hated being hungry but she hated being tired and being able to sleep even worse. "So I'm guessing we um get 2 rooms, one for the guys and another one for us ladies" She reached out and grabbed the carrot sticks. She didn't mind eating healthy.
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Emily didn't really care where she slept she was as just as tired as everyone else, and she was sure that everyone would be willing to sleep on the cement. She just continued munching on the carrot sticks. She ate one more and she handed the bag back to Holly. She could guess that she ate a quater of the bag.
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"Sounds great," Mercy mumbled. She was better off just taking what she could get. Even a crummy motel bathroom was better then cutting her wrists in a phonebooth. If they even had those anymore.
Despite being annoyed about having to room with Holly and Emily, this whole scene made her feel safe in a way she wasn't used to. It sounds weird that anyone would find being poor and homeless with a bunch of teenagers comforting. But to Mercy, it was.
Somehow she had faith that Johnny and Holly would take care of things.
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"42 bucks? Jesus thats expensive." Emily said pulling out 42 bucks in asorted bills. That little piece of reality just made her realise that they badly needed money. Emily knew that Johnny needed smokes and $63 would get him like 2 cartons here. Everyone needed to make sacrifices including herself.
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"Here's 42," she said, "I only have another 35 though."
She was thankful that she'd stolen money out of her foster parents wallets. She didn't feel guilty though. She had warned them not to try and make her stop cutting herself but they hadn't listened, so they got what they deserved.
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Derek handed Johnny what he had, "that's all I got dude" he muttered and looked around the place. "Maybe we should just slpit one room... for all of us it would be cheaper that way."
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"Not like we have much of a choice," she mumbled grudgingly. She knew that if they had to split one room, they had to split one room. Beggers can't be choosers after all. But still, that didn't mean she had to be happy about it.
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Emily wasn't that disgusted with the room she had seen worse in the news. What was she thinking that it would be bad they're in indiana for petesake. Its not going to be that bad. She chose the next bed the one closest to the bathroom. Emily was out in a couple of seconds. She started to softly snore.
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Holly sighed and sat down on Johnny's bed thinking for a moment the room to her was disgusting. "Oh God" she muttered to herself and laied down besides him her back turned away from him as she looked at the room. cheap cheap cheap she thought as she drifted of.
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She was exhausted and the empty spot next to Emily seemed very tempting; a soft, relativly clean place to sleep. She hadn't been this tired in a long time. It felt good to someone like her but she was at her breaking point. She would have to sleep eventually.
But first, she had buisness to attend to. Quiet, as to not wake anybody up, she grabbed her bag went into the bathroom and locked the door. It was surprisingly clean for a motel but that didn't mean it was clean by most standards.
She tried not to look at her reflection but she couldn't help but catch a quick glance. She looked horrible, like a pale sickly doll drowning in a baggy sweatshirt much too big for her. She pushed the thoughts out of her mind and grabbed the razor out of her pocket. She rolled up her sleeves to reveal her scarred wrists.
She then added more scars to the collage. By the time she was finished, her arms were screaming in agony and covered in blood. It dripped off of her arms and little little red dots on the white tiled floor.
Now, this was living.
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It was dark outside the bus with only a few street lamps. They were somewhere in downtown of wherever the hell he was. There was a BBQ restaurant with a few people in it, a bar, and some various shops, closed for the night. He wasn't sure if he should get off, but he had to decide quick. Zack grabbed his bag and ran down the aisle of the bus before the driver closed the doors and got out. He decided that it was getting late and the later it got, the more dangerous it would be out trying to find a place to stay.
He walked at a fast pace down the sidewalk of the dead town, the cold breeze blowing against his face, feeling like whips on his cheeks. After a couple of minutes, Zack reached a cheap motel at the end of the town. It looked horrifying to even go in, but he needed to save his money, for when he got to Chicago to look for a job. He walked inside and payed the low price for a night in a single room. Luckily it didn't take too much out of his stash of parents' money. He left the small dirty lobby and walked outside again and walked down the row of rooms in the silent parking lot with only the dim lights of the few rooms in the space.
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Mercy crawled into bed, careful not to wake up Emily. She rolled over so that she was facing the curtain covered window. She left her eyelids flutter shut, and the next thing she knew, she was out cold.
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