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Running away from home isn't exactly a person's best ideal. But for me, it was. I was kind of, well, how you say tired of it. And the fact that I know Ma is worried, I just couldn't stick it out with her. And you know, it's hard, but it's not as hard as I thought. And here I am now, walking on the side of the road, miles from home, she probable hasn't noticed yet though. I had my backpack, flashlight, note pad, pencils, and erasers, food, water, a leash, and cat food. I held Mimi in the side of my back, it was well, a pet carrier, but I'd changed it around so it was like a backpack, and she was sleeping pretty quietly. Oh, I'm sorry, my names, Yumi, Yumi Tamikaro. I'm 13 years old, and well, basily I ran away from home. Mimi, she's my kitten, and 8 months old. She's basily a black cat.
I walked quietly on the road with the flashlight pointing dead ahead as I sighed and looked down on the road to think to myself, "The cops ll' probable be lookin' for me tomorrow." I muttered to myself. "And I can't go back now...." I sighed once again and remembered my wallet, the money I'd had from my birthday and so on... $452 dollars, 2 nickles, a dime, and 3 quarters. I thought to myself, That'd be enough to live off of for a while.
Mimi meowed from the bag, indicating she was waking up and looked around her to see outside, I turned my head back to see her, "Hey Mims. I see you're awake!" I cried to her. "Looks like we're heading into a new town." I told her as I walked in close to what seemed, a large railing and I looked down to hear the rush of water. "I'm near a dam? I must be in Grandale or something." I muttered to myself, and I pulled the flashlight out to point it down, and it showed water, it was just a pond and I looked up and squinted. As I pointed my flashlight up at a statue, and laughed. "No, I must be imagining things." I said, realizing it was a pond, and I was beginning to get sleepy and remembered the dam, I missed going there. And I sat down on a nearby bench, in the park, at a unknown town, it was dark around, but quiet. All the cars were gone, and the streets were quiet, it seemed eveyone was in bed. I pulled my jacket off and pulled the bag up by me as I opened it a bit for Mimi to crawl by me, she was afraid of leaving me all the time since I got her. She curled up in a ball by me as I covered my jacket over her as well and layed my head on the bag to fall asleep....
It wasn't long till morning came and the sun hit my face as I opened my eyes to look up and see a stranger standing over me and looking down on me, "Hey miss. I don't think it's a good idea to be sleeping in a park like this, people might think your homeless or something." I sat up and left Mimi to sleep on the bench as I looked to the man and replied, "I ain't exactly homeless, I ran away from home." I told him. The man scratched his beard and hummed to himself, "Oh, but it ain't safe." he looked down at me once more, "Say, why'd ya run away from home?" he asks me. I shook my head, "Well, ya see, Ma is having trouble paying for the both of us, and then I found out that people were comming to take me away from her, so I decided to run away." I told him. He hummed again to himself and looked up, "I donno... Aren't you going to be in some kinda of trouble." "Nope!" I replied quickly, closing my eyes and holding my head high with pride, "Not if they don't catch me." The man gave a laugh and stopped to finally open his eyes, "Well, I'm Chimwey." he chuckled, "I live her in this town, and by far, it's the safest little town around. The city folk around here are nice, so I wouldn't be surprised if you could stay here." I opened me eyes and lowered my head as I looked at him with a kind of ease and calmed, yet confused face. "What....do ya....mean?" I asked slowly. Mimi woke up and sleepily crawled over into my lap, she purred softly. I pet her slowly as I kept my eyes at the man.
Chemwey sighed, and scratched his head. "Well, I better get home." he said, "I'll see you later kid!" he said, waving as he walked away to the large buildings, which seemed to be apartments. I sighed once more and picked up the bag to rumage through it and pull out my sketch pad and pencil, I pulled it upand began to draw the scene. You see, well I loved drawing, and even though mom tried to hide it, she couldn't. I sighed and thanked that everyone had given me money for my birthdays, along with other presents and such. My stomache grumbled and I put down the sktech pad for a moment to grab some cereal I'd packed, I ate it like chips for a bit. Mimi woke up quickly to crawl over my arms and stick her head in the bag. I laughed as she pulled her head out, and grabbed some cat food, I put it in a small bowl and put beside me. Mimi meowed once more and came down at my side and ate slowly and quietly. She was still sitting in my lap though. I ate the cereal slowly and grabbed the large jug of water and took a drink to pop the cap and put it back in my bag. I stood up and stetched for a few seconds to blink and look down at the town. "Huh, how come there's no...cars?" I muttered to myself, pointing. I walked towards the town a bit more as someone shouted at me, and I swung around. A boy, about my age, and he was calling to me, and pointed to myself and looked at him with question....
He ran up to me as I stepped back and a bit and tried to look away to look at Mimi who was just fine. "Hey!" the boy shouted at me as he ran in close to me and stopped to bend over and put his hands on his knees to catch his breathe. I looked at him with a confused, yet weirded look, as I stepped back a bit more. "What?" I said, holding my hands up as they were balled up in a fist, lightly. He stood up finally and looked at me straight in the eye with a smile on his face, "I saw you were talking to Chemwey." he pointed out, "And I assumed you were a not from around here, I came to see if you just moved in." he said. I shook my head, as I buttoned my mouth shut. "Oh, then did you come here with any family?" he asked, being a little nosey. I shook my head in the direction for no and stopped, not saying anything. He stopped and laughed sheepishly, "Oh, did you run away from home or go for a walk or something." I stopped in the middle of my tracks as my eyes widened and I kept a straight face, thinking about it now, it made me feel bad and I couldn't help it as my eyes started to water.. He looke up and put up his hands in panic, "No! No! I didn't mean to make you cry!" he said. "Please don't cry!" And I couldn't help it as I pulled my hands to my eyes and closed them to wipe away the endless tears. Just as I heard another voice and she came running close in, I didn't look up or open my eyes or anything to get a good look at her face. "Hey! Tom!" she called as she came running in after him and stopped to see me crying, she looked at her brother and I could hear her argue with him, "Did you make her cry?! Why?!" she said, in a high pitched voice. The boy, who apparently was called Tom, tried to make the girl believe he didn't do it on purpose. And finally she stopped and looked at me as I opened my eyes a it to see her, "Did he make you cry?" she asked nicely, and I shook my head as I opened my mouth and spoke, "No, I just.......remembered something." I said, half lying. The girl looked at her brother and sighed, "Well, we don't have a lot of time, school gonna start soon." she said, and she smiled at me a bit, "Well, if your here after school, maybe we can talk again!" she said, waving to me as she dragged Tom off with her. Tom was hollering and shouting, waving bye to me as he turned around and got out of the girl's reach to run around the corner. I stopped and pulled the collar of my shirt up to wipe away the tears. And walked back over towards Mimi, who had crawled back in the bag, in spite of me leaving. Her food bowl was half empty as I pulled up the small container and poured the food in it to close it and set it down inside the bag as I repacked everything to stop and look at my sketch. I sighed as I closed the book and put away nicely, the town did seemed friendly, and I did like it here.
x_Darkwaterz_x · Fri Aug 15, 2008 @ 11:13pm · 0 Comments |
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