Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Packing the last bit of my bag. Sad to think that everything I own can fit in one singular backpack. Then again I grew up in the only orphanage in this fucked up town. This place has so many terrible people that honestly I’m just shocked I lived to be eighteen. I finally aged out. I looked around the small nine by five foot room to see some old writing on the walls that I knew was something younger me probably got in trouble for doing. I chose to take out my phone and snapped a few pictures of all the things I wrote on the wall. I hear someone scream my name. “JESS! TIME FOR YOU TO LEAVE!” I sigh and look back one more time before turning away and walking to the entrance of the orphanage. Miss Carol was the one that called me to leave so I wasn’t too shocked to find her at the doors waiting for me. “Miss Carol.” I say with a small bow. “Good. Jess it’s time for you to leave.” With that said she opened the doors and pushed me out without a care in the world for me. I could hear the slamming thunder from the old oak doors as they creaked from the pressure of how hard they were forced shut. I rubbed my hands together and decided it was for the best I dont stay in this town any longer.
It’s already been four hours since I left the orphanage and I’ve had to hear more than twenty men cat calling me. I’ve done well to ignore them till finally getting out of the town. For some strange reason I’ve felt like I knew where I needed to go. But maybe I should’ve thought more on why when I think about it. But not like I can turn back now. After all it’s not like I haven’t felt this way beforehand I knew this feeling but I can’t quite place when it was that I last felt this way. The pulling pressure on my chest was strange but I ignored the way it made me feel. “One day at a time Jess.” I say to myself knowing that I have only myself like always. As the hours pass by the sky starts to darken letting me know I need to find a place to rest for the night. So I walk over a few bits of brush and start to build a fire pit for the night. After finishing the fire pit I light it and set up a hammock using my old bedding to make sure it stays in place for the night. I can hear all sorts of things moving through the forest all around me but I pay it no mind as I drift off to sleep. Praying in my mind for tomorrow to be better than today was at least.
