Chapter 1: Gone For Good
It's about 10 PM. My family has gone to bed. Rather than sleeping I am thinking of the adventures that are out there I will take after I graduate high school tomorrow. Thinking to myself in only an hour I'll finally be 18. I've waited for this day for so long. Not believing it has arrived.
I thought of running away again, but could not find the money I had saved up in a secret place in my wall. "Little shits must have been in my room again." I mumbled to myself thinking of my cousins that resided with myself and my parents. I sighed and prayed to a higher power to take me away. Somewhere I couldn't be found. I snuck downstairs to the kitchen. While staring out the plain old cracked window above the sink, I see the rain falling. Creating puddles on the ground. I heated up a Cinnamon Roll, that was baked prior that day. After finishing the Cinnamon Roll, I grabbed my pack of cigarettes and quietly went out to the backyard. My backyard connected to this creepy forest I played in as a child. I danced around in the rain and had the most fun I could before you smoked. While sitting and smoking my cigarette, I heard a branch crack. I immediately stood and looked around from the shadows. There he came out. Captain James Hook of the Jolly Roger. I rubbed my eyes thinking, there's no way that's him, is there? I looked back at the same spot and there was nothing there. I must be too tired to see clearly I thought to myself as I went back in the house. I locked the back door and went back upstairs to my bedroom. I heard your parents fighting again. "Damn it Oliver, you said you were going to quit drinking!" I heard my mother shout to my father who had just gotten home from the bar down the street. "You listen to me Stephanie, I'm the man of the house. Not you or that brat of ours. Once she turns 18 tomorrow, she's out of here. And if you don't like it, you can go with her!" I heard my father throw his bottle of Whiskey against the wall. My mother went to the bathroom and I heard her crying. I knocked on the door, and I heard your mother approach the door carefully, she opened it. The look on her face she was, afraid almost. "It's okay mom, dad passed out on the floor I know he's kicking me out tomorrow. It's fine, I just want you, and the kids to be safe." "We'll be fine Snow, just worry about you my love." I hugged my mother and went to my room to lay in bed. I stared at the ceiling for a while and went to sleep. I awoke 6 hours later, at about 5 AM, my window was open. "I could have sworn I locked this damn thing." I said as I got out of bed and walked over to my window. As soon as I shut it, I locked it and looked around. Nobody was in my room nor outside. So I searched the house, nothing changed except the money I was missing, ended up on my bedside table. I sat on my bed and cried because I knew that I would have nowhere to stay tonight. Just as I thought the worst, I heard my window unlock. I grabbed my blade from my table and I ran next to the window and hid inside my large closet. There wasn't a door on it but I found a place in the shadows. I saw the outline of a tall figure with long dark curly hair enter my bedroom quietly. The figure looked around and once it turned, I saw the handsome face of Captain James Hook. The man that haunted my dreams as a child, but he is now the man I can't help but be in love with. I saw him lay on my bed and smell your pillow. "Mmm smells just like her Peppermint shampoo. I wonder where that beautiful lass is. I shall take her away from this dreadful place and make her my wife." I blushed very hard but thought, how does he know what kind of shampoo I use? How does he know I like him? I walked out of my closet "I'm right here Captain." He got up and walked towards me. The kind of walk where he looked even more sexy, I didn't think that was possible. He approached me and grabbed my hand, lifting it to his chest. "So, you know who I am my dear?" He said gazing into my pretty Green eyes and Aqua Blue curly hair. "Y-Yes I know more than who you are Captain Hook." "Please my love, call me James, you're Snow correct?" "Yes James, have you come to take me away from my family?" "Only if you choose to go doll, I won't force you. However it would break my heart if you said no." He sat on my bed and took off his jacket, he had on a long sleeve ruffled White shirt. It looked amazing on him. I locked my bedroom door, turned on my Purple string lights and my lamp. "I have waited for this day for so long James." I sat next to him on the bed and said "May I?" He looked down and saw me gazing at his Hook. "You can touch anything you'd like my dear. Anything you'd like." I looked at his face while playing with his Hook. "Have you got any other Hook's with you?" I asked and couldn't stop looking at his face. "I have some on the Jolly Roger. You can see and touch anything you'd like on the ship as well." His words made I blush harder and it gave me a tingle that ran through my entire boddess. "Well James, let me pack some of my most prized posessions and clothes. I'll be ready in about 30 minutes. "Take your time darling. I'll pack Everything for you Snow. I think you should say goodbye to your Mother." "You're right James, I'll go say goodbye right now. Thank you." "For what honey?" "For coming to rescue me, getting my money back from my cousins, and letting me say goodbye." "No problem my dear, now I'm going to have a crew member of mine named Jack to wait outside the room for you." "Okay." I saw Jack and it made me a little afraid. Jack is 6 and a half feet tall, with long Black dreads, with a Caramel skin tone, big biceps and ragged teeth. I went to my mother's room and wrote her a note, rather than waking her up. I left it on her pillow and kissed her cheek one last time. I closed the door and smiled at my mother as went back to my room.
