The clock struck midnight and
Alanah had been awoken. There was a fight going on outside. She
opened the blinds to what it was. The people fighting were her
parents.See both of her parents were drunks. Her mother was
constantly drinking and smoking and so was her father. She lucked
out when it came to having caring parents.
Alanah was only 5 years old and
knew alot for her age.She had seen and heard way to much she should
have in a lifetime. ALanah only wanted one thing and that was for
her family to care for her and everyone get
better.But thatwasn't ever going to
happen according to her. While her parents were outside fighting
she was inside trying to figure out what to do. This fighting
happened all the time. She was used to it but it still didn't
stop her from crying every once and a while.
She came up with a plan, her plan
was to run away and never look back. But every time the thought
came to mind she would second guess it because she knew with in
herself she was still a 5 year old little girl. She was scared to
go through with this plan but yet she did. That night while the
maniacs of parents were outside smashing bottles and fist fighting
she packed her little Cinderella suit case with clothes, barbies,
blankets and even winky. Winky is her favorite teddy bear, he has
been there for her every step of her life. Alanah couldn't
survive without Winky.Alanah took
a look outside to see her parents covered in glass, alcohol and
some blood. She wipped open the window and
ripped out her screen and jumped out on to the garage roof, and
then down the garden post.Her parents
were right there when she came down the garden post and saw her
leave. They were too drunk and too high to really care. Well thats
what she thought, they seen her running down the drive way and
stumbled to follow her. They were
so drunk and high that they stumbled so much they couldn't keep
up with her so she was able to get away...FOR NOW!
She ended up sneaking into her
neighbor's yard and sleeping in their tree house.
The next day her parents came
looking for her. They looked every where and still couldn't
find her. Her parents were hung over and really weren't
thinking straight. So they stopped looking for because they'd
rather drink and smoke. Alanah woke
up around 9:00 o'clock and decided she would go live with her
grand parents in New York City. She had no clue how to get there
from California, but she decided she would try.
So the 5 year old set out for New
York City. ... 10 years
later... Alanah was now 15 years old and
in high school. She had been living with her grand parents for 10
years and she loved it because they had taken such good care of
her. Alanah was legally adopted by her grandparents. She was a
freshman in High School and loved it. She had been spoiled from
when she first lived there until now.Until one
day Alanah's dad showed up at his parents house. He showed up
to their house demanding they better give him his
daughter.The rand parents said no because
they had taken care of her all those years and that he is not a
suited father but he was having any of it because he thought he was
the world's greatest father. It was in
the middle of the night and Alanah heard her father's truck and
woke straight up and didn't know what to do.
He came storming into the house
and headed straight for Alanah's room and took her. She was
kicking and screaming but he didn't
care.Alanah was taped up and put into
the back of his truck. Two hours later they were driving down the
high way and Alanah figured how to get out of the cloth and tape
that she was wrapped in. She jumped out of his truck and rolled
into the high way. The father realized it a few miles down the road
and slammed on his breaks.By then she
was already into the heart of the city. She knew New York City like
the back of her hand. Alanah made
it home just right before 5 AM. She crawled into her bed and cried
and cried. She couldn't stop. Her grandparents hadn't been
home because one worked night shift and the other one was in the
hospital. So when her Grandmother got home she explained everything
and was started crying all over again. Right there and then they
heard her father's truck. So they locked all the doors and ran
and hid in the attic upstairs. He broke down the door and went
straight up stairs to Alanah's room. She wasn't in there so
he destroyed the house looking for her and never found
her. He left becase he had no clue
where they were. They heard him leave and came out of
hiding. He had never come back after that
day for some odd reason. So 3 years later Alanah's grandmother
had died. So Alanah had no one but she was 18 so she decided to got
to school for art. She opened her own studio and had
adopted 4 kids. She was a wonderful mother. There was no father for
her children just like she had no father.Her father ended up over dosing
and died. She never ever talked to him after the day she
hid from him with her grand mother. She hated him, just like she
hated her mother. Alanah never really had a chance at child hood so
she made sure her 4 children did.
By Haley Ann;*(h*a*m)<3