eccentric-indie
Moon
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2009
"Don't forget to stop by the post office on your way home. If your father hasn't sent that check, we can sue him." Karen Starling was sitting on the couch, fanning herself with an old newspaper and drinking her third beer of the morning. Her daughter, Darcy, was heading out the door, the messenger bag she used for school slung over her shoulder. The sixteen year old nodded to her mother before slamming the door shut behind her. Darcy's parents had been divorced since she was six; she was beyond used to her mother's legal threats and her father's insults to Karen. Regardless of how obviously unfit Karen was as a parent, the courts had chosen her over Darcy's father, which suited them both just fine. The older woman had access to drugs and alcohol which Darcy would have to go to great lengths and risk legal action to obtain by herself.
The girl walked up to the school, her black & white striped gloves up to her elbows so as to hide the scars on her arms. She was wearing the usual punk/goth attire, not that it helped her fit in at the high school. She simply wasn't what anyone wanted anything to with, which was fine by her. She was early, having left an hour before she needed to simply to get out of the house. Knowing the doors would be locked for a while longer, Darcy settled herself on the stairs and watched the cars pass by.
The girl walked up to the school, her black & white striped gloves up to her elbows so as to hide the scars on her arms. She was wearing the usual punk/goth attire, not that it helped her fit in at the high school. She simply wasn't what anyone wanted anything to with, which was fine by her. She was early, having left an hour before she needed to simply to get out of the house. Knowing the doors would be locked for a while longer, Darcy settled herself on the stairs and watched the cars pass by.