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Super-Earth
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2014
Rachel flopped down on the living room couch with an inward groan, reaching for the remote to flip through channels in her boredom. It was hard resist the urge to check her phone again but she knew there’d be nothing there, anyways. Most of her friends were gone, off to have fun with their vacation time like real people, while she was stuck here in this dump with her mother. It was easily shaping up to be the worst summer yet.
That her mother had been in full bitch mode all week wasn’t helping. There was no reasoning with when she got this way. She’d just as soon bite her head off than talk. It was even worse than her depressive swings when she’d spend all day sprawled in bed, letting their already shabby little house go completely to hell. As it was Rachel had to do most of the chores if she didn't want to live complete squalor. If it wasn’t for her sister, who was lucky to be staying with their father this weekend, she swore to herself she would have run away a long time ago.
It was the drugs that did it of course. Whenever her mother was using again and her supply got low, she’d go into these moods until she finally wheedled or hocked her way into a new stash. Rachel had caught her earlier in the kitchen talking low on the phone, assuring whoever was on the other side that she could pay. That had pissed her off as she knew it wasn’t true. They didn’t even have enough cash to keep groceries in the refrigerator hardly. Confronting her had been useless as usual though. Her mother just told her not to worry about it, that she would figure something out.
Rachel sighed and clicked off the television. She couldn’t concentrate. Closing her eyes, she leaned her head back, feeling like her life was wasting away. She was seventeen with a pretty face, a tight body, nice breasts, and a full head auburn hair. She should be out having fun, not sitting at home with her loser mom.
Her eyes fluttered opened as a knock came on the front door. Her mother yelled from the bathroom to go answer it. Rachel shot a finger down the hallway, confident she wouldn’t see it -- she was a little too scared of her mom to do that sort of thing in front of her as she had a temper -- and padded over to the door in her socks, pulling back the bolt and chain lock. “Yeah?”
That her mother had been in full bitch mode all week wasn’t helping. There was no reasoning with when she got this way. She’d just as soon bite her head off than talk. It was even worse than her depressive swings when she’d spend all day sprawled in bed, letting their already shabby little house go completely to hell. As it was Rachel had to do most of the chores if she didn't want to live complete squalor. If it wasn’t for her sister, who was lucky to be staying with their father this weekend, she swore to herself she would have run away a long time ago.
It was the drugs that did it of course. Whenever her mother was using again and her supply got low, she’d go into these moods until she finally wheedled or hocked her way into a new stash. Rachel had caught her earlier in the kitchen talking low on the phone, assuring whoever was on the other side that she could pay. That had pissed her off as she knew it wasn’t true. They didn’t even have enough cash to keep groceries in the refrigerator hardly. Confronting her had been useless as usual though. Her mother just told her not to worry about it, that she would figure something out.
Rachel sighed and clicked off the television. She couldn’t concentrate. Closing her eyes, she leaned her head back, feeling like her life was wasting away. She was seventeen with a pretty face, a tight body, nice breasts, and a full head auburn hair. She should be out having fun, not sitting at home with her loser mom.
Her eyes fluttered opened as a knock came on the front door. Her mother yelled from the bathroom to go answer it. Rachel shot a finger down the hallway, confident she wouldn’t see it -- she was a little too scared of her mom to do that sort of thing in front of her as she had a temper -- and padded over to the door in her socks, pulling back the bolt and chain lock. “Yeah?”