Suzy’s Strange Saga
Maybe if he’d given you ten or even five thousand you’d feel more comfortable making the risk of “starting over” but with just a thousand, you’re not that confident even with your new found self sufficient approach to life.
Besides, you’re not even sure where the hell eastward even takes you. For all you know it ends in wilderness, you’ve never been out of your own town before. Better to take your chances with the devil you know.
As you drive down the empty road, you pass long stretches of trees and wilderness. You never realized until just now how rural in an area you lived in before.
You briefly check your phone again to see if anyone has called, but as usual nobody has. Nobody cares.
You continue driving thinking about probably having to deal with the near state of anarchy the town is in. Assuming you even get home in one piece you’ll have to deal with Peter and his car. You figure you’ll have to at least give him this one.
All of which isn’t going to help you with Kelly who is still intent on throwing you out by the end of the week. Chances are if you attempted to “pay rent” with some of your money she’d just punch you in the face and take ALL of your money and let you stay another month at best which means being on a time limit and scrambling for a job again. You got very lucky once with the job situation as fast as you did, and you don’t think you’ll manage it that quickly again even if the town wasn’t all fucked up.
That leaves your plan “B” choice of living with your sister Donna and your so called best friend Julie which isn’t much of a plan at all so much as it’s just a free living arrangement. What a joy that’s going to be, dealing with their partying every night. You might as well be living out in the chaos filled streets given how they carry on. Hell, you might even be safer. You’ll definitely have to make sure to keep your newly acquired loot well hidden.
You try to take you mind off of all this by turning on the radio…Ground Zero ads.
“Ground Zero…how fucking original.” You say and turn the radio off, shaking your head.
You continue driving and driving and driving; your thoughts continuing to go back and forth about why you’re even going back to town.
It really would be so much easier to just stay with Jack.
Besides, you’re not even sure where the hell eastward even takes you. For all you know it ends in wilderness, you’ve never been out of your own town before. Better to take your chances with the devil you know.
As you drive down the empty road, you pass long stretches of trees and wilderness. You never realized until just now how rural in an area you lived in before.
You briefly check your phone again to see if anyone has called, but as usual nobody has. Nobody cares.
You continue driving thinking about probably having to deal with the near state of anarchy the town is in. Assuming you even get home in one piece you’ll have to deal with Peter and his car. You figure you’ll have to at least give him this one.
All of which isn’t going to help you with Kelly who is still intent on throwing you out by the end of the week. Chances are if you attempted to “pay rent” with some of your money she’d just punch you in the face and take ALL of your money and let you stay another month at best which means being on a time limit and scrambling for a job again. You got very lucky once with the job situation as fast as you did, and you don’t think you’ll manage it that quickly again even if the town wasn’t all fucked up.
That leaves your plan “B” choice of living with your sister Donna and your so called best friend Julie which isn’t much of a plan at all so much as it’s just a free living arrangement. What a joy that’s going to be, dealing with their partying every night. You might as well be living out in the chaos filled streets given how they carry on. Hell, you might even be safer. You’ll definitely have to make sure to keep your newly acquired loot well hidden.
You try to take you mind off of all this by turning on the radio…Ground Zero ads.
“Ground Zero…how fucking original.” You say and turn the radio off, shaking your head.
You continue driving and driving and driving; your thoughts continuing to go back and forth about why you’re even going back to town.
It really would be so much easier to just stay with Jack.