Dara stared out the window at the cars going past, a collage student in a green beetle car she would never have to feel the pain of parents ever again no not here she was free, there was also a little boy about 2 yrs old sucking on his thumb while his mom buttoned up his little yellow rain coat with the bob the builder patch on it he didn't yet know what his mother would think of him when he was her age. Dara had just run away for the second time. This time her mom had told her to go to her room at the dinner table because what she was talking about was inappropriate, who knew that when her mom asked her about school she didn't want to know about her sex Ed class? She had turned and threw a spoon at her mom who slammed her hands on the table while Harry her older brother stared blankly and her little brother Leo giggled and spit came out of his mouth. She ran to her room and unpacked the box of supplies a rope, tape, some clothes, and a bottle of water. She taped the rope to her window and jumped out then she ran into town there she thought she would find shelter even some people to be her Greg's-town had other ideas for her all she found was a cheap motel that would house her for a night in exchange for all the money she had been saving for 2 months, a few stray cats, and a old man who asked for a loaf of bread. "Meh I give up" she said and turned her back to the dark alley she was looking down. As she turned her face met her uncles eyes, startled she managed to say hi but he cut her off before she could say anymore "what do you think your doing out here running around in the dark?! Alone too are you crazy!?" he started to stutter when he talked like he did when he dropped grandma's pie. "I mean what you did, run away again?!" Dara looked at her feet "yes" she replied her uncle groaned and pushed her into his car. Now she was here in the car going home to her mom who despised her.

She sighed as she walked in the door and past Leo and Harry both of them still staring blankly at her.