Post by Aкα on May 8, 2015 0:08:18 GMT
Introduction
Your window fogs with condensation as you let out a long, purposefully drawn out sigh. You're hoping that as a last defense, your parents will turn the car around. However, looking at them now, you see them driving soberly on, going 60 down twisting country roads. You know that inside, they're wishing they could turn this all around and go back to their old life... But you know that fate won't let that happen...
You try to distract yourself from the situation, and play with your palms, softly blinking, but not speaking. It was only you, you're family, and the soft rumbling of the air conditioner... You always knew you were different, and you always knew this day would come, but... Sitting here now, you can only remark how quick it came. It seems like only yesterday you were 5 again playing with your best friend in the back yard. Just because you were different, didn't mean you were any worse than any of the others... You lived your life happily, care free... But, all the while, this sat on your shoulders, weighed you down, and now it was dragging you into its pit...
You began to abhor going and getting the mail at around the age 15. You knew that it was coming soon, that yellowy envelope that smelt of pine and old books. Those ink blotted words, addressing to your family. Inside that envelope would be the one way ticket to your future... The future you were zooming towards with every spin of the tire.
Out here things were so bare... You hadn't seen another car in nearly half an hour... The silence was foreign, and as much as you wanted to start up a conversation with your parents, you knew that now wasn't the time... You had said all you could say, and so did they...
Eventually, sooner that you'd hoped, you arrived at the academy. The center of it all... It stood there, proud and tall, hidden by curtains of leaves that flanked it. The car slowed to a stop, the engine died with a groan of exhaustion. Your parents looked back at you, the last glance they'd get for a long while... Their lips were pursed, and only their eyes could reflect their turmoil... In those eyes, you could already see the empty house they'd be returning back to. You tried to give them a reassuring smile, but found that one couldn't even light to your own face.
They offer yo a few last words, telling you to behave, write often, brush your teeth, wash behind your ears. You chuckle, the childish context reminding you of earlier days, that made you smile, but it was a smile hidden by a cloud of pain. You shrug their words off and then step out of the car, closing it behind you, clean shoes stepping on paved asphalt. You look back and watch as the car drives away, and disappears over the slopes it tread up.
... This is the new place you'd call home. This is your new life, the start of something supposedly grand... You turn back around, and stare at the academy that faces you, doors tightly shut, but even still they looked like a gaping maw, ready to lick you up and swallow you down into the belly of unknowing... You close your eyes, and take a deep breath...
Your window fogs with condensation as you let out a long, purposefully drawn out sigh. You're hoping that as a last defense, your parents will turn the car around. However, looking at them now, you see them driving soberly on, going 60 down twisting country roads. You know that inside, they're wishing they could turn this all around and go back to their old life... But you know that fate won't let that happen...
You try to distract yourself from the situation, and play with your palms, softly blinking, but not speaking. It was only you, you're family, and the soft rumbling of the air conditioner... You always knew you were different, and you always knew this day would come, but... Sitting here now, you can only remark how quick it came. It seems like only yesterday you were 5 again playing with your best friend in the back yard. Just because you were different, didn't mean you were any worse than any of the others... You lived your life happily, care free... But, all the while, this sat on your shoulders, weighed you down, and now it was dragging you into its pit...
You began to abhor going and getting the mail at around the age 15. You knew that it was coming soon, that yellowy envelope that smelt of pine and old books. Those ink blotted words, addressing to your family. Inside that envelope would be the one way ticket to your future... The future you were zooming towards with every spin of the tire.
Out here things were so bare... You hadn't seen another car in nearly half an hour... The silence was foreign, and as much as you wanted to start up a conversation with your parents, you knew that now wasn't the time... You had said all you could say, and so did they...
Eventually, sooner that you'd hoped, you arrived at the academy. The center of it all... It stood there, proud and tall, hidden by curtains of leaves that flanked it. The car slowed to a stop, the engine died with a groan of exhaustion. Your parents looked back at you, the last glance they'd get for a long while... Their lips were pursed, and only their eyes could reflect their turmoil... In those eyes, you could already see the empty house they'd be returning back to. You tried to give them a reassuring smile, but found that one couldn't even light to your own face.
They offer yo a few last words, telling you to behave, write often, brush your teeth, wash behind your ears. You chuckle, the childish context reminding you of earlier days, that made you smile, but it was a smile hidden by a cloud of pain. You shrug their words off and then step out of the car, closing it behind you, clean shoes stepping on paved asphalt. You look back and watch as the car drives away, and disappears over the slopes it tread up.
... This is the new place you'd call home. This is your new life, the start of something supposedly grand... You turn back around, and stare at the academy that faces you, doors tightly shut, but even still they looked like a gaping maw, ready to lick you up and swallow you down into the belly of unknowing... You close your eyes, and take a deep breath...