So, the past couple of weeks have been boring. Maddie went home and my other best friend, Emily came along. I am going to her house for the week to hang out.

My cousin slept over last night and so he came with my grandmother and I are going to find a bed to rent for my great grandparents to sleep in when they come over this weekend. I try to call Emily,

I call Emily, and call Emily and call Emily, and finally she answers,

"Hey, can I come over for the next couple of  days?" 

"Yeah sure," I smile but don't hang up,

"Sweet," I still don't hang up, we sit there in my grandmothers truck the only sound is the car moving down the road, we talk about some things, stupid things, little things that probably don't matter or interest you really, but then she says-

"I'm going to shower," I nod and tell her okay,

"You can come with me." She picks up her phone which she is facetiming on and brings it with her into the bathroom, she sets it down on a table next to the shower and I chuckle, and she starts talking about something completely random. 

Once I arrive at my friends house, I get out of the car and say I love you to my grandmother. I grab my stuff out of the back and walk up to her house.

She told me the combination to her garage and I opened it and walked into her house.

Let me explain to you about the lay out of Emily's house, you walk into the garage and that is one of the ways you walk into another door which leads directly into the stairs of her brothers "room" although is room is probably the size of her living room and dining room combined (although I have never been up there) and lets just say that's pretty big. 

Emily isn't rich per se, she is just upper middle class, whose grandparents own a lake house and a beach house in Maine...

But whatever. 

Emily is still showering and I walk into the hallway and knock on the door,

"Hello?" she asks and I just kick the door, "Nautica I know it's you..." I laugh and just sit next to the door and play on my phone. 

Ten minutes later I hear her say- 

"Leggings are really hard to get on while you are wet!" I laugh and take out snapchat, I begin to record what she is saying and put it on my story, she is grunting and laughing clearly struggling to put her clothes on. At least, from what I can hear from the other side of the bathroom door.4

When she walks out of the bathroom she is laughing and looking at her phone,

"You were recording me?" she asks, laughing, I chuckled and nod, I bring my stuff up to her room and we sit on our computers playing computer games.

"Ya know what I want?" I say pointing at one of the games on my computer, it costs 95 cents and we have money but don't have the means of putting the money on the computer.

"Lets go get one of those cards from the store that are like ten bucks and use that," she says and then adds "And we could even get ice cream on the way back." I laugh and agree, we grab our money and walk out the door,

Nothing interesting happened on the way there, or even in the store, or even getting ice cream, but we were walking down the freaking street we need to walk down to get to her street and all I hear is-

"What are you doing here?" I look over and see none other than my father and his psycho wife,

shit.

My heart is racing and I don't know what to do, I try and stay calm, I also don't stop walking.

"Im with my friend."

"Where is your grandmother," I smack him with a dirty look but don't answer the question, "You don't live here! Call your grandmother and tell her to pick you up."

"No!" I shout and look at them, I hope they understand how stupid they sound and look, not only that but my dad just pulled up on my friend and I who is fifteen but doesn't look a day older than ten.

"Excuse me?"

"You snotty bitch!" My stepmonster shouts and I scoff, yeah, I'm the bitch. I laugh,

"Get in the car!" my dad shouts and it takes me a minute to comprehend exactly what the hell he just said. 

My dad, who kicked me out eight months ago, who I haven't seen since November  where he gave up every single right of me, to my grandparents, is once again trying to control me. And not only that, telling me to get into his car,

"Umm... No." I say and roll my eyes and try to continue walking with Emily. Poor Emily...

"We have to run!" Emily says and I just look at her but keep walking, We're fine, what's  my dad actually going to do? 

I see people begin to walk out of their houses, but I don't think my dad notices.

"Excuse me?" I hear my dad say, my step mother is screaming, swearing, calling me every single name in the book, my dad is screaming telling me to get into his car, 

"I'm calling the police," he says

"What are they actually going to do?" I respond

I think Emily is still talking, my step mom is still screaming and swearing, my dad pulls out his phone, people are coming out of their houses. everything is happening so fast, I don't know what to do, my dad begins to pull over and get out of the car and this is when I can think of the only logical thing. I grab Emily's wrist and we both sprint into the woods. All I can hear behind us is-

"SHE'S MY DAUGHTER!" repeated by my father, people must have confronted him, I'm trying to text my grandmother, calling her, texting her. She isn't responding and that's when I get a text from my grandfather,

where are you

"Call the police!" Emily says and I just glare at her,

"What am I supposed to say 'my dad just tried kidnap me'?" I scoff at how stupid that would sound, Emily is panicking and Emily just recognized the fact that that was my dad.

In the woods hiding from my dad

where can I meet you

I'm really close to Emily's house, that's where you can meet me.

K

I look up from my phone and sigh, what the hell just happened?

"So that was your dad?" I nod "Your family really is psycho..."

"Wait till you meet my mom..." she sighs nearly mimicking my sigh, I chuckle.

We are about to turn the corner to Emily's house when we see a white van, 

what the hell?

It says 'need help' on the side and I chuckle as I see my grandfather in the front seat,

Ironic.

"Are you sure you don't wanna come home?"

"No, really it's fine. He doesn't know Emily or where she lives, he would have to knock on the door of everyone on the street and even then he probably wouldn't be bright enough to find me," Emily chuckles,

"Im sorry Emily," my grandfather says and she just says its fine,

Emily has a nice and perfect family life, her parents are together, have good lives and even their brothers/sisters aren't clinically insane like my entire family. 

But that's another story.

I suppose this is the time again where I sign off and come back when something interesting happens,

(6-23-18)

-Nautica

So, yesterday nothing happened. It was boring, we stayed inside all day. Although I did get the text I had to go home today because my psychotic family loves making my life a living hell. 

In other words my dad called DCYF, if you don't now what that means it stands for Department of Children, Youth and Families. They get called when there is suspicions of child abuse/neglect in a household. I am quite aware of these people and they basically know my life story. 

Anways, my dad called them so I have to go home, now at 2 PM rather than go home tomorrow, the upside is I get to see Maddie again, though I would have seen her tomorrow anyways. She is coming to camp with me, she isn't that excited but I know after a day or two she will love it.

Anyways again, so yeah, no I have to talk to some woman who probably already knows that there is no point in being here anyways.

"You have full legal guardianship of her?" the lady asks my grandparents and they both nod, "Okay well. The report states you were on Jame's property, the apartment complex... does he own it?" I scoff,

"He could barely own a car let alone an apartment." I pause "And plus, I wasn't even really close to the complex. I wasn't even on Fisherville anymore." the lady looks unimpressed, and I don't think its by me,

"Well, I tried to call James and nobody answered which is the first sign that this is... not of use to any of us." the lady looks at her paper, "The report states that she was walking down the street with 'no bra and underwear on-"

"How would he know?" Maddie perks up, the lady looks as if she could laugh,

"Yeah, I found that strange as well..." she looks at her paper again "It also states that she has no self awareness to her surrounding and last year she..." the lady actually chuckles "Ran into immobile car with her bike," I blush a little remembering that, my grandmother chuckles,

"Yeah that sounds like her. She is clumsy sometimes, we even occasionally call her a 'baby giraffe'" the lady chuckles, 

"I honestly don't see a problem with this, if I tried to get on a bike right now I might run into a few things," that makes me feel better and I smile at her.

This lady is on my side.

That makes me happy.

Once again, Ill check back in when something interesting happens.

6-25-18

-Nautica