Chapter 1:
Difficulties


It was a rainy night when lightning struck many houses and trees, everyone was terrified and all the sleeping people were having nightmares of a humongous whirlwind hitting their homes and wrecking everyones land leaving both injured and dead people. This was a night where the cold blooded killers came out and murdered unarmed victims. One of them snuck into Jonathan Rogers bedroom and took out a knife. All of a sudden.

“Jonathan Rogers wake up! There’s no sleeping in class, go to the office and sleep there!” Yelled Ms.Isac in frustration.

“Huu wait wut?” Responded Jonathan, “sorry it’s just that my parents were very loud last night because they were drunk and kept making my baby sister cry so I was not able to sleep good.”

“I don’t want your excuses young man, go to the office and take your stuff with you”

“uuuugh ok.”


Everyone wanted to be Jonathan, he was very athletic, very smart, and all the girls liked him, he had light brown hair, he always had gel on his hair because his hair always looked like a wave it started at the top of his forehead where the hair went up and then did a little bend backwards where then the bend stopped and went downwards till his hair was flat all the way back. Jonathan was a very fit and muscular guy, he had a six pack and he could beat his P.E. coach in armwrestling. He did football on a team on the weekends, he did wrestling at Hidden Jem High School and rockclimbing whenever he could, but what the girls liked the most about him is that his left eye was a bright green and his right eye was a dark blue.


Jonathan was walking down the hallway that had gum on the ceiling and trash on the floor. He had seen the Toby ,the janitor, cleaning up the place and spraying perfume on the walls because they had the smell of smoke and burning dog poop. Jonathan really appreciated what Toby did and he wished he could do something to make his job easier but he couldn’t think of anything at the moment.

“Hey Toby,” Said Jonathan in a tired voice as he was yawning, “how’s it going? this place is pretty hard to clean isn't it?”

“Oh yeah I wish I could quit but you kids are amazing and this is the only job i was accepted into,” Said Toby while spraying perfume on the walls.


All of a sudden Jonathan saw the girl of his dreams walking at a distance so he sprinted towards her really fast but stopped ten feet away from her so he wouldn’t crash into her. The girls name was Sarah, she was a dirty blonde with tanned skin and bright blue eyes. She also had the whitest teeth and a smile that made anyone smile that made all the guys happy. When he caught up to her he snuck up in her and scared her.

“Ahh!” yelled Sarah, “you scared me, don’t do that.”

“Ha! sorry I won’t do that anymore”

“What are you up Jonathan?”

“I have to go to the office for sleeping in class,” responded Jonathan with a happy face while looking into Sarah’s eyes.

“Why are you smiling about that, is that a good thing?”

“No it’s just that i’m happy that I can finally leave that class.”

“Oh yeah I hate physics, it’s boring and pointless.”

“Yeah I definitely agree with you.”

“Ok well I have to be somewhere, it was nice talking with you, we should hang out sometime.”

“Yeah that would be fun, bye.” Said Jonathan while blushing.


At the end of the day jonathan was in his last period which was athletics where he did wrestling. There he had to condition like a mad man, he had to run 6 miles and every half lap he had to do twenty push-ups. After he ran and did push-ups his coach made everyone do five hundred crunches and after every set of one hundred crunches they had to do twenty five pull ups. The last thing the wrestlers had to do before wrestling for an hour is go in the weight gym and do all the weight workouts you could think of. Jonathan was the strongest one so he lifted one hundred pounds in each hand when doing the bicep curls. But jonathan also did other sports. On saturdays he spent his day playing football and practicing his catching as he was the best runner and one of the fastest. On his spare time he did rock climbing which requires a lot of body upper strenght so Jonathan is easily the strongest person in his high school at the age of fifteen.

After wrestling Jonathan rode the bus home because he lived nine miles away. When he gets home he has to take care of his little sister Jasmine who is a three year old and knows how to make her own breakfast, she has a tan that’s practically not noticeable and only has six teeth, she also has black hair and blue eyes. Jonathan and Jasmine are very independent because their parents are never home, they’re always out partying and doing drugs. Jonathan lived in a small house that had lots of holes made by rats and water dripping down from the holes. the floor was the cleanest part of the house because the kitchen had rotten food everywhere and a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. They had almost no food in the fridge because it is filled with alcohol so their meals consisted of rice and beans out of a can.

“Hey Jasmine! How’s my little princes?”

“Am goo,” said Jasmine in a weird way because she just started speaking.
“What did you do today?”

“Aah juz slet and ate cowd rice.”

“Oh i guess mom and dad weren’t home today were they? hm well they have to be here to take care of you.”


After Jonathan made dinner for Jasmine and himself he went to his room and worked on all his homework and studied for his algebra 2 test the next day. He spent most of his time studying and typing an essay about the colonial times for his history class.

Right after Jonathan finished his homework his parents got home and it was midnight. They got home drunk, his mom who has green eyes and is very white with brown hair was to drunk to walk, her husband had to carry her inside and to bed. He had tanned skin and dark brown hair with blue eyes, he was also drunk and could barely walk. Jonathan went to the front door and stood in front of his dad not letting him go any further, his dad yelled at him to move and pushed to the ground. Jonathan stood up and punched him in the face breaking his nose and knocking him to the ground. His dad, Steve, stood up and punched Jonathan in the stomach hard enough to make him spit out a little blood.

“Daddy stop howting him!!” Yelled Jasmine at the top of her lungs in the middle of crying.

“Shut up Jasmine!” Responded her dad.


Steve then lifted his hand about to smack Jasmine but Jonathan grabbed his wrist and squeezed it hard enough to make it hurt and made him stop.

“Kids go to your rooms now! Before your father gets more violent” Yelled Judith, Jonathans mom.

“C’mon Jasmine let's go”

“Ok Johnny”


Jonathan takes Jasmine with him to his room and sits her on the bed. Jonathan’s room was a decent size, not too big but not too small.He has a coupled holes in his wall that rats and water combined had made. His room smelled like rats and dirt, there was always water dripping down from the ceiling. His bed was kinda small and he only had one pillow with a hole in it. His desk had an old computer and a lot of books he had read.

“Jasmine don’t worry about them, everything is going to be alright.”

“Ok tanks, I just hope they can get better”

“No Jasmine that’s not going to happen the only way we’re going to be happy is if we run away and find somewhere else to live. If we don’t leave soon i’m afraid that one of us might get hurt.”

“But no they would be sawd if we left.”

“No they wouldn’t if anything they would be happy to have us be gone and out of their way, that way they won’t have to feed us or take care of us, not that they do, and don’t you want to be able to live somewhere better, brighter where the sun shined all the time and where we would be able to see the ocean and overlook the city? Don’t you want to be able to eat whatever you want instead of having to eat beans and rice every night? Don’t you want to be able to buy stuff and not be poor? Don’t you want to be happy?! Well that’s not going to happen unless we leave this place forever and forget about Steve and Judith.”

“Ok den lets go and be happy!” Yelled Jasmine with happiness and sadness at the same time.

“So we leave soon, i’ll get a job and make a little amount of money so i can buy us train tickets and food for the trip.”

“Where are you going to work?”

“I’ll work at seven eleven or jamba juice.”



The next day Jonathan snuck out and early so he could meet his friends somewhere. When he got to the meeting place he explained to them what was going on in his life and what his plan was, so a few of his friends gave him ten dollars to get him started, but Sarah was also there and she said she would help him in whatever way possible. After they finished talking Sarah gave Jonathan a kiss on the cheek and left because school was going to start shortly.

After Jonathan got to school he walked into his physics class and sat down next to his friend Kevin who was his best friend since third grade. Kevin had black hair, brown eyes and he was very white, he also had three ear piercings and one lip piercing, most people would call him goth because he looked like he was, but he was the nicest person at Hidden Jem High school. Jonathan and Kevin were talking about what jonathan was planning on doing but when the teacher walked by they would be pretending to help each other on the class work. Kevin decided he would help a lot and give them some food for the trip.

“Hey Johnny is there anything I can help you with to prepare for your departure, if there is just tell me okay?” Asked Kevin.

“Umm yeah I need help finding a job, I want something that’s semi easy and not to much work, but I also want something that pays well.”

“Oh i got the perfect job for you, do you like kids?”
“Yeah kinda why?”

“Because in my neighborhood you can babysit, there are a lot of children and it pays well.”

“Okay i’ll have to check that out this weekend.”

“Yeah but just letting you know that it would help if you knew how to keep little kids entertained and how to change diapers.”

“Yeah that’s easy I’ve been taking care of my younger sister by myself ever since she was born.”

“So that should be easy, i’ll give you the numbers of a few people so you can get in touch and make some money!”

“Kevin Smith no yelling in class!” Yelled Ms.Isac.


Kevin and Jonathan stop talking about that and they start taking notes to avoid being heard and to not get in trouble.

Later that day Sarah, Kevin and Jonathan met up at a starbucks to discuss what they should do. They all agreed that Jonathan and Sarah should stay at the apartment Sarah’s parents had bought her and just take Jasmine there, at least until they get a proper plan and figure everything out.

That night at 11:40 Jonathan packed up all his things and jasmines things in two separate backpacks. Then he snuck into his parents room while they were sleeping and decided to take five condoms from their drawers, he filled them with melted chocolate and put them on the floor right next to the bed for them to step on when they woke up creating a big mess and making everything sticky.

His parents woke up the next morning at 11 am and stepped on the condoms, they exploded like water balloons do when they get thrown on the ground. There was chocolate and the parents clothes and all over the floor.

“God dammit Jonathan! That kid is going to get it! Come out here Jonathan and clean all this up now!! Hello are you deff??”


Steve then gets up walks to Jonathan's room and opens the door only to see that both him and jasmine were gone and had left with all their stuff.

“Judith the kids are gone!”

“How? we locked all the doors and you have the only key.”

“I don’t know-”

“Oh i see he broke off the door knob!” Said Judith with a face that told Steve she was very mad.

“Well we need to go find those two and show them a lesson they’ll never forget!”


Steve got into his clothes, he was wearing a tank top and baggy jeans with big commando boots, he then got his Desert eagle and got in his GMC truck. Judith got in as well and they left. Judith and Steve looked all over the city and couldn’t find them so they were about to give up until they saw Jonathan walking out of a grocery store with Sarah on his right and Jasmine inside the shopping cart. They had rented a car by making a fake ID and pretending to be eighteen. As they were putting the grocery bags away in the trunk Steve pulled over next to them, he got out of the car and told Jonathan to get in his car and go back home with him and Jasmine. When Jonathan refused Steve pointed his gun at him and repeated himself.

NO! yelled Jonathan and grabbed Steve’s wrist and twisted it, he grabbed his head, lifted his arm up and behind Steve’s head making Stever go down and then Jonathan slammed him against the ground. Then Steve kicked Jonathan in the stomach Knocking the wind out of him and he fell to the ground, going unconscious.


“Huh what happened?”

“Me and you mother brought you home, where you belong.” Said Steve in frustration.

“Why?! You never take care of us and you don’t need us so why bring us home so we can be depressed and so we can just be here taking care of ourselves!?”

“Well trust me I if i could i would let you go, but I can’t because when you turn eighteen you can work in the factory with me, I need someone to do the work for me so I get the money without actually having to lift a finger”

“So you pretty much just want me to be here so I can do all the dirty work for you and sell drugs for you?? Do you know how dangerous that is? I could get shot or stabbed!”

“Well it ends up being worth it in the end, you, I mean me gets money and then also a little sniff for a tip! Don’t you think it makes everything worth it?”

“No! Steve please stop doing that.”

“Ok I will, i promise. NOOT! you think i’m going to listen to a little boy like you?! Ha well no way!”


Jonathan stood up and looked his dad in the eyes and head butted him in the nose breaking it again, so Steve got out his gun and shot Jonathan in the foot. Then they got into a fist fight, Jonathan punched Steve in the stomach as hard as he could making Steve bend over in pain and then Jonathan kneed him in the face and then elbowed the back of his neck making him fall to the ground. After a few seconds of lying in pain Steve got up, punched Jonathan in the face, left, right,left, right, was the order he did it in. After ten minutes of fighting they were both bleeding but then Jonathan ended it by shooting him in the head.

“Oh no! What have I done?”