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Last Night :: Every Night :: Tomorrow Night
i never meant to get in the car
2001-10-25
Jess had some friends over or something. Jenny and Adam are the two I recognized, but there were two other girls whom I knew. They were going somewhere and so all piled into the car. Adam was driving and Jess was shotgun; Jenny was farthest to the left in the backseat, and then the two girls. I climbed into the backseat because I was talking to the girl on the right. Then Adam started driving. I told him to stop, that I wasn't supposed to be there, but he didn't react. I started getting upset. I didn't want to be in that car. By the time he was listening to me, we were on the freeway, and he started to pull over. "I can't walk from here!" I exclaimed. Adam shrugged, and the passengers rolled their eyes. "I told you a long time ago!" I said. "Turn around, now! I never meant to get in the car!" Jenny started laughing uproariously at me. Everything I said, telling her to turn around, that I didn't want to go, was met with more laughter. I was panicking. They were hurting me terribly, and I was scared of going. "I am *not* your friend anymore!" I screamed, almost hysterical. She paused for a minute, then rolled her eyes as if she didn't believe my threat, and laughed again. "I mean it!" I yelled, tears streaming down my face. "If you come over and ask me to go somewhere, I won't, and I'm not talking to you ever again!" She seemed to consider this, then shrugged and chuckled. I tried not to cry and stared out the window. Now Jenny was driving. I repeatedly begged to turn around. So Jenny started driving straight off the road, up a giant pile of gravel. Everyone was laughing and I was freaking out. She started to turn at the top, then started to go through a tunnel thing. "It's a waterfall," someone in the car said. It turned out to be more like a building. We went through, around people who seemed to be sight-seeing, and then got out of the car. I was still angry at everyone. They still treated me like crap. We were just taking a rest stop. There were kittens and cats everywhere -- some were getting homes. Our kittens, Annabel Lee, Squidge and Clown, and the mother cat and all of our other cats, were there as well. I changed my clothes and started to get ready to go. I had Annabel Lee in a plastic bag. I had to climb some towers to get ready to leave. As I tried to climb one, it fell over, and I dropped Annabel. I freaked out, and saw her in her plastic bag below me. Jenny saw me drop her, but she didn't even move to get her, or help me, dangling up there on the platform. Adam was watching too. I finally got down and found Squidge down below. I picked her up and took her to safety. Under the tower was a lot of clothes and junk. I searched and searched for Annabel but couldn't find her. I thought maybe someone had taken her, or she had died. No one was supposed to take her, so I started looking for her. In the other room, I found lots of kittens. I found many tabby ones, but they were all not Annabel. Some had too much white, or were too light colored, or were too round. I told mom, who was there, I couldn't find her. I went back into the first room, and looked again for Annabel. I suddenly heard a panicked mewing, and I grabbed for the plastic bag. I found her, and was afraid she had suffocated, but she had torn a hole and was breathing out of it. I took her out of the bag and gave her a big hug. Some of the people that had been in the car were there. The other cats all seemed to be safe. I found Gwen and Pickles. I started to go through my clothes, which were everywhere. I found a lot of really neat clothes, but I wanted them washed. I went into the closet, which was full of my skirts and shirts and pants. As I went through them I was pretty happy what I found. I made a pile of my clothes outside of the closet. There was wood shavings all over them. Suddenly, a blue budgie, which was mine, flew out of the closet. I looked up, and its cage was hanging in there, but the bottom had fallen off so the bird got out. The shavings had come from the cage. I picked up the bottom and started putting the cage back together, so I could put the budgie back in. The tray had slid out of the bottom, so I had to fix the pieces. The normal tray had broken in some time past, so there was a homemade sheet of plastic someone had made to fit in underneath it. I watched the budgie flying around the room, not too concerned; I would catch it when I was done, easy enough. I put the trays back in, and then heard a squawk behind me. The budgie was lying on the floor, motionless and, I thought, dead. Isis looked at me curiously... she had seen the bird and stepped on it with her paw, killing it. I screamed and started sobbing, and picked the budgie up in a towel, then ran to show my mom. Hysterical, I cradled the bird in the towel, and it moved slowly, dying.
Last Night :: Every Night :: Tomorrow Night
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