Update

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This is just a little update about what I will be posting and about the new Blogger.

I plan to continue my story, Radio, and if you have any requests, I will be happy to oblige. I can write almost anything so just e-mail me at agracefulgurl@gmail.com and I will take your request into consideration.

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By: A. Grace C.

Feferi Peixes walked down the busy New Jersey sidewalk. People rushed past her in hurry and some even pushed her down; making her fall and drop her groceries. The bag she was carrying fell to the ground and everything came out. A can of pineapple rolled away from her and into a dark ally. She scrambled up on her feet to get the run-away can. Once the can was retrieved, she put it back in the bag and left to go home.

Once the sun had set, everything got much calmer. The streets were much more open than before and the people had more room to walk now that there were less people. Now she decided to stroll since there was no quick walking needed. Even though she looked and felt relaxed on the outside, she was nervous and anxious on the inside. She felt as if someone was following her, but she was too scared to turn around to check.

A couple minutes pasted and she couldn’t shake the feeling. Gathering up what courage she had, she turned her head ever the slightest. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a group of people dressed in all black. They were laughing when they saw that she caught a visual of them. One smiled and his teeth flashed and gleamed. Feferi jerked her head back to its place in front. Her gut told her to run for it, but her mind told her to just ignore it because they will just go away once they knew she didn’t care. Or they thought that she didn’t care.

Looking again, to see if they were still there, she was filled with disappointment and angst. They were still there following her. The worst part is that they noticed she was looking back. They laughed again, and started talking with each other. Her heart was racing now, she didn’t know anyone here and these people were scaring her to death. All types of thoughts entered her mind all at once. All were questions in ‘what if’ form. ‘What if they are planning to do something unmentionable to me?’ ‘What if they are drunks and they smoke pot and they are going to force you to smoke and drink under age?’ ‘What if they are going to try to make you jump in a nearby stream and drown yourself?’ it all drove her insane abut she remained calm on the outside. She heard quick footsteps come towards her and only moments later she stopped because one of the guys following her was blocking her way.

He flashed a smile and said, “Hey cutie.” His smile was dark and menacing; it made her want to cry because it was so unwelcoming.

“Excuse me.” Feferi said as she tried to step out of his way. He stopped her with a firm grip on her arm.

“Oh no. Hold on one second; where do you think you are going?” By that time, the others had surrounded her in a circle; with no chance of getting out. Yet she tried anyway, she pushed one guy and shoved another trying to get out. Every time she did, the guy she pushed would push her into another guy. They passed her around like a hacky sack. She got tired of being pushed around and it happened a lot in the past that she thought this would be a new start.

She guessed that the thugs were getting board because the next guy to get her, held her firmly by the shoulders and with a great amount of force, pushed her to the cold, wet, ground. A rush of pain bolted on her hand and she picked it up to see that her hand was cut right open from her pointer finger to her wrist. She thought that a rock had scraped her until she saw a knife in one of their hands that dripped with red blood.

“Don’t you want to hang with us? C’mon, it would be fun!” one said, his speech slightly slurred and she felt like she could smell the alcohol from where she lay on the ground. ‘I need to be tougher. Being weak is the reason….’ Her mind went somewhere else but quickly recovered to reality shaking off the utterly disturbing thought.

“No. Leave me alone.” Feferi said. Her voice was a bit shaken so it showed them what they most likely wanted, fear. It was true too. She was fearful of what was happening right now. They kept at it; they picked on her and tried to get some alcohol in her ad well as some weed. She discarded it all and got hurt for it. They kicked and punched her sometimes she even punched back.

By the end of the night, she finally got around the potential delinquents and went home as quickly as she could. She put her well needed groceries down and got an ice pack for her head though she probably needed more than that, but she couldn’t afford it. Her mother paid for the house and Feferi pays for the rent. After everything was put in its rightful place, she took a quick shower and got into her white nightgown.  It was a spaghetti sleeve and had black lace riming the edges. She let her long black-brown hair flow down to her knees and had her glasses propped on top of her head since she didn’t need them when she was in the apartment.

She took everything very coolly so what happened earlier that night hardly had effect on her; though she was still very nervous about the whole thing. Deciding that being alone wasn’t the best idea ever, she turned on the television and started to watch family feud. One thing that pained her though, was the actual feud that is going on in her family now. Feferi and her mother got into a huge fight and that is why she is here in New Jersey, she used to live in warm, sunny, Florida; yet seeing as she couldn’t stand to live with her over-ruling mother any longer, she moved. She thought that this would be a great place to restart her life and erase all that has happened in the past. Aside from of course her childhood friend, Eridan Ampora. There was no possible way she could forget him.

An hour of two later, her stomach twisted and cramped with hunger. Without even thinking of anything else, Feferi rushed to her pantry and refrigerator to grab some cereal and milk. She removed the seal that kept the cereal fresh and poured it into a bowl. While she ate, her mind raced through past memories, the good and bad ones. The fight she had with her mother wasn’t long ago; it has on estimate been three weeks. So, she remembered the fight clearly; though she really didn’t want to.

Her mother came in late that night, drowsy from the rough day at work. Feferi was sitting on the couch staring at a wall, completely un-aware that her mother had just got home.

“Why are you staring at nothing my little demon from hell?” Her mother asked baiting her for a fight, “You can’t become heiress to my company if you keep staring off into space. You know you really are stupid.”

“What if I don’t want to become your heiress?” Feferi whispered in her comfort that her mother could not have heard.

“What was that? I couldn’t hear you dear, what did you say? Or were you just mumbling something about you missing that Eridan boy again?” Her mother grinned evilly wanting a fight; and sure enough, Feferi would give it to her, just not yet.

“I said; What if I don’t want to become your heiress?” Feferi looked at her with bored eyes, not showing her true emotion towards the matter.

“Well then that is too bad because you have no choice. Whether you like it or not, you have to walk in my footsteps.” Of course Feferi knew this, she had been told multiple times before. Yet now was the time where she would take a stand.

“I do have a choice mother. One that I will make right now; I refuse under any circumstances that I will follow your footsteps.”

“You don’t understand. You will be like me, exactly me.” She was getting angry with her daughter at this moment. Though she was trying her best not to yell; she didn’t want to disturb the neighbors again. Last time the distorted ‘family’ had a fight, they got a copious amount of complaints. The manager gave them a stern warning to not let this happen again.

Feferi’s mother baited her like a fish to a worm. And while Feferi tried her best not to take it, she couldn’t stand it anymore and reached out to grab it.

“No! I refuse to become anything like you!” Feferi shouted, “You are mean and nasty with a bad temper. You make me feel so small and helpless so that you can feel more powerful!”

By this point, Feferi had saltwater dripping from her swollen eyes. She didn’t want to have her mother’s life; she wanted her own. “And that is the way it should be.” she thought.

“I-I can’t take this anymore! I’m leaving this dreadful apartment!”

With anger and frustration in her heart, in twenty-four hours, she was out of her mother’s apartment. The next two days were difficult; she flew from Florida to New Jersey and found an apartment big enough for one.

A knocking brought her back to reality. Feferi was glad that she was able to get out of her memories. Though, she didn’t know why someone would come to her apartment at ten o’clock at night though. With a light step, she glided over her floor to the mahogany door. She looked through the small peek-hole and quietly asked,   

“Who is it?” Through the door she saw a girl with long black hair that went down to her lower back and Feferi could see that she was fond of the color red; judging by her deep red lipstick and her bright red mascara. She looked as though she hadn’t seen the sun in years because of her marble white, pale as snow skin.

“I am a neighbor from across the hall. I came to greet you.” The girl outside said; her beautiful voice hummed through Feferi’s ears. It was soft and gentle that would make for a good singer. Feferi unlocked the warn out brass hinge that kept the door closed. Turning the knob, Feferi put on a big smile. Of course the girl standing in front of Feferi was a bit taller than her; she hadn’t met anyone who was shorter than she was aside from small children.

“Hello. My name is Aradia Megido. I live in apartment A043. It is very nice to meet you.” Aradia held out her hand to greet the new member to the residence, and Feferi took her hand lightly and smiled wide. 

“I am Feferi Peixes. It is very nice to meet you Aradia!” Smiling wider, she let go of Aradia’s hand.

“Would you like to come in Aradia?” Feferi asked her neighbor; still smiling welcomes her into her new ‘home’. Aradia said a quick thank you and sat down on the pink and white polka dotted couch. Feferi rushed around her kitchen and grabbed a coffee mug and put some instant coffee in it along with some water. She put the pink mug in the microwave and set it for two minutes. Feferi then took a seat next to Aradia on the couch.

“So where do you work?”Aradia asked.

“Well I don’t reely have a job you sea. I’m still looking and I don’t have the BEST resume in the world...” Feferi trailed off. As a matter of fact, she had never had a job before. It was always working to become the new CEO of Betty Crocker for her mother, and Feferi was never allowed a job somewhere else.

“That is perfect actually!” Aradia said, “I have been looking for a co-worker to work beside me. It is a simple job that doesn’t require much. As long as you finished High school—you did finish High school right?”

“Of course I did!” Feferi said very excited.

“That is good, so would you like to work with me? I know we just met and all, but you seem like a good person to work with. I am also in desperate need for some help.”

“Okay I will work with you. I accept!” Feferi was filled with joy and she couldn’t wait to go to her new job.

Ten minutes later, Aradia left to go back to her apartment. She gave Feferi the address to her new job as she did.

“Stop by any time okay?” she said as she left.

“Same here!” Feferi replied.

When the door was closed and the room was quiet, it had gotten to be 10:54 at night. The hot summer night was finally starting to cool and the crickets chirped their nightly song. Feferi would often listen to them every night, she sometimes as a child, she would close her eyes and imagine a jazz band playing at her neighborhood night time Coffee Shoppe. And the crickets’ played while she was blanketed over darkness, with closed eyes; she found herself calmed and collected in a sense that she might drift into a deep sleep on her couch as she listened to the song of the night.

As she did though something cold slid down her arm to her wrist. She opened her eye lids to see what it was. An array of purple and pink fresh-water pearls on a silver chain. She admired the bracelet that she never took off, for minutes she stared at the accessory. Though, she would never call it that; this bracelet was a part of her, she never took it off, and it never parted with her. Not only that, but it held memories of someone she hasn’t seen in six long dreadful years, Eridan Ampora. Feferi used to play with him at the beach all the time when they were little. But one year, he didn’t come and she hasn’t seen him since. The subject made her depressed to think about.

Even so, she could never take it off. She missed Eridan and nothing could change that fact. No matter, she couldn’t clog up her mind with him right now. She had to get ready for a new day at her new work. ‘Maybe moving here was a better idea than I thought.’ she thought to herself as she drifted into a deep sleep.