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 Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:16 pm
Annah fell to the hard ground as Brandon left her sitting there.
She felt her heart sink into her stomach as she watched the top of the building of the institution.
Ah.
She picked up a rock and etched into the sidewalk. She doodled small shapes, trying to distract herself.
"Miss?" Her heart raced when she looked up to see a ratty old man standing infront of her.
"Uhm. Yes?"
"Are you alright?"
The greyed guy was hunched over and had a raddy old cane in his hand and a cart in his other, filled with empty cans of soda.
"I'm fine." She hugged her knees.
"Are you sure dear?" "Yeah," She wasn't sure what else to say.
Obviously this man was homeless. Sweet too. Because just as she looked down a few coins dropped next to her. "Its not much.. but I don't have much." Then the old man was shuffling away.
Annah stared blankly at the coins before she slowly scooped them into her hand.
Sirens.
Nearby.
Aspen.
And a red car. With Brandon yelling from the drivers side.
She didn't understand, but she jumped up and ran to get in the open door.
And they sped away.
Her heart was racing.
"What.. What happend? Brandon, what did you do?" His cuts were open on his knuckles.
He punched someone.. something..
A bag laid on the floor by her feet and she looked at the nice car. "Who's is this?"
Of course, she assumed he stole it.
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:33 pm
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Brandon was getting some sort of adrenaline rush or something from all of this, because frankly, he felt ******** right now.
He sped down one road and made his way towards the highway.
"My mother handed me the damn keys!" he said, not really hearing the worry in Annah's voice. He was still in shock from his b***h of a mother's gesture. Not so much a b***h anymore.. "Just handed them to me..!" he repeated. Brandon bit his lip, holding back a huge smile as they got onto the highway. They were outta this town.
"You said four hours drive to yours right?" he said, smirking and glancing to the passenger's seat.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:26 pm
Annah looked at him, utterly confused. "I.. your mom was there?" Had her aunt been there?
Did it matter? No. Of course not.
If his mom cared enough to give him the keys to her car, then what was his story?
Bricks of doubt smacked her in the face. She felt something for him still, sure. But what? And how if she didn't even know him?
"What? Oh yeah. Four hours. Just down the highway. I'll tell you when to turn off onto the exit." She didn't remember the number of it, just where it was generally.
Annah looked over at him, he looked so damned happy. And she was envious of that, but she felt herself smiling just merely at the smile on his face.
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:56 pm
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Brandon told himself to calm down and focus on driving.
He breathed out and watched the road. He glanced at Annah and nodded. "Yeah. It was.. surreal."
All of what was going on right now was a bit surreal to be honest. Completely and totally.
Brandon smirked a little and looked back to the road and sighed quietly. He hadn't driven a car in ******** years. He was surprised at how normal it felt. Shame they left all that food in the alley. He was sort of peckish now. He looked back at Annah. "You okay?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:07 pm
Annah nodded. Surreal was one way to describe it. ******** lady luck was sitting on his shoulders. Fer sure.
She rested her arm on the ledge of the door and gazed out the window. They were on the highway, and cars were buzzing by. Her eyes followed them as long as they were infront of her, but when they passed.. they were gone.
But one car, was at their pace. It was a blue, rundown something or another. There was a baby screaming in the backseat. And she knew the kid was at the top of their lungs, because the dad was nearly crying in the front seat, and the baby's face was strained.
When she was little she'd watch cars, and when she grew up, she used to watch them from the side of the street while sitting on the curb.
And the same questions always ran through her mind--
What is their story? Why are they doing that? Where are they going? Do they even know? Are they lost, wandering about and trying to find their place?
But Brandons voice broke her focus and she turned to face him.
"Hm? Oh, yeah. I'm good." Annah sighed softly before propping her feet up on the dashboard.
"Just thinking is all."
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Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:51 pm
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Brandon nodded his head slightly when she said she was thinking. "Okay."
He looked down at the clock on the car radio. Shame they didn't know exactly how far away. Then he could calculate exactly how long it would take them, and how many stops he would be willing to take. Hm. No matter.
His eyes shot back to the road. The traffic was light, thankfully, and weather nice too. He grabbed hold of the steering wheel a little tighter for a second then relaxed again.
"So, uh- d'you wanna stop at some point to call whoever or..?" he asked.
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:09 am
Annah bit her bottom lip and nodded. "Thank you.." She mumbled softly.
That was another thing she hated. Thanking people. It meant that she had needed help or assistance of some sort.
And that was another one of her pet peeves.
She was so used to being independant at this point, that kinda stuff tore her up.
She looked over at Brandon, her eyes traveling up his arms and over his body, then back to his face.
Why couldn't they have just frozen time together last night?
Everything would be so much less complicated.
"What? Oh.. Uhh.. No.. They don't usually stick to one spot. And keeping a phone would be too much hassle."
When you spent more tmie on the streets than in your apartment/home, you really didn't keep much on you.
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:56 pm
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Brandon nodded a quiet 'you're welcome' as she thanked him.
He glanced at the roadsigns up above them and to the sides of the road. At least now he had a rough idea to where they were. Sort of. And driving them to wherever.. felt nice. Normal- in a really weird way. Normal people drove and stuff. On highways, quite like this. Yeah.. well, to him it was a nice feeling.
Brandon listened, but kept his eyes on the road as she replied. Fair enough. He wasn't too sure what they'd do when they got there. She'd have the people she knew, and he'd be, that guy with her, before they eventually went off their separate ways..?
The idea of meeting anyone of her friends or family or whatever- well, frankly terrified him a little bit. They were probably as outgoing as she was. As talkative and such. And he'd come across all quiet. Socially inept. Very Brandon like.
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:00 pm
Annah looked him over. "Besides, I wouldn't be spending too much time around them anyway. They're the ones that got me into that mess in the first place."
She shrugged.
"And I don't really feel like being found and shipped off again." A small sigh before continuing.
"I figure we spend as little time as possible around them and then, from there, find our own way."
But her voice caught.
"Or.. err.. I mean. We don't necessarily have to stay ... together." She glanced out the window.
Well now.
Annah really hadn't thought too much farther into the future at this point. Frankly, she didn't want to be alone. But if Brandon wanted to go off his own way, well. He had the right.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:44 pm
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"Oh, okay." Brandon was a little relieved at that. He think he'd pretty much reached his limit of meeting new people and being all.. 'outgoing' like.
He looked at her as her voice caught and she glanced out the window. He went to say something, but then lost his words. He sighed quietly and leant one arm against the rolled down window next to him. Rearranging his grip on the wheel with his other hand he glanced at the clock again.
"You could sleep for a bit, if you want. Still got a way to go.."
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:28 pm
Annah swallowed.
He avoided her comment. So did that mean that they were going to split?
But.. After.. Okay.
"Oh. Sleep? I'm not really tired.." She looked over at him. "Brandon, I don--" She shook her head.
"Nevermind." Annah bit her bottom lip and went to turn on the radio.
"Are you uhm, hungry yet? You didn't eat much earlier."
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:50 pm
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He frowned a little and looked back to the road. Her question immediately going in one ear and out the other. "I-.. I don't want to leave you," he started, creasing his eyebrows up as he thought and carried on. "When we get to your city I mean. I, uh, want to stay together." he said, speaking as usual in a somewhat emotionless voice, when really, there was a lot of feeling in that sentence. It was just never shown well through Brandon. It was probably why he didn't have girlfriends, or friends- people just didn't get him a lot of the time.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:22 pm
Annah raised an eyebrow.
"Oh," She commented softly, a smile creeping onto her lips.
Sure, he may not have had a lot of feeling in his voice ut she still liked the words.
"I don't wanna leave you either." She leaned towards him, her left hand sliding over his knee.
She wanted to feel again. Feel something anything.
That was why she had popped pills and had relentless sex all the time before Aspen. For a moment, short-lived or not. She got to fee something.
Her fingers squeezed his leg gently before releasing. "What are we gonna do after mytown though? Where next?"
Yeah, shouldn't they at least try to plan that?
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:41 pm
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Brandon cleared his throat, feeling his cheeks get warmer.
"Yeah." he cleared his throat again. He'd get used to this expressing stuff eventually. He had a feeling she understood that. So.. a good match really.
He relaxed a little when she said she didn't want to leave him either. Brandon's eyes glanced down to his knee as she slid her hand over it. His skin tingled a little and he looked back on the road.
Keep concentrating on the driving, man..
She gave a gently squeeze before letting go, and then asked him a pretty big question.
He had no idea. Was the simple answer.
He didn't have a home to go back to, and it sounded like she didn't either. "I don't know." Brandon said simply, almost monotonal. He thought for a bit. "Maybe we should uh, throw a dart at a map. Then go wherever." he offered. Random, but he knew what he meant. They were free to go anywhere, if they thought about it. Start fresh.
Turn a new leaf and all of that- ..together.
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:46 pm
Annah smiled at him before resting back in the seat and propping her feet up on the dashboard.
"Well-" She started. But she laughed at his suggestion.
"I like that idea a whole hell of a lot more than mine." She shrugged, still smiling.
"Lets stop somewhere and get some cash. Then we can get ourselves a map and a dart and figure it out from there." She yawned, looking over at him.
"What way, we can start off new." Her eyes ran over his face before sinking below his neck.
She giggled, pretty much giddy at this point.
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