Message In a Bottle

It felt a little painful, spending a third of what they earned that day just to rent a room for the night. 

In between the four cramped walls plastered with Tough Boys Comics wallpaper, Katie had already fallen asleep on the single provided bed. Frankie on the other hand wasn’t even a little bit able to rest this early, even after a nice, greasy meal the two shared together and the few rides they went on to take their minds off the difficult state they found themselves in. So the lone waking sister sat with her knees to her chest, hiding in the small space betwixt the bed and the wall with her eyes stuck to the dim screen of her phone in the dark room.

She had purchased a cheap charger, having it plugged in as she typed quite a long message to mom. Mostly to keep herself occupied long enough to shake off her thoughts and catch some z’s, but it felt good to pass all these loose feelings to someone else, or at least to think about it.

As lucky as she’d been… getting help from all these different people, owners of entire parks… the president himself, somehow- she couldn’t help but wonder why everything always still had to be so damn difficult in the end.

Hi mom. I guess it hasnt even been a week since you left, but my memories of being at the house with everyone doing nothing all day feel pretty distant now

She hadn’t had time to imagine going back home in what felt like forever. It was all she could do just to keep track of the things happening in front of her. In this moment, she forced herself slow down. To look back on things- to look back on today, at the very least.

Me and Katie got a job. It sucked and it didn’t last long, but Katie and I got some cash out of it before things went to crap. I hope your doing okay with your robots or whatever, and I hope dads work isnt too hard. There’s a lot I wanna catch both of you up on, bit I dunno how to talk about it over the phone. Maybe when you all come back and we see each other again we can all just sit in the living room and explain for awhile.

Right now were at Venge City, I think this is the first one they made. It’s in Kentucky. I still dont like any of the rides. Katie’s happy though. We’re gonna save up money here so that she can go more places and I can see the ocean. That’s my dream now I guess. I won’t lie, I kinda wanna go home right now. Itd be nice to read through percy phytoplankton again. But its like more has happened these last few days than anything before. And some of that stuff was terrible. I wish it never happened. Yet I dunno, im still going. There’s something dragging me forward. Maybe katies rubbing off on me.

I know this isn't like me, but I love you guys. Just try and get back before new years, I dont wanna kick off 2013 with out you. See ya soon

She was a little embarrassed to send the message, but it gave her a warm feeling when she did. Maybe tomorrow, something good would happen. She hoped it would.