Forgotten Royalty (Escaping The Throne) Read Free

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aunt? I’ll see you tomorrow.” Shaun always knows just what to say. I close my
locker and head for the door. No one else will stop me on the way out. Todd
drives Torrie home every day and Neiva stays after for the Algebra Club, she’s
the president. Shaun walks home every night, he only lives a block from the
school.
    As I head out the door, the sun glares in my eyes. “Oof,” I almost fall
down the steps but someone catches me. “Wow, thanks. If you hadn’t been
there…Hey do I know you?” He looks so familiar, but I don’t know where I
would’ve seen him.
    “No, I don’t think so. I think I would remember someone like you. Are
you okay?”
    What did he mean someone like me? “Yeah, my name’s Sara.”
    He smiles, “Well Sara, try to be more careful.” He walks away
    “Hey wait, what’s your name?” I try to run to catch up to him but he
gets in a car and drives away. That was just unreal. I have never had a guy be
so rude to me when I introduced myself.
    BEEP! BEEP! “Sorry.”I just realized that I had stepped into the street
trying to catch him. I run back to Thai’s cab and get in. “Did you see that
guy?”
    Thai looks at me confused, “The only thing I saw was you trying to get
hit by a car. I couldn’t see much else up there. Why what happened?”
    Wow, am I going crazy today? I seem to be assuming that everything that
happens is revolving around me. None of this could be connected. I tell Thai
everything that has happened today and he nods and listens intently.
    “Sounds like you had an exciting day. You didn’t get hurt when the crow
swooped at you or when you fell? Sounds like you have just been very lucky
today.”
    “Yeah, I guess you’re right. I don’t know why I let them upset me so
much. I guess not getting much sleep will do that to you.”
    Thai tries not to look to overprotective as he says, “Maybe you should
take a nap when I drop you off. You could go on my route with me if you wanted
to sleep in the car.”
    “Thanks but Aunt Lynn is already going to ground me if I don’t get
home. She didn’t like my outfit this morning.”
    “What’s wrong with your outfit? It’s not like it’s to revealing.” He
asks.
    “She thinks that I should wear more colorful clothes not all black. She
is such a pain to be with. Every time I turn around she is psychoanalyzing
something about me, my dress, my makeup… anything she can think of.”
    “You know she just wants to keep you safe though. She loves you.”
    There it was the old adults all want to keep you safe speech. Why do
they all have to defend each other? “You can just drop me at the corner. I’ll
walk down the street.” That was my way of telling Thai I was done talking about
it. He dropped me at the corner and told me he would see me tomorrow.
    I stood and watched as he drove away and then turned the opposite
direction and walked toward the library. I wasn’t ready to go home just yet and
Aunt Lynn wouldn’t be home for another two hours anyway. She always worked late
on Mondays.
    Aunt Lynn is a therapist. She tells people how they should think all
day long and comes home to tell me the same thing. She gets mad when I tell her
I can run my own life. Don’t get me wrong, I love Aunt Lynn and she’s been
there for me since the accident. She just doesn’t seem to get me. I can’t seem
to talk to her about the important stuff. I’ve tried telling her about my
dreams, but it immediately turned into a therapy session. I just wanted her to
listen.
    As I walk toward the library, I catch something out of the corner of my
eye. Was that the SUV from this morning? No, it couldn’t be. Even if it were,
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. I keep walking and try to ignore it. It pulls
into the library parking lot. Okay, that’s not strange. People go to the
library every day. I start to cross the street and am almost hit by a red car.
Wait, that’s the car that boy got into earlier. And he’s driving.
    “Watch