"Keep walking" Julia said to Lia when she stopped in her tracks, her eyes filled with her anger. "I'm sorry Julia" Lia replied in a low voice, her eyes brimming with tears. "it doesn't matter anymore, it's either we wait to get taken or get out of here alive and there is no way I'm dying here after everything " Julia said firmly And walked past lia because lia was slowing her down. She had spent months hiding away from her father's debtors who her father had sold her to, just to clear his debts. She had escaped just before they could take her to another city with lia who was in the same predicament as her. But lia who was stupid had answered a phone call when she was taking a shower and now they might have traced where they were.
"I warned you numerous time lia! never answer an unknown call! How could you do this after everything we have being through!" Julia spat out angrily as they got to the bus station... Lia head was hung low and she didn't know what else to say. She knew she had done bad, but she didn't mean to. She had been expecting a phone call from Brad, her coworker who she had a crush on and eagerly answered the phone without checking the caller ID. she almost passed out when she heard Charlie's voice. The man they had been sold to...
"Hurry up or we are going to miss the bus" Lia Turned to look at her friend, who she was mad at but she cared for. She wasn't sure she would have made it through The last two months of lia wasn't by her side. life had been to cruel to her. They quickly purchased their tickets and twenty minutes they were on a bus that was going out of the city. they both had no idea what to expect or how they would survive in the new city they were heading to, but all they knew was that they needed to get away from Charlie.
"But Julia what about work, we worked so hard to get it, how can we leave like this. How will we fend... Are we going to keep running away for the rest of our lives?" The tears brimming in lia's eyes had finally escaped. Her heart felt heavy, she couldn't understand how Julia could look so calm when they were in such a predicament...
"We will find a way, I always find a way" Julia replied even though this time she wasn't sure of herself... she was afraid of what would happen to them but she couldn't let fear lead her. If both of them were afraid then who would be strong...
The both of them got to the bus stop just in time for the bus... Julia was the one who handed the tickets and then lead lia to their seats... she could see tears in lia's eyes and felt tears well up in her own eyes too but she blinked back the tears... Weakness wasn't an option...
She turned towards the window of the bus and smiled slightly... Her mind wad reeling... what were they going to do, where would they go? Would they keep running for the rest of their lives?. She glanced at her friend and saw that lia had fallen asleep, tears still I her eyes... "I won't be here forever lia, you have to learn to be strong on your own" Julia muttered and turned her head back towards the window... she was tired and had worked a night shift at the factory where she and lia worked... she hadn't even gotten a wink of sleep and now the tiredness was weighing down on her shoulders...
She sighed deeply and removed the phone from her bag... Julia opened the bus window and threw the phone out... "A fresh start" She muttered under Her breath... She just hoped wherever her father was he felt guilty for what he had done to her... Did he even try to get her back after selling her off to Charles likes that!? He didn't even bat an eye when she was being dragged away... she doubted if he felt any guilt...
He was probably somewhere drinking himself to stupor... Julia reached into her small bag and brought out an old picture from when she was a little girl... the picture was almost destroyed because of her father... He had scratched out her mother's face from every picture that contained her... He never spoke of her and despised her. Julia didn't even know the reason why he did... She stared at the picture in her hand... She woman carried her and she had a bright smile on her face, her father was smiling too but the face of the woman was scratched out, so Julia had no idea how she loomed like... She was very young and didn't even remember what her mother looked like... They looked like an happy family... "Are you dead or alive... if you are alive why would you live me with him" Julia muttered, her voice filled with anger and sadness as drops of tears escaped Her eyes and dropped on the picture... Her heart was heavy, filled with so much resentment and pain...
She cried silently as the bus drive further and further to their knew destination... A place she wasn't sure of...
Julia's mind was filled with so many questions as her eye lids became heavy with tiredness.... she slowly drifted off to sleep... the land of dream welcoming her...
Her heart filled with worry of what was to come in both their future...