Warning -- Cussing, Physical Abuse, and Graphic scenes.


Forever Sacred
             Chapter One :  The Great Escape...


' It won't change anything.' She kept telling herself. ' They'll just come back for me... again.' She thought and shuddered from the memory she remembered, about what had happened last time she had run away from her parents... from her home. ' But I chose not to stay here... and be tortured for five more miserable years.' She thought and clenched her fist.
She raised herself up off her bed, and dug for a moment under it. She grasped a small, pale-blue bag, and yanked it to her body from under the bed. She hesitated, but stood and placed the bag on her bed. She slowly walked over to her small closet, and started grabbing what little bit of clothes she had, and piled them up in her arms. She walked back over to her bed and started stuffing the clothes into her bag.
' Shit.' She thought, as she heard foot steps slowly, but hastily approaching her door.
She naturally threw her bag across the room, and prayed to lord that her parents whouldn't see it. Her bedroom door slammed open, and she let out a small yelp as she stumbled backward.
' Damnit!' She thought frieghtened.
Her father stumbled toward her shakily, clearly drunk.
' No, not again!' She thought, still in horror.
Her father sipped the last of his whiskey bottle, and threw it on the floor, not to far from her. He walked up to her and grabbed her shoulders, making her fall on her back onto the hard wooden floor, screaming and kicking. But she knew, sadly, both would just cause more pain.
" Shut up!" Her father yelled harshily, as he smacked her across the face painfully.
" Stop!" She screamed helpless, tears streaming down her pale face.
Her father kept her held down with one hand, and started unbottening her lose, raggid shirt with the other.
" Stop it!" She screamed louder.
He moved his left hand from holding her down, to her mouth to muffle her screaming. She continued to scream, hoping someone may hear her. But sadly, she knew no one would be able too. With tears still streaming down her face, she bit down on his hand with her teeth. He instanly got off her.
" Damnit!" He yelled, holding his hand tightly against his chest, afew drops of blood dripping lightly off his hand.
Surprised she had managed to bite him so hard, she stumbled as she got to her feet, staring bewildered at his hand clutched against his chest.
" Get back over here, River!" He yelled, staggering to get himself up aswell.
She stumbled backward, and glanced at the floor, seeing the sharp glass shards from his whisky bottle. She glanced up at her father, then quickly back to the shards, and almost without thinking, picked one up and stabbed it into her father's stomache, as he tried to grab her shoulders again. He groaned, and gasped slightly as he fell to the ground below River. She stumbled back, scared and shocked, not knowing what she was suppose to do now.
She shuddered again, thinking about what her mother would do if she were too see. She grabbed her bag and slipped her shoes on. She threw some more importent belogings she would need, and ran out her door, leaving her father laying motionless on the floor of her room.
She ran down the stairs, nearly falling when she heard her mother calling her father. Knowing her father surely wouldn't answer, and her mother was bound to search her room, the evidence would automadicly point to her, and she didn't even want to think of the consiquences.
She ran, with her things in hand, toward the small closet by the kitchen, that food was stored in. She shut the door lightly, in fear that her mother might hear her. As the foot steps got closer to her, she clutched her bag in suspence, ready to jolt from the closet if the door were to open. But the foot steps vanished and went up the stairs.
River sighed in relief, but took it back when she heard her mother's aggonizing scream, peirce threw the silent, still air. She gasped, but quickly covered her mouth with her hand, and bit down on her finger to keep from crying tears of fear.
" Sid!" River heard her mother scream her father's name.
She gasped again, and heard her mother's foot steps racing rapidly down the stairs. She grasped her bag tighter, scared to death.
" River!" Her mother screamed her name. "You bitch! I'll kill you! I'll kill you when I find you!" Her mother yelled loudly before storming to search the house.
' I- I've got to get out of here! If she finds me...' She thought, sweat dripping off her brow.
She creeked the door open, being cautious. She saw no glimpse of her mother around, and the woman's foot steps didn't sound so close, either. River took a deep breath, and held it as she bolted for the front door, afraid that if she even took a breath, it would give her away and all hell would break lose. She, as quietly as she could, unlocked the main lock and the one above. She got on her tip-toes to unlock the dead-bolt.
Her parent's had removed it, and got it higher so River couldn't reach it. But she had gotten taller since then, and yanked off the bolt.
It clanged lightly against the door frame. She stood completely still, trying to hear her mother's foot steps storming threw the house. She didn't. It was completely silent. Still holding her breath, she squeezed her eyes shut, and turned slowly. Hesitently, she opened her eyes. A shiver went down her back as a jolt of fear over whelmed her.  Her mother stood in the door frame of the hallway that was connected to the living room. River let out a blood-throttling scream.
Her mother ran towards her, as River put her arms' across her body in defence. Her mother slammed her head multiple times against the door. Her mother slapped her across the face.
" Stop!" River yelled.
Her mother clawed at her face, and knocked her to the floor, kicking her continously. Tears again started streaming down River's face. Her mother took out a piece of glass she must have picked up from River's room, and held it high above River.
" No!" River cried, putting her hands and arms again around her body.
Her mother quickly drew the shard down, attempting to strike River painfully. River reflexivly caught her mother's wrist.
" Bitch." Her mother murmured.
Her mother kicked her in the side. River groaned as she held her side. Her mother again, held the shard above River. With a sudden, last jolt of adrenaline, River kicked her mother hard in the stomache. Her mother fell to the floor, dropping the glass blade and holding her stomache.
River got up quickly, and grabbed her bag, took one last glance around the house, and stormed out the door, slamming it closed behind her.
Even though she had multiple bruises and minor injuries, she pushed herself to keep going, to atleast get out of her neighborhood before she stopped. When she glanced at the clock on the wall before she left her house -for good-, it read 9:50 pm, so even by then it was dark outside, which was a good thing. So by now it was atleast 10:10 pm.
River's legs throbbed since she had been running for so long non-stop.  She had past the neighborhood entrance afew yards back, but was going to try to push herself as far as her legs would take her. And just then she tripped and fell into a small ditch, that was oddly comfortable. She cried silent tears for afew moments, then put her small bag under her head, curled up, and went into a restless sleep...