Be careful what you wish for.
I wished to be free without getting attached to rules and people’s expectation.
Last thing I know, one thing led to another. I created my own getaways. Escape is a silent way to say I need a different life. Silent is another way to indicate that I am not interested in whatever you are saying right now. This kind of theories work for some people and what I am about to tell is another part of my complicated story. A story that has been keep for some times now that is about to break and let people see through holes inside me.
I vividly remembered the night me and my boys, Liam, Peter and Danny ran away from the grocery after stealing some chips, chocolates, bottles of carbonated drinks and a packet of cigarettes. You should see the looked on their face. They showed freedom. The guy behind the counter barely saw what we were doing and so we decided to steal more. We were true movie stars. Now do not ask how we get away. It is a teenage thing. After that, we went to our secret place somewhere near the playground and like always, we would exchanged glances and laughing out loud while praising each other for a great scene. Frankly, we do not care about the things that we stole anyways because we were born with a silver spoon in mouth but the feeling of breaking every rules is just irresistible. Being away from the boys was also something that I cannot bare. We were like a box of colour pencils. You cannot get mesmerized just by seeing a colour. Even black and white represents two.
We have this one thing which we called genius invention. We used to have a small box of scratch papers that was written things that we should do if we got bored and one day while I was doing the random picked, it stated there that “go to other states by train and be back home before dawn”. We were in school , for god sake and how are we going to bypass the guard that stood in front of the gate like the queen’s guard in front of Buckingham Palace in London. Eventually , we did anyways go to another states by train and back home before dawn but no , the school guard was the last person you want be messed with. We do take care of our reputations in school.
Unfortunately not long after that , we started to party and smoked weed. I was at my most devastating state where I could not even get up from my sit and we would went like that every weekends. Somehow I felt like I am the reborn Amy Winehouse or probably being swayed by heroin like Janis Joplin does. That is how terrible my life back then. Like I said , one thing led to another. We would skipped school just to follow the rock band toured around the country and again partying all night. Does not make sense, does it? Life is about doing unpredictable things and we were up for that challenge and the rewards? A messed up life, police and parents to deal with.
Senior year was doing bad with all the sinister things I did with my boys and do you thing we got it all good? So not. We had been labeled in school for what we did outside though it had nothing to do with school rules and with severe grades we got that year, how are we going to sit for the final exam and most important thing is how are we going to go to universities and carry on our life the way it should? This is something serious.
I called up the boys on this one particular night and we went down to the playground and I told them I could not carry on doing whatever we were doing at that time. Everything was so messed up with the school grades, family problems, societies and every little bad deeds we did ate me back somehow inside and we should stopped. It was now or never situation. For the boys, they were not up to that and they go against me. Clearly they disagreed but I need to do something for myself. Something I could be proud of. Enough is enough and I left them thinking of the consequences. I quit.
Life after that were not that easy though. Especially when the boys were not around. Fortunately for myself, I found some great new friends that were willing to guide and help me with my studies and I need to get surrounded by enthusiastic people like them for me to actually get enthusiastic. Once I am in the right path then everything will fall smoothly. Same goes to the boys I guess.
One day while I was walking down to school, Peter and Danny called me out and said that Liam was overdosed. We ran to his house and found him in his room, lying unconsciously with white bubbles coming out from his mouth and pills on his hands. We were freaked out. Danny called Liam’s parents and Peter and I , held our hands together in front of Liam’s pale dead body and that was it. The end of it all.
We’ll be alright by Travie Mccoy woke me up from my pensive. My handphone rang. It was Liam’s favourite song. I guess if I have not did everything that I did before, I would not be this strong and somehow I think sooner or later I would end up like him. This is once in a life time experienced and indeed a lesson to learn. He would be forever treasured in my heart despite the dumb decision he made but to think on the opposite side, if he did stayed cleaned, we would learned nothing and I would not be who I am today. Indirectly, he sacrifices himself to make us rethink of our demeanor but how I wished he was here with us. I picked up the handphone and walked towards the window of my penthouse. As I looked down , I saw Peter and Danny. It has been ten years now and we were all grown up but Liam , he never died. He grows up with us here, in our heart.
p/s: Flaws I know but I'm proud. Liam has nothing to do with 1 Direction.
p/s: Flaws I know but I'm proud. Liam has nothing to do with 1 Direction.
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