Life

She sat alone at the desk. All curled up in her comfy chair. Staring at the laptop. Just another normal day of Scarlet Parker. How exciting. The only thing different about this day from other days is the cute little shirt she was wearing. New, cheap and comfy. Just like her chair. Except the chair wasn’t cheap. Or new. It was one of the last things they managed to save from the fire 6 years ago. Don’t ask why a chair. It was just saved. Unlike her mother who was trapped on the second floor with no means to escape. Or her 5 year old brother, Charlie hand and capped since birth. Handicapped. Accident.  The number of times she wished the chair was replaced with her mother. Not really Charlie. That would just be the pore of even more trouble. Core, sorry. It is already disastrous with just the both of them. The other person is her elder brother, Bob, not her father, if you’re wondering. Elder or older? So confusing…. Abandoned them 5 days after Charlie’s birth. OH WELL. THAT IS LIFEEEEEE.

            She’s 16 now. Bob is 25. Trying to make a living by working 20 hours a day. Just enough money to put food, mainly instant noodles, on the table for her. Who knows what Bob eats. She barely sees him, and if she does, it’s for 5 minutes at most. Bearly I mean, excuse me. Or was it barely? ARGH!! After that he’ll fly out of the door to get on time for his next job. She will never be able to understand how he could juggle 3 jobs at once. And why she had to go to school. If only she could help. But nooooo. “You must finish your education. You can’t stop your education” he says. If only she didn’t love him so much to fulfill his bitc-wishes. She could only sigh. Life. He had to leave college and start working. Admittedly, life was hard before this but things just went from bad to worse. Now it’s from worse to worser. Then it’s going to be worser to worsest. Who cares about all the little grammar mistakes when she is not doing anything to contribute to the all-important education she was getting? Yes it was the beloved brother who was handling it, but what had Scarlet done? Nothing. Wake up. Bath. Eat. Go school. Come home. Eat. Bath. Get on the computer. Finish homework. Laze around the house. Eat again. Laze around again. Sleep. Repeat. The pergs of the life of SCARLETTTTTT PARKERRRRRR!!!!  *cheer* *cheer* Or was it perks? Whatever. No difference. As soon as this sucky boring life was over…. She’d work. Work like no tomorrow. Bob could quit one of his jobs. Spend more time at home. With her. She could be happy again. Happier at least. Then worser can go back to worse. Maybe back to bad as well. But she must be realistic. The chances of that happening is next to 0 percent. And it was not a positive number. Ah well. She must go on. Sukcum to her brother’s wishes. For now. Or was it succumb? Hmmmm. English needs polishing for sure. But other than that her life was set. She was ready to embarrass the future. Or was it embrace?