Good as Gone
Jack
I could tell you that I live with my sister,
Ace, but that’d be a lie. Thank God
that I managed to run away
from that godforsaken
place.
Ace didn’t want to come with me, said it was
too dangerous to run off into the unknown
with no money to live on and no place
to go. Right now, I’m somewhere
near Miami, in this run-down
hotel. I guess Dad’s credit
cards are really worth
something.
Sometimes, I email Ace, but I never really consider
telling her where I am. I know she may try to
follow, but she’s not as good an escapist
as I am. She’s doomed, and I’d love
to save her, but if I go back now,
I don’t think I’d ever be able
to escape no matter what I
did.
I guess you could say I did a bad thing by abandoning
my twin sister, but she knows it was for perfectly
good reasons. I just don’t understand why she
chose to stay in such a disgusting place
with our (not so) darling and sweet
mother and her (not so) sweet
“lovers.”
I guess this was probably the smartest decision I ever made,
but I wish Ace could share this sweet freedom with me.
She would’ve loved to travel all over the place,
seeing all these sights. That had always
been her dream: to see everything
there is to see of this world and
more.
Congratulations are in order to me, I guess.
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Dwindling Light
Teen FictionAce and Jack Sterling, twins, lead very different lives. Ace stayed home with their mother and her terrible lovers; Jack ran away, finding himself a part of a drug chain just to have money to keep a modest subsistence. But Ace wants to get away and...
