[Title in the Works] - 01
;hey guys! this is for a story I'm writing, and it's something I've had in mind for almost a year now, so I've decided to share the first chapter! i hope you enjoy. if you have any title suggestions please don't hesitate to share.
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-Daisyđ
â ď¸ TRIGGER WARNING â ď¸
This chapter includes violent themes and driving while intoxicated.
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April 12th, 1987
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If you were to ask where people usually are on a Sunday night in Boston, they'd almost all unanimously reply with watching the Bruins.
If not then they likely had something better to do.
But based on the rumbling and roaring of the crowd in the small pub downtown Boston, that didn't seem to be the case.
Cheering ran throughout the large room as a hockey game played on four different T.Vs, with men and women gathering around them to cheer for their boys in yellow and boo at Montreal aggressively.
Granted about half the crowd was completely wasted.
Waitresses walked around the establishment with tray-fulls of cheap beer to hand out to the customers as they continued to yell at the game, some getting mad as the people on the screen didn't do what they had yelled at them for the past half hour to do.
Eyeing one of the waitresses from the bar was Kate, the one with the more blonde in her hair, and her skin bearing a fairer complexion compared to her friend.
A cat-like look danced in her eyes as she scanned the crowd, then at the Bruins who weren't doing so hot.
She chuckled to herself.
Next to her, paying no mind to the waitresses (or let alone the game) like her friend was Phoebe.
She instead idly stirred her mixed drink with the tiny black straw that came with it.
Phoebe had noticeably tanner, freckled skin, sporting ginger hair and grey eyes.
Sitting next to Kate, the two did not at all seem like friends if one were to guess.
Kate twirled around on her barstool and faced her friend, smiling, "I knew the Bruins were gonna lose. Now that fat guy in the Hawaiian shirt over there owes me $50."
Phoebe didn't seem to have any reaction towards her friend's statement, continuing to stir the drink and staring blankly at it.
Her friend raised a brow, clearly understanding how out of character her ginger pal was and reached over to pluck the straw from her hand.
"I think the Alabama Slammer's mixed enough dude." Kate commented.
Phoebe looked up at her, seeming to snap out of the trance, "Sorry..." she apologized quickly, "I guess I'm just not feeling it tonight."
Kate leaned on her hand as she looked at her friend, "Feels weird being back here, huh?"
The ginger nodded, "Little bit." she said silently as she sipped her drink, "At least I haven't bumped into them yet."
"What, your parents?" Kate asked, scrunching her brows as she glanced around the bar, "Your blue-collared folks in this shithole?"
She shrugged, "You never know."
"Yeah, but from what you've told me about them they wouldn't even piss in the toilets in a place like this." Kate replied, a swig of her beer following her words, "So I wouldn't worry."
"I wouldn't really say I'm worried," Phoebe replied, "It's just weird."
The blonde sighed, "Just relax man. S'not like they're forming some kind of witch hunt for you still even after all this time."
Phoebe stayed silent for a moment, letting the cries of the hockey fans drown out her unspoken reply.
Kate rolled her eyes and nudged her shoulder, "C'mon, I'm gonna get my 50 first from the Pillsbury dough-boy over there and then we can bounce. Just go wait in the car."
Kate tossed the keys at Phoebe, who caught them with her two hands and nodded in reply.
She got up and walked out of the bar, the parking lot surprisingly enough being barren despite the large crowd of people inside.
Phoebe got to their 1978 Ford Mustang and unlocked the car.
She got into the front seat, slamming the door next to her shut, and threw the keys onto the dashboard.
Though she tried, she just couldn't shake the awkward feeling of being home back so easily as Kate had tried to.
Her parents may not enjoy places like these as she may, but that doesn't mean the people here don't talk to one another.
Especially since Phoebe's father was a pastor of one of the largest churches in the city.
The thought of that by itself made her head cloud from the embarrassment.
Nothing would make a juicy story for every ear in this drunken city like hearing the pastor's daughter running around town making a fool of herself.
'Great.' she muttered in her head, 'As if me ditching hadn't made things worse before.'
Interrupting her silent scolding was laughter, and footsteps that sounded like running towards the car.
Phoebe turned around and looked out of the back window of the car to see Kate with a handful of cash and a wild grin plastered onto her face as the man in the Hawaiian shirt chased after her along with a buddy of his.
The second man, based on what she could get a glimpse of in the dark, had such a shiny bald head she wouldn't have been surprise if he had a marble where a skull would've been.
The fat man's mouth was covered in blood, his expression was one of pure anger.
His pace- while still fast- wasn't fast enough for Kate as she made it to the car in time, and quickly got into the driver's seat.
She threw the cash onto the dash, grabbing the keys and starting the car, her laughter subsiding as she caught her breath.
Phoebe hadn't had the time to even ask what had happened yet as Kate whipped out of the parking lot with a sharp turn and hit the gas.
The mens yelling and cursing in the background faded when they started going farther down the road.
Phoebe glanced at Kate, who looked at her as if she had just experienced a glorious high.
"Dickhead over there said he knew your dad," she explained, a pit in Phoebe's stomach already forming from the guilt, "He said he'd tell him he saw our plate unless I gave him a little something. Told him no, he tried to grab me, and so I broke his tooth and took whatever was in his wallet."
Kate had described the whole ordeal in a tone where she acts as this happens to her on a daily.
Which frankly, Kate getting into fights wasn't something out of the ordinary for the two of them to go through.
Phoebe chuckled nervously, her anxiety worsening, "Shit, he saw our plates?"
"Don't worry," Kate assured nonchalantly with a giggle, "We can always switch em."
Phoebe could feel her organs sinking into a pit, "How did he even recognize me?"
"Hell if I know."
The ginger turned to Kate, looking at her overall demeanor as her friend swerved a little on the road.
"Kate..." Phoebe reached over and put her hand on the wheel to guide the car in a safer way, "Dude you're drunk off your ass. Let me drive."
Kate blew a raspberry, "I'm not drunk'" she objected, smacking Phoebe's hand away, "I can drive just fine, don't be such a worry-wart."
Phoebe was just about to object when her eyes darted over towards the road for a second and saw a person crossing the street.
"Kate- KATE-" she cried as the car drew closer to the person, "Pump the breaks someone is crossing!"
Kate squinted at the road, her head nodding a little shakily, "I don't see anyone-"
"STOP THE CAR KATE STOP THE CAR-"
Phoebe pushed herself over towards the drivers' side and slammed her foot onto the break.
The tires squealed on the road, twisting and turning as Kate drunkenly tried to hold the wheel still.
Which was about as beneficial as a duck doing taxes.
Phoebe yelped as she felt the car stop, a loud thud from the front following after.
Her eyes were shut closed, shaking as she still stood with her feet on the brake pedal.
"Holy shit." Kate murmured, her feet sliding off of the gas and staring ahead from the window.
Phoebe slowly opened her eyes, her breathing quickened as she quickly got out of the car from the shotgun's side and made her way towards the front.
Her eyes widened in horror, her hands reached up to clamp over her mouth as she rushed over to the body.
A young man laid before the car, his dark brown hair held down with a bit of blood and sweat.
He wore a grey shirt and a blue jacket, both of which were covered in some leaves and mud.
She knelt down towards him, freezing for a second as she wasn't sure on what to do, but then immediately checked his neck for a pulse.
"Is he breathing?"
Kate called as she got out of the car, looking over at Phoebe and the body.
"Oh my god."
"What?"
"He's still alive!"
"What?" Kate asked, surprised by him not kicking the bucket due to getting hit by a car, "No way...props to him."
"We gotta take him to the hospital," Phoebe said hurriedly, "He needs an ambulance- call 911!"
"Yeah, you try explaining to the doctors that you hit some homeless guy with your car."
Phoebe glared at her, "It's not my car! It's yours! You drove!"
"I could've been drunk and you would've had to drive me home. Don't lie and say you can't smell the whiskey on me."
Phoebe was absolutely appalled.
"Why can't we just tell the truth for once?!" she demanded, their current situation making her more stressed than ever, "Damn it, Kate, he could be dying!"
"Okay, one," Kate responded, definitely much calmer than Phoebe, "You think that me driving drunk is gonna make this situation better for the cops? You really want your parents to find out after all this time ignoring them, you got arrested for attempted murder?"
Phoebe didn't answer, she didn't even look at Kate, she just continued to have her hand on his pulse as reassurance that he's okay.
"...Two," she continued, "He'll be fine. Let's just go back to our motel. We'll put him on ice, I'll call a guy, we let him rest so we can avoid this whole mess."
"And what if he doesn't get better?" Phoebe shot a glare at her friend, questioning her morals.
Kate shrugged, "I got a shovel in the back."
Her eyes grew big, "Jesus Christ, Kate!"
"He'll get better!" she said a little louder, pinching the bridge of her nose, "Fuck sake, just help me get him into the backseat."
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