Bleh... it's pretty bad right now, but here it is so far:
Hilary looked at her empty bedroom. Her eyes glanced over her perfect hardwood floor, her sky blue walls with the scuffmark in the corner where her best friend Raechel had fallen off the bed and her shoe had scraped the wall. A few boxes remained in her room near the door. She switched off the light and her hand touched over the blue cloud light switch cover. She put her hand to her mouth and grabbed a screwdriver from the table in the hallway. She carefully removed the screws and put the light switch plate in her front hoodie pocket.
“Hil, come on. I’m getting really impatient. Is there anything else you need?” her mom barked from down the hall. Smoking had scarred her mom’s raspy voice and she sounded like an old dog.
“No, I’m ready.” Hilary said quietly. She stuck her hands into her hoodie pocket and rubbed them together to make them warm. The heat had been shut off since no one had lived here for almost 3 months. Her hands touched the plate, then a note her boyfriend Noah had given her just this morning. She hadn’t read it; she didn’t want to start crying again.
Hilary was leaving her small hometown of Yonstead, Massachusetts. Hilary’s mother was snatching Hilary from her friends because she believed that Hilary wasn’t in the right crowd. She though taking Hilary away from the people that often influenced her would make her change. Two states away is a long way from home.
Hilary had lost her dad when she was six, and now at age 16, it had been 10 years since she had lost him, but she could never forget him. He was a tall, dark haired man, and that’s what attracted him to Hilary’s mother, Judith. Hilary’s dad, William, was three years older than Judith, but they were so much in love. Hilary remembered as a child that her mother and father held each other all the time. William was afraid of losing Judith. William’s father had died when William was 28, and even at age 39, he could never forget his own father the way Hilary never forgot hers.
William had found Judith on May 25th, 1991. Judith was having coffee at the coffee shop next door to where William worked; the Hillman’s Grocery Store. William went to the coffee shop every day just to admire Judith. Finally getting enough nerves, William asked Judith out to dinner, and that was the start of a lifelong relationship the two hoped to share.
Then, 10 years after their marriage in 1993, William was diagnosed with lung cancer. Growing up, his mother smoked, just as Judith had while they were dating. He always looked past that, and saw Judith for what she was, not what she did. But, just as the cancer was in remission, he was in a terrible car accident.
