Samantha was walking on the side of the road for what seemed like hours. It was hot, the sun was beating down on her...
However, hitchhiking along the desert highway in the heat was worth it. She was finally away from home, free from her shackles and bonds. The stress of always having to have the best grades, the stress of being overworked and underpaid at her job, the stress of having to be the perfect child for fear of being reprimanded... She was 20 for Christ’s sake! It was time to live her life for her, no one else, and wanted to think for herself. Some would probably think she was acting spoiled, but they didn't know the emotional abuse she constantly went through.
The five-foot-ten young woman wasn’t sure where she was, probably somewhere in the Mojave Desert just south of Las Vegas, and she wasn’t totally sure where she was going either. The last car that had passed by was a while ago, the clock on her dying iTouch showed that it had been about 15 minutes. The dirt crunched under her green Converse. She’d chugged the last of her water before the last car... “C’mon, I just need a ride to the next gas station or rest stop,” she said to herself. She set the somewhat large duffle bag she had been carrying down and sat on it, her legs were tired. She would have gotten a bus ticket for whatever bus was leaving LA first, but she didn’t want credit card transactions to be tracked. Her mom always seemed to have a way of finding her. Though she still had the plastic card with her in case.
With summer approaching, her skin had been turning slightly golden, though now under the sun it was turning pink. She ran a hand through her long red hair, watching the horizon with her blue-green eyes through her sunglasses, finally seeing a small shine way out there that indicated that a car was approaching. She stood, brushed herself off, and stuck her thumb out. She hoped that maybe with the fact that she still looked (and was) young, that whoever it was would take "pity" on her and give her a ride in their air conditioned vehicle. Or maybe some guy would fall in love with her long legs or the ample amount of cleavage that showed with her black tank top.
However, hitchhiking along the desert highway in the heat was worth it. She was finally away from home, free from her shackles and bonds. The stress of always having to have the best grades, the stress of being overworked and underpaid at her job, the stress of having to be the perfect child for fear of being reprimanded... She was 20 for Christ’s sake! It was time to live her life for her, no one else, and wanted to think for herself. Some would probably think she was acting spoiled, but they didn't know the emotional abuse she constantly went through.
The five-foot-ten young woman wasn’t sure where she was, probably somewhere in the Mojave Desert just south of Las Vegas, and she wasn’t totally sure where she was going either. The last car that had passed by was a while ago, the clock on her dying iTouch showed that it had been about 15 minutes. The dirt crunched under her green Converse. She’d chugged the last of her water before the last car... “C’mon, I just need a ride to the next gas station or rest stop,” she said to herself. She set the somewhat large duffle bag she had been carrying down and sat on it, her legs were tired. She would have gotten a bus ticket for whatever bus was leaving LA first, but she didn’t want credit card transactions to be tracked. Her mom always seemed to have a way of finding her. Though she still had the plastic card with her in case.
With summer approaching, her skin had been turning slightly golden, though now under the sun it was turning pink. She ran a hand through her long red hair, watching the horizon with her blue-green eyes through her sunglasses, finally seeing a small shine way out there that indicated that a car was approaching. She stood, brushed herself off, and stuck her thumb out. She hoped that maybe with the fact that she still looked (and was) young, that whoever it was would take "pity" on her and give her a ride in their air conditioned vehicle. Or maybe some guy would fall in love with her long legs or the ample amount of cleavage that showed with her black tank top.
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