“Elara, can you hurry up and get out of bed? You're going to be late again and if you are, then Mom and Dad will kick my ass for not getting you to college on time.” Jordon’s whining had brought me out of my train of thought. “Would you shut up Jordon and give me a break?” He was always on my case lately and it was doing my head in. I mean, I was turning twenty-one in a few weeks, and I was finally going to move out of this crappy town. There was nothing and no one keeping me here. After all, Mom and Dad were never around. They were always away on business trips, leaving Jordon in charge, but in the last few months, he had been getting angrier at me for little things. “Just be ready to go in five minutes or you're walking.” Well, he was in a mood now, wasn’t he? Giving myself a once over in the mirror, I thought I looked alright today. My hair was the envy of all the girls at college, although I couldn’t understand why. I hated my long blonde locks. I had actually thought about chop
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