Creative Writing My boredom lingered on despair as I sit at home alone wondering what my friends are doing at school. I wouldn’t be in this situation if I would have stayed out of trouble. My antics got me suspended from school, and enough trouble with the law that they had me on . I could not talk to my friends and I couldn’t go anywhere either. My thoughts start to stray towards Lisa. Lisa is a petite blonde that amazes me with her intelligence.
I find myself thinking about her more and more often as I serve out this time on house arrest. She has a flawless complexion and her curves make her seem older than her 15 years. I guess we could call my feelings toward her lustful. Finally, it’s 3: 00 on a Friday afternoon and my homeboy Martin will be over to see me shortly. As soon as he gets here I’ll have somebody to talk to. When he gets here he reports to me that the girl he likes, Anna, will be spending the night at Lisa’s house.
Isn’t it amazing how things work out sometimes. I took this to be an omen that I would never get caught if I broke house arrest tonight. I need to tell you that Anna has never really showed any interest in short, chubby Martin, but I can’t break that news to him. I lie and tell him that we ” re in, when what I mean is, I’m in. Really, Anna with her tall beanpole-like figure isn’t anything to get too excited about. Her shoulder length brown hair is always pulled back so tightly it looks as if her forehead is about to crack.
‘So, how do you want to do it?’ Martin asks me. ‘Well, seeing as how neither one of us has a car, we ” re gonna have to meet somewhere close to their house since they got what we want,’ I tell him. ‘Okay, you sneak out about 11: 00 and come to my house. Then we ” ll meet them at Oakdale park about 12. You need to call them and tell ’em what the deal is. Make sure you remind them that there’s plenty of bushes at the park,’ Martin says chuckling and nudging me with his elbow.
‘Yeah, I’ll call and let them know.’ I’ve been dying to talk to Lisa all day. She’s even entertaining to talk to on the phone for 4-5 hours. You know if you put up talking to any woman that long you really got something for her. As soon as Martin leaves I get on the phone to call. Damn, she ain’t home yet. I keep forgetting that just because my life is on hold everybody else’s isn’t.
It makes me so pissed off I could spit bullets that someone is out with my Lisa. Don’t let me find out who is. I try again every hour on the hour to reach my Lisa and about 6: 00 I finally get her. ‘Where you been,’ I ask her. ‘Out,’ she replies. ‘Oh, well I was just wondering what you thought about you and Anna sneaking out tonight and meeting me and Martin at Oakdale.’ ‘Okay, sounds like fun,’ she replies coolly.
Goddamn is it possible to shock this girl. I love her. ‘Well, I’ll see you then.’ ‘Okay, bye.’ ‘Wait, you don’t want to talk awhile?’ ‘Okay,’ she says indifferently. We proceed to talk until it’s time for me to hang up for dinner. This girl is amazing she can talk about anything and hold me in total rapture. I tell her that I will see her this evening.
The escape goes off like it has numerous times in the past. I watch TV until Mom and Dad go to bed then about 10: 15 I go outside to smoke and stay until 10: 45. If Mom and Dad haven’t noticed my absence by now they won’t. I walk to Martin’s house. He’s already waiting outside for me and we head towards Oakdale. ‘Boy, I’ve waited for this night for a long time,’ I tell Martin.
‘Yeah, I’m finally gonna get to fuck Anna,’ he replies enthusiastically. I laugh at this because I don’t really think Martin is going to get any. I, on the other hand, will. ‘What are you laughing at,’ Martin asks me. ‘Nothing.’ As we are almost to Oakdale these two crazy women come running down the street like a couple of lunatics. ‘We thought you guys weren’t gonna be able to make it,’ Anna tells us.
‘It ain’t nothing,’ I reply. Lisa is looking radiant in tight blue jeans and a sweatshirt. Although in my opinion she could be clothed in tattered rags and still look delicious. Just then, what I take to be a bum stumbles around the bushes. ‘What are you guys doing out so late,’ Eric asks us.
‘Damn, Eric, I thought you were some derelict coming to rob us.’ Eric has on some old ripped up jeans and Metallica T-shirt on. He looks so cold that his lips are turning purple. He has a mohawk that hangs down to his butt. He has a reputation of being a troublemaker and is even rumored to have no parents to watch him. When you look at him all you can think about is Beavis and Butthead.
‘What are you doing out here,’ I ask him. ‘Just kicking it, looking for somebody to cruise with,’ Eric says. I notice Anna kind of crowds up to him and evidently Martin notices too, because when Eric announces he knows where a car is with the keys in it, he declines saying he better get home. I should have went with Martin because, although Martin is a loser, he’s got enough sense to know when he’s in over his head.
‘So, what’s up? What do you think about it,’ Eric challenges me. Now I have a tough decision. Even though I know that the girls will go wherever I go, I’ve got to decide what I think they want to do. I look over at Anna cuddling all over Eric. I’m thinking, ‘Love is in the air.’ I chuckle to myself and then look over at seductive Lisa and the urge to be with her overpowers my common sense.
‘Shit, you ain’t said nothing. Let’s go get it.’ ‘Right on.’ The smile on Lisa’s face tells me I made the right decision. We walk hand in hand to the trailer park where the car is located. It’s now about 12 midnight. The car is a light blue ’72 Cadillac in mediocre shape. It looks like something a bunch of teenage kids would have.
I survey the backseat. Plenty big enough, I note. As we push the car out into the street and down the road, I notice that it’s almost out of gas. ‘Damn, I’m gonna have to spend my money on gas for a stolen car.’ ‘That’s the way it goes,’ Lisa replies supportively. ‘I think you should go up to the trailer and demand that they go put some gas in their car before you steal it,’ Eric says with a detectable note of sarcasm. And we ” re off.
The car has a clanging noise, but other than that runs pretty good. We decide we ” ll drive out into the country and drive down the gravel roads at high rates of speed. I got picked to do the driving, at least in town. That means no kissing on Lisa for a little while. We are driving about 50 mph down a roller-coaster-like road when we drive over some washout in the road and the Cadillac stalls. Eric and I jump out of the car to see what the problem is and Surprise! Surprise! We don’t have a clue what went wrong.
We proceed to beat the hell out of the car with a rubber mallet we found in the trunk. After 15 minutes of this pointless pounding we start to consider what to do. Eric and Anna decide me and Lis.