Road to Ruin

Being born into a family full of criminals has never been easy but making it the way through without being arrested and actually making it to my senior year of high school is something that no one in my family had ever accomplished before. I live with my four older brothers, all of whom, had criminal records by the time they were my age and they thought it was a right of passage. They always try to tease me about being squeaky clean, forgetting that I’ve had years of martial arts training under my belt and to be honest, I might not have been arrested but I am a little crazy. My mother died when I was four and my father is on death row in California so living in this small town in Ohio suits me just fine. I’m happy here and my brothers have an quicker route to smuggle drugs over the border to Canada whenever they need to. We live in a two story house by a lake just outside of Bluffton which is surrounded by forest and no neighbors. Since I’m sharing the house with my brothers I transformed the basement into an apartment that no one is allowed to enter except for me and put in glass windows and doors around the side of the house so I have easy access without going inside. It’s my senior year of high school now and I can’t wait to be done with school and get on with my life. But I made a promise to myself that I wasn’t going to end up like the rest of my family and I was going to graduate. So that’s what I’ve got my mind set on now. When I arrived at school one morning I saw all my friends including my quarterback boyfriend standing around talking. “Hey babe.” Finn said putting his arm around me. “Hi. What’s going on? You all look pretty serious over here.” I said. “It’s nothing. Just talking about today.” He said. “What’s happening today?” I asked. “The exams that we always get hit with just after the school year starts.” David said like I was an i***t or something. “Oh. Is that all?” I asked. “Of course you have nothing to worry about. You always ace those tests.” Finn said. “Yeah. Sorry about that.” I said feighning sorrow for everyone else. “Come on. We need to get inside.” Finn said practically dragging me inside the school building. “Is everything alright with Rachel?” I asked. “Yeah. Why?” Finn asked as we kept walking. “I don’t know. She looked like she was ready to cry or something.” I said. “I don’t know. She didn’t say anything to me.” He said. “Okay.” I said, letting it go. But it wasn’t that easy to let it go. Not really. Not since I knew the truth but no one knew that I knew the truth. What people still haven’t figured out about me is that lying to me never works. I always find out the truth. No matter what it is. I don’t know how I manage to do it but I’ve always called it my super power. The day went by in a blur of classes, a couple of exams and a very stressful lunch where my friends can never seem to agree on much of anything with each other. By the time school was over Finn and I started walking down the road together like we always did. I always got stares whenever I went anywhere in this town. You’d think by now people would be used to me with my full sleeve tattoos. But they don’t know the story behind the tattoos. I wouldn’t have gotten them if I didn’t need to. If there wasn’t a reason to get them. But no one really cared about that. They just cared that I looked different to everyone else. But I’d gotten used to all the staring and it was pretty easy to ignore. As Finn and I were walking down the road we started to hear this roaring vibration come down the road behind us and we couldn’t help but stop and turn around. There were about a dozen bikers riding towards us on the road. Some of them had women on their bikes and some were just by themselves. They were all wearing the same patch on the back of their jackets except for the ones that said ‘Prospect’ who were at the back of the line up. “Holy s**t. It’s the Vandals.” I said.