(The Key)
Chapter 1.
Chapter 1
"Are you sure you want to go to high school and not a tech.
Ashley?"
"Yeah, Mom I'm sure." Her voice was so even that it
sounded flat. Going to a technical school was a great opportunity
and Ashley knew it.
When you graduate senor year, you get a diploma and a license of
what ever field you took. Ashley knew that kids worked there buts
off to get into these kinds of schools and she was lucky enough
to get accepted right away. She felt bad saying no to Clear Way
Technical High School of Maine mostly because her older sister
Skyler desperately wanted her to go. She hated letting her sister
down. Skyler begged her for months on end about going to Clear
Way, but she just wasn't feeling it. Ashley remembered her
sister having fantasies about them both being in hair dressing
together.
They both got
along for the most part. Although it didn't start out that
way. When Ashley was young her sister use to hit her across the
face or punch her. She would yell and scream in her face and even
swear at her for the stupidest things. She would always blame
everything on her, so she wouldn't get in trouble. Ashley
never said anything to anyone because she knew if she told, her
sister would hit her even more. After Skyler and there mom got
into a fist fight, she went to residential. Residential is not
Jail. Residential isn't as bad as Jail. At residential you
stay with 12 girls and you go to school, and you have to learn
how to get along. In Jail they just put you in a cell and forget
about you. When Skyler got back from residential she and Ashley
got along much better. She never hit or yelled in her face
again.
"Yeah, mom Tech's just not for me. I mean it sounds fun
and all but I think high school's better for me." I do
better in academics than anything else. She thought.
"Okay, as long as your sure because once we get you
registered for New Rosington High School, there's no going
back."
"I know mom." She went back upstairs to do her hair.
While she was scrunching her curly "blond" hair the
song "Soul Sister" came on the radio. It made her want
to bawl her eyes out. This was her and Kaytie's song. Kaytie
was her best friend. They were so close everyone called them
sisters. Her stomach tightend up and her throat got dry when all
the memories came flooding back. She couldn't resist it, the
tears came pouring out running her mascara down her cheeks. She
got up and slammed the radio off. Ashley missed her so much. They
were always linked together. When you saw one you saw the other.
She tried desperately to push the memories back into her mind but
they still kept popping up.
"Ash? Ya' ready yet?" Her mom yelled up the
stairs.
She tried to keep her voice as even as possible but when she
yelled back down it was obvious she was crying.
"What's wrong honey?" Her mom asked from the bottom
of the steps.
"Nothing. I just i uh stubbed my toe and it hurt really
really bad. That's all."
"Ohh. Yah that sounds like you." Her mom giggled. It
did sound like something she would do. Ashley was
clumsy.
All she could think of when she was getting registered for high
school was Kaytie and the accident. Know one knew the truth
except for her. For months she's been hiding the real truth.
She's the only one who knew what had happened for
real. It haunted her
every second of every day. No one ever thought that the towns
Governor's daughter would die on his
birthday.