All Falls Down Drabble (Stargirl verse)

[Stargirl verse]

Artemis’s foster home
7:00 P.M. EST

The brunette former athlete sat on top of her bunk bed with her legs to her chest, her head to cover her knees, and silent tears running down her face. Her life was now falling apart. Her parents are going back to prison for the crime they’ve committed. Missing them and the encouragement they gave her in her fifteen years of life. Still in complete shock that her parents are criminals. The recruiter from Lincoln University rejected her due to attacking students and having anger issues. Now Artemis is officially kicked out of the football team. The only place she can truly be herself and being a second home to her.

She sits in her room sharing with another kid her age by herself in the dark. A small light brightens up the room. It was her cellphone. The brunette slightly shifts her head looking down seeing one of her now ex-teammate and still friend Travis has called her. Travis, Nick, Dylan, Troy, and Jerome have been calling and texting her to see if she’s alright. But Artemis couldn’t bring herself to reply to them and didn’t want their pity party of, ‘It sucks you’re not on the Football Team. Couch Crosser doesn’t know what he’ll miss out on.’ To Artemis, everything she had ever dreamed of is gone now all because of her anger not to mention whatever possessed her ruined everything for her on the Football tryouts.

A knock on the door disturbs the air with a red-headed woman opening the door, “Artemis sugar, you’re missing out on dinner. You haven’t come out of this room since this past Sunday.” She stated being worried looking at the young teen.

“I’m not hungry,” The brunette Vietnamese teenager answered not turning to face her with tears running down her face. Hiding the tone of voice with an unbothered tone of voice.

“Well just in case dear, here’s a little something for you.” The red-headed woman replied walked into the room putting a bowl of macaroni and cheese with a spoon on top of a desk then leaving the room closing the door behind her.

Artemis sigh in disgust smelling the processed food filling the air. She shoves her phone into the back pocket of her jeans and jumping down the floor. The teen grabs her forest green zipped-up hoodie and grabs a bat. Artemis walks over to the window, opening it, and maneuvering her way out of the home with her dad’s bat in her hand.

The Junk Yard
7:45 P.M. EST

The former athlete had her hoodie covering her face and crawled through the fence landing herself inside of the junkyard. She held tightly onto her father’s bat and fiercely walking over to a busted old car. Artemis gripped the bat and taking her anger out on it by swinging to the old vehicle until it was to her liking. All through the time, the teen just ran, jumped, and screamed all her emotions out knowing no one in their right mind wouldn’t care. In a way, she felt like Alice in Wonderland in how everything she use to know is now different and abnormal to her. Mentally she needed to get away from everybody and figuring out how to rebuild her life now that football; both high school and college is gone. Artemis is somewhere not to be bothered and doesn’t care if anyone was looking for her, not even her parents.

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