#shes adorable and i love her

The time is come. Charlotte leaves the house under the guise of going to school for the day - but she pauses to look back at her childhood home. It’s difficult, but she knows that this is for the best. She needs the freedom to figure out who she is and be that person. All she takes with her is a small backpack of clothes and the cash she has on hand.

Her first stop takes her to a bus stop outside of a rest station. Lingering tears in her eyes, she walks inside to make one quick purchase, and heads around back to the dingy little bathroom.

Charlotte stares at herself in the mirror and takes a long, shuddering breath. She’d been preparing for this for a few weeks now. Her backpack has some old clothes she bought at a thrift shop, and now she has the scissors. All it takes is a change of clothes and a few quick snips….

She laughs, feeling a wave of relief and a sensation like an invisible weight has been lifted off of her chest. The girl in the mirror hardly reminds her of Charlotte Lane, pretty little millionaires daughter. This is Charlie, the teenage runaway on a mission of self-discovery.

Stuffing her old clothes in her bag, Charlie crams it into the trash can and leaves the restroom to get back on the bus.