Find the prompt here: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/sunday-writing-prompt-in-the-thick-of-it-march-7th/
Jetta wanted to turn and walk away but knew better than to think it was that easy. She was in the thick of it and regretted the day she asked Natalie if she could move in. Natalie was nothing but drama and Jetta knew it but she hadn’t been thinking straight, she had only been thinking that she had to get out. Danny was abusive and she couldn’t take it any longer. No one seemed to believe her. Even some of her closest friends thought she was exaggerating or making Danny out to be worse than he really was. Jetta wished she was only making up stories of abuse.
So now, instead of Danny’s abuse she was intricately entangled in Natalie’s addiction. Jetta didn’t know which was worse? Thinking back to the day her parents asked her when she was moving out, Jetta felt some resentment that she was asked to leave without them knowing she had nowhere healthy to go. Her life was getting deeper and deeper into chaos than she ever thought possible. Jetta began to have doubts that she would survive the next six months, knowing Natalie was going to have to give up her lease for lack of payment. She felt herself slipping into a darkness that scared her more than Danny’s abuse and Natalie’s addiction ever could.
©2021 CBialczak Flash Fiction
Stine Writing 
I grew up in a house with abuse so I know how unsettled she must feel
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I’m sorry you ever had to deal with it.
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Made me tough!
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Great positive outlook! We all have our horror stories, some worse than others, but what matters is how you survived and how you overcame all the crap!
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Yes! Everything could’ve been worse 😊
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Well cut yourself a little slack,
Life isn’t easy at this point. 🤗
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Thanks….I suppose I can at least try.
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Oh a good piece of writing, though it made me sad and wondering what is going to happen in Jetta’s near future.
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I honestly think I wrote something like that because my life is teetering on the unknowns too….I didn’t really think about it until you pointed it out…interesting how the mind works.
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Yes it is surprising how sometimes your own thoughts transfer to your writing with you realizing it.
Hope that your unknowns have good outcomes in the end. 🙂🙏🏼
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I hope so! I just hope it doesn’t take too long. I am not good with being patient with myself. I can be patient with other people just fine.
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