I started glowing and that when my life changed forever.  My hand that touched the pipe felt like I was stabbed through the leg. I was about to scream but didn't want to attract attention for anyone that might have seen me fall. My leg was bleeding and my hand was scratched but I could walk so I had to try and run at least a little, I can't just sit here. I'm supposed to be at school but I skipped because my mother wouldn't have cared anyways. Right now I need to focus, I can't go to a hospital because of the bill, so I had to figure something out to stop the bleeding. Even if I had the money to go to a hospital what would I say? 'Hi I was running away from my smoke addicted mother and had to hide when my cousin was around the corner in a dark alleyway, then I fell down a sewer and into some green, glow-in-dark ooze that made my whole body glow'? I need to go to a hospital, not an insane asylum. Anyways, I only have $23, a history textbook, and a half empty water bottle. So, I pour a little water into my hands to help clean the bleed off my leg and tear a little fabric off my jacket that I can patch later. Twenty minutes of half walking, half running and I've made it to a small drugstore, in which I get some medical bandages and some over-the-corner medicine pills for the pain. When I check my watch it says 12:26 meaning my mother might have left for work if she isn't drunk and passed out on the floor, but it's Thursday so I doubt it. She's knows better then anyone we could use money, so I decide that I'm going to do it, I'll use my key, so technically I'm not breaking in, and I'll get my favorite pillow, a few pairs of clothes, dump the textbook, eat a quick lunch, get about $200 from her purse and maybe my great-grandmother's old gold necklace, and maybe a small note saying I won't be back but insuring I have not been kidnapped. By 1:15 I'm a good six blocks away from my apartment building. The gold necklace is worth about $700, or that was about what it was worth 8 years ago when my great-grandmother first passed away. So with that money, plus the $200 I got from Mother's purse, and the $11 I still have after the bandages, I can work on get a job in a city or two away so should be okay. I've thought about running away before but I've always turned the thought down, now that I'm actually doing it, it doesn't seem so difficult after all.