Jimmy Driver: A Short Story

Jimmy Driver, a normal 12 year old boy from Ohio, has no clue what might happen in his future. He would love to be rich and have a luxurious life. Jimmy might think this is how he was meant to live but when life throws problems at him, he had to figure out what to do. First, his parents got divorced and his mother had no money to care for Jimmy. As Jimmy began to live most of his days with his dad, he continued to miss the way life used to be. “Why did this have to happen to me?, Why me?” Jimmy would say to himself. Even though Jimmy thought he was in the worst position, he could never imagine rock bottom. On the way to school one day Jimmy’s father's car broke down and they were left on the side of the road next to a forest. Jimmy then
It was if he was living another boy's life. Jimmy walked around this shack he was now in, creeped out as can be. Terrible smells and messes everywhere made Jimmy think how could somebody live this way. The noise of a door opening startled Jimmy and gave him the nerve to hide. He saw a woman with messy hair and beat up clothes say “Blake, I'm home.” After a few moments the lady started looking around. With the corner of this ladies eye she saw Jimmy hiding behind a chair. She said “Blake why are you hiding?”. And with Jimmy’s first instinct he said “I'm not Blake”. She then chuckled and said “Stop fooling with me.” Jimmy escaped the situation and found a run down bathroom. Jimmy looked at the cracked and crooked mirror, and he did not see the old Jimmy. He saw a whole different person with all different features. After a while of thinking about this situation Jimmy realized he was in a different body. As he fell into the hole he became completely trapped in a different body. Jimmy decided to go with the flow and do what it took to get out of this awful situation. Quickly Jimmy,A.K.A Blake in this other life realized Blake’s life was rough. The mother would leave very early in the morning to stand in the streets to ask for food so she could feed herself and Blake. Everyday they would both wear the same exact clothes because that was all she could afford. As Blake went to bed one night he became Jimmy again and went back to his