Gravity.

Chapter 16

Dedicated to SugasBlossom .

Gravitys POV.

"We gotta go" I say to Danny who whispers something along the lines of "no shit" but I choose to ignore it.

We rush to the window, the same one we came in from.
I went first, only to be greeted by bright headlights.

The owner of the vehicle steps out and by now Danny is by my side.
I see him l looking around as if planning an escape route in his head.

The man comes closer now.

"You kids are in big troub-. Wait. I know you!"

I look in his face, but I don't seem to remember him.

Then it clicks.

It's him.
The man who paid for Dannys medication.
We were in Maytown I think.
It was so long ago, and he still remembers me, a random girl.

He looks from Danny to me.

"Now, I won't press charges but be warned, if this happens another time I'll have no choice"

"You're just gonna let us go-" Danny starts but I elbow him in the side.

Oh, he still doesn't know who this man is yet.

To him it's just a store owner who caught us red handed.

"Danny,remember that time you got really sick"

"Yeah?"

"And I got that medicine for you"

"Yess?"

"He's the one who paid for it" I gesture to the man in front of us.

"Oh."

Is that all he has to say?

"Danny..."

"Uh thanks" he says to the man who I still don't know the name of.

I sigh, knowing I won't get anything else out of him.

"Well we'll be going Mr..."

"Jeff. My name's Jeff."

"Right.Jeff"

We begin to walk off. It's the early hours of the morning now, and Joy and Sam must be wondering where we are.

"Wait!" Jeff stops us."where are you kids staying"

"Uhh Around, you know" I say.

He takes a deep breath.
"Why don't you kids stay with me. Look, I have a daughter some years younger than you. I  Honestly wouldn't want her on the road so long"

Wow, this man takes generosity to another level.
Winter was coming on, and we couldn't travel while freezing half to death.

I look to Danny to see he was already looking at me. A warning in his eyes I was about to ignore.

"Thank you" I say.

"We have to go for our sister" Danny says

"So you too are sibling then" he points to the two of us.

"N-" but Danny cuts me off.

"Well,no, but I do see Gravity as a sister. So basically yeah"

Oh.

As a sister.

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"Where are they?" I say to no one in particular when we arrive at our litte campsite.
Jeff drived us here to pick up Joy and Sam.

"Sam! Don't!" I hear Joys voice.

Danny heard it too, cause he's already ahead of me.

What I see angers me so much that I feel my body shaking.

"What the fuck is going on here!"

That's about the first time I've cussed openly, and not in my mind.

Danny tackles Sam to the floor.
Throwing punch after punch after punch.
If it was another situation, I would have stopped him long ago.

Joy stands watching in Shock? Fear?
One of the two.

I take my shirt off and give it to her. I had on a tube top underneath.

She takes it with shaking hands. I take it from her and put it on her. It comes down her upper thigh.

"Ok, stop, you're gonna kill him. Oh lord he's dead"

It was Jeff who said those words to Danny.

I hug Joy and walk her away from the scene and out to the front to find proper clothes for her to put on.

"Joy-"

"I don't really want to talk Gravity"

"Ok" I whisper.

And we sit in silence.

After a while, I spot Jeff with a very angry looking Danny trailing behind him.

His hands, they're so bloody.

"The boy's not dead" Jeff says "Just unconscious"

I blow a breath of relief. Not for Sam, but for Danny.

We all enter Jeffs car, leaving Sam where Danny left him.
Danny doesn't say a word to any of us, but the anger radiating off him speaks for itself.

Joy soon falls asleep with her head in my lap.
I rub her hair down affectionately.

To think I trusted Sam.

But then again, the devil was once an angel.

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"Well, this is it" Jeff says as he pulls up to a nice sized house.

"My wife should be at work and my daughter's at school"

School. The word seems foreign on my tongue.

He shows us around the house.
5 bedrooms,4 bathrooms.

Did a store owner really make this much money.

"My wife's a doctor"

Oops. Did I really say that out loud. He must think of me as rude now.

"Sorry" I say sheepishly.

"Nah it's alright" he shrugs it off. "Now, lets eat. You guys look malnourished"

"What do you guys want? You can have anything"

"Anything?" I ask.

"Anything" he nods.

I haven't eaten a good meal in days.
I hope when he says anything he really means anything.

Cause boy am I gonna make his fridge hurt.

But first, Joy needs me.

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My name's jeff.

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