Please Don't Leave Me Behind Again (Completed)

Chapter Sixteen

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~Warning~ Violence.

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**| Sang's POV |**

After this year at Ashley Waters, the boys were going to leave. Only a year. Then gone. I stared at my hands as they hovered over my head, lifted towards the ceiling.

We had finished the movie up and then I came back home after promising to go shopping with Gabriel sometime really soon. Someone told him I went to the mall with them and he wasn't happy that he wasn't around. No, 'not happy' weren't the right words. He was practically livid, going on a rant about how shopping was his thing and no one should be going without him, especially if I was with them. He wouldn't stop until I made the promise.

Now I was in bed, trying to ignore the fact that the only light available was from the moonlight streaming in from the window. I had to get over this stupid little fear of the dark. I wouldn't be able to sleep if I didn't, so tonight, I forced myself to turn off all my lights and to just lie down in bed.

I wasn't locked in a chest. No one was going to come at me through my window. I was as safe as I could be tonight. Diane was passed out, and Dad and Maria were gone.

Dad was working overnight again and Maria slipped out of the house about an hour ago and hobbled down the street to her friend's house. Her right leg was really sore from a piece of glass that had embedded into her thigh but overall she was okay.

I sighed and thought about the boys again for the hundredth time tonight. I barely knew them but the thought that they wouldn't be around in a year hurt. There was already a time limit on my friendship with them and I was just beginning to think I finally got Silas back along with some really good friends.

I dropped my hands to my stomach.

A year. In a year, could I smile and say goodbye to them.

No. I couldn't do that. Not if I got any closer to them.

I sniffed and fought against the tightness in my throat. I didn't want to be left behind again. Silas was here but where will he be in a year, when the student exchange ended. Where would he disappear to this time?

A sound caught my attention and I sat up, focusing on listening again.

There.

A tapping.

I frowned.

I knew for sure no one but my stepmother and me were in the house. Maria had a bag with her so she wasn't coming back tonight and Dad wouldn't be back till tomorrow evening and Diane was passed out from her medication again.

Another tap and my heart hammered against my chest. The little hairs on my body went on alert as my instincts screamed intruder.

Someone who shouldn't be was just outside the house

The next tap verified it. The person was at the side of the house.

I slowly stood up and walked into the hallway, keeping alert as I slipped into Maria's dirty room. It was just as disgusting in here as always and I was careful to not trip over the piles of clothes or step on food that needed to be thrown away. I ignored the rotting smell of garbage that assaulted my nose and went to her window.

I moved the curtain enough just to peep outside.

A dark shadow was by the window that led into the living room.