I don’t think my friend ran away

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I had been depressed for a very long time, particularly since my father died. All his pals referred to as him a hero; he was a cop and he sacrificed himself to save lots of the lives of 23 folks held by an energetic shooter. I used to be 9 when it occurred, I keep in mind it prefer it was yesterday. However yesterday was my seventeenth birthday, and now my life is a nightmare.

My mom finally remarried, however I can not blame her. She was alone and wanted assist elevating a struggling baby. I simply want she was extra conscious of who she was bringing into our lives. It is not due to him that I am in bother, however he is an asshole who treats my mom like shit – she’s too in love with him to see it. No, it isn’t due to him that I landed right here, however it’s a triggering issue.

It began after I discovered my buddy Cassie ran away. I did not perceive. Cassie lived in a suburban wonderland. Her dad and mom have been nonetheless married, they adored her, her siblings weren’t assholes, and he or she had actually good grades – I imply, not A’s, however ok for her to be on the distinction roll and that her dad and mom are pleased with her. Idyllic is the phrase I’d use.

I spoke to his dad and mom a few times; they needed to know the primary time if Cassie had stated one thing to me – she hadn’t, and I had stated the identical. The second time I went to be, I do not know, assist of their tough time. I knocked on their door and Mrs. Beaman answered. “Oh, Julie… Hello. Are you okay?” I stated it was, “Hey Mrs. Beaman, I simply thought I would come by and say ‘Hello’ and see in case you’ve heard something concerning Cassie, I am sorry if that sounds insensitive… “

Cassie’s mom opened the door extensive and smiled a little bit, “Oh no…Honey, please are available, I do know you most likely miss her as a lot as we do.” I did it. Cassie had been one among my finest pals perhaps 5 years in the past. We separated shortly after my father died. I suppose it is my fault; I withdrew from everybody. I advised Mrs. Beaman and her eyes full of tears. “Julie, we do not know the place Cassie is, however we obtained a letter shortly after she disappeared.”

It shocked me a bit, “Missed? I assumed she was only a runaway. I do not perceive.” Mrs. Beaman opened a binder on her espresso desk and pushed it over to me the place I sat subsequent to her on the sofa. I learn it aloud.

“Mother dad,

I am with Greg, I am not in peril. I simply wanted to get out of this useless finish city and see the remainder of the world. I am sorry if this disappoints you, however I would like it. – I like Cassie.

Cassie’s mom closed the submitting cupboard, sniffled again tears and stated, “We had this perhaps every week after she disappeared, that is what satisfied the police she was a runaway.” I checked out her face and I may inform she was removed from satisfied along with her personal phrases. I could not assist myself, “Who the fuck is Greg?” Mrs. Beaman flinched at my language and I apologized. “Sorry, I do not perceive any of this, I’ve by no means recognized Greg. I imply, I do know Cassie and I aren’t finest pals anymore, however I’ve by no means heard of her was seeing somebody. A small smile touched his lips. “It is okay my pricey, Richard…Mr. Beaman stated the identical factor when he learn the letter.”

I hadn’t heard Mr. Beaman swear in ten years that Cassie and I have been finest pals.

“Was Cassie depressed?” Mrs. Beaman frowned barely and began shaking her head, then stopped. “I am not going to deceive you Julie, I really feel like I do not know who my very own daughter was. If she was depressed, I did not know. I spoke along with her a little bit longer and thanked her for her time and the reminiscences. I ought to have gone residence, however I did not wish to handle Todd alone.

I referred to as my mother at work and advised her I used to be going to go to the library and do my homework earlier than I acquired residence. She stated she would see me when she acquired off work. I hate mendacity to my mother, however I wasn’t going to inform her that I used to be going to discover a quiet spot within the woods and smoke some weed.

That is precisely what I did. After the emotional exhaustion of the Beaman home, I simply wanted to offer a fuck for a short while. I discovered my place within the woods and pulled out my hiding place from beneath the stump. I have been hitting it there ever since Todd stopped me smoking in my outdated yard playhouse… dick. I wasn’t too removed from residence, and I wasn’t precisely mendacity, as a result of if my mother or Todd requested for my location on my cell, that might put me inside 100 yards of the library.

I took a number of hits and leaned in opposition to the stump, closed my eyes and simply listened to the timber. It was quiet, but it surely should not have been. No birds, no critters and even insect noises. Nothing. I felt the hair on my neck get up from injustice. I used to be about to open my eyes after I heard a snap, as if somebody or… one thing had stepped on a department. I ought to have gotten the hell out of there, but it surely felt like my mind had gone again to childhood – you already know, “If I can not see it, it may’t see me”?

I heard extra muffled noises till they stopped simply behind me and to the left. The motion of the material as if somebody have been sitting or crouching close to me. A deep, nearly melodious voice got here to me. I’d say I heard it, however that is not solely true. I imply, I heard it, but it surely was in my head. “Retaining your eyes closed might be a good suggestion, child.” I felt a hand take my pipe. I heard a lighter spark and the sound of somebody inhaling because the voice spoke once more. “Mmm, not unhealthy. Earlier than you dismiss that, no, I am not a hallucination.

I opened my mouth to talk and the voice silenced me. My mouth closed, however not alone initiative. “That is only a warning to you, Julie. Please cease asking about Cassie. Let the Beaman be. They’re in sufficient ache already, do not you assume? I nodded. head, attempting to assume for myself. I felt a twitch someplace behind my eye and the voice stated, “Sure, I am the one the letter referred to as Greg. Cassie is with me and it is gonna be this lengthy as I want.

I felt tears come out from beneath my eyelids. I felt the pipe changed in my hand and the faintest breeze blowing from my tormentor’s path, no…not a breeze. It was his breath. It was fetid, rotten, with only a contact of musk from the grass. “I would not wish to have to speak to you once more, Julie. You are not precisely my sort, however I am going to make an exception if I have to.

Uninvited, pictures flashed by way of my thoughts; tall, slender fairly ladies, like Cassie, their faces lined with the black and white of the lacking posters… so a lot of them. I shivered and shook my head vigorously. He spoke once more “Properly, I see that we perceive one another completely. I hope there is not any “subsequent time”, Julie. I stood there shaking with my eyes closed for the way lengthy, I do not know.

I began to listen to the sounds of nature once more, the chirping of birds, the buzzing of bugs… I screamed when my cellphone rang, my eyes opened, and at first I used to be stunned to see that ‘it was black. I noticed my mother’s quantity on the display screen and answered. “Julie Marie Townsend, I have been texting you for an hour. I am within the library parking zone. Get your ass again right here and let’s go residence. Dinner is getting chilly. I took a shaky breath and advised him I would be out in a minute. I put away my pipe and headed for his automotive. She gnawed at me the entire approach for not answering her and all I may do was apologize. I write it, due to this fact I keep in mind it. I hope he cannot dig into my head and see that I’m. If he does, I may be the subsequent runaway.

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