Chapter 14

I’m hurrying to the car, aware of Winter’s condition. She might seem tough but right now she looked like a strong

wind would knock her over. The car is too far for her to walk to and I get in and drive around to the front of the hospital, violently hoping she hasn’t tried to leave on her own again. I can’t believe she tried to do that. She’s absolutely mad and the most stubborn girl I know and I’ve only known her a few hours.

To my relief she’s still where I left her and I wait, the engine running, for her to come over and get in the passenger seat. I feel bad but if I try and help she’ll just refuse again. Once she’s firmly buckled in, I start to slowly drive off, asking her for her address. She answers but in a dull voice as though frightened that I’m driving her home.

I’m still suspicious of the bruises that litter her entire body but I can’t prove anything or help if she refuses to tell me.

“What do you do in your spare time?” I ask awkwardly and she shrugs. Great, she’s going to be silent for the remainder of the trip. I try again. “So how do you like school” and sigh when she just shrugs and turns to look out the window.

a move to help her out but stubborn wench that she is, she waves her arms at me and tells me to stop. I’m not used to this kind of treatment from

as she slams the door closed. I close my eyes and try

and I pull out, looking in the

don’t trust her. There was something about the way she said it, and the way she hesitated before giving

that niggles at me. Instead of leaving, I travel around the block and park in a side

what she did clearly without being so close she

run over several times, completely

many of them. As it was, I would be having a firm talk with the principal tomorrow about his failure to protect one of his students from a vicious and violent attack. The fact they were girls didn’t matter to me. They deserved to be punished

lock. Then nothing but silence. I wait, for what I don’t know, eventually giving up. She was fine, probably doing homework. My   telling her, if only to ease my own curiousity. Part of me wonders what her bedroom looks like, whether she

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