𝐔𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲

Chapter • 3 - Cold and unaware

We drove for I don't know how long before we reached the police station. I was falling in and out of sleep as I didn't really get any sleep last night. Especially with the pain I'm in.

I guess sleeping on the bathroom floor isn't exactly considered comfortable.

We've been here for a long time and I'm starting to get nervous. It's now 9 am and it was 4 am when the police first knocked on the door. I have no answers and they promised me they would give me some.

Are they liars? Are they just trying to hurt me like Mary and Joe?

I'm scared. What happens if Mary and Joe find out I'm here?

Oh they will be so mad...I shouldn't have answered the door. I should've known better like Mary said.

I'm so stupid. Why did I think anyone would want to help me?

I'm sitting in a room with a tv and a couch. There is also a basket with snacks and drinks but I don't have an appetite right now. They said to wait in here but I'm this close to running out and heading back home.

Maybe I can get back before Mary and Joe find out I left.

All of a sudden, A lady walks in with paperwork in her right hand. She slightly smiles at me and walks over to sit down beside me. I back away from her a little, It's on instinct. She looks at me with sympathy when she notices.

I hate that look so much. It makes me feel pathetic and weak.

"Hi there, you're Kim. Am I correct?"

"Um, yes." I manage to say while looking down at my hands. I'm not very good at talking to strangers. I've always kept to myself and I just haven't tried. I'm always afraid something is going to happen to me if I do or they'll find out about everything.

"How are you feeling? Have you had any snacks or are you thirsty?"

"No- I'm not hungry." I cut her off, not intentionally.

"Okay, but don't be afraid to ask if you are." She smiles. She sounds nice, and I want to trust her, I do.

But i just can't.

If I do they will come for me. Mary and Joe. Especially Joe.

"So Kim, this is hard to hear..." she starts and pauses.

I look up and scrunch my eyebrows in confusion.

"Your parents both passed away in a car accident last night. The car they were in set on fire when they crashed and they didn't make it out." She tells me, sadness lacing her eyes as she looks at me. "We believe they must've been drunk driving too."

My breath hitches in my throat as I look down at my hands.

I'm speechless.

What is happening?

This can't be true, they were just here yesterday!

This-this can't be real...I can't actually be free from them.

Not yet.

I had a whole plan in set, I was going to move when I was 18 and find a house and a nice job and find a way to make their life a living hell like what they did to me. But no, that's all gone in just a few hours.

I just stare at her in complete and utter silence. I have no words. I can barely process anything right now. She continues speaking but I zone out as my mind wanders to a bunch of different scenarios, all of them equally as bad.

What does this mean? What will happen to me? Will I go to another family and they end up not wanting me? What am I going to do? No one will love me and want me.