Trust Me

Chapter 3

 “Oh no reason just wondering,” I said blushing then got my food and checked out and followed her towards our table where Kai, Shane and some others were sitting. I tried to calm myself down and make my face less red even though I was still embarrassed that I already chose to start crushing on someone on my first day. Not that a guy like him would want to date me anyways it’s not like I knew tons about this guy but he definitely did not seem like the type of who’d want to be with a girl like me. I finished eating quickly and excused myself, not wanting to talk about my little crush with Skylar and Kai and decided to walk around campus for a while until it got dark and then I’d head back to Amberheart. I listened to the trickle of the fountains as I walked under the pretty old lamps that where hung as mini street lights over the cobblestone paths leading to all the dorms and buildings.

 Soon as I was coming to the middle of the campus where there was a little courtyard and I heard the sweet music of a guitar which, reminded me of when my father used to play at night when I was little I’d sit there for hours while he played and sang. I keep walking wondering where it was coming from knowing that it obviously wasn’t my father because he and my mom died when I was 6 in a car crash. That’s why goodbyes with the parents I have now are so hard because I lost one set of parents and I don’t want to lose another. I call my adopted parents Mom and Dad but they aren’t my real parents technically, and I will always remember how my real parents were taken from me for the rest of my life. They were coming home from a Switchfoot concert one night when a drunk driver ran into them head on and killed them instantly, my loving parents were gone. Only a few hours earlier we were sitting in the living room watching my favorite movie at the time, The Lion King snuggled up together as a happy family then all in a matter of minutes later that night those smiling happy faces I loved so much were lost forever.

 At the time I didn’t really know what my babysitter had meant when she told me the next morning when I had woke up and walked into the kitchen and asked where Mommy and Daddy were, that they were gone. As a little kid I thought they were staying overnight in Baltimore where the concert was or just weren’t home yet, the thought that they were dead never crossed my innocent little six year old mind. Neighbors took care of me for a short time while trying to find an address book or something that had a phone number of a relative I could possibly live with. Nothing they found nothing.

Deeply depressed and alone with no one to love and care for me and hold close tell me “It’s okay Ava it was just a dream, it’s not real” but it was I was sent to live in an orphanage for more than two years. I was starting to give up hope that no one would ever want me and I’d never have that loving family I once had, before they were taken away from me. And that I’d be in there forever since some of the older kids I had met had been in there for 5 years. One day though a loving couple walked through the doors of the orphanage looking for a little girl and the parents I now call “mom” and “dad” took me home and loved me.

 Every time I hear guitar music all those memories come flooding back and make me sad remembering that horrible past, the time of feeling unloved and unwanted, alone. Despite the fact I really wanted to find where the beautiful music was coming from I looked around confused it wasn’t music coming from the street lights or anything. So where was it coming from? I kept walking determined to find where it was coming from, a little voice in the back of my mind kept saying maybe it is your dad but I knew that was stupid and not possible at all.

Sorry this chapter is so short the next one will be longer though I promise! Hope your enjoying my story and please keep reading it! Vote and comment please. Thanks my darlings :D