Just Breathe

chapter three

Virgil

as school started back up I stayed at home, next year I would be joining Thomas and morgan in their senior year to finish school. but as everyone left to do work I was left alone at home, on a Wednesday afternoon morgan, roman and I talked a little about the past but we never expected what happened on Sunday, roman had gone for his usual run in the morning since when I woke up he was already gone, but around 12 we heard the bell rang 'ill get it' roman said. Logan went to the front door when he heard the screaming 'where is she!?' I heard again. roman came back and he looked a little scared 'who is it?' I asked 'i have no idea, but he says he's related to morgan, but that cant be' roman said 'ill go to her' I muttered to him. I got up and went to morgans room 'hey so someone's here that says he's related to you, but he's Kinda shady' I told her, we sat down on the couch in her room and I explained what was going on downstairs.

I was just done explaining when the door flew open and a white-haired boy with reddish-brown eyes, at least the same age as Patton stood before us, morgan stood up 'carter?' I was more of a question than a statement. after that the guy just walked up to her and hugged her. soon after Morgan took a step back 'you bleached your hear and colored it, I never expected that' she said 'i came as soon as I could, your really hard to find you know' he said, referring to what happened two weeks ago, but why was he here 'sir I'm going to ask you one last time, if you don't leave I'm going to have to call the police' logan stood in the door, phone in hand 'it's alright logan, this is my brother carter, well be down in a bit, we just have some private stuff to go over first' morgan said 'Virgil, do you wanna help?' she asked as she turned to me 'sure' we talked a bit over what needed to happen and carter called some people to get everything arranged for the funeral 'when did you learn to play the violin?' he asked suddenly, pointing towards the case that stood at the end of her bed 'a while back why?' she asked him 'why don't you play on the funeral' he asked her 'im sorry I can't, it's still a work in progress' she said, the pain lased her voice, 'alright'

after we were finally done we all moved downstairs, everyone was in the living room 'guys let me introduce you to carter he is my brother, carter these are Patton, logan, roman, and Thomas she said and mentioned him to sit down. the others talked a bit when it came up that morgan ran away 'so she was quite the troublemaker when she was little' Patton said 'yeah she got quite a lot in trouble in her last years of middle school, and then I'm not speaking of when she ad ran away when she was 11, only to show up 5 years later, until this day it's still a mystery where she went' carter said 'i'm going to start on dinner' morgan said 'carter would you like to stay for dinner?' Patton asked and he nodded. not long after roman said he was going to help her, after all, he was the only one except for me who knew what had happened to make that event happen

*flashback*

'so why did you actually run away' Roman asked, this shocked me and Morgan both, she took a deep breath before looking away 'it's complicated' she started 'but... you can know it' she let out a deep sigh, only to take another deep shaky breath before telling the story 'so ever since I was 8 I was bullied in school, but around the age of 10, it got worse because I was smarter than all the others and also because my parents were rich, so when I turned 11 my parents had invited my whole class to come to one of those stupid kids parties. One of them came up to me and said they had a "surprise" for me. So we went outside, as soon as we were outside I was blindfolded, and my hands were tied together before they had blindfolded me I saw that there was a car pulled up in front. What followed was that they put me in the trunk of the car and we drove for a solid 30 minutes and walked another 10 once we had arrived. After we had finally stopped they tied me to something and started to beat me up and after what felt like forever they stopped and left. I know that I was out until morning, eventually, I found my way out of there and walked on the side of the road for hours, until a police officer saw me and drove me home. Once home I took a bag and took only the necessary stuff like some clothes a lot of money in cash, and some documents and left. I bought a cabin near the woods in Rochelle when I was 9, no one at home knew about this so went there. I fixed computers for money so I could go on for a while and soon after I met Virgil and the others, then stuff happened and he left. And I went back home.' She told roman 'I know what it's like to be bullied because you being a rich kid' he said ' but do you know how it's like to be bullied by your whole class and being beaten up by your brother only to be left behind and only hear his laughed afterward, and to find out later, he was the one who planned this and that the original plan was to beat you to death because he hates you because you're smarter than him, do you know how that feels roman' she turned around and looked at me before walking away.