Broken Promises

Chapter 14

****The characters and the background story line all belong to the amazing author Stephanie Meyers however the original character/s and the main storyline for Broken Promises belongs to me****

Chapter 14

The door opened and the group walked in.

Emily smiled and waved her arms around. "Well, this is it. I know it's tiny but it's perfect."

Sam laughed at Emily and walked up the stairs. Maya glanced around and observed the house. Who knew the head honcho of the hall monitors had such an amazing house...not that she would ever say that to them.

Emily sighed. "I know it has been a rough couple of months, but I promise things are going to get better. This is obviously the kitchen, and you can see the living room."

Emily motioned for Maya to follow her into the living room. She pointed at a door behind the couch. "That door is the half bathroom and the room to the far left is the back door."

Emily moved toward the stairs with Maya following her. Upstairs there were four doors. The room at the end had the door open but the others were closed. Emily gestured to the first room. "This is Sam's and I's room."

She motioned to the room across from them. "This is the bathroom. We gave you the one beside the bathroom. The room across from you is the spare bedroom."

Maya nodded her head. Emily led her in, and Maya saw Sam opening the windows.

Sam glanced over his shoulder at her. "I'm opening them to air out some more."

Maya glanced around the room. There was a bed, dresser, desk, and a chair. It was decorated in purple and blue. It was not a bad room.

Emily walked over to Sam and hugged him. She turned to Maya with a smile. "I bought all new bed blankets. I hope you like it. If you don't tell me and we can change it."

Sam smiled at his imprint. "We want you to be happy here. We will leave you to set up your room.

The two walked out. It was going to be a long night for everyone.

12:29 A.M.

Sam jerked awake. Something had woken him up.

He glanced at Emily. She was still fast asleep curled up beside him.

Sam glanced at the door as he heard a whimper from outside the room.

He slowly untangled himself from Emily and got out of bed.

Sam walked out of his room and walked over to Maya's room.

Knock knock knock

"Maya, you awake?" Sam called.

Sam opened the door to see Maya sitting on the bed rocking back and forth.

Maya never said a word. She was in so much pain. She squeezed her eyes closed but tears still ran down her face. A flash of pain caused her to grip her upper arms tighter with her hands. Everything hurts so bad right now.

Sam walked over and sat down beside her. "Withdraw?"

Maya opened her eyes and nodded. "Please can I just have a little alcohol or LSD? Just enough to stop the pain. Please Sam. I'm dying. I'll do anything. Please."

Sam slowly shook his head. "Can't do that Maya."

Maya burst into tears. Why were they doing this to her? She had never done anything to anyone on the reservation.

Sam brought the girl to his chest and let her cry while rubbing her back with his hand.

"It will be ok. The doctor gave us some medicine to help with the withdrawal. It will be ok soon. Please don't cry." Sam stated.

He was helpless to do anything but give her meds to ease some of the pain and comfort her until the meds kicked in.

CREAK

Sam glanced at the door to see Emily standing there with a glass of water and the medicine bottle.

Sam took the pills from Emily and persuaded Maya to take them with the water.

The three sat there for 45 minutes until the medicine kicked in with Maya finally falling to sleep.

All that time Sam and Emily tried to comfort the girl with words and cool washrags to ease the pain.

Sam picked Maya up as Emily switched the sheets out for clean sheets. He glanced at that girl's face. The tribe had failed her. They didn't realize what was going on with the teens of the reservation and Maya slipped through the cracks.

Sam rocked Maya when she started to whimper. He wasn't going to let her be just another statistic. He was going to help her if it was the last thing he ever did.

"Sam" Emily called.

Sam lowered Maya onto the bed and covered her up in the blankets. Emily ran her hand over the girl's forehead pushing the hair out of her face.

"Sam will this get any better?" Emily asked.

Sam wrapped his arms around Emily. "Yes. The doctor said the withdraw attacks would stop as time goes on. We just have to be there for her and comfort her the best we can. Come on. Let's go back to bed."

Emily nodded her head and walked out the door.

Sam followed but stopped and looked back at the teen.

I promise I will protect you. I won't let this happen on my reservation again.

Sam closed the door and returned to bed. He needed to be up soon to run patrol in an hour.