Never Be

Why.

After I returned from leaving Kale with my Aunt, I arrive just when they were taking my father's body away. Everything seemed distant. One of the officers tried to talk to me, but I couldn't hear him. The noise, the lights, everyhting seemed so distant. Just last night, my father was alive and happy. And just like that, his life was taken from him. Taken by Ashton.

But why? Why would he do this, when he said he wanted to keep me safe and my family. And why after three months? Why now?

All of this was going through my mind when Kale came and licked my hand. I was back.

"Hey bud, whats wrong?" I asked him as a kneeled down to rub his ear. He seemed jumpy, nervous. He kept looking at a tree.

"Is there something you want to show me?" I asked. He barked and began walking to the tree.

I walked to it and Kale went running inside the bushes barking, feeling nervous now, I ran after him screaming his name.

"Kale where are-" someone grabbed me from behind and covered my mouth.

"Your coming with me," the mysterious man told me.

I was so afraid to move so he had to drag me to his car that was parked about a mile into the woods.

Who is this man? What does he want?

"Be a good girl and put your hands behind your back. If you obey then maybe I won't do what I did to your father."

It was him! The man who killed my father!

I decided to do as he said. I was not about to let him out of my sight.