Save yourself

Chapter 2 - cole

I was cleaning the library so I could close up for the day when I realised the girl from earlier had forgotten her notebook. I dont know why but I had an urge to look inside. It's like I could feel the front cover pleading me to open it.

"crime photos?" I muttered as I looked deeper in to the notebook. Why would she need crime photos? I forced myself to close the notebook as it was none of my business. I'll make sure to return it to her tomorrow at school I thought as a grabbed my things. Ready to go home after a long day.

One hour later,

"I'm home" I yelled as I closed the front door. I barely manged to get my shoes off and into the cubby hole when my brother torian starts flooding me with questions. " why are you so late? What were you doing? You were supposed to be home 30 minutes ago" " there was loads of traffic on the roads it's no big deal" I said whilst starting to walk to the kitchen.

"Where's mum anyway?" I asked. "She went out to get food for dinner because there's nothing in". "Speaking of mum here she is". Immediately after my brother finished his sentence , my mother came  crashing into the kitchen. "Dinners here!" My she said in a sing song tone. I peered into the bag full of delicious food to see that my mother had gotten Chinese food. My favourite!

I walked over to the cabinets and grabbed three plates from the middle shelf. "So how was everyone's day?" My mum asked whilst dishing up the food. My brother started to tell her about his day at school but to be honest I wasn't listening. My focus was on the notebook and what I had found inside. "Cole?" My mothers voice quickly shook me from my thoughts. "I said how was school and work?" "School was good and we got new books in the library so I had to organise those onto the shelfs". Hopefully my answer would satisfy her needs and she wouldn't ask me any more questions. I need to get to my room and the less questions I have to answer the faster I can get down from the table and go to my room.