Some weeks after the kids had escaped.
I unlock the lock to the cellar door, step inside and lock the door behind me, I can't have a.... Another accident like Alessia again. Or another escape.
"Hello my children." I say as I give each of my beautiful kids a kiss on the cheek. I get to Anya and she flinches away from me again. I mean, I understood why the boys flinch away, I mean it's a man kissing a man, but why her? I know she was lesbian or whatever, but she had no girls to date now, only me.
They follow me upstairs and immediately start on dinner. Imani sprinkling all kinds of spices I bought her into the food. God, she would make such a good housewife. She's perfect, always does what she's told, never fights back, makes the perfect food.
I pull a chair closer to me and pat the seat, motioning for Anya to join me. She limped over to me and sat down, I had felt bad for shooting her, but it's her fault for escaping. Matter of fact, she should appreciate me, I patched her up and saved her and her friends from bleeding out.
I sigh, she's always so hesitant, so.. boarded. All the others had warmed up to me, it took them months but they did it. It's been 8 months since I saved Anya, I told myself she just needed time to adapt. But it's almost been a year, her friends were doing quite well so why couldn't she?
She was very extroverted, she did community service, played multiple different sports, she did theater for gods sake! Don't you have to be really confident to do that? I know so many people that could never get up on stage and sing main parts.
Jericho gathers the plates to clean them, and Kit, Imani, and Anya get up to sit in the living room. I go to join them and sit next to Imani. Anya looks over to me, "Jagger?" She asks.
"Yes my dear?" I respond looking over to her.
"Do you think if I make you a list, you could buy me some more books? These are way below my grade level." She asks, not looking me in the eyes, but looking in my direction.
"Sorry my love, I'm a science teacher, not English but, I'll bring you paper and a pen so you can write your requests down."
After writing for a bit, she hands me the list that includes books such as, The Hunger Games trilogy, The Loop, The Block, and The Arc, Good Girl Bad Girl, When She Was Good, and Lying Beside You, and The Hunger Games The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes.
"Sounds like good books, I'll stop by the library after I get off of work."
"Thank you Jagger." She says hesitantly. I place my hand on her upper thigh, as to comfort her. But she flinches away from me. I've tried, I've really tried to make her feel welcome here.
My alarm rings, it's 9pm. "Alright kids, let's go to bed now." I lead them downstairs, and tuck them into their cots. I give them each a kiss on the cheek for good nights, and I lock the cellar door.
I walk into my bathroom and strip for a shower. I grab my loofa and begin to scrub my skin, I scrub until it's red. I hated feeling dirty, I hated it so much. I would rather kill my self than go play baseball or football. I don't know how those kids handle sliding through the dirt or being tackled. Even after getting injured, they just keep at it.
I step out and dress myself. I comb my hair and hang my towel up. In my room, I turn the TV on and make a bowl of popcorn. I was watching Chicago Fire, I loved the character Otis. I don't know why, but he was just better than the others.
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I don't know what it was, a tree branch falling on my roof, a motorcycle revving up, but a loud bang woke me up. I hear screams and I immediately jump out of bed, grab my knife and run downstairs to the cellar. I fumble with the lock and burst inside. The first thing I see is blood splattered on the wall, a body limp on the floor, blood pooling around the head.
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Another Jagger POV! Something happened in the basement, who/what do you think happened? Don't worry, I'll go back to Alloe's/Anya's POV, but it'll be after Jagger shot them, I put this one in the future for the heck of it, to show more of who Jagger is.
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The Vanished
HorrorAlloe's first mistake was ignoring and blocking the message, her second was keeping it secret. She forgot all about it. She was invited to her girlfriend, Amalia's 15th birthday at her families private campsite. That's when things go horribly wrong.
