YOURS

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As i wake up the very next morning I couldn't shake a really bad feeling off my chest, steven still hasn't come back. I just can't stay here and wait longer, I change in some of stevens clothes and went outside, I hide my face with a hat and walk among people looking down. First, I went to each hospital looking for Mary, i found her in the third one I visit, she was fine. just with an arm and half of her face burned. I felt so sad for her, she was really pretty and now she was damaged, all because of Jonathan. I told her to wait for me, that we where going to run away from this place and start a new life. Then I went to my house, when I arrived I stopped infront of my gates, just to see the big black mass of ashes and burned grass. I just stood there for a while with tears in my face. I started walking slowly to it, till my feet touched the cracking leaves and floor. I remembered all my life here, my family, all gone. Then I hear a carriage getting closer, I fast cover my face and stepped back, when I look with the corner of my eye, it was Cass. I wish I can hug her, but i wont risk her to. Shes all I have left, if she gets involved and then Jonathan feels that she's a treat he will hurt her, that I know for sure. with all that he's done, i have no doubt. 

"hey kid, what are you doing here" she said with her voice breaking

I need to stay away and don't look her at the eye. "I, I work for the community, I'm just here to clean miss" I said changing my voice to more like a young boy

"Well, there's nothing to clean here, go away, I need time alone" she said breaking in tears

I fast hold my feelings and walked away, she sounds so broken and hurt. I love you Cass, goodbye forever, i wish to have more time. I will write to you I promise. all of this I say with my mind as I walk away. I hide in the bushes that were in front of my house till she went away. She passes all her afternoon there and I just watched her, she talked alone, I wonder what she was saying. Then I go to my house again, walking around and waited for steven, what if Jonathan got him already. Oh no. I then remember they hide themselves in their abandon house in the woods, probably they have him there. I fast run over there with only my pocketknife. I stay away to see if they are around but don't hear anything. Then I open the door slowly, I don't see anybody, i walked more in and no one was here. then someone puts something in my nose from the back, I try to move but it was strong, I try till I pass out. 

When I open my eyes again, the sun has gone down, its dark. Only a vague candle illuminates the place. I look around and see nobody, I don't have the lady's glasses anymore.

"hello" I say with pain in my body

"Finally awake my love" Jonathan appears in the darkness

"Jonathan! what is this? let me go" I said moving my hands from my back, but they are tied.

"Let you go?" he laughs "for what? so you can run away again? with your new boyfriend, you seem to move on pretty quickly" he said walking around waving my pocketknife

"yes, you should learn from me" i said sarcastically

"No thanks, I'm fine" he got closer to me and got to his knees to be at my level. "What have I done so bad, that you just can love me, I just can't understand, every girl that I have ever met, I could have done anything to them, and they still come back crawling, but" he stopped, he then grabs my face so I will look at him straight to his blue eyes, that now just inspire pure terror, he had a couple bruises on his face along with a cut lip. "You just seem to forget about me, just like that"

"Jonathan you are crazy and a killer"

he pushed my face back and stand up again. "Funny, you forget you are not so far behind"

"You killed my family!" I scream at him

"I did not, the fire did, besides they were going to take you away from me. I was not going to allow that, now the only thing you have is me, all the things your father owns are mine, you have nothing, you need to marry me if you want to live" he got closer to me again now putting his hands on my sides holding the chair.