Speechless

Chapter One

I smooth out my faux leather pants, keeping my eyes cast downward. I didn't want to come to the costume party but Ally insisted. She told me that it would be the highlight of the school year and that everybody would still be talking about it for at least two weeks.

I doubt that though, the only reason people would talk about it that long was because they were doing their best to pretend that they went so they could seem cool.

The swirling mass of teenagers grinding against each other dressed as some slutty version of some of my favorite disney characters seems to grow larger by the minute and the smell of sweat is everywhere. Holding in a groan as I hold my arms out pushing everyone away from me so I can get by, I make my way into the kitchen.

It isn't any better in there though, either.

Couples make out on top of the table or up against the fridge and half empty beer bottles are littered everywhere. Walking up to one of the couples up against the fridge I stand there in front of them staring. Waiting for them to understand why I am standing there I tap my foot looking around, feeling awkward.

I feel like I'm interrupting something private, even though their intentions were clearly not on being private. After they don't seem to be moving I tap the boy on his shoulder and when that doesn't work, I punch him.

"Ow, what the hell was that for?" He pulls away from his partner, glaring at me.

"You're in the way."

"Excuse me?" He ask before the girl pulls his face back to hers with her hand and says, "Leave her be, she clearly just wants to watch something she can't do." He chuckles before kissing her again and I stand there dumfounded.

She did not just say that to me. Okay, she didn't say it to me, she said it about me, but still. Not cool.

"May! May there you are! Where did you go? You were with me one second and then I turn around and you were gone." Ally still doesn't no what an inside voice was, and despite the loud, thumping music, people hear her and turn to look at us for a few seconds. It doesn't take long for them to lose their interest seeing that their isn't going to be a cat fight, and I can't help but sigh in relief.

Attention, no matter how short it is, is horrible. For me at least, Ally seems to love it.

"Are you serious Ally?" I question is disbelief. I didn't just run off, and she wasn't turned around for a second either. "I did not run off." I tell her voicing my thoughts.

"What are you talking about, yes you did." She says, genuine confusion covering her face and I almost laugh. She really does have a talent when it comes to forgetting things.

"Ally, as soon as we walked in some guy dressed as a sexy pirate practically tripped over his feet walking up to you and you stood their flirting for like ten minutes before I walked away." I tell her, trying to keep my voice serious but I end up laughing anyways.

She stands there in shock before placing her hand over her mouth, gaping. "Oh my god! That means I didn't get his number. No! He was cute though May!" She tells me and I can already tell what she's hinting at and sighing I know that I'm going to agree anyways.

"Go, I think I saw him walking into the dining room anyways with some fairy. Go get his number, I'm going to head home anyways. Work tomorrow." I tell her, and even though I'm relieved, I know it's a lie.

My home is the rundown foster care center that no ones used in this town for ten years. I can't complain though, the running water hasn't been cut off yet, and I can get food easy enough from Ally or someone without having to tell them why I'm always hungry.

"We will be back for you. Someday don't worry." That's was the last thing my mom told me before she was taken. I don't know who those men were that took her, I don't know why they took my mom. I tried everything to get her back though. The police said that I was just confused and in denial about the divorce my parents had before I was born, and that losing my mother was the last straw before I lost it.

I know that their wrong though. They weren't there. I'm just glad I managed to leave that town right away before they could send me to foster care because we had no living relatives.

I don't mind though, I know she's out there and I will find her.

"May! May! God girl, why are you in your head right now." Ally says, shaking me a little with a small smile on her face.

"What?" I question stupidly.

"I've been saying your name for the past five minutes.

"Oh."

"Hey, are you sure you want to head home? I'm fine with staying with you or giving you a ride." I can tell she isn't though.

"No, it's fine. You're my best friend. It's my job to let you go. And I want to take a walk anyways. My house is like five minutes from here." Lies, lies, lies. When will I stop digging myself in a deeper hole? She won't care anyways, in fact, she would probably have me move in with her.

I don't want that though, that pity.

"Alright, well if you're sure." She says, already inching away from me and to the kitchen door.

I laugh and push her a little. "I'm positive. Go get him before that fairy does."

"No! That hoe will not take him from me!" She yells before running out of the room and to her pirate.  I just laugh and head to the door.

*************

I rub my hands over my arms and pull the leather jacket I have on over my body tighter, zipping it up to my neck. I would think the leather clothing from my biker costume would keep me warm, but I guess not. I walk down the abandoned dirt road that leads me to the building I've been living in and jump, startled when I hear footsteps behind me.

A man dressed in ragged clothing with what looks like blood splatters on him (though I can't be sure with the dim lighting, but if the metallic smell coming of him means anything, it's blood) and has a wild, crazed look in his eyes.

"Here, it's your problem now." He says tossing me a gold book bound in leather and I throw it back to him.

"Sir, are you okay? I can take you to the hospital if you want, it's not far away?"

"It's your problem now, take it! Take it!" He throws the book back at me and I catch it instinctively and he turns and runs away back into the woods, the outline if his figure disappearing in seconds.

I look down at the book in my hand, opening it slowly. A bright beam of light hits my face and I squint looking away. The outline of a person shows and I try to look back but the light is to bright.

After a few minutes though, it fades away and a masculine voice snaps me out of me staring at my feet saying a simple, "Hello. You need to come with us." Before him and three others walk over to me.

No they don;t walk, they stalk. It's like I'm there prey and their predator.