Promises

Chapter 1

Rosalin's P.O.V

Rosalin looked up at the rich blue sky and pulled on her leather school jacket. The sun may of been shining but it's never warm in Amber Avenue. Rosalin packed her basketball in her Sports Direct backpack and ran downstairs to see her mother and father. "Mornin' " she beamed happily.

"Good morning, sweetie!" Her mother replied back. She seemed a bit shaken up. "Mum? What's up?" Rosalin asked, biting into some toast. Her mother said nothing... Silence flew into the room and stayed there for quite a while. Rosalin scanned her parents but no matter how much she tried, she couldn't decipher the secret her parents where hiding from her.

She finished her toast and got up from her oak wood chair. "I'll see you after school," smiled Rosalin, although she was being crushed inside.

"Bye honey..." her father muttered. Her mother didn't say a word...

Zoe's P.O.V

Zoe was woke up by her younger sister Tori. Tori was messing up her neatly brushed dark brown hair by jumping on Zoe's broken and lop sided bed. Zoe sat up a few seconds after hearing Tori's wake up call. "Come on Zoe! Wake up!" Tori was yelling. Zoe's eyes widened as she grabbed her sister's hand with a very weak grip. Tori fell onto Zoe's soft lap and was forced to stop yelling by Zoe's hand. "Shh! If the neighbours wake up... They'll do what they did to dad... to us..." gulped Zoe.

Tori glared at Zoe. She didn't know what to say. "Let's just go downstairs and get breakfast, eh?" suggested Zoe, optimistically. The two girls crept downstairs, not daring to make a sound and into the living room that only had one streak of light shining through a crack in the wall. Their mum was sat on a crooked stool with her light brown hair hanging down past her face. Her back was leaned forwards and it was obvious why.

She had been beaten...

"MUM!" Zoe and Tori yelled simultaneously. They ran over to her blooded side. She didn't say a word... "Mum? Are you ok?" Zoe shouted. No answer... A light flickered upstairs. Oh no... He was awake...
"Run..." muttered Zoe's mum, breathlessly.

"I'm not leaving without you!" Zoe tugged on her mother's arm but she wouldn't budge. Footsteps could be heard running down the hallway. They were getting faster and faster until a door shot open to reveal a slender figure.

Tori screamed her little heart out and took hold of Zoe's arm. The two of them raced for the door but the slender figure was faster...

"HELP!" Yelled Zoe. Darkness...