HERE'S PART TWO!!!! FINALLY!!!! haha. Sorry it took me so long. I hope it was worth the wait. Please vote if you like it and I would love to hear what you think about it. Do you want more??
"Hello?" I yelled into the darkness expecting no one to answer. "Hi, Lucky." I said to Hope's dog. We've had her since Hope was born. They were together all the time before Hope went back to the hospital. Lucky looks out for Hope.
She let out a whine as she circled around my legs one more time.
"I'm sorry. Not today." I said still not letting myself cry.
I walked into the kitchen to find something to eat other then the hospital food Becky sends home with me. This is the first time I've been home in a week. If Lucky didn't come to the door I would have thought this was a strangers house. Nothing was where it belongs. Papers left around that Peter still has to pick up. Piles of bills yet to be paid and letters asking how Hope is to be answered.
I gve up on finding food and closed the fridge.
"There's left over chinese in the micowave for you." I head Peters voice.
"Oh gosh!" I said jumping.
"Relax mom. How's Hope?" he sounded scared.
"She was walking today." I let tears of joy spill out of my eyes.
Peter didn't say anything; he didn't move. I looked at his face seeing he was crying too.
I walked over to him and pulled him into a hug. He just cried.
What seemed like seconds later he pulled away and looked at me.
"I have to go see her." he said reaching for the keys in my hand. I'd forgotten to put them on the table. I just nodded giving him the keys. He gave me another hug before he left me standing alone in the kitchen.
I don't know how long I was standing in the kitchen. As I was becoming aware to my surroundings again I looked around, into the darkness of my kitchen. It wouldn't look any differend with the lights on. The house would still be empty.
My tears started coming faster now as my legs gave out from under me. I was no longer crying tears of joy. I was sobbing out of fear. Fear of what I knew that was going to happen next. And I had to just let it happen. There was no way I could stop it without giving my own life. And even that might not stop it. And even if it did it, not for to long. I have to protect her.
I couldn't move. I laid in the middle of the kitchen with the darkness surround me trying to even my breathing again. I brought my knees to my chest and my breathing became easier.
"This is not going to happen again. I'm not letting this happen again." I promised the darkness.
