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Chapter 9 Go to Sleep

Chapter 9 [Adora's POV]

When I got to my room I threw myself on my bed face first. I was mentally exhausted and was just hoping that everything would fix itself on it's own. I just wanted my life to be normal for once but no the universe just has to screw me over. It's not like just two weeks ago I watched a video with my parents death recorded on it or anything like that. I think the world just hates me it's the only way to explain why my life wanted to go to shit today. Ugh come on Adora you can't think like this you're sixteen now you need to handle your problems in a more mature way than blaming it on the universe. Okay so maybe I'm losing the people I've hung around since I was three but I don't think that's my fault. Who made the rule that I couldn't talk to other people and it's only been two weeks? I can see if it had been a month or longer but two weeks, and I wasn't even avoiding them they just didn't want to hang out with Daniel that's not my fault. I need some fresh air or my head might seriously explode.

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I was on the swings at the little playground behind the orphanage. I was by myself except for three little kids playing on the slide. It was peaceful even with their loud gleeful screams going down the slide as if it were a roller coaster. Seeing them makes me wish I could turn back time to the good old days, the days before the orphanage. To the times that are fuzzy in my memories but even so I can swear they're better than now.

Out of the corner of my eye I swore I saw someone standing at the edge of the building but when I looked up fully nothing was there. See now all this crap about me having a stalker is making my paranoia spike. I need this notion out of my head or I'll always be looking over my shoulder, maybe it was just a supervisor or something. I'll just go check it out and dismiss thee idea once and for all.

With that thought in mind I started on my way to the building. I slowly crept to the corner, I'll just peek around and no one will be there. When I finally worked up the courage I jumped out from where I was standing to come face to face to nothing. See I knew nothing was there I had no reason to be scared. I turned around ready to go back inside when I ran into a body.

"Looky who I found all by themselves."

I looked up into Adam's eyes that were dilated and unfocused and said "Hey Adam are you okay, you don't look too good?"

He reached out and started caressing my cheek while saying "I'm always good when I have you Adora you make it all better."

I stepped back away from him I don't like this, why is he acting like that. This is weird I think I should just go inside. Before I could make a run for it Adam slammed me against the wall and pinned me there. My head was throbbing and my vision was becoming spotty.

"Adam what are you doing? Let me go." I tried to sound to sound stern and confident but it came out weak and shaky.

He sneered and said "I can't do that Adora, the second I let you go you're going to run to that creep. I don't like him, he said a lot of mean things to me and you didn't even defend me."

He put his face in the crook of my neck rubbing his nose on my skin. I couldn't help but shudder in disgust at the act. I need to get out of his hold and make it to the door, if I can just get to the door I'll be in the clear. I began to struggle in his hold and thrash about until my knee hit his private parts. He groaned and released me but to my dismay he recovered and quickly slammed me to the ground.

He stood over me and said "Now that wasn't very nice what if you really hurt me?"

I was shaking I was completely petrified just simply terrified of what he might do to me.

"So what you can't speak to me now? You can talk to Daniel but not me? Huh, answer me Adora what's so special about him what does he have that I don't?"

He continuously slammed me to the ground with every word in a relentless effort to get me to while inadvertently making the act impossible. My head was spinning I was so close to darkness that I could taste it, just a little more and I would be gone.

"Pl-ease...st-op...Ad-ad-am." It was all I could get out with trembling lips and a murky brain but he seemed to understand because he smiled down at me.

"That's all you had to say, this all could of been avoided but you wouldn't talk. That's fine because your blood is mixing so beautifully with hair, such a pretty red."

He caressed my cheek but I didn't have the energy to move away from him. My eyes felt heavy and I was so tired maybe he'll walk away maybe he'll let me sleep.

"Go to sleep I'll find us a nice and quite place, just for us."

As much as I wanted to say something it was too late, I was gone.