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Chapter Eight
*** Corinne ***
Of course, as soon as I'd gotten half way down the road it started to rain. I tilted my head backwards and sighed, looking up at the dark sky. Huge thunder clouds were gathering overhead, and one heck of a storm was brewing.
And I'm going to be out in it, I thought. I prepared myself to be drenched and started walking again, heading towards the heart of town. Maybe I'd get lucky there and find a decent place to sleep. Maybe...
My mind drifted towards my warm bed and the safety the foster home offered. I should just turn back...Sky must have found out by now, and she'd be freaking out. Mrs. Cane would be calling the police and the others would be worried about me too.
What was I thinking? Did I want to get their asses' in trouble anymore than I already had? If I went back, I'd do something else that was even more stupid and we wouldn't be so lucky. I just couldn't do that to them.
"Corinne! Corinne!" someone yelled. I whirled around, expecting to see someone running after me. But there was no one there...
"Corinne! God damn it, Corinne!" That was definitely Andre. I ducked behind someone's hedge and held my breath, listening.
Footsteps pounded along the pavement, barely a metre away from me. I didn't dare breathe as they passed by me again a few minutes later, and then once more after that. Give up, I begged him with my mind. Please...
"Andre! Have you seen her? I can't find her anywhere!" Sky's broken voice drifted towards me from the other side of the hedge. Oh, no...I hadn't thought she'd been searching this area.
It took every bit of strength in me not to jump up out of my hiding place right then and run over to her. Out of all the people at the home, Sky was the one who cared most about me. She was practically my big sister. Argh, she didn't deserve to be stressed out like this when she was still recovering from the crash.
The rain intensified, and the first fork of lightening lit up everything around me for a split second. Then it was dark again, and I waited for the huge clap of thunder that was sure to come. It did, shaking the ground beneath me. Jeez...
Andre must have shaken his head at Sky, because I didn't hear him reply.
"Oh, God..." She groaned, and let out a yell of agonised frustration. "Why couldn't I have just kept my big mouth shut?! Now she thinks I hate her or something, and...and..." Her words dissolved into choked sobs, and it tore at my heart. I don't hate you, Sky! Oh, Lord...
I risked sticking my head around the hedge, trying to get a glimpse of them. Andre had pulled her into a hug, and she was sobbing into his shoulder. Well, at least she had him. Maybe she didn't see it, but Andre cared about her. I wondered if she knew it was him who'd cleaned her room for her, and that he'd sat by her for hours while she slept.
Probably not. Andre wasn't the type to boast about stuff. That was Josephs' job.
Just then, the yellow minivan pulled up alongside them. Mrs. Cane rolled down her window and beckoned the two drenched teenagers inside, getting Charlie to open the side door for them. I sighed and sat back, listening as they drove away.
*** Skylar ***
I lay in bed that night and stared at the ceiling for hours.
Mrs. Cane thought it was dangerous for us to be running around town when darkness was falling, and so she'd brought us all back to the home in the minivan. She'd tried to make me eat something, but I'd refused. All I could think about was Corinne; where was she? Was she okay? Was she hungry? Where was she going to sleep? When would she come back?
