Salvation

Chapter 7

Sorry it took me so long to write this chapter.

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//Melisa\\

We arrive at his house about 20 minutes after we left the bowling alley.

"Where's your mom?" I ask as we walk in. Four dogs immediately crowd around my feet and begin to bark.

"That's Gretta, River, Vixen, and Jordan." he says as he points to each dog. "She's not home right now but she will be later." he says, taking my hand and leading me down the hallway.

"Umm... Should I be here if your mom isn't?" I say a little unsteady.

"It's fine. Honestly, she won't care."

He opens the door to his bedroom and guides me in. I stand in the door way looking at his room. His bed is to the right of the door when you walk in. Its a twin size bed with dark blue sheets and a dark wooden frame. To the left of the doorway is a grey couch cluttered with different color t-shirts, shorts, jeans, and an assortment of hoodies. There's one hoodie on top that stands out. Its bright blue with what seems like a little black box with lightning on it. He has a little table in front of the couch which has a glass of tea on it and two Xbox controllers. He also has a bookshelf in the top left corner of his room. The bottom two shelves are full of books. The other three shelves are full of Power Ranger stuff. Including the top of the book shelf. To the right of the book shelf is his TV. To the right of that is his computer desk and his computer chair. It spins. He has a really cool clock sitting next to his computer. It has lights on a little thing and it goes back and forth like a metronome, but it's silent. The clock reads 9:20pm. His closet is in the top right corner of his room and then we come back to him. Him, sitting on his bed looking at me and smiling.

"You can come in you know." he says, laughing a little. "I won't bite." he says as he pats the empty spot beside him on his bed.

"Your room is pretty cool." I say as I walk over to him and sit beside him.

"Thanks. My mom didn't change anything in my room while I was gone. So when I came back I got to keep a lot of the stuff I already had. I really love Power Rangers. If you couldn't tell." He says with a little laugh.

"No, couldn't tell at all." I laugh. "Must be nice." I say looking down at my hands in my lap.

"Yeah. What does your room look like? I wanna know the "at home" version of Ms. Melisa Marie Moore."

"Oh dear, you still remember that?" i say as i begin to blush. I hated my full name. Too many "M's"

"Yeah i still remember." he says with a laugh.

"Well...my room is also kinda my living room and my bathroom is outside and.."

"Wait, you aren't living with your parents." he says. Interrupting me. Almost yelling at me.

"By the time I got away my family had already moved.."

"Then why didn't you track them down?!" he yells. Interrupting me again.

"It's not that easy!"

"Yeah it is! Just go to the police station... or anywhere! Just why didn't you try?!" he sounds like he's on the verge of tears now.

"Because if they really loved me and wanted me they wouldn't have moved! And because they moved that means they stopped looking! Which means they stopped caring! So why should I be with a family who doesn't love me or doesn't even want to look for me?!" I say with tears running down my cheeks. "and plus...I did try..."