And Then There Were Two

Chapter Sixteen - The bad things happen to the good people.

There's always something that happens in your life, that you know will happen and you dread that it will.

That's how I was feeling about going home and seeing Mrs. Chester. I have to play cool and act like nothing's wrong when everything is wrong.

How could she hurt me like that? Was money that important to her? She risked my life as a child. She placed me in a home where she knew what was happening. Me getting raped was apart of her plan of getting me sent here.

I placed my headphones in my ears and began walking home. Since William was the one who usually drove me home, Jake didn't wait for me. I really didn't mind, I need some time to think before I got home.

Sometimes it's hard to pray.

Sometimes It's hard to stay grateful,

It's painful hurts, so bad.

Sometimes it hard be, me

It's hard to keep going.

We keep holding on to what could've been.

It began to rain. I didn't stop to shelter,  I kept walking. Every bad thing that has ever happened to me began to float in my mind and I couldn't stop the tears from flowing.

This song usually helped me when I was in a state like this. It's call Good Things and it was sung by two of the cast of Empire, Jamal and Hakeem. Their brother had just lost his baby and he was going through a rough time so they wrote him a song.

It honestly help to ease the pain I felt. The lyrics spoke to me and I understood.

So we'll get by. We'll see the light.

In the morning it's gonna be alright.

The circumstances, it's in the plan.

Even if we don't fully understand why

The bad things happen to the good people.

"So much pain," I sang along to the second verse. "It's still a lesson. Sometimes it rains, it's still a blessing."

The rain began to pour heavier. I started crying even harder and I couldn't see where I was going. I tripped over something and I laid on the ground.

"One day it's gonna turn into another season," I sang softly. "You're gonna see that all your tragedy you had was for another reason." I'm sure my phone would get wet but I didn't care. "It's just a temporary goodbye so you gotta keep your head high. The rain is coming down and it's pouring, but joy is gonna come inside the morning."

But we'll get by, we'll see the light.

In the morning it's gonna be alright.

A car pulled up beside me. I still didn't move. It's almost like I forgot how to move my muscles. The person picked me up and placed me in their car. My music was surprisingly still playing.

The circumstances is in the plan.

Even though we don't fully understand why

Understand why, understand why

The bad things happen to the good people.

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When I woke up, I wasn't in my bed. I wasn't even in my house. I looked around my surroundings and I guessed that it was a guy's room.

I began to panic. Suppose someone was going to rape me. I started trembling and I could feel the traitor
tears lining my eyelid.

Stay calm Skai.