Hold Me Close

Chapter 23

I guess in some ways karma really was a bitch, I mean I had snuck off to see Derek and Sarah to home. In a way I wasn't even mad at her, I was too emotional as it was to add another feeling to the never ending list of mishaps that had embedded themselves into my life.

I walked along the small cracked pavement that was stuck to the rails of the bridge, giving enough room to walk without threading onto the road, but not enough for two to enjoy the walk, but what did that even matter, I was alone, and somehow I always managed to end that way.

Lights guided my walk but the darkness still seemed to over power them as the walk its self was like that of a horror movie, pitch black with a cloak of light at each post. I stopped beneath one and began to dial Sarah's number but it was the same as the other four times, it dialled and dialled until the voice at the end announced that she hadn't answered.

After hat had felt like forever due to the throbbing pain that was shooting along my right thigh, I could finally see Sarah's home. It was hard to see if her car was in the drive way as I had only turned the corner to her street, but I had hope that if she had left me then she would have returned here knowing I would follow.

The closer I got to her steel red gates the more my heart sank, but as I reached her house my heart flooded my stomach, Sarah's car was not here, not one light remained on and the door, well that was surely locked, I tried my luck anyways.

Nothing. The handle didn't even budge, and to top this amazing night off, the clouds parted and from the heavens it poured, within seconds my clothes were soaked and already clinging to my body.

I banged on the door with frustration and felt the urge to kick it as hard as I could but I denied my self that as the pain in my leg was as sore as I wanted it to be.

I walked along the side of the house and to the back entrance and with a few attempts managed to get over her back door and into her quite messy back garden.

Stepping over some rubbish and almost crashing into her bin, I made it to her back door and with the biggest smile upon my face I opened it and escaped from the rain that continued to fall.

"Sarah?" I called, but it was just as I thought it would be. Silence, and quite an eerie one at that. 

I tried calling Sarah again but still nothing, I though about calling my parents but quickly ignored that thought