temporary home

Addie's POV

I wake up to light streaming through the window. It's the afternoon. I check the clock and it reads 2:34.
(a/n she's a really smart 4 year old k?)
I try to get up, but everything hurts. Especially my legs. I pull myself to a sitting position and check my legs. They're swollen and I can't move one of them. At least if I don't leave my room I won't be beaten by Kiara again. I kind of have to pee, but I'll deal with that if it gets worse. I look around my room again trying to remember what happened yesterday. I remember the scary boys, them sitting next to me, trying to go upstairs, then nothing. Kiara must have gotten me again. I lay in bed watching the minutes tick by for an hour. Eventually, Ms. Cole comes in and she brings me to the bathroom and to have a bath.

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Ms. Cole decides that my leg is bad enough to take me to the hospital, so she helps me get dressed, then makes a couple phone calls.

"Ok Addie, the young men who are going to adopt you are coming and they'll bring you to get your leg checked out. Please be good for them, and remember, they won't hurt you" She looks at me with sad eyes. I realize that she said I am going to be adopted. I am scared, but she told me to be good, so I'll listen to the man and try not to cry. "Their names are Micheal, Ashton, Luke, and Calum. You met them yesterday"

I nod my head. Even though I sort of trust Ms. Cole I don't talk to her. Daddy always told me that he didn't want to listen to me and that good girls are silent. She leaves my room and I sit silently on my bed. Thoughts are racing through my mind.

What if they hurt me? What if they're like daddy? There's 4 of them... What if they're worse than daddy? Will they make me talk?

Even though I told Ms. Cole I wouldn't, I start to cry. I'm shaking all over and I can't catch my breath. I pull myself into as much of a ball as I can before closing my eyes and falling asleep.