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Chapter 14

The bullet with into my tummy.

"Kid!" A cop yelled.

It hurt.

All the cops tried to help me, I pushed them away.

I kept shaking my head, no.

They didn't listen!

So I was rushed to the hospital.

I fought them and it made more blood rush out.

Then a nurse came at me with a needle.

I ran away!

It wasn't long before I tripped over a wire.

I just want to die!

Is that to hard!

Then I was picked up and they fixed me.

I'm not dieing today...

-NEXT DAY-

I was back with the cops.

"Kid, what's your last name?"

I closed my eyes and put my head in my hands.

I give up.

I don't wanna try anymore!

Why can't I be left alone long enough to die!

"Hey, it's gonna be okay kid." The cop tried to calm me down.

"I'll be back." Then he left.

I was alone.

I got up and look around for a gun, knife anything!

Nothing.

I sat on the floor in the corner of the room.

I curdled up in a ball, I didn't wanna think, listen, or see anything!

"Kid?" The cops back.

"Hey, buddy, wants wrong?" It was his wife, she's not a cop.

"You okay?"

I didn't move.

"Can you write your name on this piece of paper?"

I sat up and wrote:

My name is Ross shoR Lynch. I can't talk, never have been able to. My family left me, I have no friends. I just want to be left alone! Can you just let me die! I've never been able to get or do anything I want! Please just do this for me! LET ME DIE!!!!!

They read the letter and were shocked.

"Hey, Ross it's gonna be okay. We're gonna find your family, okay?"

I curled in a ball.

I don't want to be found!

I want to be dead!

-THREE MONTHS LATER-

Still alive.

I'm 18 now so I am by myself.

Not!

I live with that cop and his wife.

They're nice and all but they don't know me!

I don't like waking up In the morning just to see people I don't know.

I just want to fall asleep and not wake up the next day!

Is that so hard?