Burning Impulse

Cut deap

*************chapter 4: Cut deap************

 Trust is a difficult thing. Whether it’s finding the right people to trust.. …or trusting the right people will do the wrong thing. But trusting your heart… …is the riskiest thing of all. In the end… …the only person we can truly trust… …is ourselves.

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I run out side. Well as fast as I can on one foot.

"AIDEN! AIDEN! WERE ARE YOU?!" I scream.

"Over here ..." He grunts

I run in the direction of his voice, only to see him pined to the ground by a fivecat. He has it by the sholders but its kicking and lashing out at his face. I try coming close holding my gun out "Dont shoot it will only draw more." he grunts still with his british accent.

He slowly raises his foot pushing against the mutts chest,

kicking it over backwards. He turns around quickly to kill it but I blink and it's gone.

Were did it go I think to myself .

"Taylor run!" I here him scream as I look around for the mutt I try to run but my bad leg gets caught . Suddenly I see a figure lung towards me I feel it dig its claws into my arm. I try to get it of by rolling to my side but it just rips my skin. I let out a slight moan from the pain. Aiden pulls off by its fur and stabs it in the head. Gushing blood in every direction.

He lifts me up and carries me back to the cabin. Im fully capable of walking by myself but Aiden won't listen.

He carries me inside and sets me on the bed. He takes of his leaher jacket and then his shirt. then rips strips and ties them around my arm. When he's done I open look up. My eyes go strait to his chest great. But I quickly realize he's hurt too. His abdomen is covered in painful scratches. I put my hand against his chest and he flinches in pain.

I look at him very concerend. He lays down on his belly and shows me half inch deep cuts along his spine. I take a water bucket and dip what is left of his shirt into the cold water. I press the cold towel against his wounds.

He bites his lip and grabs the blanket in his fist. I wipe all the blood of of him. Then I go to the cabinet

and pull out an old roll of afletic tape (remember me and my brother lived here for 11 months). "I wish you had told me about that before I ripped my shirt" he smiles causing me to smile. "You seemed pretty determined," I chuckle.

"This is going to hurt, ALOT." I rip the towel evenly around his cuts, then put every section on an endividual cut. He flinches. Then I take the afletic tape and go around and around his cuts.

After aiden falls a sleep I go out to find some water. Then  remember about our attack and go back inside. I decide to make soup. I use almost all of the rest of the water, part of the deer meat, some squirl and katniss root. I slowly churn it on the cast iorn stove being shure not to char it. As soon as its done I take it off of the stove and let it cool.

Taking slow steps on the old wooden floor I lightly shake his shoulder. He starts to moan and stir. He suddenly wakes to a start and jumps out of bed tackels me and pins me on the ground. I know what hes doing, he had a bad dreem. It happens alot when the world is crazy and you've seen half your family die. Sadly I'm quite experianced with these situations.

"Aiden! Aiden! ITS NOT REAL!" I scream. But he won't open your eyes.

I flip him over so that im on top of him. "AIDEN! AIDEN! OPEN YOUR EYES!"I tell him.

"NO YOUR A MUTT! " he screams.

I do the only thing I know will work..

I wrap my arms around his warm body.

How i've craved to feel safe..

As I hold him he slowly starts to hug me back. "Taylor?" He wispers.

"Aiden open your eyes" I coax him.

I hover over his face looking strait into his eyes. "Taylor, I thought you left" He wispers as he opens his eyes. Our faces just iches apart.

 We all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world. Friendships we pretend, relationships we hide. But worst of all is the love we never let show. The most dangerous secrets a person can bury are those we keep from ourselves.

He puts his elbows on the ground pushing him self up suddenly he hits a button I wish he never found.

It Opening a secret under ground room. He looks very curious looking as the lid rises of the top.

"How come you never showed this to me." Aiden exclaims.

I quickly rush over closing the door and standing on top of it.

He looks at me and says "Should I even ask?"

I shake my head no. "Theres some food on the stove. If you hungry?"

"Starved" He replys.

We sit on the bed with a pot and 2 spoons. After we eat we decide to make jerky out of the rest of the meat. After its finished we go to bed. As we lay there he says "so ived figured out how to fix your ankle,

its going to hurt like all-get-out but the pain will quickly vanish."

"lets do it. but tommorow." I tell him as I fall into a dreamless slumber.