Wait!, He cares?...

Chapter 18

I slowly, but steadily started to walk down my street towards the bright coloured lights. Right at this moment I couldn't explain what was going on in my mind.

Slowing down as I came closer to Brody's house, I froze. Do I go and see if it's about Brody? Or do I dash to my front door. I know what you're thinking, Brody's house it is. As I stepped onto the pathway I noticed Brody's mother sitting on the porch step with her head in her hands.

Like Usain Bolt I ran towards her. Putting my hand on her shoulder I asked "Mrs Jones? Is everything okay? Have you heard from Brody? Please tell me he's sa-" she interrupted me by putting her hand over my mouth.

"Quiet Bonnie" she replied softly, " My husband has been arrested, and no Brody is still not home"

I couldn't describe what I was feeling. I mean at least there was no bad news about Brody but there was no good either. "Wait what? What for?"

She reached for my hand and stood up, "Bonnie darling, some things are worth not knowing, I think what we both should concentrate on is finding Brody" she replied as she took my hand into both of hers.

"But how are we going to find him? We've done everything we can do"

She smiled, "Never say never, Brody is a strong boy and I bet he'll be back before we both know it but for now I think we should both stay strong together and look for more ways to track him down" , I nodded in agreement.
Before she turned to walk into her house I asked "Mrs Jones? Did you tell the police?"

"Of course I did and they said they will keep an eye out and check CCTV cameras where that party took place" , well I suppose that was a little weight lifted from my shoulders.

"Thank you" I smiled as I made my way home.

As soon as I walked into my room I crashed on to my bed. I couldn't get Brody off my mind, I just hope I was in his.

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"Bonnie!!" Charlie barged into my room screaming. I shot up with my eyes still closed. "They've found Brody's car!" after that sentence I was up within 2 seconds.

"What? Where?"

He scratched the back of his neck, "Umm about 12 blocks down in the butterfly forest", I ran downstairs to my brothers car and drove it to the butterfly forest, I mean who cares if I get arrested? Not me at this moment in time.

As soon as I reached the wood I opened the door and jumped out, "Brody!!!" I yelled with all my might. I ran through the trees and ran and ran and ran, "Brody it's Bonnie". I felt a tear drop down my cheek as I fell to my knees, "Come back to me"
Suddenly I heard footsteps behind me, I immediately shot up and ran to my car, as soon as I got behind the wheel I locked the doors and drove home. I don't know what was going through my mind but I have gotten myself into a lot of bad situations recently and I wasn't going to get into another one.

As soon as my head hit my pillow I fell into a slumber. My eyes opened to a faint tapping sound, I got to my feet and walked towards the window. I slowly pulled back the blinds to look down on a figure, a shadow in the dark throwing stones at my window. I slightly opened my window, "Who is that?"

Suddenly "Bonnie" a voice I have long waited to hear, my eyes filled with joy as I raced down the stairs straight to my front door. As I opened the door I froze, those brown eyes I had fallen in love with were finally staring down at me once again.

I didn't have time to speak as he crashed his lips on mine, after a few minutes we took a breath. "Brody, where have you been?" I asked as a tear of joy fell from my eye.

He took my cheek in his hand, "That's a long story but I'm sorry I left you, I'm back for good now" . Just listening to his voice made me realise how much a truly missed him.  We stood there for a few minutes, staying in the moment. We then made way to my room.

"Oh how much I've missed spooning you" he joked, I turned to him and smiled.

"Brody can you please tell me where you've been this past week, I've been worried sick"

He put his hand on my neck, "When I saw that bruise, I knew the truth already" I frowned. "The truth is Bonnie, my dad has hit me all my life and when I laid eyes on your neck I put the puzzle together, so that night I went to the police but it took them a while to believe me"

"They didn't believe a boy that was admitting he was getting beaten?" I replied.

"No not straight away, but my dad had quite a few situations in his past where he had attacked people so they finally believed me and took my dad in for questioning" he took a breath. "They told me to stay away from home for a few days in case he was let out but luckily for me he admitted to it all, so I was aloud to come home"

He cupped my cheek, "But Bonnie, I will never stay away from you again, even if you want me to"

I smiled, "Well that's good".

"But I want you to promise me something?"
I frowned to this question, "Yes anything?"

"You will never keep anything like that from me again" , I pulled him in closer.

"I promise"

To which he replied, "I love you".

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