The next day HiJack stayed with me, and we talked for a long time. "So how're you?" I asked when he first walked in. "I don't know, but I am pretty sure I should be asking you that question." He joked. "Well I am pretty tired of hearing things like, 'I'm sorry this is all my fault,' and 'How ya feel'in today?', so now I am just going to start saying things like that, so I don't have to hear it." I explained. "Makes sense," He agreed and sat down.
"I can't believe through what happened you still have that necklace." HiJack smiled. "I've never taken it off, I mean that time I got jumped was the first time I had taken it off in eight years, about." I told him. "I was surprised to see you still had it when I first came back." He said. "I am also surprised that you didn't throw it at me." He smiled. "You remember that?" I smiled, "I was going to throw it at you then Mason talked me out of it, because apparently you went back to Mississippi to look for me," I continued.
"Why did it take you so long to come back?" I asked. "Um... I don't know why it took me so long to come back. I thought about it all the time though and I thought about going back all the time, too. Now I feel like I waited too long and then when you weren't at the house I spent that four years looking for you. I know I was supposed to protect you and I didn't." He admitted. "Well you found me eventually," I joked. "Yea in the one state I didn't look in." He joked back.
I was sitting on the bed playing with my necklace, when the fire alarm went off. My ears had been more sensitive ever since I had become blind, so the fire alarm hurt my head worse than it usually did. "What's going on?" I asked HiJack. "No idea, but here I'll help you out lets go." We walked out the door and down the hall, then outside. I was expecting it to be cold, but it was actually pretty warm. Right when we got out the fire alarm stopped.
"Sorry everyone it was a false alarm, just a little kid that pulled the fire alarm." A man told us and we walked back inside. "Good thing we didn't get everyone out here." The doctor said, as we were passing him. We went back to the room and I sat back on the bed. We could hear doctors and nurses running around to every room to make sure that everyone was alright.
I didn't know what time it was, but I did know that HiJack had been here for a while. "It is almost time for me to trade with Mason." HiJack told me.
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The Ruds
Historical FictionTakes place in the 1960's, a girl named Faith Borden moves to a pretty sketchy neighborhood. She befriends a group of boys and this book is about the ups, downs, and turn arounds of their lives. Was it fate that she moved there or was it the worst t...
