Silent

Chapter 3

-- Mara's POV --

3 hours later the train cane to a stop. I was here. In North Carolina starting over with people I've never even met before. I wish that it could just be me my mom and Ashley... But now I guess that can't happen.

I stepped off the train trying to find someone that looked like Ms. Reese.

A couple feet in front of me there was a man that resembled her. He had her dark hair and dark eyes and fair Asian skin.

"Are you Mara?" The man asked.

"Yeah. And you are?"

"I'm Mr. Reynolds and you will be staying with my family for a while."

I nodded my head in agreement and when i didn't say anything back he continued.

"My sister told me about what happened and I just want you to know that if you need anything I will always be here. I have a son named Carter and he's 15 like you. He doesn't like when I bring in people but he should warm up to the idea of you staying with us."

What if Carter bullies me? What if he finds out about what happen and tells everyone?

I need to stop overthinking this. Im being so selfish. If anything happens I will be find and ignore it. I mean it's better then living back home with my lame excuse of a father.

After what happened with my mom he said that he only wanted us to be happy and that he was worried that she was going to take us from him.

Now I just feel like he wanted all of us to die all along.

I wish he had died instead of mom. Then I would still have her and my sister and I wouldn't have to move here to a place I've never been.

We pulled up to giant metal gates guarding the house and Mr. Reynolds spoke into the speaker next to it.

"Greta, will you please open the gates."

"Yes sir" Greta answered.

The gates slowly opened and we drove down the path to the house- wait no more like mansion.

The driveway was cobblestone and bright green grass surrounded it. There was a small basketball court to the left of the house and I could barley make out the water of the pool.

"Your free to do anything here and you can treat this just like it's your house back home. If you go anywhere though please do tell me or my wife because we would like to know if you leave. Besides that your pretty much free to do whatever you want"

He smiled at me and we stepped out of the car. We walked to the front door and he put the key in the lock and opened it.

Once we stepped inside he yelled "Carter were home"

No one answered.

I followed Mr. Reynolds to the kitchen and I saw a note on the counter.

At the volleyball

courts with my

friends.

"Mara your free to go down there if you want. I can drive you and you can meet some of them and make friends"

"Ok"

I was honestly scared to go down there because he already warned me that Carter won't like me but what about his friends?

"Here I'll go get a pair of my wife's shorts and I'll show you your room then I can drive you up there."

I followed up the staircase to a giant upstairs suite that must be his room. He went in and rummaged through some doors until he finally found the shorts.

"Here you go. Your room is directly across the hall and Carter's is 2 doors to the left. Just come downstairs when your ready."

I walked to my room and opened that door.

Oh my god. It was beautiful. Every bedroom at my old house could have hit into this one.

The ceilings were high vaulted and the walls were baby blue. The comforter on the bed was the same shade as the wall and had white trim all around it. The bed was a king size and there was a flat screen TV on the wall directly across from it. There was a balcony that overlooked the infinity pool and a giant lake behind it.

The room was stunning. I think I could get used to this.

I stripped from my old clothes and put on the ones Mr. Reynolds gave me. I quickly pulled my new medium long now brown hair into a messy bun and headed downstairs.

"I'm ready" I said.

"Okay let's go"

During the short ride there we had the usually small talk about my grades and my hobbies and stuff like that until we reached 2 big sand volleyball courts.

"I'll go introduce you to Carter and he can introduce you to the rest of his friends."

I followed Mr. Reynolds to where the group of teens my age were playing.

"Carter!" A guy turned around. He looked like his dad. That must be him, "Carter this is Mara. She will be staying with us and she plays volleyball so I thought it would be nice to bring her here so maybe she can make some friends."

"Whatever" Carter said and header back towards the game.

"He will be fine don't worry. Just go find some girls and introduce yourself."

He waved goodbye and got back in the car leaving me alone.

I waked over to two girls watching the game. One had brown hair with a beautiful ombré and the other had long red hair.

"Umm hi I'm Mara. I'm new here. I'm staying with the Reynolds." I introduced myself.

They just stood there and looked at me like I was road kill. They looked so disgusted by me. Then they started laughing at me and turned and walked away.

I could make out a couple of words they were saying like "slut" and "druggie".

I just wanted to go home then I heard someone call something.

"Hey druggie! Your up!" Carter yelled.

"Me?"

"Duh your the only freaking drug addict here. Now get on the court and play good."

Drug addict?

Where did that come from? I felt like I was about to cry. I could feel the tears brimming my eyes but I refused to let them fall.

I can't show them that I'm weak.

On the first time over a perfect set came to me and I hit it as hard as I could.

Right in Carter's face.

-- A/N --

lol the perfect kill right?!😂🙌

Only them true volleyball players will understand.

Anyway sorry I couldn't make this one ask long cuz u had show prep a wedding and a vball game I had to go to so yeah.

We won our game to which was good. Were undefeated and were going to stay that way just like last year.

Lol anyway I don't think I'll update tomorrow cuz I'll be at my horse show but I'll try and write as much as I can!

Peace out✌️

-Keely