Never alone

chapter 4

One by one they climbed the ladder quinn was the last one down the rickety ladder. Jumping the last few steps and landing with a thud at the bottom . Megan, Leo and Jane all looked around at her and Jane said "do you seriously have to do that everytime?".

"Yes , yes I do" she replied with a wide smile across her face .

The bunker had been here in the second world war as a bomb shelter but had since been abandoned and quinn and her friends had decided to make something of it. There was multi- coloured fairy lights littering the walls which they had painted two walls red and two walls white to make it homely for them because this was basically there home away from home. There were pictures pinned onto a spare piece of chip board of all of there good moments and silly pictures.

Mrs bell was the only other person who knew about the bunker. She had spotted quinn and jane carrying supplies and opening the hatch to get in she had shouted at them and demanded to know what was going and the rest was history.

She had donated a couple of things to them such as a cabinet, an old tv, a dvd player , a rug and she had  brought the old bean bags from the school she worked at.

Quinn , Megan and Jane had known Mrs bell since they were 5 but Leo hadn't known her until he was 10 because he moved from his other foster home too a couple that fostered him and his brother just up the street from the place were quinn, jane and megan lived.

They all dropped onto the old bean  bags in the corner of the bunker. Quinn thought well there's no point trying to avoid the inevitable better get this over with. " so"

"So what happened to you Quinn?" jane said a concerned tone in her voice .

" I don't know what happened your guess is as good as mine " only saying this because she didn't know how much to tell them . Should she tell them everything and risk them thinking that she was crazy or should she tell them nothing and risk having to carry the burden by herself without anyone else's advice. It was a loose, loose situation. 

"Quinn, Quinn are you listening" she was snapped back to reality by megans voice.

"What happened to you Quinn" Leo said softly with concerning blue eyes.

The way Leo had spoke to her made her speak honestly  "I don't know" she sighed. "could you tell me".

"Well you were fine one minute and then the next you had fallen out of your chair and were muttering about something".

"What was I saying?"

" I don't know just something about your parents"

Quinn thought back to the hillside and the pain that she had felt about her parents , it had been like a knife to the heart.

"Well then next thing I was carrying  you to the nurses office and I heard you  whisper something and when I got to the nurses office you started screaming for me to go and asking me why I hurt you like this , then you were awake"

"So I was dreaming"

"Yes quinn I think you were"

But a couldn't of been a dream she had felt sure it had been real.

They got to the edge of the forest and started going there separate ways home. The orange and fire coloured bricks arranged into there place to make the many houses of this street were all bright shining in the last golden streaks of light.
Every sound alerted her as she walked home and every few paces she would check the area too see if she was being followed . There was no one on the streets tonight not even Mrs bell was out. A sudden whinnie caught her attention.  Was it the horse? Had it come to take her to her parents? Or was it here just to cause her more heartache ?

She was scared to turn around her heart rattling in its cage wanting to be free. Then she remembered the electric blue unnatural eyes of Leo , it was just a dream he had said to her. She repeated over and over in her head it was just a dream ,it was just a dream.

After a while of saying this to herself quinn started to believe it . She slowly and gingerly turned round there was no black majestic horse there but at the top of the street in the field there was the two horses that had always been there there. She had been so stupid to forget that they were there.

Still not believing she was alone Quinn sprinted home the scenes rushing by her , her back pack bouncing on made her back sore but she did not care all she cared about was getting home. Home were it was safe.

Quinn arrived on her door step and started rapping on the door with her fists her grandad answered startled at quinns loud appearance . Quinn ran upstairs as fast as she could to her grandads shouts "Quinn honey are you okay?".

"Yes I'm fine grandad I'm just tired that's all"
She hurried into to her room and quickly shut the door behind her. She dumped her bag on the floor by her wardrobe and then rapidly pulled her school clothes off and put on her pajamas. Jumping into bed she pulled the covers over her head and left the light on for safety. She thought to herself still breathing hard , was there something or someone watching her?