Changed For The Better

Intruder?

(A/N: I'm sorry it's been a whole week, I've had mock exams but only two more weeks of exams and then I'm gonna have way more time for you guys. Again I'm so sorry xxx)

I woke up with a start. My heart was racing but I can't remember why. I looked around. It is significantly darker now than it was when I got in here so it must be really late. The tv was playing some late night talk show or something, it wasn't what I was watching before. I must have fallen asleep after dinner.

All my dinner things were on the coffee table, empty after I ate. I reached over for the tv control and switched off the tv. Now, the only light was the light coming from the kitchen, and the house was still silent. Are they seriously still not back?

Suddenly there was a low creaking noise. Probably just the heating coming on...right? Yeah, sure. Just the heating and nothing else. Of course, I'm just being silly now.

I tiredly got up and had a mini stretch, before going to look for Mike and Agatha again. I checked my phone for any more messages, of which there were none. I headed u[stairs and had a quick check in the bathroom and poke =d my head into their room, they weren't there.

Okay, now this is serious. They have been gone all day but now it's so late, it's practically early! They never said where they were going or when they would be back! They can't do this to me! They can't leave me...can they?

I ran back downstairs and into the kitchen where the light was on. I was hopeful, but they still weren't there. I haven't seen them at all today and I miss them a lot. Why aren't their phones working?! Why aren't they here?! This isn't fair! It really isn't they can't just suddenly leave me here, specially not without an explanation!

I felt like I could cry. I was told this would be a good placement. A safe and secure placement like I haven't really had before. But now look what's happened! They're just, sort of, gone.Wait, what if something has happened to them?! What if this isn't about me and they were like kidnapped either late last night or this morning before I woke up?!

Or even worse, they could have abandoned me and blocked my number which is why the calls aren't working?! No! No they wouldn't do that to me, no matter how angry I made them yesterday. Besides, Ryan hasn't replied either so maybe it's something to do with my phone not working or the signal here, I never even thought to check that.

But what can I do? What can I possibly do in this situation? It's really late and I've got no contact from them and nobody else to go to and nobody here either. I know it will sound childish, and I'm not  baby, but, I'm scared.

For the first time in ages I genuinely feel afraid. I'm afraid that something might have happened to them that I don't know about. What if because I haven't known what to do, I've been making it worse? Like if they had been kidnapped, I haven't said anything to anyone so they could have been being taken further and further away!

But I'm also selfishly afraid. What happens to me now? I'm afraid that I might just be on my own forever and never have a proper home again. I thought here was like my final destination in terms of housing and family and everything, but now...

Yet I can't just go back to the dumping ground again! They all seem to hate me and going back would just cause drama, and it's way too much of a fuss to have to move back there again, only to be forced out by my age in a couple of months time anyway.

This is so stressful! Why did they have to do this to me?! Why the hell is it always me!!? Every time something good comes my way, life comes along to catch up with me and ruin it all. Why can't karma just leave me be and let me have a good life? Just for a while?

I started pacing around. Back and forth along the dark corridor by the front door. Is this what it feels like to be a worried parent when your child doesn't come home on time? Except this is worse, because I haven't seen them all day so I don't even know when they were last definitely okay!

All rational thinking was suddenly out the window. My mind was exhausted yet racing as every single negative possibility sprang to mind. they would be kidnapped, murdered! They might never be coming back for me! They might have forgotten that I exist or they might hate me!

I froze on the spot. Facing the far wall, my back to the door. There was a creaking noise coming from somewhere, I'm not sure where. It was high pitched and quiet, and sounded like it was coming from somewhere in the house.

what if the person who took Mike and Agatha is still in the house? what if they never left and they have actually been here with me all day?! what if they are going to take me as well?!! I guess then at least we would be together still.

Oh no! what if Mike and Agatha have been in the house this whole time, with the kidnapper?! What if they've just been tied up in a cupboard somewhere or in the garden!? I didn't even think to check the shed oh I never did! What if this whole day they have been desperately waiting for me to come and find them to rescue them?!

The creaking sound stopped which brought me back into reality. I took a deep breath and just listened. Nothing. It was all just silence again. why does it have to be night time right now? why do I have to be alone?

No. It's fine, I can do this. Totally. I am independent and I am okay on my own. i don't need anybody else all I need to do is look around the house. Slowly, I turned around to discover that the source of the creaking was in fact, the front door.

And standing in front of it, staring right back at me, were Mike and Agatha.