It's All Down To Trust

Sneaking Away

Sang**

    I woke up wrapped in a cocoon of warmth. Opening my eyes, I see North, whom I just met a few hours ago. He's sleeping with one arm under my head and the other around my waist. I can't believe I just met him in the middle of the night and am now sharing a bed with him.

    I must be crazy. These guys are making me crazy. It's like I'm feeling something for all of them when I know it's wrong. For one I just met them and two, you can only like one guy. It's what's normal and I really need normal in my life. I need to think about this. I need to get my thoughts together so I'm not liking so many guys at once.

    Slowly unwrapping myself from North, I get out of bed and do my business in the bathroom. Once I'm finished, I look for my book bag which isn't anywhere in the room. I huff and decide that I'll get it later. Right now I need to get to Erica's. I don't want the guys to know where I'll be until I get my thoughts together.

    Since I don't have a phone, I quietly walk into the kitchen and find a piece of paper to leave them a note. I may not want them to know where I'll be staying but that doesn't mean I want them to worry.

    Once I'm finished, I head outside. It's still dark out but by the time I get to Erica's, she should be awake. I know she works today but I could rest at her house until she gets home. The front gate is difficult since I have no way to open it. I know that I shouldn't climb it since I just got out of the hospital but it's the only way out.

    Once I make it over the gate, which took longer than I thought with a cast on my arm and a bruised up body, I'm extremely pleased with myself, I start towards Erica's house. Jessica doesn't have school so maybe I can hang out with her until Erica gets off work.

    It takes me a while to get to Erica's and I'm exhausted and ache all over by the time I reach her front porch. I can tell that there are a couple lights on so I knock on the door and wait. Erica has always been so kind to me and Jessica and her became my temporary family when my own didn't want me around. I considered her my mother figure.

    Erica found me over a year ago on the jungle gym down the road from her house. I was crying and trying to bandage myself from the punishment I had received from my step mother because I opened the door for Marie's friend Jade. It had been severe. She made me kneel in glass after making me drink lemon juice and vinegar. When she wasn't satisfied with that, she grabbed me by the hair and slammed my face into the glass and made sure I was scratched up.

When I was finally able to get up, I ran out the back door and found the supplies I kept hidden in the woods. When Erica found me, she calmed me down and talked to me until I was comfortable with her. She took me to her home and took care or me. I ended up staying with her and Jessica for a few days and it was the best days I'd ever had.

    After that, I went to her house to get patched up and stayed with her when I was too afraid to go home. She kept me sane when I wanted to give up. I loved her and Jessica even though I've never said it out loud.

    Erica comes to the door dressed in her scrubs with her Brown hair pulled into a bun.

"Sang? What happened?" She asked looking at my casted arm. She opened the door and rushed me into the living room.

"Your parents decided to bring you to the hospital this time?"

"No." I told her looking down. "I made a friend and walked to his house. I'm not sure why I did it to be honest."

    I wasn't thinking after I got hurt or I wasn't thinking of Erica I should say. All that I had in my mind was Sean. I knew he could save me. Even though he was further away, I wanted him. I know it wasn't logical but logic flew out the window the moment I met Sean Green and all the others.

"He? You met a boy?" She smiled while checking me over.

"I met a few of them and they are so kind and handsome."

"So I guess I better Stop trying to set you up with my son?" She pouted.

I giggled at her. Why would she want to set plain Ole me up with her son? I wasn't anything special.

"They are just friends. I don't think they like me like that." I told her.

"Sweetie, of course they do. They'd be crazy not too."

"I've only known them for a few days. Some of them, only hours. I can't like them like that. It's not normal and I need normal." I told her. And yet I did like them like that. They were all different yet I had things in common with all of them. I knew it was wrong. Noone should have feelings for more than one person. But I just couldn't help myself.

"Sang. You're young and beautiful. Get to know them. Live a little and let things happen. Even if you did fall for them all and they fell for you, if it was what all of you wanted it would be OK. Normal is overrated and nothing is normal in love. Just let things happen ok sweetie?"

I wouldn't know if normal was overrated. I don't know what normal is. All I know is that I want a taste of it. I nodded at her before I got lost in my head again.

"Good. Now go on upstairs and take a bath and rest. You've got more clothes in the closet. Jess and I went shopping." She smiled.

"Thank you." I told her because I know she won't take any other answer. I've tried before. They've been buying me clothes since they've known me.

"Doesn't your son ever complain about girl clothes in his closet?" I asked. He doesn't know about me because I asked Erica not to tell.

"No. He thinks they are Jessica's. Now go rest. I'll come check on you at lunch time."

    I smiled at her and went upstairs. Her son's room was very neat and tidy. The bed was made up with a forest green comforter up against the wall. His book shelf was in alphabetical order by author. His desk had binders on the shelves that I'm sure held all the important things he needed. He had a window seat that held a couple decorative pillows. His walk in closet had all the shoes neatly lined up on the floor. It looked like all the clothes were sorted a certain way although I couldn't tell how. He had clothes of all different sizes and styles that I couldn't be sure what he was really like. I knew he wore glasses by the extra set in the bathroom and the contacts. I didn't snoop for anything because it wasn't my stuff. I did read his books though, the ones I haven't read yet.

    After my shower, I realize I forgot to bring clothes with me. I dry off really good, open the door and freeze. I'm not sure how, but a guy had somehow made it upstairs without me knowing and he was standing near his closet door completely naked.

"I'm taking a shower now and then I'll be back to help you. She can't be too far surely. She doesn't drive." The guy said into his Bluetooth set up. He has ear buds in his ears so he must not have heard me either.

He moves to get something and my eyes are stuck. This guy is toned but not too much, just right. And he's got a trail of brown hair that leads too.... my eyes move a little lower.

I gasp. "Holy smokes that's huge."

**Sorry for any mistakes.**