Timeline for the day:
8am- Get down from the roof
8:15am - Breakfast
8:35am - Change/Shower
8:50am - Brush Teeth/ Dry + brush hair
9am - Ask Greg to drive us to my house
9:15am - Greg gives in
9:25am - Leave for my house
9:40am - We arrive
That's it so far.
We pull up in the driveway and I can feel my heart pounding in my chest. I can feel tears rolling down my cheeks, but I don't bother to wipe them.
We walk up to the front door.
My hands are shaking as I reach and ring the bell.
I hear yelling, and small running footsteps.
Charlie opens the door.
She hugs me as soon as she sees me. I can feel her sobbing against my chest. When we pull away, I put my hands on her shoulders and look at her.
There's a 3-inch scar running from her under eye to about her upper lip. There's a bit of dried blood on her forehead as well.
I gasped.
"What happened?!" I whisper-shouted.
A pink tint crept up on her cheeks.
I wiped away a tear from her cheek.
"We're gonna get you outta here. Where's Mom and Dad?" I asked.
"They left to go to some guys house, to get weed."
I glanced at Olly.
Olly whispered something to Greg.
He nodded.
I grabbed Charlie's hand and as soon as I walked in, I was hit with a wave of cat pee, smoke, and dust.
Olly almost gagged.
Charlie led me to her purple bedroom that I knew all to well. All of the toys were gone, except a stuffed hedgehog on her bed. I remember giving her that on her 4th birthday.
I opened her closet and pulled out a Royal blue suitcase out.
I could hear Olly softly calling William. We had brought Lucy's old travel cage.
I packed all of her clothes in the suitcase. She put in a framed selfie of her and I in before I zipped it shit. She looked at me and smiled through her tears.
I pulled up the handle and dragged it toward the front door.
On the way back to Charlie's room, I spotted my bedroom door.
I froze. I stepped toward it and gingerly turned the knob.
Everything's was there.
My green and white bedspread still lay on my bed, the chocolate brown desk still in the corner. A picture of Olly and I still hung on the wall. I ran my finger across it.
"SHAY!!"
That didn't sound like Olly.
I ran to Charlie's bedroom to find her by the window. She pointed to a car approaching the house
Oh god.
My parents were home.
