One AnOther

WILD CHILD

Sirens sang and husband and wife were reunited once again. This time the sheets smelled a little less sour and a lot more like chemicals. Both Keller Greene and Carrie Marthens, who was technically not legally a Greene yet, had found themselves hospitalized and awaiting great danger. Different kinds of danger but still danger nonetheless.

Kelso Greene flickered his eyelashes to pastel blue hospital curtains and the sound of an old man's cough. Yes! He had made it back again. He almost did the deed before Keller pushed him out. The pre-show event however was going to cause him some distress to clean up. He really doubted they would figure him out but it would be awfully rude to leave a mess upon newly acquainted guests.

There was no time to waste. Kelso Greene pulled out the IV in his right arm and walked out of the hospital in the pastel blue hospital gown. Feet slapping on the hot parking lot pavement Kelso spotted his uncle's old pick up truck immediately. His fingers lifted the unlocked door, a small town's most common mistake, and retrieved his clothes.

He walked, uphill, all the way back to Agatha on the porch once again.

He walked slowly in a hunched over stance and patted off the dirt between his toes as he stepped on the dry yellow grass which was his front lawn.

"Keller? Keller is that you? what in the world are you doing back here?"

Kelso walked straight into the dark green garage garage doors and held out his hand to the crusty red hammer that had belonged to his father.

"Carrie Greene, you're up."

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"Carrie?"

Carrie Marthens had not turned to face her father for  the past 10 years, she wasn't about to start anytime soon. He was a coward to say the very least. Carrie could never understand how two people could bring another into the world and treat them the way she was being treated.

"Carrie honey, she's gone. We are ok now that she's gone." He panted. Daryl Marthens coughed twice into his sweater.

"Daryl. I swear to god I will scream if you do not leave right now." Carrie whispered

"No don't you see? It's ok n-"

Carrie let out an excruciating scream.

Tears welled again on her crusting cheeks. There was never a time when she felt she could ever grasp sanity my the neck and never let go. The first time she ran away she might have. Away from town, ironically ,in the wilderness was where she felt the least wild.

Her whole life she had been turned away by her family, her neighbours, even her classmates did nothing when their parents told them about her mothers relations with the mayor. Carrie was practically a chained up doll who people visited frequently when people were watching.

Keller. Keller Greene is most definitely and disgustingly her loss of an escape. Carrie remembered everything that happened that night. What he had done to that kid. What he almost did to Carrie. She had planned to run away as soon as she was married. To the city where no one could find her. She had even scheduled to buy her train tickets under Keller's name before he took out his father's chipped old hammer.

If only she had booked the ticket. If only that poor boy hadn't knocked on the door.
Then Carrie would have been halfway to the city away from her mother and sane again.

Carrie looked down at the bruises on her palms and the scratches on her elbows. If she were to survive she would have to escape now. Who knows where Keller could be? Where Keller was right now?