Staying With My Teacher

Chapter 18

The expressions on their faces changed. They changed into surprised looking ones.

"Are you serious? I am so jealous!" said Rachel.

"Oh my god Ev! You have to give us all the details!" said Susie.

"Okay sure" I then went on to tell them everything that happened from the first day of school to now. They thought all of this was fascinating, expect the parts about my mother.

"Ev you know that you could have told us this right?" said Rachel.

"Yes I do but in all honesty, it just never came up in my mind to tell you, Ezra has been occupying most of my time," I said. They all nod in understanding.

Speaking of which I miss Ezra. He always makes sure I'm happy and warm. Which I'm not feeling right now.

"Let's go shopping!" I suggest, trying to get off the topic. I don't like being sad!

"Till we drop!" Susie chimed in.

And we did! We shopped for hours, mostly for Rachel. Every time they tried picking something out for me it was too tight or short or not my style.

Right now we are on the sofas in the waiting area. There is a guy that keeps looking over at us. He has been around us since we started shopping.

Oh, look at a play area!

"Im gonna go over there!" I say pointing to it. Susie and Rachel nod their heads.

I skip over to it, smiling and giggling happily. I love playgrounds! A man glances over at me, staring confusedly.

"Angel?" said the man that was by my friends and I earlier. He's looking at me so he might be talking to me.

I tilt my head and make a confused face at him. I point a finger at myself.

"Yes you, come here." Oh, he did mean me! I skip to him, a little sad I haven't gotten to play yet.

"Go back to your friends right now okay?" he says. Huh?

"Why sir?"

"Because it's not safe for you to be alone," he says. That's not true! I was alone a lot when I was with my mommy and I was safe!

"That's not t-" he shushes me and takes my hand, leading me back to my friends.

"Stay here and make sure those guys in the blue uniforms don't see you, okay angel?" I thought for a second.

"Like hide and seek?" I asked.

"Sure Angel" he confirmed.

"Okay!" I said happily.

He returned back to the spot he was at and I sat back down with my friends.

"We are playing hide and seek with the guy in the blue clothes and weird looking belt over there!" I said to them.

"You mean the mall cop?" Rachel asked like she wasn't understanding what I said.

"I don't know, just hide!" I exclaimed.

They do what I say anyways, and we stay hidden in an ice cream cone, at the play area.