Almost Gone. || Michael Clifford

Chapter 16 - Help?

The day went on really slowly, and after a few punches and being pushed in a locker, and being called attention whore, the school is finally over. I didn't bear to walk around outside, it was too exhausting, and my leg and back hurt from being kicked down the ground.

Does this people really not care that I have feelings too? It hurts more than they think, and I think no one deserves this kind of pain. Are they robots or something? Can't they see how much I'm suffering?

My theory is that they are robots, from another planet, and they came to earth to destroy humans. Yup.. Sounds like a bulletproof plan.

Well, good luck with that robot-aliens...

I walked home with a sore leg, and my back that hurt liked hell and just wanted to lay down in my bed. But no, of course not. My little sister has to come and ruin everything. Damn you mom for getting another child.

"You're home later than usual." Sophie says as I closed the door behind me. I wonder how long she has been here. She was sitting on the stairs and has probably been there since she got home.

"My leg is sore. I walked slower than I usually do." I told her. There was no point to tell her about school, and what the robots did to me. She would probably not care anyway.

"That's no excuse." She said and walked up to me. She had a really big smile on her face. Have you seen the joker in batman? Well, that's how big her smile is right now. It looked pretty scary.

I had removed my shoes and headed to the kitchen when I felt a hand grabbing my hair and pulling me backwards.

It wasn't Sophie's hand. Her hand is small and feminine. But this hand that pulled my hair was big and thick and extremely strong.

"Don't walk away from your sister when she's talking to you." I heard a dark voice say. And of course that son of a bitch had to get Stephan involved in this.

"Let me go!" I yelled and tried to remove his hand from my hair. "Stop fighting!" He yelled back. "Don't walk away from your sister while she's having a conversation with you, you ungrateful idiot." Ungrateful? Why the fuck would I be grateful for? I hate this family, and they treat me like shit. So give me one fucking reason to not be ungrateful for?

"Fine." I spat out. "Let's talk in your room then, Sophie?" I said between gritted teeth because I didn't want to be near that asshole mom is married to. Stephan let me go and stumbled into the living room. He smelled so much alcohol and had probably been drinking the whole day.

I watched as Sophie started to walk up the stairs, and I followed her into her room. "What do you want?" I blurt out once we were inside her room. "Oh.. If I were you, I would be nicer." She shook her head and closed the door. "Have you already forgotten our little deal?". Of course I haven't forgotten about the deal. How could I? She will probably make something horrible to me. Once she is done with whatever she's about to do, I'm off to Michael's bus. I need to explain the whole situation and that it was my idiotic classmate that hacked my twitter. Loser. Why did he do it? If he just hadn't messaged Michael, we would be friends now. I could hang out with him instead of trapped in this hell house.

"No, I haven't.. What do you want me to do for you?" I faked a smile and looked at her with hate in my eyes. "It's simple.." She begun and went to her drawer to get something. "I wanna see you suffer.. Sooo..." She turned around and held some kind of liquid in one hand and a knife in her other. This family is crazy as fuck. Please.. Someone.. Just put them in mental house or something. They seriously needs to be locked in, where they can hurt no one.

I looked at the knife and liquid, and then back to the knife, and my heart was beating really fast and my palms where sweaty. I was panicking and I really don't wanna go thru this again. I don't want her to cut me and pour liquid on it. It's gonna hurt as fuck.

But.. I'm stronger than her. Why am I not running from her room? Oh god.. I'm so stupid..

As she got closer to me, she said, "Don't be nervous. Just sit on this chair and you won't even feel the cut." She looked at me with crazy eyes, and I took the opportunity to run pass her. She was too caught up in the moment to even realize what I was doing and stood beside the chair and was looking at me. "Melodie, it will only get worse if you run away from me!!" She screamed and was now running after me.

Stephan was still in the living room and mom was probably there too, and I assume she's drunk too. They didn't even notice me running down the stairs and Sophie running after me, screaming horrible things.

I quickly grabbed my shoes and ran outside. I didn't even bother to take the keys, or extra clothes or whatever. I ran and ran, and I was eventually far enough from the house and I finally looked back now, because I didn't dare to do it before, and there was not a single person in sigh. No Sophie, no stranger, no stepdad, no mom, no one was there. It was still sunny outside and the weather was okay, maybe too hot, but I like hotness, so it was completely fine with me. Rather too hot than too cold anyway.

I walked for what seemed like an eternity, and I finally reached the destiny I was aiming for. Their tour bus.

I don't care if he's mad with me. He needs to know that it wasn't me, and that I actually want him. I mean.. Uhm.. Wants to be his friend, of course.

I walked up to the bus and knocked loudly enough to him to hear. I waited a few seconds and when I started to lose hope that he was going to open, the doors fly open.

That was definitely not Michael. This guy had curly dirty blonde hair, with a red bandana that held his curls under control. He had really blue eyes, almost as the ocean, and they were really pretty. And his style was almost the same as Michael's, just a little less punk rock.

"Uhm.. Hiii, can I help you?" They curly haired boy said with a smile playing on his lips.

"Is Michael h-here?" I stuttered. This guy made me nervous, I don't know why. But there was something about him that made me feel self conscious. "Sorry miss. He just went out, wanna leave a message to him?" He says, still with his smile on his lips. Oh damn.. I just missed him? How unlucky can one be... "Uhm.. Can you tell him that Melodie was here?" I asked him. I didn't want to tell him too much, and I don't even know this guy.

He looked at me with another sort of smile now, and he raised one eyebrow. "Oh so you're Melodie! I'm Ashton, wanna wait for Michael inside?" Wow.. So Michael has talked about me. Ohmygod, I could feel my cheeks burn, I felt really special when Ashton said that he knew who I were. I just hope he hasn't said anything bad about me, but by Ashton reaction, I doubt that.

"Are you sure? I don't wanna be a bother.. When will Michael be back?" I kinda lied to him. Of course I wanna wait for Michael here so I finally can explain the whole situation for him, and maybe sleepover so I can get away from my family. But I still don't wanna be a bother for Ashton..

"Oh don't be silly, of course you have to wait for Michael here. He'll be back any minute, he usually just goes for a walk for a few minutes everyday before he gets exhausted." He winked and opened the door wider so I could come in. I slightly laughed at his respond, and hoped Michael would be here soon so it wouldn't get awkward between me and Ashton.

"Just go behind the curtains and you will find the sofa and TV. I'll be there in a sec to keep you company, I just have to change clothes." I only nodded and headed to the 'TV room', where Michael and I once had our competitions and dares.

I really hope he's happy to see me and doesn't see red or get freaked out when he sees me now.