A Safe Place

Chapter one

Early July, 2014- Since we had run out of oxy Madison brought me with her to her friends place, the friend of hers was a dealer whose roommate happened to be an addict too. By the time we got there  I was starting to feel sick and in pain again. Madison knocked on the door, the door was answered by a woman with messy dark brown hair and hazel eyes, she couldn't have been much older than 22.  "Olivia, is Skylar here?" Madison asked the girl.

"Yup, she's in the kitchen...who's this?" Olivia asked, gesturing towards me.

"This is Mike, you don't need to worry about him, he's my friend"

"Alright" She let us in.

"You can sit down, I'll be back out in a minute" Madison told me as she walked to the kitchen. I sat down on the couch to wait for her to come back. It felt like it took a long time, it really was only a few minutes, but she came back out.

"What do you think about staying around a little while, and I join you guys?" Olivia asked Madison when she returned. Olivia sat down next to me on the couch.

"Uh.." I started saying but got interrupted.

"I think it sounds great" Madison smiled. After a little while the roomate, and dealer, Skylar, had left the apartment and the three of us were left there.

    A few hours later Madison had crashed on the couch so it was just Olivia and me left awake and high, she moved a bit closer to me on the couch so I looked over at her, "Let's  go talk in my room so we don't wake her up" she whispered, smiling.

"Alright" I agreed, not thinking anything of it, she then led me to her bedroom.

Nine months later- I woke up early in the morning to my phone ringing, "Hello?" I answered, groggily.

"Mike Warren?" the lady on the other side asked.

"Yes...Who's this?"

"Nicole Stevens with social services, I'm sorry to tell you this but your girlfriend Olivia Jones was found dead this morning and  you need to take your daughter"

The name didn't click at first but then I remembered, "Daughter?" I asked, that now being the only part confusing me.

"Yes, your name is on the birth certificate as the father"

I then remembered what had happened that night, "Alright, where do I go?" I asked and she told me the hospital to go to. I got ready and drove there, not telling anyone since everyone else was still asleep. When I got there I went in and found Nicole, "How'd Olivia die?" I asked.

"Well they found her in her car, they suspect she overdosed. She had the baby in the car with her, their checking up on her to make sure she's fine, she should be okay though so don't worry"

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-Paige's POV-

When I got up and Went downstairs everyone else was already up in the kitchen, "I'm sure he just went running" I heard Charlie say as I walked in.

"Maybe but I'll tell you this, I've been up for half an hour and I heard the front door close and he hasn't been back" Paul responded to her.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Mike's gone, we don't know where he his, Briggs thinks he's relapsed." Johnny tells me.

"Well I heard what Charlie said, isn't it possible he just went on a long run, I mean why do you think he's relapsed?" I asked.

"You saw how he was acting with his last case, and he was very stressed out about it. I know what can trigger a relapse and how he was behaving tells me it's a very likely possibility that he has relapsed and that's where he ran off to"