Found

Chapter 4

TW : blood, fighting

Ben P.O.V

I watch as Mia walks out the door. I walk over to the couch where Sky is trying to work the TV out. Josh put his bacon in the fridge and then cones over to me.

"So, you seem to care about Mia a lot." Josh says, interrupting me from my thoughts.
"Well nobody should go through what she goes through." I exclaim, starting to pace around the room. "I hope she comes back."

"Well what would you do if she came back?" Sky asks. He puts the remote down and looks at me, waiting for an answer.

"I don't even know. Maybe keep her with me?" I don't even know what I would do. I just want her to come back so she can stay safe.

"Well the only way to keep her would be to foster her," Josh says, " and you have to be 18 to do that." (A/N: I know the age is 21 but for the story I'm just pretending it's 18)
"Well I turn 18 in two months! Maybe if she came back then I could bring her and then when I turn 18 I could officially foster her!" I throw my hands up in frustration.
"Well doesn't she already live with a foster family?" Josh asks. And there's another problem.
"Well me and Josh are already old enough, what if one of us fostered her for now and when you turn 18 you can foster her?" Sky says. He makes a point.
"Yeah that sounds pretty good." I say.

"Well you don't even know if she's going to come back or not."
Dan walks in, scaring me to where I nearly fall backwards into the couch.
"How much of that did you hear?" I ask, still trying to slow my heart down.

"Pretty much all of it." He says. I facepalm as I realize what he said.

"Yeah you're right, she probably isn't going to come back." I sulk as I sit on the couch.

"Well you never know. Maybe something will happen and she will come running back to you." Sky says.

I try not to get my hopes up, but something tells me she will come running back.

Mia P.O.V

I wake up the next morning to a silent house. Odd, as normally I wake up to screaming. Sadly, it was Saturday so I would have to make myself useful.

"I guess I'll just go the store." I think.

I put on some black leggings and my purple sweatshirt. I sneak into the living room and see my foster parents passed out on the couch, beer bottles littered around them.

I throw my shoes on and grab my foster moms credit card, knowing she probably wouldn't care, unlike my foster dad who would give me a beating for it. I start the walk to the grocery store.

Once I get there I grab some fruit, such as apples and bananas. I also grab some cereal for breakfast. I grab some more stuff before leaving the store. I'm almost home when I hear a voice calling to me.

"Mia! Wait up!"

I turn around and nearly pass out from the sight. Jackson is standing there with an evil grin on his face. He brings his arm out from around his back and reveals a gun. I'm so terrified that I drop my groceries.

"Now, here's how it goes. You don't move or say a word and you win. Take off running and I win." He says while cleaning the gun off with a rag.

My legs act before my brain and before I know what I'm doing I take off running. I hear Jackson's footsteps behind me as I run into the forest. I'm running as fast as I can, but due to my previous injuries I'm alot slower than I would like to be. I'm about to make a turn when Jackson jumps on my back and tackles me to the ground. He punches me in the gut. Punch after punch, kick after kick. I can't take it anymore. Before I know what I'm doing I grab his fists and throw Jackson off of me. I scramble to my feet, not caring how much it hurts, and take off running. Well it was more like hobbling due to my sore body.

I'm  about to make it to the exit of the forest when I  hear it.

A gunshot.

I feel an unbearable pain in my thigh.  Ignoring the severe pain I hobble into the streets. By now I'm sobbing in pain. I look down and see blood soaking through my leggings. I start to feel lightheaded. I don't know where to go. The hospital is too far and there is no way I'm going back home. And that's when I realize my only option.

Ben.

I walk as fast as I can down the busy sidewalk to the hotel. I notice people giving me strange looks. I ignore them and focus on getting to the hotel with this amount of pain.
I finally arrive at the hotel. I'm about to walk in when I start to feel very dizzy.

Next thing I know I'm falling to the ground as darkness overcomes me.

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Hope y'all enjoyed this chapter. I tried to make it as long as I could.

Is it just me or does anyone else want to hear Ben Cook sing Santa Fe?