Half A Heart

Chapter 14

Finally, everything’s done. Oh shoot, how is Louis going to get here? I decide to go back home (my family home) and sleep there again tonight.

It’s ten o’clock... No sign of Louis...

Midnight, my eyes are getting droopy...

One am...

Two am...

Three am... I know he deserves a break from me every now and then, and he deserves to have a life but I can’t sleep without him here.

Four am... My eyes close and sleep overtakes me.

~Nightmare~

I run along the side of the bridge, trying not to fall off, but desperate to get away from her. “You can’t run forever, I will find you!” She screams, still chasing me. Tears are streaming down my face and I try to escape her.

Slipping, I fall off the side, my stomach tying in knots and my eyes widening. Plummeting down, I land in the water, sinking to the bottom. The air leaves my body and my eyes get droopy but someone reaches in and grabs me, pulling me out.

I gasp at the sight of my mother, trying to get back into the water. She keeps her grip on me firm, dragging me to her car and throwing me in the boot, shutting it and locking it.

~End~

I wake up panting and look at the clock.

Five am, really?! I feel my eyes closing again and exhaustion takes over.

~Nightmare~

I’m lying in bed when I hear a knock on the door, walking out into the living room and opening the front door. I gape at the woman before me as she grabs my hair and drags me out of the house, throwing me onto the ground.

Tears fill my eyes as pain rakes through my body. I’m shaking as she throws me into the backseat of her car, getting in the front seat and starting to drive. “I told you I’d come back for you,” She smirks at me through the rearview mirror, my eyes wide with fear.

~End~

It’s true; I was five years old when child services took me away from her and the police were holding onto her... “You can’t run forever, I will find you!” She shouted to me when they took me away.

I got nightmares about her taking me away every night when I was five, six and seven... Then I was adopted and Valerie became my little sister. She was only three at the time, and I was happy with my new family, so the nightmares became less frequent and at around the age of ten I stopped having them all together.

But then I read that tweet... It said ‘I hope your mom finds you >=)’. I don’t know how the hell ‘1d_sucks_Asss’ knows about my mom but I don’t want to know. I’m even more terrified than ever because now that I’m friends with 1D, you could get my address by literally searching ‘Jessica Hail address’.

It’s seven am... Louis didn’t show up... I guess that dumb party meant more to him than I did.