I was wasting away, alive. Time was just running away like that. The worst part was, I couldn’t do anything about it.
After locking me up that night, I was allowed to roam the house the following day; I had no idea what to make of it. Tommy was never around. They said he had things to do and he always brought Bruce out with him. Which was good. I suspected one or the other had coaxed him into letting me go, meaning that he still would get irritated if I were to accidentally get in his way. Kieran and Adriel were with me; I had games and food and movies; I had the dogs and freedom to use the bathroom as many times as I wanted but nothing could allay my frazzled mind because I didn’t know what I was feeling, or how to feel, for that matter. Fear was definitely one of them. Then there was th
