Chapter One
It was a few weeks before Halloween night, 21 more days exactly, she knew that because she was counting down to her birthday. She's been in and out of foster care all her life. The longest place she stayed at was 3 years. She used to celebrate her birthday, but then things got bad. She just wanted to belong somewhere, she wanted to be loved.
The place she felt most at home sent her back to the foster system after three years. She left behind friends and a boyfriend. His name is Bladen. We called him Blade. He was 15 and she was 14 when they started talking. Everything he said could make her day better. They formed a relationship when she was 15 and he was 16. Everything was great. Till they had to say goodbye…
She pulls out her phone and messages Blade “ Hey you.” A few minutes pass and her phone vibrates.
“Hey princess, how is your day going?”
“ It's been great, what about you knight?”
An hour passed and he still hadn't responded, so she decided it was time to make dinner. She knew her mom was gonna be working till 4 in the morning, and her dad was too drunk to get up. So she made dinner for her and her dad and put a plate in the microwave for her mom. The dinner was chicken Alfredo with green beans on the side. She brought her father's plate to him on the couch with a freshly made drink,. He liked 3 shots of Jack Daniel whiskey with one shot of soda. While she was making his drink, Blade finally messaged back, “Princess, we need to talk.”
“Can we talk later? I got to finish dinner and making my dad's drink, and after dinner I got to get the money for bills split up.” she replied.
“Yea I guess..” and he stopped talking for the rest of the night.
The next morning she did what she did every other morning. She woke up and massaged Blade, asking what he wanted to talk about the night before. She was afraid that she had done something wrong, so she didn’t waste any time. She sent Blade a message as soon as she woke up, “Hey babe, is everything okay, what did you want to talk about last night?”
It'd been hours since she texted Blade and he still hadn’t responded. She started to worry. She sent Blade another message “Baby, are you there?” Still no response. He goes all day without messaging her, She calls him and he lets it ring. She starts to panic and the thoughts start rolling in. “ Where is he? Why isn’t he answering? Is he okay? What did I do?” She runs over to his house and he isn’t there. Nobody is and that's weird his little sister should have been home from school by now. She sits on the front porch and hours pass. She looks at her phone and sees that her parents are going to be home soon and they expect dinner when they get home, so she walks home with her head down and tears streaming down her face. She looks up and there’s Blade. She is so excited to see him and knows he’s okay until she comes around the corner and jumps into his arms.
