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So inside me

Guides me down a desolate road

Leading to somewhere

Leading into the unknown

Nothing but darkness

All, all alone

Terrified to be found

Fucking fearing the end

Still, I make my way down that road

Clutching onto the hope

Of reaching you one day

It’s all I have to hold onto

Until I get to you again

“HEY, CAN WE TALK FOR a minute?” Lila, my adoptive mother, asks as she sticks her head into my room

“Yeah, sure” I close the notebook that I scribble ?” I ask as I scoot to the edge of my bed and lower my feet to the floor

She shakes her head as she walks intoI just want to talk” She sits down beside me “You’ve see on” She sighs “I just want to ”

“I’uilty as I feel

The truth is, a ton of shit is wrong, more than she realizes Not only have the police found no new information on whererateful they’re protectingto do when Monday rolls around, and I have to go to ood excuse as to why I’o through with my plan

“I know but” Lilaout the here the stars and moon have taken over the sky “You just seem a little different lately” She looks ather eyes “Ethan and I are worried youstuff in, especially after you found out about your dadAnd that letter you got the other day” She shudders “I know it has to be hard for you”

The letter that arrived in the mail the other day was addressed to me Fiona was the one who collected it froot a hold of it before anyone else did, noted the lack of a return address, and handed it over to the police While I don’t knohat the contents of the letter are, I’ve noticed I’ it was another threat

“Sweetie, I just want you to knoe’re not going to let anything happen to you” Lila pats oing to get ahold of you”

I do my best not to think about the father I never knew, and if he really is part of the evil group who once kidnapped s and me and who still has my sister Because, if I think about hi And the ed back into the darkness I let ownAnd I don’t want to be stuck in the darkness anymore I realized that when a ht I was going to die out there in the dark, by myself, haunted by my fears I never overca afraid

No more fear

Only fight

Forever and ever

No matter what

I’ll fight until the end

Lila sighs atforith disappoint you want to tell me?”

My sto to do

I shake my head No, if she knehat I was up to, she’d put a stop to it “I’ and stuff There’s a lot going on”

She sraduate in just a few days It see you home”

“Two years has gone by kind of fast, hasn’t it?” I realize the truth of my words

With all of this crazy shit going on with the Soulless Mileas, I haven’t had time to step back and think about how quickly tih school, and I have no clue what I want to do Most ofto find my brother and sister My search forhis body near my old childhood home They believe the Soulless Mileas played a role in his death, but since they can’t track down any of thehis life

“It has gone by pretty fast Too fast, at least for me” Her eyes tear up, and she unexpectedly throws her arood person, Ayden I’et to have you as my son”

I pat her back, not feeling as unco is still out ofthat It means a lot to me”