Lost

CHAPTER 7

I end up not dreaming about my mom, but that's okay because I think about her everyday. We do the same ordinary routine as every other day. Brush our teeth,eat breakfast, talk, eat lunch, go outside, come back and talk, eat dinner, get ready for bed and sleep. This happens over and over. Its been ten days now since I came back. Today the nine year old and the twelve year old were taken by different families, I'm not sure if they will be staying. Im sitting on this old dirty chair again. I was told that someone was coming,but that's all the information that they told me. After a while of waiting, This man walks up to me and greets me.

Man: "Hello my name is Charles, I'm your dad's brother, and I have just adopted you"

My life broke down when he said those words. I was only two years away from having my own freedom and then he comes. He just ruined my long days of waiting. He tells me to follow him to the car, and I do since I can't do anything else. When we get to the car he starts driving, and while he does I notice the same smirk my dad used to have when he had a horrible planned idea in mind.

Me: "You have a reason to adopt me and I know that, because you have the same stupid smirk my dad used to have. Whats is the reason for your action?, because obviously you could have adopted me a while ago,but you chose to wait until now, why?"

Charles: "You're a smart young boy just like your mom, and you are completely right, but you won't get to know until we get home it's a surprise"

Now I hate him even more. He has some features of my dad, and he had the same smirk. I can't believe I'm stuck with him, I'm glad I have learned some tricks of sneaking out and running away, so that's exactly my plan as soon as we get there. We stay in the car for what seems for hours. Later on the neighborhood starts seeming familiar, like I have been here before. Charles finally says something.

Charles: "You know how your parents accident changed a lot of things for everyone that knew them"

Me: "Obviously it did change a lot of things. First of all tho it was not an accident. Your brother was drunk and fight with my mom, so he stabbed my mom right in front of my eyes then killed himself"

Now that's how both of my parents died. He stabbed her like I wasn't standing right there on the stairs. I watched as blood kept coming out of her, and then he killed himself. He was a crazy maniac. I hate him for taking the only person that ever loved and took care of me.

Charles: "He was drunk, which means it was an accident, anyways my point is we got the house you used to live in"

Me: "What do you mean by we?"

Charles: "My wife, my kids and I"

I stay quiet because it's driving me nuts to talk to him. I keep thinking of what could be the reason of my adoption after such a long time. The car ride is so long, I forgot how long it took to get me to the orphanage. While in the car, I was still thinking of ways to escape. I had come up with so many ways, and I believe one of them might work. I was not going to stay at their house if you give me a million dollars. I thought about how Charles had no heart because he expected me to see the house and live in it everyday of my life. Horrible images of that horrible incident kept coming to my mind. For ten years I had tried not to think about that, and now I'm sitting in a car about to see the crime scene once more.

We finally get to the house. I get out of the car and look at the house. I remember so much good memories with my mom. The house is a two story blue house. Everything still looks the same from the outside. I kept standing there, then Charles kicks over my bag and says you forgot something. I take my bag and I follow Charles inside, while thinking what is the reason for my adoption?