ALONE AND ME

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PROLOGUE

"Mum, Mum, I want to go on the ferris wheel! Please can I go on the ferris wheel!" Little Ty begged, tugging at the hem of his mum's coat. Today was Ty's 7th birthday and as a treat his mum and step-father had driven to Brighton for the day so he can go to the fair. He thought it was the best present ever!

"Go on then but me and your father don't like heights so your gonna have to go on all by yourself!" Said him mum, her mind elsewhere. She looked worried and unhappy, but Ty shrugged it off. His mum always looked unhappy.

"Yay! Mum I love you!" He beamed, pulling her into a massive bear hug. She hugged him back, looking like she was about to cry. Ty's step father stood stationary in the distance, watching the scene with not even an ounce of emotion. He didn't step forward to hug his stepson, he didn't tell him to have fun. He just watched. Ty was no son of his - he'd never let him be.

"I love you too Ty, don't you ever forget that!" His mum told him, stepping back from the hug. "Go now, quickly." She gave a weak looking smile and pushed him gently in the direction of the queue.

Wade strode up to Ty's mother, Lily, and smiled dryly. "Good girl, Lily." He put an arm around her shoulder, smiling stickly. She suppressed a shiver at the sense of possessiveness more than anything. She was trapped, and there was nothing she could do about it.

Ty let go and his mothers hand and ran to join the end of the queue, not realising that his gut feeling was in fact, as always, true.

As Ty walked into the metal egg he looked down to where his mum and dad had been standing just minutes before but they weren't there.

Pushing it to the back of his mind, he sat patiently down on the little plastic seat; telling himself that they were simply going to get a coffee - ignoring the little fact Wade hated coffee. Anything Wade hated, mum had to hate too. But he didn't care, he was on the ferris wheel.

The higher the wheel got and the further Ty could see; he became increasingly unnerved by the fact that he couldn't see his parents anywhere. When he was high enough to be able to see into the car park; his eyes scanned through all the multi coloured cars; searching for his parents volkswagen that had been parked 10 minutes before.

It was missing.

Instead of the silver car he was longing to see he just saw what looked like his Thomas The Tank Engine suitcase that he had sworn was at home under his bed.

A surge of panic washed over his body, he wanted to get down, and he wanted to get down now. "STOP!" He screamed before he could even process what he was doing. The ferris wheel screeched to a stop and he stood shocked as he tried to steady himself and the rocking shell.

They weren't far from the bottom now and before he could even think twice, he jumped. And all he heard was the deafening crack, before everything went black.