Chapter 1
Fear
"mom!!" Lucas woke up in the middle of the night covered in cold sweat
A minute later he heard footsteps in the hall outside his new room, the door opened up. Deb steps inside.
"Lucas are you okay?" She asked with a worried voice
Lucas didn't answer her, he just sat there starring at her
"Lucas?"
"No I'm not okay" he sounded sad and angry
"You want to talk about it?"
"No I don't!"
Deb looked at him, she could see the pain in Lucas's eyes. She didn't know what to tell him since she didn't know him but she wanted to be there for him. She knew he needed someone and she wanted to be that one for him, the one he could turn to when he needed
"Okay Lucas, if you need anything just tell me okay?"
He nodded
"Try to go back to sleep, good night" she said, turned around and walked out from the room
"Mom come back please, I don't want to live here. I cant live without you" he whispered to himself. He was close to cry but he held it inside. Few hours later he finally fell asleep.
Next morning
He woke up and heard someone knocked on the door
"What?!"
"It's breakfast Lucas" Deb said from the other side of the door
He sighed loud, got up from the bed. Walked over to his clothes and got dressed
He walked out from the room, down the stairs, thru the kitchen where Nathan, Dan and Deb sat eating breakfast
"Morning Son"
You're not my father, stop call me son! He thought to himself
He just walked straight past them
"Where are you going?" Dan asked him
"School" he answered concisely
"But your break…"
He interrupted Dan
"I'm not hungry, going to school" he walked thru the main door and slammed it
Inside the kitchen
"What's his problem" Nathan said with an angry voice
"He is going thru a tough time, be nice to him Nathan" sounded very serious
Nathan got up from his chair
"Whatever" he said while walking away towards his room
"You can't just…"
Dan interrupts her
"It's hard for him Deb, he don't want Lucas to live here"
"You think Lucas wants to? You think he choose this?" she clearly sounded upset
Dan looked at Deb with a strange look on his face
"He should be thankful, if I hadn't take him in where would he then live"
He got up from his chair and walked into the living room
Outside
Lucas stood outside the cafe that used to belong to his mother that passed away few days ago, he looked thru the glass window thinking about all the good times they used to have here. This place was a big part of his life, its where he grow up.
The sign was still up there "Karen's Cafe"
Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty, this hatred. How did it find us? Did it steal into our lives or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us? That we now send our children into the world like we send young men into war, hoping for their safe return. But knowing that some will be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows, swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name? Is it your name?
Tears dropped from his eyes
"Mother" He said while looking up at the skies
"Why god?! Why did you have to take the only thing that matters in my life?"