Chapter two

Jim´s pov

"Minnie…" I came running upstairs with Melinda right behind me. "Minnie are you Ok?" I stopped when I came through the door, cause there was no Minnie there. But the mirror we had hung on the wall lied on the floor, I guessed it was that who had caused the bang.

"Minnie?" I said once more. And then I heard her snivel, and I saw her sitting crouched behind the bed. "You pick up the mirror, I take care of her." I walked around the bed and squatted down in front of Minnie.

"What happened?" I asked calmly.

"It was an accident…" she sobbed. "Please…please don´t hurt me…please don´t hurt me."

"No sweetheart," I said. "We would never hurt you. I promise." I embraced her, and I could feel her skinny little body shaking out of fear and crying.

Melinda´s pov.

I picked up the mirror, and watched the front of it. It had no cracks or anything but a single word were written on it. "Listen." I blinked, and then the word was gone again. And I hang it on the wall again.

Minnie´s pov

When I could feel Jim´s strong arms around me, I felt safe. And I knew that I would be able to trust him.

"What happened?" he asked calmly again, and looked me in the eyes.

"I don´t know" I whispered.

"Sure?"

"I don´t know I swear. I didn´t touch it."

"Could I and Melinda go downstairs and talk a little bit?" Jim had gotten a strange look in his face.

I nodded shyly again, and Jim let go of me.

When they had gone, I kept on unpacking, I didn´t have so much stuff to unpack, just two change of clothes, some books, that I had bought myself and managed to hid from my dad.

In the middle of the night, Melinda´s pov

I sat on a chair and could see a big muscular man coming towards me. He slapped me in the face, and then lifted me up with is hands around my throat. I couldn´t breathe.

"I´m going to kill you," the man hissed. "I´m going to kill you."

"JIM, JIIIIM JIM, no please." I sat straight up in my bed.

"It´s alright honey, it´s just me. It was just a dr…" then we could hear Minnie scream. Jim and I looked at each other, and then we stood up and ran to Minnie´s room.

"Minnie, are you Ok?" Jim asked and sat down on her bed.

Minnie´s pov

"Please don´t hurt me…please don´t hurt me," I cried.

"We won´t hurt you, promise. It was just a dream."

"He was going to hurt me."

"Who was?"

I became quiet, I didn´t say who was going to hurt me.

"Go back to sleep." Jim patted my shoulder and walked out of the room.

Melinda´s pov

"What was your dream about?" Jim asked me. When we came back to our room.

"I sat on a chair in a room, a big man came towards me, he choked me and said that he was going to kill me."

"I have a feeling, that man Is someone we don´t want him to be.! Jim said

"Who could it be?"

"I think it could be…. Minnie´s dad."