*David's POV*
"Shit man," Paul said as we climbed into our home before the sun came up. "i hope we didn't scare that girl too bad, she was hot."
"Shut up, Paul." Dwayne said, taking laddie's hand and leading him towards the bed where he used to sleep with Star. "Laddie, do you want to sleep in the bed or with me and the boys?"
"Dwayne," Laddie said, completely avoiding the subject at hand. "What was wrong with the pretty girl?"
"We scared her, Laddie." Dwayne said, biting his lip. The boys still did everything they could to keep the boy in the dark, to keep him from believing he had become one of the monsters under the bed, one of the things children like him feared.
"How come we scared her? couldn't we have been nice to her?"
"Don't worry about it, Laddie." I said sharply, I hated when the kid asked questions like this. Nobody would answer them, nobody could answer them, to be honest. Still, Marko shot me a dirty look and walked over to sit on the other side of Laddie on the mattress.
"It's okay, Laddie, because we might see that pretty girl again. and if we do, we're gonna be extra nice to her, okay?" Laddie grinned, nodding vigorously, and then stood up, grabbing Dwayne's hand.
"i want to sleep with you tonight, Dwayne."
Dwayne nodded. Paul had already gone back to the innermost part of our home, where we slept, and I soon followed suit. The rest of the boys trailed behind us, Laddie pulling at their hands.
