Elmer threw the dice and got six, but he moved seven spaces. Jake went on, as he hadn't seen it. He threw the dice and only got one. He was about to move, when he heard someone quarrel out in the hallway. So he opened the door to the hallway quietly and saw that it was Gary, who was shouting at girl.
"What in hell where you thinking? You could have hurt yourself or someone else."
"It is not a great deal!"
"What?! It's my job to make sure no one is getting hurt."
Jake could see the changes in the girl's eyes. He felt like the somehow understood her.
"Then you're awful at it."
She went into her room and slammed the door behind her. Gary stood there for a second. Just looking at the door, but as he was about to go he saw Jake. He smiled an awkward smile.
"Hi, have you settle in now?"
"Yeah, was that Sam?
Gary nodded.
"Come let me show you the garden."
They went downstairs and out in the wonderful garden behind the home.
"Did you knew that this house was one of the first ones, that got build around there in 1918"
Jake shook his head.
"We have tried to reconstruct the garden as it was at that time."
"It's very beautiful"
They walked for a while in silence. Jake could feel, that Gary needed some time to clam down.
"I can't blame her for being angry."
They had reached the end of the garden and where on the way back. Gary had clamed down so much that he could talk about it.
"It's quite a sad story. Her parents got murdered around six mounts ago."
Jake felt his heat beat faster.
"Unfortunately, she doesn't have any family left, so the system took her in. That was when the problems really started."
Gary stop up and looked up to the old home.
"She is angry, very angry. I was also that when I first came there, but here I learned that I this could be my new family. I just whish, that I knew how to get her to let us in."
In some way Jake understood Gary's feeling.
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A loud noise of something breaking, dark figures falling down, screams and the whole time that dam music. A feeling of a great loss, that hit him like an arrow in the heart.
He woke up with a scream bathed in sweat. For a moment he couldn't remember were he was, but as the rate of his heartbeat drop came it all back to him. He knew in his heat that he had had the dream before.
He looked over at Elmer, who still was sleeping. Sleeping very peacefully – like a baby.
He couldn't fall a sleep again so he decided to read a little. Gary had some days ago given him a book, which he wanted to finish, but as he tried to light the bedside lamp knocked he the glass with water down. It smashed up in thousands of pieces, but still it didn't wake Elmer up. Jake swore and tried to get out of the bed without stepping on a glass piece. He knew, that there were a broom and a dustpan down in the kitchen, so he went down after it.
Down in the kitchen he quickly found the stuff and was about to go up to his room again, when he saw her. She came sneaking down of the staircase fully dress. They saw each other in the same moment. She froze for a second, but then she came down to him.
"You haven't seen me, okay?"
He nodded and went up to his room with the broom and the dustpan in each hand. He could behind him hear the front door being closed. He felt like he had betrayed Gary, but somehow he felt a strange connection to the girl.
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They were in the middle of the breakfast, when Gary came back with Sam. Somehow had Gary known that Sam had ran away in the night and had very early in the morning went after her. She stared at Jake as she came passed the dining room on the way up to her room. Jake knew that she thought he had rat her out. He forgot, that he was carried the big dish with the bread, and it felt out of his hands and down on the floor. It broke.
"Jake!"
Mrs. Williams' voice was a mixture between angry and concerned.
"I think it would be a best, if you help me in the kitchen today. Then maybe you could learn how not to break everything."
He quietly agreed and helped Mrs. Williams clean up the mess. As he had finished his breakfast he went out to Mrs. Williams in the kitchen. She quickly put him into work. She was baking all kinds of cakes and pies, which she sold to the neighbours to get some extra money for the home.
After some time came Sam down and help them. Jake knew it was her punishment, so he didn't say anything.
They worked for a long time in silence with only Mrs. Williams's commands to break it. Then a boy came running into the room.
"Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Williams!"
"Yes, Peter."
"It's Harry. He has felt down of the tree again."
Mrs. Williams dropped the dough she was about to roll out in despair.
"I have told that boy so many times…"
She turned to Jake and Sam.
"You two better behave while I'm gone or else. Keep on working."
Only Jake saw the twinkle in her eye.
They went on working, but not soon after did Sam drop her dough.
"You told Gary!"
The voice was hard.
"No, I don't know…"
"You rat me out!"
"Sam, I know…"
"You don't know anything!"
She angrily hit out after Jake. She missed, but a piece of dough form her hand hit him in the face. The anger grew in Jake, and he took a piece from him own dough and threw it at her. It hit her right under her left eye. She threw the piece back.
Soon it developed into full-blown war. They threw everything that they could get their hands on at the other one. Flour everywhere, eggs smashed all over the walls and other unrecognisable stuff all over. They were about to run out of missiles, when Jake took one of the finished pies and threw it after Sam. She ducked down, but just in the same moment came Gary into the room. The pie hit him right in the face.
"SAMANTHA!!! – JAKE!!!!"
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Gary had been very angry, but somehow for Jake sake had he been able to take the whole situation with a forced smile. He sentenced them to clean up all the mess and they had to replace all the stuff by doing some work for him.
Sam and Jake was each giving a bucket and a cloth by Mrs. Williams, as she looked suspicious at them.
"This is just something I would had expected from you Samantha, but you, Jake – you have been here less than a day!"
She sighed and went out of the kitchen as she thought they couldn't do more harm there that they already had done.
They had worked a long time in silence, when suddenly Sam began to laugh.
"What?"
"I was just thinking about, how Gary looked like with the pie in the face."
Jake had to laugh too as the memory came back to him.
"I was so sure he was going to kill us."
Sam's eyes went sad.
"No, not you. You are friends with him, but me…"
She turned her head away, but Jake could still hear her snuffle. He went over to her and laid a hand on her shoulder. She responded to it by throwing herself into his arms. She cried and cried. He tried to comfort her, but it was like the tears never would stop. It was the tears she never had cried over her parents dead. Jake also felt some wet running down of his own cheeks.
After a long time stopped the tears and they just sat there, when they heard someone out in the hall, which made them remember where they were. They quickly ended the hug and wiped their eyes.
"Sorry, I don't know was came over me."
"That's okay, somehow I think, that I know how you feel."
"But you have amnesia."
"I have started to remember something."
He told her about the dream.
"It's just pieces, but somehow…"
He stopped in the middle of the sentence. He didn't know what he wanted to say, so he just looked down on his hands.
"I know and thanks Jake."
"I didn't tell Gary about you."
"I know. I have done it before, so he just knew, that I was going to run away. I just needed to get the anger out. I'm sorry."
He looked up and saw that her eyes were almost happy.
"It's okay"
She smiled and looked around in the kitchen.
"So what should we do about this kitchen?"
He tried to look like he was thinking and then came up with something.
"I have a plan!"