This STUPID computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyhoo ... Thank you for all the reviews!! You guys truly make me feel so loved!! I can't remember being close to this happy in a long time. I just wanna say that Johnny's not in this one a whole lot but in later ones he will!! So don't worry! Or get mad at me :(
Chapter Two
It was a bloody massacre. On the floor, all sprawled in awkward positions, lay my whole family. On the stairs lay Sam, Jen, and Mary in positions suggesting they were trying to run up them. My Mom lay on the couch, my two brothers on the kitchen half of the room's floor, and my Dad beside the couch with the gun in his hand.
The sobs trying to escape were too thick and just choked me, my heart splitting severely. They were all dead! My whole family! My sweet Sam, Jen, Mary, and Cal! I pounded the floor fiercely, bawling my face off.
"Oh, River!" Johnny moaned, pulling me into a tight hug.
I heard the ambulance and police sirens pierce through the night, but I didn't move. I didn't even run over to them, to my precious darlings I raised on my own and loved with all my soul.
Some police guy pushed Johnny away and pulled me up. He killed them all! My father killed them all and then killed himself! My neighbour stood behind the officer, staring wide-eyed.
"Yes, that's their other daughter," he told the officer.
I didn't see what happened next. I just cried and cried and cried. Somehow I ended up in a police car and I was going somewhere. I didn't know what was happening, and frankly I didn't care! I wanted my siblings back!
I gave my whole life to protect them and raise them and make it all seem better. I should never have left them there! I should've stayed there or even brought them with me! I should never have stayed out so long! I should've protected them! I could've saved them!
It felt like my whole body was falling apart and throbbing harshly. I think my heart died! Everything was a blur of tears and soon I was being led into a building. I didn't want to be here! I wanted to run! I wanted to be alone!
"Sit down, please!" an officer told me.
I fell into the seat and covered my face with my hands, trembling.
"Do you have any other family?"
I shrugged and inhaled tensely. "I …" I took a deep breath, sat up, and took my hands away. "… I don't know! My … grandparents … are dead but …" I burst out sobbing. "Don't you have a file or something!!" I blurted, "He was arrested before!!"
"I need to know ..."
"I don't want to talk!!! Just LEAVE ME ALONE!!" I shouted. My emotions were overflowing.
"But I need ..."
"HIS NAME WAS JEFF WINTER!!! GO LOOK HIM UP AND STOP IT!!" I screamed. "Stop it, stop it, stop it!"
He stared at me for a while longer, then got up and left. I squeezed my eyes shut and clenched my teeth tight.
After what seemed like hours of pure suffering the cop returned.
"You have …" he said, reading some papers in his hands, "… an uncle that lives near here. His name is Rick Winter. He's your dad's brother. Ever heard of him?"
I shook my head nervously. Who was I being thrown with?
"Well, we've called him and he's agreed to take you!"
A wave of fear washed through me. I didn't even know who he was! Then the cop left. I fell asleep around half an hour later.
In the morning he woke me up and led me to his car. I guess during the night they'd done the paperwork or whatever they do. I was pretty sure they weren't done yet but I had to stay somewhere!
"Okay River. We're going to your house so you can get your stuff and then we'll head over to your uncle's."
I didn't say anything, staring out the window. I didn't want to live with a total stranger! I wanted to live … at Johnny's house or at the Curtis'. But that would never happen. Where did he live? Would I still be able to see my friends? Or would I be separated from everything I ever knew? Tears slowly streamed down my face and I quickly brushed them away.
Soon we pulled up to my house. The cop got out and opened the door for me. I crawled out and stared. The bodies were gone but not the blood yet and I was completely disturbed. The cop pushed me in the back and I slowly stepped over the yellow tape and crept up the stairs. I burst out sobbing as I crossed the room to the stairs. Sam, Jen, and Mary flashed into my mind lying on the steps.
"Why are you doing this to me?" I whispered.
"I'm sorry," he replied quietly, pushing me again.
Starting to shake, I just bolted up the stairs and into my room where I grabbed my little bag and started shoving clothes and stuff into it. I wanted to get it done quickly and get out of there! I paused, staring at Sam and Jen's sock puppets. I picked up one and examined it, memories flooding my head. Memories I didn't want at that moment. Finally making up my mind, I grabbed all five of them and shoved them in my bag. I also took Sam's ratty teddy bear, Jen's holey blanket, and Mary's favourite book. My throat clogged, threatening tears as I left that room and entered Cal and Jimmy's. There I grabbed Cal's pillowcase.
"I've got everything I need," I muttered to the officer.
I followed him all the way back outside and into the car.
"Where does … my uncle live?" I asked softly as we pulled back onto the road.
"On Jeffersen Road."
Jeffersen Road? That was the road next to Johnny's road! My mood lifted a miniscule bit.
Five minutes later and we stopped in front of a house just as dumpy as mine. My mood just crushed the happiness I almost had.
"Well, see you around, River!" the cop said cheerfully.
"You … You aren't gonna come check him out?" I asked.
"Uh … Don't see why I would!"
I glared and climbed out, slamming the door.
"Cheap town!!" I muttered unbelievingly.
He drove away without a second thought at all. Suddenly scared, I swung my bag onto my shoulder and slowly made my way to the door and knocked weakly. A few seconds later and the door opened to reveal an unshaven, beer bellied, gross man. Of course. My luck!
So uh ... yeah, really I've got NO idea what happens when your family dies and you're left alone. So I just made up the police and paperwork thing and I know it seems to easy but ... I couldn't think of anything. And anyways, I'm just gonna say this is a junky town so the police don't really care and just do it the easy way. There! 'Kay, well, please review!! I'm soooo pathetic!! Oh yeah, and I don't think she'd be allowed to go in the house and fool around with evidence and take stuff, but I'm just gonna use my other excuse and say the police don't care! And they've already threw the case away as a murder/suicide. 'Kay!! Keep reading!!!
