Someone on the other end answered, "Max! where are you? Its time for you to come home! Now!" Uh-oh.

"No its not. Your drunk. I'm not coming home now." My father is Jeb. he is a hopeless drunk who clearly hates me.

"MAX! YOU WILL COME HOME RIGHT THIS INSTANT!" he was yelling into the phone again.

"Fine. i will come home. Are Gazzy and Angel home?" i asked monotone.

"YES! AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO!" he yelled into the phone and I hung up and turned it off.

"Hay, I'm sorry guys but can we stay here tonight? Jeb is drunk again," I asked, knowing the answer. this has happened countless times since we were little. I would end up taking my brother and sister and we would all stay the night here.

"Sure sweety! do you want a ride home to get the little ones?" Dr. Martinez was like my other mom. she was so nice!

"Yah." I turned to fang, Iggy and nudge, "I need to go get the little ones. we will be right back."

With that we got our coats and left. When we got to my house I went in and peeked into the living room. Jeb was sleeping on the couch with 3 empty bottles of scotch and one half full one. I went upstairs and opened the door to Angel's room. Empty. I tried Gazzy's room and found them sitting on the bed listening to the iPod nano I got them for Christmas a couple of years ago. I walked up to the bed and they took out the earphones. "Hay, are you guys ok?"

They didn't say anything, they just nodded their heads and I could tell they were scared out of their wits.

"Ok well I want both of you to go pack a change of clothes and some PJ's and meet me back here Ok?"

They nodded and Gazzy got a back pack and started putting clothes in it while Angel went to her room to do the same. I went and packed the same thing in my room then went back in Gazzy's room to find them all ready to go. "I'm just going to go wright a note and I'll be right back ok?"

They nodded again and mumbled ok quietly. I kissed to tops of their heads and crept as fast as I dared down the stairs. I found some paper and a marker in the kitchen and wrote "Went to get dinner for kids -Max" and put it on the fridge with a magnet. as I was on my way up stairs I heard Jeb mumbling something so I went a little faster, knowing he would be looking for us momentarily.

Gazzy and Angel were still in Gazzy's room but they had already opened the door to a crawl space we found that leads to a balcony. I hurried them in and as soon as I got in myself in closed the door and heard Jeb coming into Gazzy's room. He didn't know about the crawl space so he would go to look for us in another room before he came outside. When he left the room we started to quietly fast-crawl to the other side. when we were all out we threw our things over the railing into a bush, like we had done many times before then we climbed down over the railing. When we were all down we ran to the car where Dr. Martinez was waiting and got in.


Yes, i know that i absoloutly suck with capitalization and punctuation. i tried to fix it for this chapter but i have a question on the punctuation....i have no idea what to do... when people are talking, and the scentence their saying ends in a ? or !, do i still put a comma after it? please help!

R&R?