Chapter 2

The next few months I went to a few different homes. I struggled being around father figures which made it hard for me to find a home. This went on until I was 13 and I ran away from it all. I had about $500 by doing work for neighbors and such. I had been saving everything for 3 years just so I could escape. I knew exactly where I wanted to go and exactly what I wanted to do. I took a taxi all the way to the house I was raised in. When I arrived I saw lights inside and I went up to the window. I saw a family laughing and smiling while playing games in the living room. I started to walk to a park nearby that my parents used to take me too. I loved the swings and this bridge that was huge to me at the time, but it seemed smaller now. It was still high off the ground though. It was above water that I was surprised had not frozen over in the snow.

I climbed over the rails of the bridge and sat on a small ledge. I sat there for a while all huddled up trying to keep warm even though I knew it didn't really matter. I couldn't stand this anymore. I didn't wanna be here. Nobody wanted me. I was an orphan child with PTSD. I slowly stood up and I took a step off of the ledge landing in freezing water. I look up at the moon shining so bright before I closed my eyes.

I wake up hearing two people shouting at each other. I'm back in the hospital with no memory of what happened AGAIN! Suddenly in the blink of an eye, a man is yelling and screaming at me. "How in the world could you try and kill yourself Nev!!!!" Suddenly I connected the dots, this was the man who would visit me in the hospital! "Who are you?!" I asked and he looked taken aback. "Crap, I have been waiting all this time only to mess up so close! Look Nev… Please don't try to do this again. I'll be back for you in 5 years and I'll tell you who I am then…" And just as fast as he came, he was gone.

I went back to the system as if nothing had happened except no I had to go to counselling and psychiatrists for "help". They only made me feel worse. After about 3 years, they convinced me the man I kept hearing and seeing was just in my head. I was almost 18 and I finally had been in one place long enough to get a boyfriend. His name was Jake and he was 19. One day I brought him home. Right after we entered the door to my room, the guy I saw all those years ago returned. He pinned Jake up against the wall with his hands around Jakes neck and yelled "SHE'S MINE!!! I've waited 12 years for her and you will not take her away right before I can!!!" Jake started gasping for air when I too started yelling. "WHO ARE YOU!!!" Then he was suddenly in front of me. I just realized how tall he was. He had bright blue eyes and long red hair.

He took a deep sigh and snapped his fingers. Suddenly Jake was gone and it was just me and him. "My name is Val Anderson." he said. I responded "Like the president of Miller enterprise?" He nodded in agreement. There is literally a millionaire sitting in front of me. "Why do you keep appearing and disappearing?! And why did you say I was yours" I asked, trying to get some answers. "Do you believe in vampires?!" He said, I'm assuming he was trying to change the subject. I went to sit on my bed when suddenly I felt like there was someone behind me.

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