It Started With A Song Writeing Contest

Ch 16

"Sissy?" "Yeah bub?" "I'm scared" "why are you scared?" "Are those people gonna kill us?" I look at everyone. "Come here" I say taking him to the couch, and sitting down with him on my lap. "Marcus, look at me. I'm not gonna let anything happen to you. We are safe here. I won't let anyone hurt you, ever. I'll keep you safe, no matter what okay?" "Okay" "do you want to sleep with me tonight?" "No" "okay. Well, if you get scared tonight, you can come sleep with me. Okay?" "Okay" "hey, go watch tv. I need to talk about some grown up things. K?" "Okay" i go to the kitchen and sit down. "Okay. It's time I tell you all what's going on." Everyone looks at me. " okay. Well. My parents are really big into gambling. And they got into drug dealing to supply their gambling addiction. They owed some people, and they said if the didn't get paid, me and Marcus would die. Marcus heard them threaten to kill us. He is always scared now. And I hate seeing him like this." By now ive started crying. "He shouldn't worry about this at his age. He should be able to be a normal kid. But because of our parents he can't. I try to give him a normal childhood. I continuously try to be a mother figure, and protect him, but I keep failing him. I try to protect him from our parents lifestyle, but I've failed. If I had just done a better job at keeping him away from this, he wouldn't be scared." "Micaela, this isn't your fault sweetie. You're still a kid too, you can't be expected to handle this kind of stress. Don't be so hard on yourself." Stormie says. I just nod and go upstairs to mine and Rydels room. I sit on my bed and break down. I hear the door open. I don't look up, I just sit there, pretending I'm okay, and hopeing they'll go away.I feel the bed dip beside me. "Princess?" "Yeah?" "Come here" "nobim okay, you don't have to stay here. You can go." That's I feel Ross grab my legs and pull me. "Ouch!!"