Dead Dreams ((Young Adult Paranormal Romance) ( Dead Dreams Trilogy)) (28 page)

I’ll get home and the nightmare will be over, I can sleep in my bed, Summer can sleep in the den
until they decide what to do with her
and
m
om will be happy I’m safe
.

The closer they
got the greater the
apprehension. A
ll the years he would saunter home without a care in the wo
rld never observing curfew
or worrying about homework
.
It never plagued his conscious
that either of them would be sitting up waiting for the k
ey in the door at 3.am. Now it was
different, having made the break something he deeply r
egretted he feared that they would reject him;
or worse
Roy
will push his
m
other to agree
no
t
to let him back in the house. If that was so then everything r
ested on one person, his hated s
tep father who’d done
everything in his
power to
push
Adam
out
,

“
We’re almost
there.
”
He was dubious, scared but willing to try,

It had gotten very late and he doubted they would
even be up. S
omewhere in his jea
ns pocket
used to be where the
key
was,
but that had
gone missing
as well
.
The
only option was
to ring the bell an
d keep ringing
until
they answered.

“
Will they be pissed if you wake them up?
”
Summer asked.

“
Oh yeh very, especially Roy my mom will come running for sure but him
?
I doubt it.
”

They reached the drive and to
Adam’s surprise the lights were
still on
.
It was
good news in a way
but he was still
unprepared, emotionally drained and desperate
. For the sake of
family he
found
the
courage
to g
o to the door and ring the bell.
N
o-one c
ame so he tried
again.

“
Why aren’t they looking out of the window, that would be the first thing
Roy
would do?
”
Adam remarked slightly panicked.

“
Keep try
ing maybe the television is
way
too
loud.
”

The countless times that Adam was locked out and unable to get in because Roy had put the safety chain on, madly ringing the bell in red hot anger only resulted in a peep through the
blinds
and a look of death.
Only after he
was content that Adam had suffered enough would
he
let him in
,
ordering him up to his room
, sometimes with a push and
a sharp reminder never to do it again.

But
he
did,
pushing
Roy
's bo
undaries to the absolute limit and now the
scenario
was
beginning to feel very familiar
.
F
rustrated he continued
to press the bell over and over until
Summ
er
ran
out of patience and
suggested what was
painfully obvious,

“
Maybe we should just wait here till morning
,
someone has to come out of the house.
”

“
Wait where, here?
”

“
Yeh where else is there to go.
”

“
This isn’t the city,
the cops
drive through here
sometimes
checking
up,
they
’ll see us hanging around
and it’ll be questions
.
”

“
S
o what
,
we’ve done nothing wrong, if they see us that is.
”

“
I just don’t want anything to do with the cops right now.
”

Not wanting to disclose that he was charged with possession of marijuana the
year before
he changed
the subject,

“
I want to show
you
something, not far from here wanna see?
”

“
Sure why not, there’s nothing else to do.
”

To
her
surprise after quite a walk they arrive
d
at the gates of a cemetery. She shuddered at the thought of
being inside of one in the dark,
s
treet wise she may have been but there w
ere some things that scared her and
cemeteries
were high on her list of activities not to indulge in.

“
It’s closed Adam it’s the middle of the night.
”

“
I know that but we can climb this gate it’s easy
, I’ve done it many
times.
”

“
Why would
you wanna
come
here
in the
dark, you’re so
weird
?
”

“
Yeh it sucks…are you coming?
”

Adam
went
first clambering
up
the metal gate like a monkey.
Fortunately it
wasn’t
that high and because he’
d done it so many times it appea
red easier than it was. Summer
tried to follow but struggled
to get to the top, the strengt
h needed in her arms and legs
eluded
her as she valiantly attempted to show Adam what she was made of. She’d always
been a bit of tomboy
who
ne
ver resisted
a challenge
and
she was
determined to get to the top
;
not even considering that once there she
would also
have to climb down the other side.

Having made
it she
then had
to negotiate herself around to
climb down, fortunately Adam was there to grab her as she dropped into his arms.

“
It’s not far just over there in the corner.
”
He said
confidently
leading the way.

“
Adam this p
lace is so dark what do you expect
to see
, ghosts or something
?
”

“
My dad’s grave.
”

This was the only place he could come to find
peace
and be as close to his father as he could be. A
way from the misery at home and the
world at large
he would lie across the grave to
connect
to
the man he idolised
and it was
there that he first heard the voice of his f
ath
er. The last couple of days had
c
ast a shadow of doubt over the
validity
of voices in his head
as he was forced to question his sanity and entertain the idea that he
might
just be schizophrenic.

“
So sad that
he died so young, he was only 32
.
”
Summer said gently as she tried to read the headstone in the dark.

“
It was a massive h
eart attack
on the
wrong day for sure
.
He was at work, just like those in the towers, only he was someplace else.
”

“
What a day to die.
”

“
He could have timed it better
.
I might have been only eight but I remember it so well, he had no right to leave me.
”

“
It wasn’t his fault Adam that’s unfair.
”

“
Why didn’t he stay
a while longer at least until
I was okay, you know more adult?
”

“
Why are you wishing for things that can’t be, I gave up on that years ago.
”

“
Sometimes I f
orget that you’re only sixteen.
”