Dead Dreams ((Young Adult Paranormal Romance) ( Dead Dreams Trilogy)) (4 page)

Unaware of what
happened Adam was kept at school and only told when he got home. That
really
angered him, just because he was a kid it didn’t mean they had the right to leave him out of the picture
which resulted in
him being the last to know. The funeral was doubly hard. As the whole world
still
mourned, the small figure of Adam
Wesley
stayed close by his
m
other
-
not understanding why his world had collapsed along with the twin towers.

The rest of his childhood was fraught. No-one ever sat him down and asked him how he felt,
and Adam never spoke about it either.
It
resulted
in an intense anger that he’d l
earned to bottle up deep inside,
inadvertently
set
ting
his future up to be
a negative one.
He became
obsessed
with
horror movies
and
violent games
whilst
slowly
developing
an ability to use and discard
others. That way no-one
would ever get
close enough to
hurt him again and all the conversations that
had
with his
dead
father
convinced
him unequivocally that
life wasn’t worth living.

As if life wasn’t hard enough, when
Julie met
Roy
, a hard-working short tempered
man with a passion for alcohol Adam hated his guts on sight.
He was the complete opposite of the gen
tle loving father he missed and,
he didn’t take kindly to being bossed around by a man who showed him no love and understanding.
Roy
was divorced with two ki
ds that he never saw, his ex having
taken them out of state
before he had time to object and he never once showed remorse at losing them
. For Adam the warning bell
had
sounded. A man who didn’t care whether his own kids lived or died was not going to be a father to someone else’s kid and from day one
Roy
proved him right.

With the fight now over
, a sense of calm prevailed with
Roy
holed up in the front room sulking
while Julie cleaned the kitchen as if nothing was wrong.
Adam
was desperate to get out of the house and
head off to L
ucy. He hoped she’d
drop him a twenty
for some weed to take the pain away
;
before he had to
crawl
back
home
and swallow his pride.

Going down
stairs as quietly as possible,
unsure
of
what
to expect he was
still
angry that
his lip
had swelled up and wanted to confront
Roy
. But the man had gone into his usual ‘stay away from me’ phase while
Julie was deathly quiet as she cleaned the oven.
Adam
could see she’d been crying.

“
I’m
off to
Katie’s
.
”
He flatly informed
her.

“
Are you back later?
”

“
Who knows…it’s in the wind.
”

Irritated that
Roy
was ignoring him he knew it was pointless to try to get him to see that what he’d done was wrong. It wasn’t the first time Adam had been on the receiving end of
his
fist,
drunk or sober and
usually with the same excuse
s
; He needed to get a job, stop sleeping all day, help around the house and show more respect.

Behind Julie’s back as she was engrossed in cleaning the oven he reached into her bag and carefully pulled forty dollars from her wallet.

Without saying a word he left through the back door and before he’d even got past the block
Roy
called.
At first
he refused
to
pick up but as
it kept
ringing and
out of curiosity
and
in the m
ood for
an
argument
he answered.

“
I want you out of the house now… today!
”
Roy
told him in no uncertain terms.

“
Yeh….sure I can do that asshole!
”

“
What
did
you call me you piece of shit
?
”

“
I think I said asshole, correct me if I’m wrong.
”

“
I mean it Adam stay out
I’ve h
ad enough. What kinda low-life steals money from his own m
other?
”

“
So what? I borrowed some money, big
fucking
deal!
”

“
Yeh for drugs I’m sure. I’m warning you boy stay away, don’t come back!
”

“
Sure
Roy
have a nice fucking
life!
”
Adam replied
cutting him off and switching off
his cell.

Angry
,
upset and worried, he wasn’t
sur
e where to go
or what to do
next so
f
ranticly
he attempted to look at his
options. I
f he showed
up at
Katie’s
and told her what
happene
d she’d do the motherly thing
. B
erate and
plead with him to go home and apologize. I
f Adam was forced
to get down on his knees and beg then
that was
a fate worse than death;
although
dying was a welcome relief he needed another plan right now.

Switching his phone back on to see if Roy
had left a message there was
voice mail from Julie;
Roy is ve
ry angry with you and he’s right.
B
ut I can’t have you out on the streets please come home and we’ll work it out, I love you
Adam, call me back...please’
.

Then a text from
Katie
,

Still waiting where r u??

Stressed
and frustrated Adam switched
his cell
off again.
I
t was
time to figure out where to go and what to do with just
forty
bucks in his pocket
and five in change.
‘
What do I do now d
ad, wander the
fucking
streets?
’

‘
It’s up to you Adam you
can go anywhere you please.’

‘
Maybe head for the city but I’d better walk,
can’t use my cash for transport I need it.
”

‘
The
n walk son, I’ll walk with you.
’

‘Okay dad but don’t leave me alone.’

Chapter 2
.

Thankfully it
was still warm and
that was
a blessing
.
He couldn’t
bear thinking what
it would be like if
Roy
had
kicked him out in the dea
d of winter. The one
worry he had was that
he
’d
left the house with nothing other than what he was
standing in,
and very little money
,
not a good start for a soon-to-be homeless person.

The walk took longer than
expected;
it was a long stretch
to the city
by foot
.
Trusting his instincts that he was heading out of the suburbs in the right direction he found his way on the highway and a
s cars an
d trucks thunder
ed
by
he
attempted
to hitch as it
looked like they were
going in his direction.

No matter how many times he stuck his thumb
and body
out
and repeatedly tried
to grab a lift-
he had no luck
.
He concluded that it was because he
was
young, male and alone
.
D
rivers were
too scared to stop
because they
suspected he could be
a
psycho serial kill
er on account of his longish dark hair, black
t-shirt
and old jeans.