Peter stuffed more newspaper under his shirt to keep the worst of the bitter wind out; it worked quite well, he was glad Linda had told him about that in the shelter.
The shelter – he wished it had been, but that greasy man who
tried to climb into his bed on the first night had tainted it, and now there
was no way he’d go back there. Peter didn’t need more bad memories of bedtime,
he’d had his fill of them as a child and why he was out here in the first
place.
People said his mum must be worried sick about him, and he
should go back home, but they had no idea what she’d let her string of
boyfriends do to him; there was no way he was going back to that. He was safer
here on the street where he could run if he needed to, and not trapped in a
bedroom.
Dark, indeed.
ReplyDeleteWell played.
namaste
JzB
I like dark stories, they help us to know that we are not alone in our pain, and sometimes give us the strength to get over our own dark past. Blessings! (out of some reason this does not let me sign as me and with my new blog, so I am just going to leave the link here: http://mylittleavalon.wordpress.com)
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