Waltzing Matilda by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2018-01-06T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 41

"Tim?"

Susan stared at the boy in the bed. She could hardly recognize him. It was like he had completely withered away. Yet she recognized the terror-stricken eyes looking back at her.

She was crying and couldn't hold it back. She didn't know Tim very well, but she knew who he was and had spoken to him several times. He had been in the other class at the high school. He had moved away before Christmas and was supposed to be in Germany with his parents, where his dad was starting a new job.

Susan approached Tim, looking at his tiny body beneath her. He was strapped down the same way she had been, with a thick leather strap around his shoulders and chest and hands and legs strapped to the bed. Not that it was necessary to keep him tied up anymore. There was no way he could go anywhere. He kept falling in and out of consciousness and was barely breathing. Susan touched his pale skin gently, then spoke to him.

"I'm gonna get us out of here. I'll run and get help."

She sobbed while realizing Tim might not even have that much time, that leaving him might be the same as killing him. She reached over to grab the straps, opening them, when she heard the sound of more moaning coming from behind another door. She rushed to it and opened it.

Then her heart stopped.

In there, she saw four more teenagers in dog cages. All were skinny and pale and looked more dead than alive. Susan gasped and clasped her mouth. Susan knew these four kids, but they weren't from her school. They lived in Sonderho, a town at the other end of the island, and they were school dropouts. Some came from foster homes, others had parents so drunk they didn't even care what their kids were up to. They were troubled kids.

The kind of kids no one would miss.

Susan fell to her knees, staring at their almost lifeless bodies, then felt the terror strike her as she realized these kids had been here for a long time, probably a lot longer than her. These kids were dying, yet he was keeping them here, why? To squeeze out a few last drops of blood from them?

The thought made her sick to her stomach.

Susan grabbed the door to one of the cages, but it was locked. She pulled it in frustration, crying in desperation, then fell back on her knees, exhausted, while the boy behind the bars was barely breathing. She wondered if he even knew what was going on anymore or if he had given up and sunk into the blissful darkness. Had he embarked on his path to leave this earth?

"I'll get help," she whispered to him and to the rest of them, who barely noticed she was there.

"I promise you. I'll get help."

She pulled herself up to her feet, stood for a few seconds and gathered all the strength she could when she heard all the clocks in the house simultaneously strike.

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