Broken Dreams Stories

Chapter 6

” If it makes you feel better Em, we don’t spend much time in this wing of the house. Our rooms are all in the East wing, and it’s where we tend to spend most of our time.” With that, Josh turned down a hallway, and after a couple of minutes, we were in a more relaxed part of the house.

Large overstuffed chairs and a couch were scattered around the large room, and a flat-screen TV hung on the wall, surrounded by several gaming systems. At the other end of the room was a small kitchen and dining area. I also noticed six closed doors, three off each side of the room. A seventh door looked like it led into a bathroom.

”Wow, much better, “ I grinned while looking around. There was even a small library set up on one side of the large room, and I couldn’t wait to explore it. I have always loved to read, but I never had enough extra money to spend on books, and the local library didn’t have much either considering how poor our neighborhood was.

”Yeah we like it,” Jake added as he walked toward one of the closed doors. “ this will be your room, once you feel better we can help you decorate it however you want. He pushed the door open and carried me into my new room, setting me gently onto the softest bed I had ever laid on.

”I love it,” I grinned looking around at the beige and pastel blue room. “It’s perfect, I’m not changing a thing,” still ginning I looked up at the twins. They were both staring at me with heated expressions that made me immediately blush, and I glued my eyes to the comforter studying it like there would be a test later.

”Hey, don’t be scared baby, Jake already promised that we would all keep you safe. We would never do anything to hurt you.” Josh sat next to me, gently rubbing circles on my back.

”Not scared, just shy,” I say quietly, still not brave enough to meet Josh’s eyes.

“Let’s get you settled so you can rest, maybe take a nap before dinner? “ our parents won’t be here tonight, they have another dinner party to attend for Dad’s campaign. We could order food,

love to change before I take a nap. The scrubs are ok, but they are kind of scratchy.” I scratched my leg to prove

and ran out of the room, some crashing followed, and Jake just shook his head. A few minutes later a

for the clothes he offered, taking them in my good hand, and glaring

looked up at him to see sincerity and concern on both

take care of myself again, especially since my arm is going to be like this for

here if you need anything,” Jake closed the door most of the way leaving

goes nothing,” I mumbled as I began to try and get out of the itchy borrowed

to suck it up and ask for help. While the bottoms came off with only a little tugging, there was

all.” I called out as I threw a blanket over my lap, the last thing I wanted them to see was my boring

“Next time brother.” He was grinning when he walked over, squatting

shirt, we should be able to get me out of this.”After several minutes of gently trying to get my good arm out of the scrubs, I sighed “Screw it, go find

began searching the desk that was across the room