Gloom

Chapter 65

Or even knew if he would return.

My brother actually seemed confused, probably for the same reason as my parents. He looked at me sullenly for a moment, then he sighed and put his hands in his pocket. He couldn't refuse, that was the agreement I had reached with my parents when I bought it from them, that when I needed it, he would provide it to me without protest.

"Not a scratch," he warned, tossing my keys into the air, which I caught by sheer luck.

I nodded and turned on my heel.

“Amy,” he called to me before leaving his room, “be careful, okay?

I wrinkled my nose and had the urge to ask him if he was sick, but I didn't have time for that.

When I closed the front door behind me and found myself there, on my front porch, with no people around me, the cold outside making me shiver and my stomach clench, I stood still.

I slowly brought my left arm up to my mouth, with the damn bracelet on. I closed my eyes tightly, feeling a devastating rejection of my intentions, and an almost intole