Addiction

Chapter 1

I never thought my life would get this bad. People told me that if I kept going down this road I would trip and fall, ending up in a ditch bare naked and stoned, but I never listened. I thought they were all wrong, well they were right, my life sucks. It all started the day I lost my family I was maybe eight years old. One night my parents went for a drive, nothing out of the norm.

They usually left me home on the nights they went out, this particular night it was slick and icy. They were coming home when all of a sudden they hydroplaned, spinning until they hit a ditch, which flipped their car smashing it into a tree, causing the car to light up into flames, burning them alive.

I was flipping through channels when I heard the news I was nervous for I heard that a car like my mom and dads had crashed so I stopped on the channel and listened to the story. I ran to the phone, tears streaming down my face and called the station when they asked if anyone had any information about the victims.

”Hello this is MRH news channel.” with tears still running down my face ”T-those two people in the crash are m-my p-parents!!!” she slowly gets me to calm down and says ”sweetheart how old are you?” “I am eight years old!” she sighs and when she starts talking I can hear her sympathy. ”Sweetheart do you know how to call the police?” “Y-yes it’s 9-1-1” the woman tells me to call them and tell them what happened.

I was put into the foster care system within days of that conversation. The woman, my official social worker, was a mean looking woman but she told me I could say my goodbyes, she stood by the car while I said goodbye to the two people who treated me like a human being and who loved me unconditionally. She walks up to me and says “Blaze, sweetie it’s time to go.” the curt way she said this made me cringe.

While I was in the foster care system I grew up learning how to live on my own, no one to give a crap about me or how I feel. But I never gave up, I was strong minded like my father and strong willed like my mother. Though I was always scared I never showed it.

Life became a routine, new family every few weeks, but as I grew older less and less people wanted me so I usually stayed longer with one family. Finally one day my foster family I had been staying with told me that I could stay for as long as I needed but since I was already fifteen they didn’t think adopting me was an option. They told me that they didn’t mind paying for everything but that I did need to think about a job, so I got a job and have lived with them for two years, until today.

It’s my 17th birthday, I was on the subway on my way home from school when I saw Him the most beautiful species of man. He wasn’t too much older than me,maybe early twenties, his dark hair was like silk, his skin was the color of the bark on a tree in the early morning light, tanned to the perfect color of auburn, his mouth so plump and his smile so bright and beautiful, his eyes bluer than the deepest oceans and he was staring right at me.

At first, i just blew it off like he’s not really looking at me why would he be looking at a suicidal orphan, but he walked right up to me and grabbed my hand and kissed my knuckles, at first I was shocked I didn’t know what to do. My heart raced when he started to smirk, God he is so beautiful.

“My darling why does your heart race?”, my face heated when he called me darling I didn’t know what was happening to me, he was only a man. I must have just been staring out in space because he reached up and brushed the hair away from my face “My darling, Blaze are you alright?” I stared into the deepest blue eyes i had ever seen confused how did he know my name, I shook my head yes

“y-yes i’m alright, w-who are you sir, and how do you know my name?”, he looks at me kinda funny then he grins “sweetheart my name is Jason and I have been sent to save you from the pain you have felt for all these years. It does not matter how I know your name.” my heart picked up speed again, “b-but why w-were you s-sent to m-me? His face kinda fell into a sort of sadness “I was sent to you because you are special. After today your life will change forever.”