🗡Chapter 1🗡 Saige
The sun beams in through the small crack in the black curtains burning my eyes.
I curse myself out for not closing them properly last night cause lets face it, no one likes to wake up feeling like their eyes are on fire.
As I try to untangle myself from my bed without waking Dagger up my phone goes off I don't bother checking it, it's probably a message from my sister but it's too early to deal with her without any caffeine. The minute I am out of bed Dagger is up too. There goes my plan not to wake him.
As a make my way to the bathroom I nearly trip over Dagger as he follows me. Once I finish my shower I make my way downstairs which is strangely quiet. The only light is coming through the small window beside the front door.
"Hello?" I say but no one responds.
I make my way through the dark hallway to the kitchen. When I open the oak brown, rusty door I notice my mother sitting in her chair at the end of the table smoking on a cigarette with empty bottles around her.
Yay! what a great way to start my morning... not. I don't bother saying anything to her as I go to the coffee machine to make some coffee.
"Have you ssseen Dusstin?" She slurry's after a few minutes of awkward silence.
"Not since last night, why?" I say as I turn around to face her, coffee in hand.
"He didn't-t come home lasst night". Blood rushes through my ears. Dagger as if sensing my mood change moves over to nuzzle my leg. I know a lot of people don't keep a fox as a pet but hey, I never claimed to be normal.
I found Dagger when he was a baby, he was almost hit by a car and he looked so sad. With no mother around I was left with no choice but to sneak him home with me.
I did try to let him go when i thought he could handle the wild on his own. I felt bad for keeping him when he should be free but he refused to leave so once I turned 18 I told my mother about him, let's just say she didn't take it well.
"What do you mean he didn't come home? And why didn't you tell me when I came back last night!" I ask trying to not panic cause if I do then I don't think I will be able to keep my cool. I glare at her from behind my cup. Yet again, not giving a shit about anyone but herself
"Don't give me that look again, Saige" She says getting up from her chair.
"Have you tried calling him?" I respond
"Don't you think I have tried that?" She says getting more frustrated with me as each second passes.
"Where are Andre and Renae?" I ask cause they are usually here. The house seems so quite without them
"I dropped them off at their grandmother's this morning, You need to go out and find Dustin" she says. As if I have to be told to look for him. Duh, that was the first thing I was going to do.
"I am gonna get dressed and go. If you need me just call my phone" but I rather you don't...
I run up the stairs with Dagger hot on my heels and get ready. I don't bother doing makeup. I quickly brush my dark brown hair and throw on my favorite tight black ripped jeans with a corset black crop-top with a fishnet top over the corset. The top shows off some of my tattoos which I love. I grab the black boots that give me more height cause lets be honest being 5′2 ain't fun.
I grab my phone from the nightstand and my small leather bag with everything I need in it and my small dagger cause I have a thing for sharp objects. I stash it in my bag and make sure it's easy to grab if I need it.
I rush down the stairs with Dagger following after me and rushing out the door as quick as I can cause I would rather not be called back by mother dearest.
When I am outside I start walking into town to check where I know Dustin would go.
I check my messages on my phone to see if Dustin has texted, but nothing from him. There is a message from my sister though how fun.
Vienna: "Have you seen Dad?"
What is it with everyone going missing today? Like really the same bloody day. If this keeps happening then it will turn into a ghost town.
Saige: "No, your dad, not mine. He is probably at work"
I respond because honestly I couldn't give a shit what that bastard is or does just as long as he leaves me the fuck alone.
I notice that it's already 3 pm. I didn't realize I slept in with how bright it is outside. I pick up Dagger and run into the nearest shop to grab some food for Dagger and I. The shop has a very 90s look about it.
You would think that people would be used to me having a pet fox but I guess the strange looks never went away... Well, the looks were there before I had Dagger but now they have gotten more intense.
I see two people whispering and staring as I walk around to get some food for Dagger and a can of monster. They look like they are in their late 20s or early 30s. One has grease stains all over his shirt and the other one looks like the last shower he had was when his mother washed him as a kid.
When I pass them I only get the end of the conversation "... and she was crazy like her mother before she had that thing as a fucking pet"
I slowly turn to face sloppy and sloppier. "Comparing me to my mother isn't the way to go pal and that thing has a name. It's Dagger and I will happily let him bite your fucking face off", Dagger growls as if to back up my threat. I could swear he actually understands what I am saying.
"Fuck off, Crazy Bitch" sloppier says, and trust me when I say he is right about one thing.
I am a crazy bitch. I deck him in the face and swipe his legs out from under him. Blood splatters across the floor. Oops, think I may have broken his nose. The man drops to the floor like a bag of Potatoes, I look around and see that lucky for me there are no cameras in the shop and that the shop is mostly emptied out now.
I quickly pay for the stuff I need and leave cause I need to find Dustin before it gets dark. I feed Dagger some of the fruit I bought and head into town.
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I spend the next few hours checking where he hangs out with no look. I call his phone, no answer. I head to the last place I can think of to see if he is there. It is like a 30-minute walk if you know where you're going. It's in the middle of a forest surrounded by tree's with a river running through it.
I passed some more trees and found the entrance to the area where people come for sex, drinks, or drugs. It's a nice area once you get passed the smell of weed and sex cause come on... let's be real for a second weed doesn't smell good.
I pass two couples making out on the rocks and I can tell without looking that there is more than just making-out going judging by the girl's moans but hey, there are three rules here:
1: Don't pass out or you are guaranteed a dick drawing on your forehead
2: No judging
3: DON'T RUIN SHIT!
So I don't judge it cause let's be honest sex is natural.
"Hey Saige," Toby says as he is sitting on the rocks. Toby occasionally hookup. We both know it's not serious it's just to pass the time. Toby has blonde hair, blue eyes, and a body to kill for. He looks a bit geeky with his black glasses, but here's his secret...
They are just for show in his words "they make me look smart". Cue the eyeroll.
Toby pets Dagger's head and he passes me the blunt as I get closer to him. He pulls me down onto his lap as soon as I am in reach and wraps his arms around my waist, securing me to him.
"Have you seen Dustin?" I ask Toby as I take a pull off the blunt.
"An hour or so ago " Toby responded kissing down the side of my neck and over the sensitive area behind my ear. I relax a bit knowing that he was here recently.
"Do you know where he went?"
"He said he was heading to the abandoned building not far from here," Toby says as his hands slowly move lower reaching the zipper of my jeans
"Why the fuck would he be going there"
"I don't know he was with some strange dudes that I haven't seen around here before"
I freeze. I turn my head to face him "what do you mean some strange dudes, couldn't be any vaguer?". I swear if he is after getting himself mixed up in some shit...
"I don't know who they are, it's the first time I have seen them there were probably six or seven of them with him and Dustin didn't look happy ." He says as he starts kissing my neck again.
I pull away from him and stand up. "Look I got to go find Dustin, cya around". I hand him back the blunt as he gives me his best impression of puppy dog eyes.
Yeap those bad boys aren't going to work on me.
I turn around and head to the abandoned building with Dagger following along.
