Free Dead Dreams ((Young Adult Paranormal Romance) ( Dead Dreams Trilogy)) by Michelle Wright Page A

that then … the someplace. ”
    “ Who knows, we’ve managed up to now haven’t we? ”
    “ Too right we have! ” She replied sitting upright and looking straight into his eyes.
    All is forgiven as they sit together at the table. Adam explained in detail about the old man and the wall of flow ers and how weird it all was, the endless meetings with strangers. She didn’t comment about the bruises on his head knowing it was self-inflicted she was afraid to st ir up trouble again but , she did have a theory about the strangers.
    “ In the city y ou have too types…the charity workers like Reggie and people who care , and t hen you have the likes of Rone who are on the lookout for homeless teens it’s normal. ”
    “ I might be a teen but you’re not. ”
    “ What a re talking about? ” Summer asked.
    “ That you’re older than me even though you’re only sixteen. ”
    The fact that she looked older than her years meant problems for Adam . He realised that her immaturity accounted for her behaviour and because he kept forgetting just how young she was; he expected her to be more mature , perhaps even knowing more than he did,
    “ It’s what you call hard living Adam, unlike you I never had roses round the door and grocery shopping on Saturdays. ”
    “ I figured that out early on. ”
    “ Yeh… my mom…oh boy where do I start, alcoholic loser who liked to beat the crap out of me while telling me that she wished I’d never been born. ”
    “ Where was your dad? ”
    “ What dad, I don’t know he split when I was 3 years old I don’t remember him and she never spoke about him. ”
    “ So where’s your mom now? ”
    “ Dead, the booze killed her a year ago; I’d already left home by then . I was living with a cousin then he got thrown out of his apartment and I’ve been hustling around ever since. S ometimes I had to do it for money, you know sex. I was fourteen when I st arted to throw up my food , it takes the pain away. ”
    Adam eyes filled with tears , since the loss of his father his tears had dried up as he hid behind a hard protective shell , but her heartbreaking story had touched him somewhere deep inside and broke his heart.
    “ Maybe we should stay here with Reggie, ” Adam suggested. “ I mean it’s safe and we’re off the streets. ”
    “ If you want to Adam that’s fine by me it’s nice here and, the two of us we’re like family. ”
     
    Chapter 6
    Their friendship had taken a different turn since Summer’s confession . It was no longer an attachment born out of dependence on each other as they face d the streets and a world that was threatening. It now had a deeper meaning and even t hough nothing was said both kne w that they are connected; each in their own way bound to gether through loneliness and the pain of loss.
    It was the first time in years that Adam felt anything re motely light or good, Summer had a heart, it may have be en bruis ed and broken but it still wanted to take a risk on love . P leased to be back he knew that if he hadn’t then he would never have known ho w he felt about the girl who had inexplicably wound herself around his own bruised and broken heart.
    Reggie appeared with a young girl who had obviously been living rough for quite a whi le judging by the way she looked. Starved she sat anxiously waiting for a bowl of soup the only proper food she would have eaten in days or weeks. Adam and Summer smile d but she didn’t acknowledge them, she was fixed on watching Reggie, counting the seconds until she could eat something.
    This was their experience when they first arrived and both felt sympathy toward the young girl at the same time counting their bl essings as to how lucky they were to both be under Reggie’s wing.
    Adam took her hand under the table and she didn’t pull away , like two awkward teenagers too shy to say or do anything they stay ed like that. It was a marked contrast to what they’d been through and their previous exp eriences