Free Falling Into Darkness: The Under Series Book 1 by Dakota Lake Page B

themselves in meant me no harm, which
helped calm my nerves and the dog had never barked he was curled up in front of the now burning
fire. I eventually gave up thinking about it and fell asleep on the couch.

Chapter Six
    I woke up to sunlight streaming through the window, I slowly sat up squinting. There was a bag
dumped by the front door Seth was back but I'd never heard him come home. The smell of cooking
drifted through the room and I could hear someone moving around in the kitchen. I got off the
couch stretching as I walked into the kitchen. I was expecting to see Seth, instead I found Micah
standing over the cooker.
There were groceries bags along the counters. Seth had been food shopping or maybe Micah had? I
knew he'd seen me standing in the doorway as he had glanced at my feet a second ago but he
carried on cooking and continued to ignore my presence.
“What are you doing?” I asked as I walked over and sat down at the table.
“What does it look like I’m doing?” he said sarcastically, chewing gum. What was his problem? He
didn't have to be so rude.
“Where's Seth?”
“He's in bed. Don’t disturb him,”
“So what are you doing and don’t say 'what does it look like', I can see you're cooking breakfast.
Don’t you have your own place to do that?”
He didn’t reply, I stood up and the chair grated along the floor.
“Sit,” he said, it sounded as if he was speaking to the dog.
I sat back down and started tracing the patterns of the wood grain in the table waiting for him to say
something else.
“What have you got planned for today?” he asked with his back to me.
“The girls that I met yesterday have asked me to go with them to watch their friends play soccer,”
“Do you need a ride?”
“No they’re going to come and get me.”
Why was he asking me what I was doing? It was none of his business, I didn't even know why I had
told him. I stared at the back of his head but then quickly diverted my eyes. I didn’t want to pass out
and fall asleep on the kitchen table for ten hours like last time in the truck.
He glanced at me scowling. I gulped like I had just been caught cheating blinked and pretended
something out the window had caught my eye. What if he could read my mind?
I quickly shut my thoughts off and did what Seth seemed to be getting quite good at lately and
started singing full volume in my head and the first thing that popped into my mind was a nursery
rhyme I learned when I was younger. I thought this was probably the worst choice at first but then I
realised if he could hear me singing 'Old MacDonald had a farm' he was probably going to wonder
what on earth I’m doing and show some sign he could hear me. Wasn't he? I started singing and
slowly moved my eyes back to him but he just carried on regardless, it wasn’t working. I stopped
and thought of the one thing to get a guys attention.... there's a naked lady at the window! I said
trying to sound as shocked as possible in my head but Micah didn’t even flinch he just carried on
like normal and walked back to the fridge returning the milk. Huh...maybe he couldn’t hear me?
He picked up the plate of food and walked to the doorway pausing.
“There’s enough left over for you if you're hungry,”
Then he disappeared. I heard footsteps on the stairs. He was taking breakfast up to Seth, why would
he do that? Maybe Seth was really hung over or he didn't want to come out of his bedroom maybe
he had been beaten up again?
Either way he would have to come out sometime and I would find out what was going on. I heard
Micah coming back down the stairs then the front door banged. No goodbye then.
There was plenty enough left over food if I didn’t know any better it looked as if Micah had made
extra just for me. After I finished eating I had to clean the kitchen though, Micah had managed to
spread his cooking skills all over the place and just left it in a mess. Caitlin picked me up around
11.30am and we went to watch the boys play