Left Behind - Chapter 1

Adrian has finally hauled the last of the boxes into his new house. It was a small two bedroom house and was only available for rent, but it was better than being 19, nearly 20 and still living with his parents, whom he loved dearly, but they could be a bit overbearing. The family that had owned the house previously before selling it to his current landlord had a young girl, which explained texter stains in the carpet and scuff marks of what seemed to be from toys being scraped against the walls. he rolled his eyes 'I'll slap some paint on the later' he thought.

He made his way into his room that was full of boxes and bed frame pieces scattered around. He sighed and decided he'd put his bed together later and sat on his double mattress that had been lay on the floor and pulled out his phone, scrolling through facebook.

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Emily was awoken by the sound of a truck reversing outside. She quickly ran out from her home in one of the bedroom's wardrobes and climbed up the curtain to see out the windowsill
"They're back!" she squealed excitedly and looked down at her tatted clothes 'I should get changed' she thought and quickly made her way back into the wardrobe and into her pile of clothes
"I knew they would come back for me!" she beamed.

once she got changed she ran out and towards the door of the room, but as she was crawling under, three pairs of feet walked straight in front of her, startling her. She crawled backwards and back into the room and listened:

"So Aids, wheres the bar in this place?" one guy laughed
"Yeah, moving all your crap is hard work!" another one complained
"Hey, by all means stock up my fridge with booze, and Az, seriously it sounds like you are calling me an STD, why can't you call me D, like Jacko?" 'aids' replied
"you do realized that IS the reason why I call you that? plus Adrian is too long. and Jacko is a suck up" 'Az' stated
"you're just jealous that your nick name sounds like an Adverb, Aaron" 'Jacko' said the last word with a sweet voice
"whatever, Jackson" Az gave up

then all the voices left in a thunder of footsteps and Emily was on her own again

"Adrian? Aaron? Jackson?" Emily thought out loud "wheres Sarah and John? and, and Jane?" she pouted.
she had thought the sound of people outside was her family coming back for her, you see, they had left her behind when they moved out a year ago. she had the perfect life; food, love, a family, Jane. Jane was Sarah and John's daughter. When they moved out Jane was 12, and had had Emily since she was 6. Emily knew something was wrong when everything in the house was packed, except for her and her things.

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"Jane?" she called out from a pile of boxes, but Jane was on the phone and couldn't hear her, but after persistence Emily finally got her attention after Jane's father took the last boxes, which happened to be the ones Emily was standing on
"when are we moving?" she asked Jane
"uhm, well-" Jane started but was interrupted buy her mother
"Jane come on!" she yelled
"I'll be back" Jane said and placed Emily onto the wind sill
"okay" Emily smiled and watched Jane walk out of the room

Emily had no idea that that was the last time she would ever see Jane again.
she heard a car start and looked out the window to see Jane and her mum and dad driving out of the drive way with a trailer of boxes attached to the back, and they drove away. 'they must just be getting something, they wouldn't leave me' she thought and sat there for while. after sitting there for 8 hours, Emily got the feeling that they were gone and left her behind by accident, so every day for a year she would sit on the wind sill, watching, waiting for Jane to come back for her, but she never did.

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Emily ran into her wardrobe home and hid until all the voices were gone except one; Adrian, who she assumed was living in the house now. she heard him walk into the room across from the one that she was in. "you can do it" she said to herself as she made her way to the door and crawled under and made her was to his open door way.
once she got there she noticed he was on his phone, and not knowing how to get his attention, she just waited.

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Adrian had been sitting on his phone for half an hour now and needed to pee, so he put his phone down and stood up, headed towards his doorway, but got the fright of his life when he saw a small figure standing at his door frame, making him fall over backwards into the pile of boxes
'AHHH!' he screamed

'oh no!'she thought as she noticed she had scared him enough to fall over
"I'm sorry!" she squeaked before hiding behind the door frame as he crashed into the boxes

"Mother FU-dge!" he hissed, in pain but still trying not to swear
"what in the hell was that?!" he asked no one in particular as he slowly sat up, rubbing his back and looking towards the door frame and seeing a small figure cowering
"oh god please dont be rat" he winced
"I-I'm not a rat" Emily said quietly as she emerged into the light
Adrian squinted to see her
'a human? what the hell is a human doing here?' he thought
"I'm sorry I scared you" she spoke
"what? oh, its fine, just gave me a fright is all" he smiled as her, his blue eyes glistening and running a hand through his black shaggy hair
"what are you doing here in my house?" he asked a little too harshly
"I-I Uhm, I" she stammered, worried she upset him
"Sorry sweetheart, I mean, are you lost? do you need help?" his voice much nicer this time
"do you know Jane?" she said softly
Adrian shuffled closer to her so he could hear her
"Jane? who is Jane?" he asked, his mental contacts list scrolling for the name Jane, but coming up with nothing
"She is my owner, she used to live here but moved out a year ago" she said with her head lowered and sniffled "..I got left behind" she whimpered

Adrian's heart went out for her and he completely forgot he needed to pee
"hey, its okay, dont cry, let me see if I can help you...?" he indirectly asked her for her name
"Emily" she hiccuped
"Hi Emily, I'm Adrian. Come over here and sit on my bed, I'll try find Jane for you, okay?" he asked, his hand outstretched for her

her head whipped up at his words
"you will?" she asked with wide eyes
"yes" he smiled, and she ran over to his hand, jumping on and he lifted her up and placed her on his mattress before reaching and grabbing his phone and finding the contact for his landlord. it was about 7 so it wasnt too late to call him.

as he hit call he thought about Emily. A few of his friend's had humans so he had met them before, but never a girl one, she was so..adorable. he smiled but was pulled from his thoughts when the phone picked up
"Adrian whats wrong? what did you break?" the gruff voice of his landlord taking the smile off his face
"Hey Gordon, I didnt break anything, but I did find a little something" he looked over to Emily and winked at her, then stood up and left the room.

Emily was ecstatic, she was finally going to see Jane again! and it was all thanks to Adrian! she smiled thinking about him. His hands were so soft and he was so gentle with her! and he was so handsome...
Emily mentally scolded herself. 'damn this 17 year old mind' she thought.