Chapter 4
“I should have stopped him,” Ash said when she was finished.
Kevin cuddled his stuffed animal. “No one can stop him.”
“We weren’t supposed to leave the house, and it was my idea to sneak out and go to school,” Dayna said, eyes downcast.
“Oh, you know it’s not your fault,” Kevin said. “Nothing we do is ever good enough. If we get in trouble just for going to school, then Mom and Dad really mustbe crazy.”
Dayna nodded.
“Well, I know the only reason I met you is because I snuck into your house, but no one deserves to be treated this way, especially by their own parents,” Ash said, her voice rising. She clapped a hand over her mouth in horror. After a tense silence to make sure Dayna and Kevin’s parents were still asleep, she whispered, “I wanted to come back and tell you that…if you want to…you can come with me.”
Kevin and Dayna looked at each other solemnly. It seemed to Ash they communicated without words.
“We still don’t know your name,” Kevin said.