Donnie
I told Dug that we would have to sleep on it. We needed to think of a plan, but in all honestly, I had no idea what we were going to do. We couldn’t just call the police and tell them that Dug had “visions” and we trespassed on a man’s property and happened to notice my mother chained in his basement. They would laugh. They would write us up or some stupid shit like that.
The last thing I needed were the cops breathing down my neck. It was also the last thing Dug needed. He was huge and disabled and he could be a suspect since the cops didn’t know him like me and my mother did.
Dug was by far the kindest human being I had ever met. I decided I would sit down and talk to Ness about what to do. My grandparents were upset and would not understand where I was coming from. I knew things between my mother and my grandparents had been tense for some time, even so, they missed her and they loved her, even if they would never understand who she was—at this rate none of us may ever get the chance to know her again. This ordeal was going to change her in ways we could never understand. It had changed me. I hope that it made me a better person. I don’t know if it had or not. I just want my mom home. I want us to forgive each other. She had tried and tried to apologize but I would have none of her apologies and I was downright cruel when she tried to make amends. I was a shit and felt like I had the right to be a shit because of all that had transpired between us.
Looking back, no one has that right to treat their parent like that. I am probably going to go to hell for the way I had treated her.
I tossed and turned all night. I kept hearing my grandmother rummaging in the kitchen and crying. I wondered if Dug was sleeping any better. I hoped he was. I hoped at least one of us was getting some rest. I tried not to let the tears fall, but hearing my grandmother was more than I could bear and I buried my head in my pillow and cried and cried until I fell asleep. It was a restless sleep. I kept hearing my mother’s screams. I couldn’t see what was happening to her, but she was in tremendous pain.