All Chapters of Collateral Damage : Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

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Chapter 11

When he declared not to wait up, he was being literal. The clock striked till eleven at night, and still he was not yet back. I was not quite worried, I was straight up pissed off! He dragged me from Germany all the way to Netherlands, for what? To leave me alone in a big mansion.I hate mansions!They are too quiet, and make me feel uncomfortable and anxious. I have a hyperactive imagination which leads to me getting unsettled and jumpy. I prefer small spaces. Where I can see everything surrounding me. If I am in very spacious places, I prefer to have company around. So, it literally took me long to fall asleep.Despite that, the last time I checked the time was 1:45 a.m and Robert was still not back. I must have dozed off a few minutes later. Yet when I woke up, he was not around again. He did come back though. I know this because his side of the bed was messy, his cologne had diffused to fill the entire room, and he had left a stupid note on the nightstand. ‘You looked so peaceful.

Chapter 12

Collateral Damage /CasLopez

Learning how to swim was gruesome. After Gary informed me about his new inflatable swimming pool in the third grade, I had inquired Madeline the headmatron of the orphanage I grew up in, for swimming lessons. The next day she called me at the playground and said we were to take a walk. Madeline was a grumpy old woman, with a scary, oversized mole just above her upper lip. The walk was silent, daunting, and nerve wrecking. Skinny eight year old me, was barely walking with trembling knees through the small trail in the woods. Twinks cracking under the weight of my sandals.Once we came to a stop in front of a lake, her green piercing eyes looked down at me, lips snarling up into a mock of a smile, a thin drawn brow quirked upward. “You said, you want to learn how to swim, right?” Her voice was always grouchy, cold, and detached from all emotions.I gulped and nodded my head, my nasty attempt of a ponytail bouncing with every movement that my head made.She then shoved my chest, arms f

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