Chapter 6

It was already late pm by the Time Noah Miller woke up from sleep and discovered that he was no longer in front of his mum's room but on his bed, no wonder he felt Strangely uncomfortable since he was used to sleeping under his bed.

Almost immediately his mind was drawn back to the noise that woke him up and he let out a knowing sigh, no longer a stranger to the habitual practice of his parents,the fighting and quarreling episodes that usually went on whenever his both parents were around.

It was as if the memory of how to leave peacebly with one another has been erased from their DNA!!

Standing up from his bed, 7yr old Noah opened his cloth cabinet and brought out a short with a tee shirt, took his towel from his bathroom hanger and left his room.

He walked towards the pool in his family compound to go have his bath.

Though the part was lonely it was fully lighted up, he slowly reminisced; he remembered when his mum caught him the first time he had his bath at the inbuilt pool he was just 4yrs of age then, she told him never to bath in the pool again, giving him dozens of reasons why it was dangerous to bath or even be at the pool all alone.

He laughed slowly, that was a long time ago this days no one had his time and so he continued having his baths occasionally at the pool, of course mum and dad will never find out, they were too busy with themselves.

As he reached the pool, he kept his clothes and towel and ran towards one of the 7 trees lining the fence of the compound.

He climbed up the shortest easily like it was a routine just high enough for his head to view the next compound.

His heart was elated  as he saw Annabel. With a wide smile displayed on his face he peered at her for some time.

Annabel, 5 years of age had curly blonde hair with gentle brown eyes that looked like it smiled along with her  lips whenever she was amused. She didn't talk much and was rather small for her age, she also loved playing so much by herself or with Noah whenever he came around.

Right now as Noah was staring at her with full smiles, she was running around her father's compound throwing Snacks at her dogs, who jumped in exchange at the challenge to catch the snacks while she laughed in the process.

Noah realizing that he had been on the tree for quite some time, quickly got  down, strode to the pool and immersed himself inside the pool to have a cool bath.

After bathing he dried up and dressed up and decided to go to Annabel's house, through a secret door connecting his house and Annabel's house, Noah was not sure that either of his parents were aware of the door as about 7 huge trees completely covered that part of the fence where the Ancient wooden door was located.

Noah pushed the door and entered into Annabel's compound, but on getting to the Front of her house he didn't find her where she was earlier.

"Anna….Annaaa" Noah gently yelled her name as he strode across the compound.

"Here" he heard Annabel's voice through a window.

"Coming" Noah replied and dashed into the house to the room where she was.

He was now very familiar with the house as he has been a regular visitor since 3yrs of age.

4years Earlier, around 7am on a Saturday*

Noah has just been woken up from sleep around 6am by a very disturbing noise going on in the house.

"Mum, Daddy" He screamed out in fear he got down from his bed and walked towards the source of the noise, he traced it into the living room and there he saw his parents furiously shouting and yelling at each other at the very top of their voices. His mum was crying, yelling and throwing stuffs at his father, while the father replied hurling out words in exchange.

He joined them, crying and screaming"Dad…mum" while they totally ignored him or rather didn't even know he was there.

He ran to his mother and hugged her legs and that was when she noticed her little boy.She looked down on him with tears and shame written all over her face she carried him up, took him to his room and locked the door on him and went back to continue from where she stopped.

"I don't want to be here"Noah cried out as she left..

As she left, Noah pushed a sit towards a window in his room that led to a corridor , as he tried to jump out he was too small and fell out injuring deeply on his feet.

He limped outside crying deeply in the process and walking towards the pool.

In reaching there he went to hide behind one of the 7 trees as the noise from his parents was much . On reaching there he saw a wooden door..

"I've never seen this before" he said looking surprised and then he pushed the door….and to his surprise with a creaking sound the door opened up showing him the next compound.

He walked into the compound and was staring at it that he didn't notice that he was not alone there any longer.

"Look who we have here" Noah heard a strange voice that sounded like a female's.

In gripping fear he slowly turned his face to the source of the Voice and What he saw Left him in Extreme Shock and made him Shudder in fear.