The Cowboy Who Strolled Into Town by Riley Moreno Read Free Book Online

intensely at her with his serious dark teary eyes.
    ‘’Pumpkin, I want you to always remember that no matter what, we love you okay? And always be brave.’’ before the little girl could ask what was happening, her mother then pulled her father away while looking frantic.
    ‘’Charles lets go, they are coming!” her parents both now looking distraught then quickly kissed the little girl on the forehead and jumped into the car.
    They then left, leaving the little black girl staring after them as the car moved away, causing her to scream for them to come back!
    ‘’Mama, Papa don’t leave me here!’’ she shouted with tears now flooding her face, even as the car was now at a far distance and they could not even hear her.
    But the last thing she then spotted before closing her eyes in exhaustion and being carried away by her new care taker Edna, were large gigantic beasts.
    Beasts with yellow eyes and white sharp fangs, hidden in the shadows and heading in the same direction as that of her parents...
     
    “NOOOO!”
    Fiona then found herself almost letting out a scream because of the dream but quickly opened her eyes after feeling something cold splash upon her.
    “Fiona, Fiona! Are you awake?’’ she then heard a female voice shout, causing to quickly sit up on her bed, only to find herself dripping cold wet.
    ‘’Tracy! What the hell?’’ Fiona then said to her best friend and roommate, Tracy Thompson who was holding a bucket of water and looking guilty. They had been best friends since high school and even through college.
    ‘’Don’t blame me; this was the only way I could get you to wake up. It seems like you were stuck in that dream of yours where you usually wake up screaming.’’ Tracy then said to her, looking worried as Fiona had told her about this same dream she sometimes kept on having.
    ‘’Are you okay?’’ Tracy then continued upon seeing the sorrow which now filled Fiona`s face at the mention of that dream.
    ‘’Don’t worry Tracy, I will be fine.” Fiona then replied standing up and going to clean up in the bathroom.
    Her hand then quickly closed around the red ruby heart pendant on her chest as she stared at it through the bathroom mirror.
    She then realized that inside she was not okay as that dream was also a past memory which always reminded her of how her parents had left her at some orphanage to never come back.
    Heck as a child, whenever she got adopted, she caused problems for whatever family dared take her away from the orphanage until they returned her back.
    She was always a headstrong persevering child, hoping that if she stood or kept her eyes on the exact spot where her parents had left her at, they would one day come and get her only to be disappointed each time they didn’t.
    She grew out of it when teenage years came but instead decided to try to find them or any family she had, maybe aunties or something. But her searches yielding no results only proved the harsh reality of how she was alone in the world with no family or relatives.
    As for the beasts with the yellow eyes, to Fiona they could not have been real. Her counselor had even advised her that the beasts were just a figment of her child imagination but it still niggled her mind as to what where her parents running from?
    Then there was Edna, who passed away a long time ago before she could ask the lady about what they had talked about with her dad. And as for the ruby pendant, she always had it on her and had never taken it off. It was the only thing she had from her parents.
    And now after working part time jobs and paying for college and earning a degree, as a 22 year old, she was now struggling to find jobs. Luckily she had Tracy who was now working as a doctor and had offered to help Fiona with a place to stay as she tries to get employed.
    Right now, she could not even count how many job interviews she had gone to and was always getting rejected.  Apparently nowadays it was now all about