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Have you ever felt you were being held hostage by people who can be described as family, but aren't? You don't know whether to be scared or not because times have changed and people are not the same anymore. My daddy died a few years back before I was born. It was just my mom, my brother Anton, and me, Tatianna Rae Morgan. I was born in Newt, Texas, but when our small town began to grow deserted everyone began to leave. My family and I didn't have many friends, they were not super fond of our black family, but some of the families accepted us. Like the Hewitt family, a quiet bunch not really friendly with too many people. But that was then. My mom packed us up and we had to leave.

"Do we have to go?" I asked my mother and she nodded.

"Yes, baby now put your bags in the trunk and lets go." she said and I did what I was told. Anton sat up front because he was the oldest. We were leaving our old home behind. As we drove, we began to pass the Hewitt's house and I could see Mr. Charlie sitting in a rocking chair. Mom slowed the car down until it came to a stop and she rolled down the window.

"Hey Charlie!" Mom called out. Charlie spit out something gross and lifted his head up. He was weird and Mom didn't ever leave me or Anton by ourselves with him.

"Hey, Michelle… ya'll leaving too?" he asked gruffly and Mom nodded.

"Yeah. Can't pay the bills. No work and with Henry gone we have to go." I said and Charlie just nodded.

"I see." he said and Luda Mae, Charlie's Mom was coming out wiping her hands on her apron. I liked her she was really sweet and gave me cookies.

"Ya'll ain't leaving without saying good bye is ya? Can I at least get a hug from my favorite, Tati and Ant?" she asked and I smiled and looked at Mom who looked like she was about to say now.

"Mom please!" I asked and she sighed heavily.

"Okay fine. Hurry, hurry." she said. Anton and I hurried out the car and we ran up to Luda Mae and we just jumped in her arms and she hugged me tight.

"Oh I will miss you babies. If you are ever in town, please come and see old Luda. You promise?" she asked. We both nodded.

"We promise." Anton said. I looked around her waist to see another face inside, but he was hiding behind the staircase and I knew who he was. I moved over to the doorway, but as I did the boy hid more behind the staircase.

"Bye Tommy." I said and waved and slowly the boy raised his hand and gently curled his fingers downward. Thomas was the Hewitt's quiet kid. He was different and didn't have any friends, but he liked to sew and so did I so we had that in common. Mom didn't want me to be too close with him. She thought he was mentally retarded and she was afraid, because he was larger than me, that he may one day get upset and hurt me. "You gonna forget me?" I could see into the darkness of the house, and I could see his head slowly shake. He didn't talk much but that was okay. I talked for the both of us and he never had a problem.

"Anton, Tatianna! Let's go!" Mom called and so we left the Hewitt home and never came back.

My mom had passed away and now I was driving through Texas to bury her. But my car was shit and in seconds I had two flat tires and I was just sitting there in my truck not knowing how I was going to call anyone. Anton wasn't going to show up because it hurt him too much to do so. I sighed and just shook my head.

What was I to do, but stand outside and wait for someone to show up and hope that they were not a threat. Slowly, I could see a car coming into view and it was actually a police car. I waved my arms and watched the car drive right past me and I thought it was going to keep going, but slowly it stopped a few feet from my car and I watched with caution as the car now stopped completely. I watched as it stopped in the middle of the road not even on one side. I was pretty sure cops knew to follow the laws. The door flew open and out came a police man and I stayed by the door of my car and watched as the cop spit out something else and was coming toward me. I could tell by the arms he was a white male and old at that. I tilted my head and just remained still.

"Well looky here, you seem to be in a bit a trouble here." The voice said and my eyes flexed some at the familiar tone and the cop's hat was big and covered his face until he looked up at me. Oh my god. He gave me a lecherous look as he looked me over. "Well, I am always happy to help my sistas out." I arched a brow.

"Playing cop now, Mr. Charlie?" I asked and now he gave me a look as if totally taken back by my response.

"I don't have a clue of what you're talking about." he said. I laughed a bit.

"Mr. Charlie, it's me. Tatianna- Tati, Michelle's daughter." I said and now his eyes just widened more and he gave a hot and long laugh.

"Weeeell look at you! All grown up and curvy and busty now." he said and I stopped myself from rolling my eyes at him.

"I didn't know you were a sheriff." I said and he just stood up proudly.

"Well someone has to keep our county safe… what ya'll doing back here anyways?" he asked and my eyes softened and I looked away.

"Mom passed. Pancreatic cancer. I was just passing through to get to her lawyers in the town over. You know talk about legal stuff." I said and I watched his eyes sadden as he removed his hat.

"My god. Poor Michelle. She was a good woman. Ya'll were about the only black folk I could stand. Not like today's black folk." he muttered and I just stared at him before nodding.

"Thank you." I said trying to remember he was attempting to be sincere. He nodded and put his hat back on and looked away spitting out his tobacco again.

"Well your car ain't going nowhere. Let me give you a ride to the house and I will have this car fixed up. Momma would love to see you." he said. She was still alive? That brought a smile to my face and I nodded and began to follow him to his police car.

"You're not gonna molest me are ya?" I asked with mild humor and he laughed dryly.

"No promises." he said and I noted the lack of humor in his tone. I wondered if he still lived there.

Author's Notes

So this is my first Texas Chainsaw fic. I do adore Andrew Bryniarski so this was coming. Anyways enjoy!