Chapter 6
Blake
I'm pushing this thing as fast as I can. So much is going through my head right now. I know her name now, it's Rose. It's beautiful just like her. what's the luck that i live so close to her. This town really is my good luck charm. When I opened the door and saw her I thought I was dreaming till I saw the fear. She has bright brown all around her. It drowned out most of the other colors. I snapped too then. I had to get her inside where I knew she would be safe. I'm headed to her house. There's a chance i can catch them before they leave. Even if a person is hiding behind a tree or in a dark corner I will be able to see the color coming off them. I see her house coming into view . I stop and jump off and pocket the keys. Don't want them running and taking off with it. I walk up slowly and quietly. I'm used to hiding so I know how to make it like I'm not there. I see the footprints. They're leading to the house but i don't see any coming back this way either they're still here or they didn't leave the same way they came. I go more into the wood and follow the footprints. They lead to the back of the house. I see he was in one spot for a wall. There are footprints overlapping like they had to move their feet from standing to long and the indentations are beeper. I look around. It's the perfect spot to look at the back porch. I can see the back door and a chair. It's like they were waiting for her to come out. I see they keep going towards the front of the house. I follow, that's when I see him. It's a guy but I can't see his face. I'm coming up behind him. This is bad, really bad his color is black. I try to be as quiet as possible. Just as I'm about to be close enough to get him a cop car comes in fast, light going but no siren. That's why I didn't know they were coming. He sees them as soon as I do. He faces the woods and takes off. I could only see his ear, he's white or at least his ear and neck is.
I take off after him. He's fast. I can hear running behind us the cops must be following. He knows I'm behind him. He keeps hitting sharp turns trying to lose me but he's making sure I can't see his face. It's getting ahead of me pretty far. He must know this wood well. I don't and I keep tripping over holes. That he seems to be missing. He's leading me right into them. I start gaining ground when I hit a big hole and I go down hard. I hit my head on a tree route when I hit the ground. jumping back up. I took off again. I can't see him any more. The woods are so dark I can't see five feet in front of me. I can hear him though I follow the sound but I can tell it's getting father and father away. I can feel something wet going down the side of my face. The cops are catching up to me, which means I'm going slower. There's no way I'm going to catch up with him. I keep pushing. I can't just give up when I know there's someone out there that wants to hurt my angel. Just as my vision starts to blur I feel a hand on my shoulder. I try to shank it off when I fall to one knee. The hand grabs me hard when I look back it's the cop and one more is coming up behind him.
"He's getting away, go after him" I yell and point to where the sound is disappearing. The cop takes one look at me then turns to his partner and yells.
" You stay with this one, I'm going after the other one." as soon as he says that he takes off into the woods again. knocking me on my ass. I try to stand up again when I feel another hand on me. I'm really getting tired of being touched every time I get touched. I can feel whatever the person is feeling that is touching me. It makes me sick to my stomach. I can usually dill with it but right now I'm mad, tired and hurt. I don't want their emotions to.
"Your hurt, stay down i'm going to call for an ambo" he keeps one hand on my shoulder and the other he's using to talk into his radio. I can tell he's not going to let me go. I'm trying to figure out why both of these cops are so mad. I know anyone would be mad having to run through the woods at night after someone. However they are both mad, protective and worried. Do they know Rose??? And how did they know I'm not the bad guy? I know they don't think so. Well the first guy did tell he looked at me. As soon as he saw my face. He knew I wasn't the guy. Do they know who the guy is? Is that why they were here to get him?
"Ok can you walk? The ambo is on their way. If you can walk, let's get back to the house so they can check you out when they get here" he says looking me over.
"I'm good. Don't you have to wait on your partner? what if he needs your help?" i'm still looking where they ran off to.
"I'm not worried but he should if Louise gets a hold of him he's in for it." He helped me to my feet and turned me back to the house. I do it reluctantly.
"How do yall no i'm not the bad guy?" i couldn't help but ask i want to know who that guy was.
"Rose called and said that a white haired and white eyed guy went to find the person at her house. So when we saw you we knew you were the guy she was talking about."
"O she called yall" i cant help the smile that tried to come to my lips. She was worried about me.
"After you get checked out would you mind giving us a statement ?"
"I can give you one right now, do yall know who that guy was?"
"It was a guy? Can you describe what he looks like ?"
"Yes, it was a guy. He was a few inches shorter than me so I would say around 5'10 to 5'11 brown hair and he's white. He was wearing a black shirt and black cargo pants. I couldn't see his face, sorry." I guess they didn't know who it was seeing as they didn't even know it was a guy if only I could have seen his face.
" You did your best and that helped a lot. If you think of anything else please let us know." he starts talking into his radio again. Giving the description I gave to him. I guess to have the other cops on the look out for him. By the time we get back out the woods the ambulance is already there waiting. I didn't even realize I ran so far into the woods it took us a wall to get back out especially with me walking so slow. As soon as the EMTs see us they run over and I'm in the bed before I know it. There are shining lights in my eyes and hooking me up to stuff. One is whipping the blood off my face.
"Ok sir you need to go to the hospital. you look like you need some stitches and to see if you have a concussion." i female EMT who is cleaning the cut tells me. I set up so fast my head starts to spin.
"No, I can't go, Rose is still at my house. She's going to be worried and I have no way to call and tell her what's going on. She cant even leave. I used her four wheeler." I say trying to stand up even though I feel like I'm going to throw up.
"Don't worry and go to the hospital. Me and my partner are going to be going over there after this to talk to her. One of us can ride it back to her. You need to get checked out." I really don't want to but I can tell by the looks in all three of their eyes no's not an answer.
"Ok but tell her she can stay at my house as long as she needs to. tell it's safe to go back to her house." I lay back on the stretcher.
"I will tell her and we will be up to the hospital once we are finished here to talk to you some more." he says as they close the door.
"Ok sir, sit tight and if you feel any pain or discomfort let us know we will be at the hospital shortly" and off we go.