Chapter 14
Blake
I swear this girl is going to be the death of me. Why does she never answer her phone? I can't help it when I see her. I'm so happy that she is ok. I run and hug her, lifting her off the ground. She goes pink then blue and back again. I know there is a store for that but now's not the time to get into it. I let her down. our eyes lock. I can't look away. They are like the vast ocean. I could look into them all day and never tire of it. We don't talk for a good while. The longer we look at each other the redder she becomes. She finally can't take it any more and looks away.
"What's going on, why did you hug me?" she looks at her feet kicking the ground.
"On the way home I spotted dear cameras. I didn't think you put them up. I know I didn't. So I could only think of him doing it. Trying to see if you are coming home without him knowing it or seeing where you are going." I explained all the places I saw them. I didn't go to her house. I didn't want him to know that I'm close to her. He will start watching my house and she will lose another place she feels safe at.
"I knew something was round with the trail to day"
"Did you see one at the entrance? Is that why you came this way to my house"
"No i felt " she closed her mouth so fast it made a sound "never mind" she walked past me to the house to stop the conversation. I followed right behind her after I grabbed her bags. I'm not done with this conversation. Whatever she was about to tell me scared her really badly. I know I have secrets and she has the right to hers. I don't care. I want to know everything about her and I will. She can tell me anything there is nothing she can tell me that would make me leave her or hate her.
"What were you about to say?" I ask as I set the food down on the kitchen table. She's pulling out pans. I see fear come off her at my question almost as bad as when she came banging on my door.
"It's nothing, just forget about it." She wont even turn around and look at me. I walk up behind her. I put my hands on her shoulders and gently made her look at me.
"You don't have to hide anything from me. That I can swear to you." I see a little pink blind into the brown.
"You have things you are hiding from me. I don't force you to tell me those things. So don't try to force me." I can't argue with that. However, that doesn't mean I'm going to give up.
"What if I tell you something that I'm hiding, then will you tell me?" i don't even have to look at her colors to know she really wants to take me up on my deal. She really is a cerise girl. Biting her nails she contemplates whether or not to take it.
"Ok but you have to tell yours first and you have to promise not to think i am a freak." smiling, I hold up my pinkie.
" promise" laughing she locks hers with mine. " ok i left home at 14 and lived on the streets for a few years till i could get a good enough job to get a place. My parents hated me; they thought I was a demon. They treated me so badly I feared they may kill me one day so I ran" the smile on her face vanished so fast now she looks like she's going to cry. " hey it's ok i'm ok its all in the past." I hug her and try to comfort her. I didn't know this would hurt her so bad. I held her for quite a while till she finally calmed down.
"I'm so sorry that happened to you. They are horrible people for doing that to you."
"I no they are i no i did nothing wrong . that they were the ones in the wrong. It did take a while to learn. When I was very young I thought it was my fault. That if I was born like everyone else and not a freak, but I figured out that it wasn't my fault that they were the bad ones for not being able to accept someone who was not 100% like them."
"That's right, they are the bad ones, not you." she takes a beep breath stealing herself for what she's about to tell me. "I have always been able to sense stuff like if someone is staring at me, or if something bad's going to happen If I stay somewhere so i leave. I always listen to it. The one time I didn't I got hurt really bad. I dated this guy. I had a feeling he was bad news but I really liked him. He was nice and sweet. A year into it the cracks started to show. He started getting in my head that my feelings weren't real, that I was crazy and a freak. It took me years after the break up to break away from his brain washing." tears start to go down her checks. I pick her up and bring her to the couch. Sitting, I let her lay in my lap with her head on my chest.
"You're not crazy. he just wanted you to think that so you wouldn't listen to them when it came to him. He knew he wasn't a good man. He wanted to control you and keep you by his side while still mistreating you."
"I know I should have listened to my gut. I was so stupid"
"Hay don't call your self that every human has don't at lest one stupid thing in there live that doesn't make everyone stupid." i pet her head we stay like that tell she stops crying.
"I am so sorry for all this."
"Don't worry about it, let's get to cooking "I helped her off me. She runs to the bathroom to wash her face I'm sure. I pull out all her stuff so she can cook, but she is not the only one that's going to be cooking. I'm going to make her supper. We can have the cookies after. As soon as I'm done pulling all my stuff out that I need she emerges from the bathroom.
"What are you doing?" she asks as she walks up next to me to see what im doing.
"I'm making supper. By the time you get home you're going to be too tired to make anything so while you are making cookies I will make supper."
" I like that ideal." She gave me the biggest smile. Even with her red and puffy eyes. For the next hour we work in perfect harmony making food. We talk, joke, and even play pranks on each other. We clean up and set the table. I make a beef stow sense its getting colder out.
"This is so good if there is leftover. I'm stealing some for work."
I will make a bowl for you to take home" she hums happily eating everything. It's a good thing I made a lot. She went back for a second bowl. I was able to talk her into staying a little longer. To watch a movie while we eat our desert. About half way through the movie she falls asleep. I pick her up and bring her to my room. I get her comfortable and covered up. I take her shoes and lay them at the foot of her bed. That's when I hear her phone ring from the front room. I hurry to shut it off before it wakes her. I don't want her to leave and if she wakes up she will. As I shut the sound off I see that it is her friend that she is staying with. I should answer it so she doesn't worry like I did but it's not my phone and i dont want her to think I'm snooping. While I'm debating it stops ringing then starts right back up. I know she's freaking out. I can't help it. I pick up.
"Hay Katie this is Blake"
"Why are you picking up her phone? Where is she?"
"She fell asleep while watching a movie. I didn't want to wake her so I'm just letting her sleep. I saw that you were calling and I didn't want you to worry so I picked up." next thing i know she's face timing me. I click accept.
"Let me see her now" a tiny little brunette is staring at me like if i dont do what she says she's going to come throw this phone.
"Ok hold on" I walk back into the room and flip the camera so she can see her.
"There happy" I whisper and walk back out the room.
"Yes, that's all I needed as long as she's safe, but if you hurt her you wont be" i smile at that.
"I swear on my life that I will never harm her." We talked a little more on the phone. I told her about the cameras and how the cops are trying to trace them back to where they came from and who bought them. After we got off the phone I put up all the food and lay down to try to get some sleep. I know it's going to be hard with her here.