Ally and Kai

"Shit, shit, shit!" Ally maffled; in her frantically clammy hand was a hairpin that she was desperately clicking in the lock on the bathroom window. Her long, spare fingers were trembling as she fidgeted. She stuck her tongue gently onto her upper lip. Ally hated that the waves of anxiety still plagued her, she was much more composed and for most of the time she was able to keep it under control, but certain things and certain people were able to elicit it from deep within her. If she was living a normal life she wouldn't have any trouble managing her disorders and problems, but she led a life that was far from ordinary.

Kai made her feel things she never thought possible, the feeling she underwent most with Kai was conflicted, some things she hated herself for feeling and Kai for making her feel them but on the other hand some things she perpetually desired to occur, things she craved the sensation of, and although she hated him for making her feel this way in her own twisted fashion she loved him for all the new feelings he made her experience. Like with anything there was good and bad, and lord was the good just that, good. But that didn't mean that it wasn't all so wrong. Ally wanted to suppress the darkness deep within her core, but she couldn't so she was desperate to flee. She didn't know exactly why she was doing this; Ally knew it perhaps wasn't the brightest decision on her behalf; Kai and his goons would be after her and they wouldn't stop until she was found or killed. All she knew is that she had to get out all she wanted to do was run.

With every passing second that she was absent, it was diminishing her chance at escape. Kai would grow suspicious and a locked bathroom door was no formidable opponent. With every passing second Ally's panic worsened.

"Why won't this goddamn thing work!" she wailed, the distress forming in her words. Very familiar salty fluid began to drip from her eyes. "Come on! Please!" Ally cried. Her breathing was becoming shallow now and Ally was having a hard time inhaling, she griped the basin and tried to steady her breath. However she stopped breathing completely when she heard three booming, hard knocks come from the other side of the oak wood door. Ally dropped the hairpin and it almost went down the drain.

"Ally! Ally are you in there?" Kai yelped. He began to twist and turn the doorknob furiously. Ally thought that the door lock might simply crack for Kai jangled the handle with such vehement force that the brittle old metal could hardly withhold the pressure for long. Ally's chest heaved as she gazed with enormous eyes at the knob that violently juddered, her mouth slightly agape. The shaking stopped and Ally closed her eyes and exhaled gently. She looked to the now still door and she swayed gently towards it. Her fingers trembled as they grazed the metal of the handle.

"ALLY!" Kai bellowed, the force in his yell and the surprise of it sent Ally careening back and as she came down one of her flailing hands gripped a thin wooden shelf, it snapped and came hurtling down bringing all the various bottled and jarred creams and soaps with it, shattering and splattering all over the olive tiles. Ally came down hard and hit her tailbone on the cold hard floor. Her head flicked back, smashing the back of her skull on the pointed edge of the bathtub, her head then bounced forward and her forehead came crashing down on the tiles between her arms. Through the high-pitched ringing blocking her ears and the throbbing far down in the back of her head, she heard the thuds of Kai against the door and his incessant yelling. Ally grabbed her head gently and grimaced in pain, she could feel the throb in her ears and the sharp ache at the center back of her head. She let out a deep, sustained groan. Her vision was very blurred as she looked around the bathroom, the dim light glaring down like a fog light to her eyes, Ally squinted, seeing white spots behind her eyelids with every blink she took, she looked at the bespattered mess as she slowly pulled up, clasping the bath supporting herself, small pieces of fractured glass crunching beneath her white sneakers. She looked up at the cream coloured wall and saw the exposed drywall where the paint had been ripped from the wall.

"Fucking hell." Ally breathed. She had made a terribly messy mistake, in no time Kai would be in here and she actually feared his reaction and the consequence of her attempted escape. Her attention came back to him.

"Ally? Ally! What is going on in there? What in hell are you doing? Ally! Answer me! Ally I am two seconds away from kicking in this door. I know you are in there. ALLY!" Kai yelled frantically, Ally just rolled her eyes; she wasn't sure if it was the hit to her head or Kai's obsessive shouting and knocking that was the thing that was making her head pound, perhaps she thought it was both.

Once Ally was sure the shakiness had dispersed from the hollow of her throat she answered.

"Jesus Kai, you scared me!" Ally said as she inspected the disordered bathroom trying to find the hairpin.

"Ally, you fucking scared me! You have been gone for ages and then I hear all this shit crashing around, you alright?" Kai leaned up against the door and pressed his ear to the wood.

"Yeah I'm good I just fell and brought a shelf down with me, I'm sorry, I can fix it. I will be out in two minutes." Ally's voice was becoming thick, she could she her chance at escape floating past with the light clouds that travelled over the full moon.

"Don't worry about it Ally. But you have to come out now I am not waiting anymore. I mean why do women always take so long in the bathroom?" Kai chuckled but then abruptly stopped. "Say Ally…" Ally swallowed hard at the sudden change in his demeanor she could feel it through the door. He changed mien so quickly and suddenly that it made most nervous. "What exactly have you been doing all this time?" His question was pointed, over enunciated, deadly in quiet tone. There was a complete silence that lingered for a few seconds. Ally heard nothing but the drip of the faucet and the cool night breeze swirling past the window. Without warning there was a heavy thump against the door, Ally's breathing reached into wheezing and it felt like her body was shutting down, as if she was crippled.

"Not again." She snarled at herself. Another thump, the door groaned.

Ally didn't know what to do so she just got up on the sink and began booting the thin glass of the window. It was a race between who could knock down their barrier first. After a couple of swift powerful kicks, the glass burst outwards and Ally whooped in success. She heard behind her a thump and then the wood splintering and smashing. She spun her head and her gaze met an enraged Kai. They just stared at each other, neither making the first move.

"Kai this isn't what it looks like!" Ally blurted out.

"Oh really? Because what it looks like to me is that you were going to leave, you fucking bitch!" Kai raged, "How dare you!" his voice low.

"You know what fuck you Kai." Ally swung her legs out the window; Kai moved forward but fell over on the smeared mess on the floor.

"Ally, come back here!" he yelled. Ally saw her chance and slid out of the frame, she landed on the broken glass and she heard it that crunching sound again. She nearly cried from happiness, because she had done the first phase. She began running because it wouldn't be long before Kai would come after her. Ally knew that is would be stupid to run out onto the street where they could easily find her, she also knew that Kai had driven the all the neighbors out of the entire block, they were isolated, so she ran deep into the woods behind his house she knew that there were people who lived beyond. She didn't however miss the call of Kai promising to find her and bring her home.