If I Could Be So Lucky
Chapter 1
The wall is smeared with red; I keep looking at it trying to work out why every time I become happy some tragedy happens to destroy it. I know who is doing it and how they are doing this but I can't work out why he is doing this. Bry ended it with me four years ago when I was fourteen and that is why I can't work out his reason for going out of his way to make me miserable he has killed all three guys that I have dated since him and five of my friends maybe he wants me to be alone and miserable for the rest of my life.
The blood was dripping down from the wall and the roof and even though I knew I shouldn't I looked up like I always do and I saw it my best friend. Jason's body was pinned to the ceiling the exact same way the last six were. I looked back at the wall and re-read Bry's message "Have You Missed ME?" every time he killed someone he left me that message written in their blood. Why does he keep doing this to me? He told me that he loved me, and now he kills everyone who gets close to me.
I knew I had to run not from the cops but from Bry, he had found me, so I had to run because if he found me who knows what he would do to me if he caught me. I only grabbed a few essentials clothes, food all the money in the house before grabbing the car keys and running to the car. I had no idea where I was going to go but I knew that I would need my identity changed again and I knew exactly who could help me. Once I get my name changed and a new back ground I would be starting at a new high school.
This time it's going to be different, I'm not going to get close to anyone, I will come up with a story as to why I live alone and my reasons for moving, I will be a good student with a troubled past who has a few people problems and doesn't want or need friends, maybe this time no one will get hurt, maybe this time Bry won't find me and maybe I will get to live a relatively normal life. Who am I kidding he has found me the last seven times when I have ran from him and this time will be no different he will find me again.
What will be different is that this time I will go back to being my original self, my real name and my past. Bry won't be expecting that, he will be expecting me to lie low, hide, change my name, dye my hair, buy contact lenses, change my style and create a new past for myself. I won't do that again and I'm done playing his games.
I drove up Den's driveway, I hate having to rely on Den to help me fix my problems and to help me run but he is all I have left. I met Den before I met Bry and so far he has been safe I just hope it stays that way. I knocked on his door and waited, I didn't have to wait long before Den opened the door "Hi Jane let me guess you're here for the usual relocation plan?" what can I say Den knows me well "Not this time around, this time I'm going back to being plane old me, the passport, licence, school records, car everything needs to be in my name, under my real name trust me Den, Bry wont expect this."
The look of shock on Den's face was priceless but he pulled himself together as we walked in to his living room to work out the details "Are you sure you want to go back to being Shade Craft? I mean with all of the truth and everything?" I didn't even have to think about it I just nodded "I know my past it will help me pull off the relocation and it means we won't have to create a whole new identity this time. How long will it take to get the stuff ready? Because I want to be gone by morning. I'm thinking of going to Canberra this time and to an all girls school that way Bry might not kill anyone else and I can most likely hide better in that kind of environment."
Den looked shocked; I don't blame him I had never been this serious before. "I can have it all done by 1:30 am, let me guess you will leave the instant I give them to you right, I will give you some extra money and set up a bank account for you with enough money to get you settled and we will trade cars as well, it's the least I can do to help you I mean you're like a sister to me you know one of those annoyingly cute younger sisters you would do anything for. Now get some sleep you know where the bed is. I will wake you up en everything is ready." My only response was to walk down the hall as I had done seven times before to Den's bedroom, I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.
I dreamed of a place where I was safe, where Bry never found me and I could have a normal life. If only I could be so lucky. I know that when I am woken I will be Shade Craft again, I will have my life back and I will have to drive to Canberra, buy a new house for myself and enrol in a new school, I would begin my life anew, I would be the intelligent girl with one too many people problems due to the fact that she was forced to watch her parents being murdered when she was fourteen years old, I know one thing for sure no matter what this will be the last time I run, well at least this will be the last time I change my identity Den doesn't need me showing up at his house at random times day and night.