This is the now chapter. I think it is pretty interesting. I hope you will like it.


Austin's POV

I lost track of time. I've been holding Ally for a couple minutes, but it could be even an hour by now. She was still crying but not that hard, as before. She was broken. I knew it. I didn't say anything at all, so it was silent. I didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable, so I slightly rubbed her back. She was the first one to speak.

"What's going to happen now?" She whispered and I barely could hear what she said.

"We'll go to the police station. I will call some other officers to come here for him. We should go."

I got up from the ground and offered her my hand. She accepted it and wiped the last tears from her cheek. We went into my car and I called Dez.

"Hey, what's up?"

"Hey, Dez. I need your help. I saved one girl from getting raped and knocked out the guy who wanted to do it."

"I'll be there with some colleagues. What's the address?"

"18 Hill Street."

"Okay, I'll be there in 10 minutes."

"Good, see ya." I hung up and looked up to Ally at the passenger's seat. She was calmly looking at the house. Now I noticed all her cuts. There was one above her left eye, one on her right cheek and she had deep cuts all over her arms. I hope that guy will be in the jail for rest of his life. God knows what he did and if he did this to any other girl. I was probably thinking too long. I saw a few police cars arrive.

"I'll leave now for a few minutes. Don't go out." I didn't want her to go out of the car cause we'll arrest Elliott and he might be awake. She doesn't need to look at him when she can avoid that. I walked up to Dez to tell him everything.

"Good job. You solved the case pretty fast, you only got it this morning."

"I'm glad. Who knows what would've happened of I came late."

"Yeah."

I went back to house to see it he's still there." Holy shit! No, no, no. He wasn't there. The basement was completely empty. He ran away. And it's all my mistake. I should've called Dez right when I arrived. Or even better, bring him with me. I totally screwed this up. It's all my fault. I went out of the house and Dez was there waiting for me.

"Can we o get him?"

"No, he's not there. He must have woken up and escaped."

"Don't worry bud, he can't be far, we'll catch him."

"Thanks."

"EVERYBODY LISTEN! The criminal ran away a few minutes ago so go search through the forest and find him." Everybody immediately disappeared in the forest. I quickly went to tell Ally what's going on.

"Hey, how's it going?"

"Not well. Elliott ran away and we're going to catch him. Don't worry I will lock the door so nobody can get in. I'll leave you the keys if something happened and you needed to run. Okay?" She just nodded. I locked the car and gave her the keys. Then she closed the window.

I pulled out my gun and ran into the forest with Dez. Actually, we didn't run. It's not necessary. We don't want to be tired and out of breath if we see him. We were moving slowly and very quietly. The wind was blowing and it was making a noise. It was good, cause we wouldn't be heard from a bigger distance but then on the other side, we barely could hear anything. We met some men but they all said they didn't see anything. I was really worried. I wanted to check on Ally so badly, but I didn't want to leave Dez alone.

"I think we're moving in circles. I remember this weird tree, we saw it and hour ago." I said to Dez and sat down on the ground. I was exhausted.

"You're probably right. We're never going to find him. If somebody found him, they would let us know."

"I think I'm gonna go back. If I find a way back." I was really lost. I didn't even know where the north was. I won't find a way back.

"Don't worry, I have a GPS application." Dez pulled out his phone and tapped something.

"Well, Austin. We got a problem."

"What problem?"

"It found my position and way back to the house but it can't tell me where the southeast is. This compass doesn't work."

"What? That's a shitty application. But we can find out where the southeast is, we're not that dumb." I started thinking. We're on the northern hemisphere. And it's almost noon so all shadows show where the north is. So south is the opposite way. The east is where sun comes from. Now, 45 degrees to the east and we got it.

"Dez, this way." I told him and showed him the direction.

"You're good at this, you know?"

"I know." We both laughed and started walking.

Ally's POV

I was sleeping in Austin's car when someone tapped on the window. I opened my eyes and panicked. Austin told me that Elliott ran away. I hope it isn't… it's him. I started panicking but after a few seconds I realized that the car was locked. And I had to keys, in case I needed to run away.

"Hey Ally." He said with a smile. I didn't want to upset him so I was nice.

"H-hi." That's all I managed to say. I was shocked and scared. I didn't know what to do, I hoped that Austin would come back soon. I loud crash pulled me out of my thoughts. He broke the glass. And unlocked the door. And got in. Oh no! He sat on the driver's seat and I was scared that he would start the car and leave. The fact that I had the keys gives me hope. Maybe he thinks Austin has them, so he won't ask. He was talking but I didn't listen. I was staring at the forest hypnotizing it to spit Austin out. I unlocked the car fast and ran to Austin. He saw me and started running towards me.

"Ally, what happened? You were supposed to be in the car."

"I then Elliott showed up and broke in and I was terrified and…" I was cut off by a tight hug.

"Shh. Don't be scared I'm here now."


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