A/N: Here's chapter 1. I hope it is good.
Chapter 1: being watched?
My feet were fucking killing me! I have been on them for eight hours without any breaks. That was a new record for me. It has been two years since that day. I try and not to think about it. It was kind of hard since I had a scar from it.
Flashback:
I got to town and went to the hospital. They sewed me up. Thirty stitches. It left a scar. A reminder of the pain I went though. After three days in the hospital I bought a train ticket to Settle. It was the last place they would come and look for me.
If they ever do.
Once I got to Settle. I looked for a job. Luck was with me. I found a job at a Denny's. It took a long time to save up money for a place to live. I slept in shelters for almost three months before I could get a place of my own.
It wasn't a nice place but a roof over my head at least.
Almost every night I have nightmares for three months before I broke down and went to a doctor for some sleep meds.
After a while I didn't need the meds and I would rarely have nightmares of my past but they were not as bad as they were in the beginning.
End of flashback (A/N: I am not good with flashbacks. I can read them but can't write them. I am trying though)
Right now I wish I was at my apartment relaxing. But I have to make a living. If I miss work or don't get enough hours I can't pay my rent. If I can't pay my rent then I am on the street. I do not want to be homeless again.
"Order up!" said the cook. His name was Matt. He is so hot! He's 37 years old but he looks more like 30. Dark brown hair that curls and frames his face when he is not cooking. He wears a Yankees hat when he's cooking.
The thing I love most about him is that I can talk endlessly with him. He was married to a nice girl and had four kids. I met his wife and is friends with her.
"Thanks, Matt. How's Tina?" I asked while putting the dishes on a tray and getting some napkins.
"She's good. Her back hurts but that's normal in the second trimester." said Matt, he cracked opened three eggs and threw them on the stove. I smiled, Matt and Tina were like rabbits.
"Tell Tina that I will call her later to see if I can take the kids to the mall tomorrow." I said while picking up the tray and heading out. I heard Matt shout "Sure" before the door closed.
I walked toward table twenty and seat down my tray on an empty table. "Okay, here's your order." I said placing down two orders of moons over my hammy(A/N: my fave dish!) and extra hash browns.
The couple said thank you and started to dig in. I smiled and walked away. I headed toward the front desk to punch in what my costumers ordered.
"Hey Rose, you forgot to sign in this morning." said Tammy the manger, looking down at the paperwork. I was in a rush this morning so I forgot to sign in. The stupid bus was ten minutes late. I went up to the desk to sign in.
I had my back to the door. I was writing my name when I smelled it. Aftershave. The one he wore. My body locked up, I slowly turned around. There was no one there. I looked around the whole place. Nothing.
I'm losing it, I thought. I am finally losing it. I shook my head and finished my name and punched in the number of the orders I filled.
Two hours later I earned my freedom. I clocked out and grabbed my parka and gloves. It was winter time in Seattle. I walked toward the bus stop. As I walked I had the strangest feeling of being watched.
No, you are not being watched! I scolded myself. I was safe. But there was there that feeling that I was being watched.
I made it to the bus stop. It was fucking cold out. It was at least fifteen degrees out. I wrapped my arms around myself to keep warm. A car drove by their headlights blinding me.
The car stopped and started reversing back. Toward me. I stiffened.
When car was finally stopped in front of me, I saw Matt behind the wheel. I breathed out a breath that I didn't even know that I had been withholding.
"God! Matt, are you trying to give me a heart attack? I thought you were a rapist or a murder!" I said shaking my head. Matt looked guilty and said he was sorry.
"Let me drive you home." he added.
"Matt, my place is on the other side of town. It's out of your way." I said.
"I know but it's cold out and it's late." said Matt simply as he reached over to open the passenger side door. I sighed there was no used to talk him out of it. I was pleased that he offered me a ride, it was cold out. I didn't want to get frostbitten. I need all my toes. And fingers.
I got into the car and immediately felt the warmth of the heater. I sighed in bliss.
"Thank you so much!" I said smiling at Matt.
"I think of you as a sister Rose, I would never leave my sister out in this cold weather." said Matt. He started driving toward my place. I just seat in shock. Matt thought of me as a sister. I smiled, I thought him as a brother.
I remembered a instinct at the diner where three drunk guys came in and started to feel me up. I was the only one left at the diner it was my turn to lock up. They grabbed and threw me over a table and started to undress me.
They almost had all my clothes when Matt came in and saw them. He remind me of him as he ran toward the three men and punched them and fight them. That was a year ago. I was so thankful that he came back.
Matt hopped on the highway toward downtown Seattle. There was not a lot of traffic on the road. I was lost in my thoughts. Did I imagine the smell of the aftershave? Maybe a costumer wore the same aftershave as he did.
Possible.
But a part of me knew that something was not right. I could feel a panic attack coming on. Deep breath, Rose. You are safe. You are with Matt. A man that thinks of you as his sister.
I took a deep breath and exhaled slowing though my nose. I could feel Matt's eyes on me but he didn't say anything.
We arrived at my apartment building and Matt parked the car as near to my apartment as he could. I unbuckled my seat belt and said thank you and good night to him. I got out of the car and started walking to my apartment.
"Rose, wait." said Matt from behind me. I turned around and saw him running toward me. His car was still running.
Matt stopped in front of me and asked "Are you okay?"
I sighed and said "Okay as I can be."
Matt looked confused by that and asked "Is something bothering you? You can tell me anything."
I thought of telling everything but I couldn't. I trusted him enough to tell him but I couldn't it would be like opening a can of worms. Or re-opening a wound. I have come so far in the last two years that I didn't want lose the progress that I had made. The near rape I had last year set me back a little but with the help of Matt, Tina and Tammy I made it though.
I thought of all the things that Matt had done for me in the last year. I should told him something, I smiled and said "I just feel like something going to happen that won't be good."
"Like what?" he asked looking worried.
"I don't know. I feel like someone is watching me." I said as I looked around me. Matt did as well. He looked really concerned. I sighed as told him that it was all in my head and that I was fine.
He didn't believe me but he walked me to my door and told me to lock up. And to call him if I need him, even if it's nothing. I smiled, he was one overprotective SOB! But I love him.
I locked up and went to the kitchen to make some tea. I put the kettle on and went to change into some black yoga pants and a white tank top. I put on a long sweater that was brownish white.
I picked up my well worn book of the coffee table and started to read the book. I know what you must be thinking. Rose is reading a book? Has the world gone mad?
Being on a low income is hard. I have no cable. I have a DVD player and DVDs but after awhile the movies start getting boring or to the point where you can just act them out yourself. So, I started reading and I found myself loving the books I read. I was well into the fifth chapter when I heard it.
BANG.
MOAN.
BANG.
A SHOUT.
You got to be fucking kidding me. I stared at my wall where the sounds of love making were coming from like I could see though it. And maybe some part of me wanted to.
BANG.
MOAN.
"STEVE!"
"BEN!"
Oh my god, it was two guys fucking each other. My mouth was open in complete shock. I shook my head and sighed cause I had met my neighbor the week before. Why is it that it always seems like the hot ones or the nice ones turn out to be gay or married?
My tea kettle whistled. I went back into the kitchen and turned off the stove. I poured the hot water into a cup and put the tea bag into the cup. After the water turned murky brown I put some honey into it.
I took a sip and felt a little better. I went into the living room and sat down on the couch and grabbed the book I was reading.
I finished the eleventh chapter and decided to do something else before I went to bed. I went back into the kitchen to rise out my cup.
I put it in the drainer to dry. I grabbed the mail from the table and looked though it. There was a big yellow envelope with my name but not my address on it.
Weird. I slowly opened it and looked into it. There was something at the bottom. I turned the envelope upside down and whatever it was slid out into my other hand.
I put down the envelope and looked at the object in my hand.
The whole world stopped as I recognized the object. It was a bracelet. It had maroon-colored beads and a crucifix. It was called a chotki. I knew it cause it was once mine. I flipped over the cross and saw the dragon wreathed in flowers engraved into the gold.
The Dragomir crest. The one Lissa gave me for Christmas. The one she took back when I was arrested. They knew where I was. I didn't make up the aftershave earlier today. He was there. HE was HERE in Seattle.
My breathing started to become shallow. My vision becoming darker. I was on the verge of having a major panic attack. Be calm Rose. Think of ways to escape. I thought long and hard.
I gasped when I had a plan. I ran into my bedroom and packed a bag with a few clothes and grabbed all the money I had. I looked around my place before opening my door and stepping out. I ran across to the next apartment and opened the door with the key I had.
My neighbor had asked me to look after her plants and car while she was in London. I run inside her apartment and grabbed her keys to her Volvo. I ran outside and ran to her car.
She had told me I could drive it to work but I did not want to. I didn't want anything to happen to the beautiful car with my reckless driving.
But this was a different matter. I was being haunted. I was the prey, they were the predators. I did not want to be the prey. No one wants to be the prey. I climbed into the Volvo and started it up and backed out.
I was driving towards the street when a car pulled out of a parking space. Making me slam on the brakes so fast that they squealed in protest. My heart pounded against my ribs. I looked at the driver prepared to flip them off but my breath was stolen from me. I was frozen with fear as I looked into the brown eyes.
His brown eyes. Dimitri.
He was staring at me with a fierce expression. Unconsciously I hand went to my scar where he had stabbed me.
He grinned as if he knew what I was doing. It was then that I noticed that he was not alone in the car. Eddie was in the front passenger seat and in the back were Lissa, Adrian, and Christian. They all looked at me with hate.
Oh god. I put the car in reverse and slammed down on the gas and reversed the wheel. I slammed the car into drive and took off at seventy miles an hour. I looked in the rear view mirror and saw that Dimitri was hot on my heels.
Fuck! I speed up little but he did same. We were doing ninety mph. It was crazy.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" I screamed out loud. As if they could hear me.
We came to a fork in the road. I faked a right but at the last minute I turned left. Bad idea. The road was icy. The car slid. The last thing I remembered before the blackness settling in was a big tree in front of the car and me heading right towards it at fifty mph.
A/N: There's the first chapter. The second chapter will be in Dimitri's POV. Enjoy! Please Review.