CHAPTER 3
I run upstairs with Case two steps behind me I look at my mom's desk the things were thrown everywhere coffee mugs broken her big expensive computer on the floor. But that's not the crash I heard it was more of a thud I run to my mom's room and see her cat lying on the floor in an odd angle.
"CHASE HELP ME!" he comes running into my mom's room. his eyes wide in horror, I can't tell if it's because of how fat my mom's tabby cat is or ifs the angle he's in. "WE HAVE TO TAKE ALDOUS TO THE VET"
He nods his head and pick Aldous up and we run down the stairs and run to his truck. He gently places the blood red tabby on my lap, for once I don't hate this cat I hate whatever did this to him. Chase drives as fast as he can to the vet's office. Once we get there he's barley breathing I run in not caring that Chase is still trying to park the car. I hand the cat to the vet he takes him in his arms and he runs to an operating room with a few nurses right behind him. Oh no I need to call my mom about the house and about Aldous more bad news. I feel really bad that I have to tell her this. I pull my phone out of my pocket and I pick my mom's contact number.
"Hello mom…I have bad news…well when me and Chase got home….oh no its not that…. we heard a loud crash from upstairs….yeah….so we went to look…and your office got trashed and…Aldous…well...he got attacked and he's now at the vets…" I hear my mom break out into tears I hang up because I don't want to hear her cry. Chase walks over and puts his hands on my shoulders. The woman at the front desk tells me that they will be keeping our cat all night.
"Let's go clean the house" he points me towards the front door. We leave the vets office and we drive back home. The ride home is in silence. I wander what my cat did to my mom's office did he trip on something? or did he try to jump on the desk and miss? I wonder what happened, did a ghost do this? no they are not real right? Did he get a attacked by another cat and come home bloody from the fight? He better not die on me. I promise I will find out what happened to him and that a PROMISE. I keep promises, maybe that's because I don't make a lot of promises so when I do I keep them. We get to my house and we clean the office it took us hours and it was all in silence.
"Skyler are you OK?" he has a broken mug in his hands that are still bloody from our cat. I look down at my hands that are covered in his blood, I feel tears coming so I fight them back. I wish I gave that cat a chance, I am not ready to tell him goodbye. I feel rage and anger in my heart and it now runs through my veins its full of red hot rage. I clench my hands into fists. "Skyler come on let's go to the animal shelter and look at more cats"
"He's not gone as far as I know he's alive and he's fighting and I'm not going to give up on him I will believe in him and pray for him until the very end so don't tell me it over and that he gone" I yell my voice full of anger. I promise I won't give up on him no matter what, we sat there for only ten minutes but the silence was scary so it felt like hours, I took a deep breath and spoke wanting to change the conversation. "Let's go get that pizza now."
"OK Sky lets go there's a new pizza restaurant lets go there." He stands up and he holds his hand out for me to take and I take it without a second thought. I want to go as far from my house. I walk by mom's room and see the blood spot in the white carpet. That's going to need to be covered somehow. Chase sees me standing looking at the blood stain he closes the door. And grabs my small hand in his big hand and I feel safe instantly. What's going to happen to me? We leave the house leaving the lights on and walk out the front door. Chase looks it behind us and we walk to the rusty truck. The whole time to the new Pizza restaurant Chase is singing to Cheap Thrills and all the songs that are on the radio. I can't help but smile.
"That smile looks good on you Sky" Chase says with a wide smile. "CHEAP THRILLS!" I burst out laughing He's so weird but it makes me feel good and that's what I need right now. After the last couple of days. We get to the new pizza shop 'blue moon' was the person who made this a werewolf or something? We get in there and to my surprise it wasn't packed since it just opened and all. We ordered a large cheese pizza and two drinks.
"Chase why are you babysitting me? I'm 16 and I don't need a babysitter, is something bad happening?" I ask staring into his brown eyes, they show me fear and sorrow, he tries to hide it but I can tell something is bothering him.
He takes a deep breath and begins to speak slowly so I can take all his words in. "There's a serial killer loose in town and so far he's tortured and killed 7 girls your age" he pauses before beginning again "the girls were all found in the woods near to where you were found" I gasp I wish I didn't ask.
I remember my dream and how the girl said it was my fault. "it's your fault" I whisper very softly. "what? What's my fault?" Chase asks concerned. "Not your fault someone in my nightmare said it was my fault, what if this killer is after me?" I say trying not to freak out. Chase just sits there in quiet we sit in total silence until our pizza arrives. My stomach growls at the large cheeses pizza sitting in front of me. I do love pizza I almost ate the whole pizza! It was the best pizza I've had in a long time. Once the pizza and drinks are gone we pay the bill and leave.
"So you're saying a person in your dream is blaming you for their death?" Chase asks. "you haven't killed anyone before have you?" I can't tell if Chase is joking or is he is serious. I think that he's being serious. And if he is the answer is no I haven't killed anyone, and I don't really plan on killing anyone.
"yea someone is blaming me for their death, and I no I haven't killed anyone and I don't ever plan on killing anyone either" I answer his question honestly and truthfully, I don't really want to lie to him. When we get to my house my mom is home her truck is parked in our drive way. Oh she's so going to yell at me. But when I walk into the house she great me with her normal smile and kiss on forehead.
"Skyler you stink go take a shower" she plugs her nose and shoos me away up the stairs. I can hear her laughing. I turn the hot water on and climb into the shower and just let the hot water run down my body. After my shower I wrap myself in a soft dry purple towel and I go into my room and dig through my dresser for a pair of pajamas the I head down stairs.
"Mom how was work" I ask climbing into my stool from earlier. Oh my mom works with animals she some animal behaviorist my mom really likes animals. "Good Amy the foul has some serious trust issues problems remind you of someone?" she says raising and eyebrow
I scoff trying to hide a smile "no" my mom laughs her laugh is so beautiful and unique and it makes me laugh. I love it when she talks about the animals and how she talks as if they are people she could talk about her animal friends for hours and I would never get tired of listening. I can't explain on how I feel when she talks about them, I guess I feel safer with animals than people. I guess that why I got so protective about our lazy fat cat. We talk for a while longer then we both go to bed.
"SKYLER! GET UP!" mom yells from down stairs. I smell pancakes so I jump right up and put on a white kami on and a navy green button up that's see through and a pair of dark blue skinny jeans that look black, and my white convers shoes one and I grab my phone and backpack and run down the stairs. I love pancakes. "Skyler are you forgetting something?" she asks pointing to her hair. I reach up and touch my hair its still a big mess. My mom grabs a hair brush and brushes my hair while I eat I love it when she does that. We leave about 20 minutes later for school.
When I get to the school I walk through the double doors to my Math class, when I walk into the class room I see Ashley she's waving her hands and patting the seat next to her. I walk over to where she wants me to sit. "where have you been?" he asks I'm about to tell her bush she shushes me "while you've been playing hooky I've been flirting up a storm with Daniel" she says pointing to the husky kid with black hair and almost black eyes. It gives me the creeps. "yeah I wasn't playing hooky by the way" I say not looking at her my eyes are still on Daniel.
At lunch Ashley flags down Daniel to sit with us he walks over with his lunch tray in hand. "Hey Ashley what up?" Daniel askes his voice is deep. Daniel his brown hair that's almost black and his eyes are brown but they aren't like Chases eyes they are so different. "Who's this?" he points to me.
"That's Skyler my best friend" Ashley answers with a smile. The rest of the lunch was listening to Ashley and Daniel talk about who knows what I zoned out but the whole time Daniel is staring at me like I was going to kill him and he needed to be aware of me. He was about to open his mouth when the bell rang. Thank goodness I don't want to know what he was about to say. Ashley Daniel Emma and Me we are standing in front of the school waiting for our parents to pick us up. Well Emma can drive she just waits with us. Emma is a good friend of mine but I would say Ashley is a better friend because we have been friends since elementary school. we met Emma in middle school. Emma is two years older than me and a year older than Ashley, Emma has green eyes and strawberry blonde hair and a models body maybe because she's a small town model but she wants to be a model when she graduates from high school, and Emma stands 5'6.
"We should go to the movies You Ashley Daniel and me" he says "there's a new movie that I really want to see it but it's supposed to be scary so I don't want to go alone" there's a long pause "Sure I'll go but only if Skyler and Ashley go" Chase says looking at me. "I'll go to!" Ashley says snuggling up next to Daniel. "I guess ill go to" I say after a while. "GREAT!" Emma says clapping her hands ill go buy the tickets.
Emma runs into the parking lot over to where her car is she waves good bye and climbs into her car and drives off. A few moments later a rusty old truck pulls up in front of the school, I pause at the embarrassment. Chase rolls the window down "Skyler your moms wants me to take you home" he says
"Don't you have work to do?" I ask Chase spuriously. "Well your mom said you were still at school and she asked if I could pick you up from school" he answers me. I turn to Ashley who no longer behind me she's walking with Daniel to his car in the parking lot. I climb into Chases truck and we drive off this time I get buckled. I pull my phone out and I start texting Ashley and Emma. "How was school?" he chuckles
"HAHAHA very funny" I say in a grumpy tone of voice. The whole car ride to my house Chase kept talking and talking I kind of wish he would stop but I'm glad Chase is talking I truly trust him he feels like a brother to me a good older brother. Chase even walked me to my front door and we talked a little while then he had to go back to work at the police station. I walk up to my bedroom and I throw myself onto my bed I stare at the celling for a while. 'beep beep beep' I look over at my phone I see that I got a text form Emma and Ashley. Emma's text said: that she bought the tickets for the new werewolf movie that just came out and that she wants me to look nice. Ashley's text said: she had a good car ride with Daniel and she wanted to know I left with. I text them bot back I told Emma I would look for something a little nicer than converse. I told Ashley that I got a ride from a friend. Of course knowing Ashley, she wants details, so I give her the details as to what Chase looks like and his personality. I didn't tell her that he was a police officer and that he was 20 years old.
The day of the movie is here and I am so nervous and I don't know why I'm so nervous I hang out with Emma and Ashley all the time. Since I had to wear something a step up from my normal wear I decided to wear a long skirt that's dark orange and a black crop top that stops a few inches above my belly bottom and since no one can see my feet I decided to sneak my converse on. I curled my hair and put my eye linger and mascara on and grabbed my black jacket and headed down stairs to wait for my friends. I waited for an hour before I even hear a car pull into the drive way. I heard a horn honk outside then a knock on the front door. Time to go I tell myself taking a deep breath.
When we get to the movie theater Emma wanted to buy extra-large buckets of popcorn with extra butter and drinks that were extra-large I don't know why everything has to have a lot but I guess you have to have a lot. She says it for the scary parts when you jump and spill your popcorn on the floor you still have popcorn left to eat. when we finally get to our seats in the front row not really where I want to be sitting but who wants to fight with Ashley AND Emma not me they could be the scariest force on planet earth.
"I have to go to the bathroom" I tell Ashley and Emma, I didn't tell Daniel but I know he could hear me it's like he's got super hearing or something. I don't want him to wait outside the bathroom while I go pee. I shudder at the thought. "I'll go with you" he says standing up. "NO its fine I can go by myself" I say quickly but it's no use telling him no because Daniel is already following me out of the theater. We are about two steps from the bathroom when he pushes me against the wall. He starts sniffing me like likes he's a police dog looking for drugs.
"What are you?" he asks me with a nasty snarl. That makes me shiver his words are cold and scary. I push him off and run into the girl's bathroom to hide from him. What the heck? What am I? well that's easy I am a teenage girl who can get him arrested. What the heck was with him and smelling me? He's beyond weird what does Ashley see in him? I call Chase when I'm in the bathroom not caring that Daniel might be outside the door waiting and listening to me. He picks up on the last ring. "Hey Sky are you ok?" he asks. "I am fine but can you pick me up after my movie?" I ask him back. "Yea what time does your movie end at?" Chase says. "It's just starting so maybe around ten or nine I am not quite sure" I answer his question. "Why do you want me to pick you up? And not your mom?" Chases voice worried. "can you yes or no" I don't really want to have a mother daughter problem talk with Chase not that's there's any problems between us. I don't even think we even have secrets we tell each other everything she and Ashley and Emma are the only people in this world I let see the real me. "yes ill dome to get you" Chase says after a long pause.