I took a step back, not believing my ears.

"You're lying." I whispered.

"Gwen, you have to believe me." Alex tried to tell me.

"You're dead! You-you can't know this! I-this is a dream! You're a dream! This isn't real! He can't have escaped!" I was having a mental breakdown...in my own dream. Alex grabbed my shoulders and shook me.

"Gwen! Listen to me! He's escaped! You have to go somewhere safe! Not only for me! But for Momma too!" I pause and looked at him in shock.

"You saw Momma?"

"Yes, Gwen, please believe me." Alex began to fade away. "You have to run Gwen!"

"Alex wait!"

"Gwen!"

"ALEX!" I screamed as I sat up. I looked at my surroundings. I was no longer in a field, but in Duncan's room. He stared at me with worry in his eyes.

"Gwen are you ok?" he asked. I wiped the tears from my eyes.

"I-I don't know." suddenly, the house phone rang.

"I-uh-have to get that. Listen, calm down and I'll bring you a slice of pizza."

I walked downstairs and picked up the phone.

"You can't hide her from me boy." a voice said. What the hell? "She'll die soon, and you'll be next...you cannot hide." the mysterious man hung up. What in the holy hell was that about? I replayed the brief call in my mind over and over. Then, I understood.

"Gwen!" I shouted as I ran upstairs.

I reappeared in the cloud room when I finished my mission. Momma appeared shortly after.

"Did you do it?" she asked hopefully. I shrugged.

"Honestly, I don't know if I got through to Gwen. She's smart, but the thought of dad escaping drove her halfway crazy. But then I mentioned you, she began to believe me a bit, but then I began to disappear." I looked at my hands. "At least I got to hug her..." I began to cry. "But it isn't the same! Every time I close my eyes, I expect to open them and see Gwen at school! I expect for this to be a nightmare that I have to wake up from! But I can't Momma! I'm trapped, and I'll never make friends, or hang out with Gwen for more than 5 minutes! I'm scared Momma! I'm so scared..." my mother held me close.

"Shhh, Alex, it's ok, we are gonna be here for her every step of the way. This nightmare will end." I looked up at her, there were tears forming in her soft brown eyes.

"When, Momma? When will it end?"

I was thinking about my dream...was it true? Had Papa...no not Papa. He could never be my Papa anymore. Satan himself possessed that man. He could never again be the father I once loved...But still, did he...did he escape?

"Gwen!" Duncan's yell snapped me from my thoughts. I jumped up, and ran into the hall, bumping into Duncan.

"Duncan whats wrong?" I asked, worried.

"That phone call...I-it-you-"

"Spit it out Duncan!"

"Your father escaped!" he shouted, shaking. "He escaped..." Oh God...it's true...my knee's buckled beneath me and I fell onto the floor. Tears fell onto the floor. I was shaking my head in disbelief.

"Are you sure?" I whispered, barely audible.

"Gwen-I-"

"ARE YOU SURE? ARE YOU FUCKING POSITIVE THAT THAT COLDHEARTED, SON OF A BITCH I AM DOOMED TO CALL MY FATHER ESCAPED FROM JAIL?"

"Gwen, calm down-"

"THAT MAN, THAT FUCKING BASTARD KILLED MY BROTHER! Duncan, I need you to look me in the face and tell me. Swear to me that my father escaped."

"Gwen, I swear on my life that your father escaped. He's the one that called me." he said, his blue eyes piercing my dark, smoky gray ones. I stood and walked past Duncan. He grabbed my arm.

"Where the hell do you think you're going?"

"I'm leaving. So don't follow me."

"Why Gwen?"

"You don't fucking get it. I'm leaving, and I am going to look for my father. And when I find him, I'm gonna kill him for murdering my brother."