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Chapter Twenty-six- Escape

"..." I say nothing. Captain Mark takes one step towards me, and I bolt. I charge up the stair way, into the main office out of the station, and into the wood behind it. I crash through bushes and other foliage, but I don't stop, and my mind is racing 'OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN, OH MAN! WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO?' I'm in complete panic.

'STAY. CALM. Panicking isn't going to help!' Flamethrower tells me.

'So I just keep running like a maniac?' I yell.

'Well it's working.' Air Strike says.

'THIS IS NO TIME TO BE FUNNY!' I tell him.

'I know, I know! You need to get off the island.' He says.

'... But... Rosie...' I think of her. The idea of leaving makes my heart feel like it weighs a ton. I can't leave her. I love her. I love her more than anything and anyone.

'Getting caught won't help!' Cloud Cover tells me. 'THINK about it! If you escape, you can hide out until you're a legal adult, but if you get caught, you'll never be allowed ANYWHERE EVER AGAIN! So that means you won't be a Fossil Fighter, you won't see Rosie again, and a bunch of other stuff!' I sigh.

'I know... but... It... it feels wrong to run...' I slow down and sit on a rock, my heart pounding and adrenaline pumping from my brain into my blood. I pant, and try to think, but all I can think of is how I can't leave Rosie. I don't want to hurt someone like that again.

"Gottcha!" A man exclaims as he tackles me. It's my Uncle Jeff.

"Let me go!" I tell him. We roll around on the forest floor.

"No!" He tells me. "We're taking you home where you belong!"

"Uncle Jeff, I love you and respect you, BUT I AM NOT GOING HOME!" I yell.

"Yes you are!"

"ARGH!" I manage to get to my feet, and grab the collar of his coat, then yank him off my back. I drop him, run, and then hear a gunshot and feel something hit my shoulder. I fall to the ground.

'HE JUST SHOT YOU?' My vivosaurs yell with shock and worry.

'No... He used the knock-out guns they use... I'm fine...' I tell them. Uncle Jeff's shoes enter my vision, it blurs,

And I black out.

"Oh..." I moan. My head is spinning. Is this what it feels like to be DRUNK? I wonder. I crack open my eyes, and see I'm lying on my bed in my hotel room and handcuffs around my wrists. I take a deep breath through my nose, push myself up, and look at the clock to see it's 10:30 p.m.

"Good to see you awake." I look, and see my Uncle Mark sitting in the desk chair with his legs crossed. My Uncle Jeff is standing by the wooden shelves, and Officer Herald is standing at the door. "Now," I look back at my Uncle Mark. "why? That's what I want to know. Why did you run away?"

"..." I say nothing.

"Red."

"I have the right to remain silent." I tell him.

"... Yes... You do... But I'm not asking much." He tells me. "You have a loving family, friends, a good education, a nice house, why would you run away and leave all of that?"

"... I'm sorry. I didn't want to run away or make the ones who love me suffer, but I had to, and the reason that I give you will not satisfy you."

"What is your reason?"

"So Conner and Collin wouldn't be able to bully me every day."

"Red, your cousins aren't bullies."

"Yes they are. Nobody ever believes me." My Uncle Mark sighs.

"...We'll take you home first thing in the morning. No arguments." He gets up, and He, Uncle Jeff and Officer Herald leave the room, locking the door from the outside. I sit there and stare at the floor between my feet.

...

I've been caught.

...

Defeat has me in its grasp,

I'm looking it in the eye.

...

And I still have determination.

I'm not giving up hope.

I WILL escape.

I chomp the handcuffs off, and spit the metal out. I change out of my tux and into the outfit I wore when I ran away. I grab my backpack, go into the kitchen, take out some jerky, dried fruits and vegetables, fill up my canteen with water, put some water bottles in my backpack, and go back into the bedroom. I put my backpack on the bed, and take out the photo album that's been hidden at the back of a drawer this entire time. I take it over to the desk, and take out a devise that fits on my head.

A few minutes later...

I put the photo album into my backpack and put the devise back into the desk drawer. The devise makes anything you picture in your mind into a photo, but you still have whatever you pictured in your mind. I had made a picture of everything that had happened here since my arrival, and put it in the album. I sit down in the desk chair, take out some paper, a pencil and some envelops. I write letters to my mom, dad, Mary, Zeke, some other relatives, Holt, McJunker, Duna, Dynal, Dr. Diggins, Mr. Richmond, The BB Bandit trio, and Rosie. I write her name in my neatest handwriting on the envelope, and look at it. I stare at it. Tears pour from my eyes, and my heart grows heavy. Something worms its way to the front of my mind...

A minute later...

I walk out onto the balcony and close the door behind me with a coil of rope in my hand. I turn my back to the door, and stare out at the woods behind the hotel. 'Are you guys ready?' I ask my vivosaurs.

'We were born ready.' They tell me. I nod, tie the rope around the railing, and slide down to the ground. I quickly and quietly bolt into the woods.

With my heart an aching void.

Sometime later...

I come to a cave and go into it. I look at my watch to see it's midnight, and I come to a pond in the cave that goes out to sea. In the pond, it the BB Bandit's boat. I climb aboard, start it up, ease it out of the pond, then fly over the ocean at full speed ahead. I look back at Vivosaur Island.

My friends are there.

Along with the one who stole my heart.

Tears flood my eyes, and I look away.

I'm sorry...

A few hours later...

I sit there in the captain's seat, steering the boat while the first rays of dawn streak across the sky. My chest feels like it's chained to a ten ton block of lead. I see a sliver of land appear on the horizon, and I keep heading towards it. At six, I reach it, and stop the boat next it. I check the GPS, and see it's mainland. I fill the gas tank, hit the auto pilot button, and jump off the boat. I turn and watch it speed back towards Vivosaur Island. I watch it until it disappears then go farther onto the mainland.

I'm going to have a LONG walk.

Rosie sat on her bed in her room, silently crying. She remembered last night how she went to the Police Station to see what had happened, only to find out Red was a run away and that they were taking him home. She begged them to let her see him,

But they refused.

She had ran back to the Richmond Building and straight to her room, then fell on her bed and sobbed. Her Grandpa came up to see what was the matter, and she told him what the police told her. Despite his attempts to soothe her, she continued to cry. She had gotten up and dressed that morning to see Red off, but an officer came and told her that they found Red gone and a rope tied to his balcony.

"I'm sorry." The officer tells her. He pats her on the shoulder. "Everything will be okay."

Liar... Only Red could say that I knew one hundred percent it would be. Rosie thought.

"We... found this." The officer says. Rosie looks up to see an envelope, note and small box tied together. The envelope has her name written on it very neatly, and she takes it. The officer leaves, and Rosie reads the note.

Read the letter then open the box. It'll make more sense.

What? Rosie wonders. She then opens envelope, pulls out the letter, and reads it.

Dearest Rosie,

I'm sorry. More than anything, I'm sorry. I have no idea how to tell you, or make it up to you. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you how I feel about you earlier, that I have to leave, that I can't tell you this face-to-face, and that we never got to... well... kiss...

I just want you to know that I'll never be the same until I'm with you again, and that I'll never love anyone like how I love you. I'm sorry. It's all I can say. I love you more than anything or anyone. And I have to leave.

But I promise you, I will see you again.

We will have that kiss.

Even if it's the last thing I do.

Love,

Red

P.S. Keep it safe.

Keep it safe? Rosie wonders. She picks up the small box and starts to open it. Keep what- She stops. Sitting there in the box, is a red ruby carved into the shape of a heart. She carefully picks it up, and looks at it. She then take off her turquoise rock pin on her collar, and puts the ruby heart one in its place. She gingerly brushes her fingers against it.

I will Red.

I will keep your heart safe.

AN- :*( *sniff* I feel bad now... :*( I need to listen to some sad music... If you think what Red did for Rosie is sweet, leave a review... :*(