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Chapter 12
"Shelby, you scared the shit out of me!" Colleen said angrily.
"I could tell, you made enough noise to wake the dead," she pulled out a smoke, lit it, then mimicked Colleen, "Who's there? Scott?" She laughed.
Colleen rolled her eyes and sat down again.
"You know, you shouldn't come out here alone, wake me up next time," Shelby said.
Colleen laid back and faced the stars, "I need some alone time you know. Nobody gets any privacy around here."
Shelby was a good actress, she didn't let Colleen sense the fear in her voice or see it in her eyes. But it was there, as she scanned the tree line along the lake. The night had an eerie silence to it, and something just wasn't right.
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He watched the blonde bitch make fun of Colleen, his girl. She seemed confident, and too cocky, "You'll pay if you hurt her," he murmured, "She's only mine to hurt....to love. "He ducked lower as the blonde girl fixed her gaze in his direction as if she'd heard his words.
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Shelby was positive that she saw movement, and as she gazed on, her fear grew. She now had an idea of just what exactly Colleen was going through, she'd only tasted a portion of her fear and was already going to get hysterical. She swallowed and then calmly spoke to Colleen, "Let's head back now, I thought I saw Sophie walking around."
Colleen didn't detect the tremble in her voice, and agreed to go back. They walked to the cabin and only when the door was closed behind them did Shelby finally breath.
"Look what this is doing to me! I'm starting to imagine things now also," she thought to herself. She lay down and let sleep take hold of her.
For Colleen it was a different story. She couldn't sleep because she kept hearing the cracking in the darkness. She couldn't have imagined it, but of course it could have been an animal. Suddenly she realized that she'd left Scott's unfinished letter lying on the dock. Quietly she slipped outside in her socks and scurried down to the docks. Her heart was full of fear, especially when she saw that the papers weren't there anymore. She frantically searched the dicks and the water around it. "Paper floats right?" she said aloud, and was surprised at how loud her voice sounded against the silence. A cold shiver crept up the back of her neck and her body went stiff, that feeling was there......the feeling of being......watched.
~*~*~FLASHBACK~*~*~
The phone rang. Colleen picked it up happily, "Bella? Finally you called, I....."
"This isn't Bella," a voice interrupted. Adam's voice.
"Go away! Stop calling me," she pleaded.
"Oh dear dear Colleen, I'll never go away you sound like you having a good life anyway," he paused, "I'll NEVER go away, even when you think your all alone, I'll be there watching your every move." She hung up then, and cried.
~*~*~END FLASHBACK~*~*~
His past words sliced through her like a knife. She was frozen in fear my the memories, the haunting memories.
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He picked up the letter off the dock, and began to read:
Dear Scott,
I'm sorry for not letting you help me and not trusting you with my secrets. I desperately want us to get along, but you make it so difficult. I'm sorry about the lip, I hope it heals soon. I think we should just restart our life from the day we met and meet each other all over again, you think it'd be better the second time?
It stopped, and he folded it up and put it into his pocket. "Scott hey? Your new boyfriend?" He glanced up and saw her scurrying towards the docks Quickly he dashed into a canoe and lay flat in it, unseen by her.
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Colleen breathed out calmly and backed off the dock, then ran to the cabin, She had felt him, it was so real. It was like he was there.
"Get a hold of yourself," she ordered. Then climbed into bed and clutched her pillow. She stared at the ceiling wide eyed all night, right until dawn.
