Chapter Two: The Escape
That night…
Nikki sat at her vanity washing the make-up off of her face. She was waiting for Kay to come back so they could talk all night like they usually did. Kay loved to hear how Nikki managed to scare off the would be suitors.
Nikki jumped up as a man crashed through her window. She ducked behind her vanity and screamed, for good measure, as he threw a dagger which hit the door behind her jarring it shut. Nikki grabbed one of her high heels and threw it at his head, that combined with the fact that he could hear people getting up to see what was going on caused the man to think twice. He jumped out the window and climbed down the trellace before running off.
Nikki ran over to the door, and with some effort pulled the dagger out of the door. She grabbed a bag and threw some weapons, some food she had squirreled away to her room, some clothes, some money, a blanket and some kindling, which she had also managed to squirrel away, into it. On second thought she threw the attackers dagger into the bag also. 'I don't know what that man wanted but I'm not sticking around til' he attacks again. That'll just put my family in danger.' She thought as she put on her high heels, unfortunetly she realized to late that she had thrown her good traveling shoes into the bag. She jotted down a quick note to Kay and her grandfather. Before climbing out her broken window and down the trellace. She saw her door open when she got to the ground. She noted that her dress had gotten torn on the broken window as she ran from her home. 'Never liked this dress much anyways.' She thought as she entered the forest. She risked a brief glance behind her and saw the light from the torches of the search party after her.
"I'm sorry." She whispered before taking off running again.
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AN: I apologize for the shortness of this chapter but I felt like it needed to be left at a cliffhanger. Please Review!