Sorry for no update for so long but my hard drive crashed and we had to get it fixed. I lost almost everything...But here's the next chapter...

...He's Back...

Lyddie starred in awe at him, her jaw wide open. She hadn't expected this. Eric took his sunglasses off and gave her his Southern smile.

"What are you doing here?" Lyddie asked as she stamped up to him.

"Just checking on you," he said giving her another smile.

Lyddie responded with a disgusted look, "So what are you? My stalker?"

"Well something like that. I'm just here to make sure you're not doing anything stupid," he said starring down at her.

Stephen starred silently at both of them. He wanted so much to defend Lyddie, but he knew the consequences of that. So he stood there, eyeing them both, not really knowing what to do.

"Leave me alone," Lyddie said lowering her voice.

"Don't think I can do that," Eric said while looking at his watch, "No telling what a kid like you might do."

"Haven't you done enough?" Lyddie asked getting slightly angry.

"Well I'll let you get back to school. It's your first day, considering you skipped yesterday didn't you," he smiled and put his sunglasses back over his evil eyes, and walked out of the office.

Lyddie's jaw dropped once more. How did he know? If he knew that then did he know where she was staying, where she slept? He was starting to turn into a creepy stalker from some sort of horror movie.

She watched him leave, and then turned to Stephen, "I have to go, now."

"What? Lyddie I can't just leave," Stephen said walking after her.

"I need to go to the police, now. Stephen, this guy is really starting to scare me. You heard us in there!" Lyddie said turning to him once more.

"Yes, I did, but we need to stay here for now. I'll take you once school's over," Stephen said and began walking her to her first class.

They entered room 218. The people in the class didn't pay any attention to her until her teacher came to the front of the room, "Class attention please! This is the new member of our class, Lydia Rainey," she said loudly.

Great. The class had chosen to be silent at exactly the wrong moment. All eyes drifted to her. A few whispers could be heard from student to student. Stephen waved at her from the doorway and walked off. She felt herself become nervous. Her palms became sweaty. Quietly, she took a seat in the back of the room, not wanting to draw anymore attention to herself.

The rest of the day went the same way and by the time the bell rang she was fed up with the school. She walked up with her head down to Stephen. "Not a good day," he asked throwing his backpack onto his shoulder.

"What do you think?" Lyddie asked as they walked out to the parking lot.

"I guess you want to go down to the police station?" he asked as he slid into the driver's seat.

"Yes, please," Lyddie said while shutting her door.

The drove into the small town. The police station wasn't busy. They walked in together.

"May I help you?" the man at the desk asked.

"Yeah...um...I'd like to report a kidnapping," Lyddie said cautiously.

"Of whom?" the man asked while getting out a pen.

"Well...um...me," she said with an awkward look.

She spent the next half hour explain her situation to the man. He seemed mostly confused but seemed to get the basic idea of it.

"Ok I'm going to need a description of the man," he said.

Lyddie described him in vivid detail. She wanted him caught.

"Ok Miss Rainey, I'll give you a call when something turns up," he said while finishing writing down her description.

"Thank you," Lyddie said and walked out the door with Stephen.

"Ok well I guess we can go home now," he said looking at her troubled look.

"Yeah," Lyddie replied.

The drive home seemed to last forever. Lyddie just wanted to lie down for a while and sleep. She knew these long stressful days couldn't be good for her health, physical or mental.

Stephen shut off the engine. The front door was cracked open. They gave each other a confused look. Something was wrong and they both could feel it.

They slowly walked up to the house and crept through the door.

"I'll check the kitchen," Stephen whispered.

"I'll check the hallway," Lyddie replied.

They crept in their different directions. Lyddie peeked in closets and behind doors. She had just finished looking behind a door when she heard a noise behind her. She turned her head and opened her mouth to scream at the vision in front of her.

There you go! I'm hoping to get at least one more chapter up before I leave for my class trip to DC. So keep checking back.

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