a/n: Thanks for all the reviews, they have really helped me want to write more. This part has a flash back in it so I really hope you like it. I wasn't sure where to end this one and I thought this was the best part to stop. More will come as soon as I can type it. Yet again thanks for all the fabulous reviews. Same disclaimers apply, blah blah. Hope you are enjoying this!

Chapter Three

The Note

"Anthony! Anthony, come here!" Chris shouted. "Daddy's not going to hurt you! Just come to daddy Anthony!"

Yeah right I thought, amazed I could come up with a coherent thought. I had quickly locked my door before I dove to "safety" under the bed. I heard the handle shake. "Anthony! Open the door!" With an amazing amount of courage I got out from under the bed and started trying to pry my window open. "ANTHONY OPEN UP!" "NOOOOO!" I forced myself to answer him. Then I remembered something my mom had told me earlier that day…

Mom walked over to me, I was sitting at the kitchen table. She had just finished up putting her stuff into a box. "Anthony, listen to me," She commanded. I looked at her, she grabbed my shoulders. "Listen to me very carefully okay, this is important," I nodded my head. "Now, when your father comes home I'm going to leave okay-," "No!" I interrupted her. I didn't want to be alone with that man. "Honey, please, hear me out, alright? I'm going to leave and once I get a decent job and home for you and me, I'll come and pick you up okay, how dose that sound, getting away from daddy?" I smiled. "There we go! Alright, but if that doesn't work, if something happens to me and daddy doesn't let me go I want you to get out of the house and in the back yard there's a big rock I want you lift up. When you lift it up you will find a locked, metal box pick the box up and dig right under where I put it and you'll find the key to open it. There's a note inside and I want you to follow those instructions okay,"…….

"ANTHONY!" Chris's yelling snapped me back to reality. "ANTHONY!OPEN THE DAMN DOOR!" I jerked the window and it opened with a loud snap.

I crawled out the window and ducked under the window sill just as I heard splintering wood and a loud bang followed by a large loud "ANTHONY!"

Thorn bushes lined almost the entire house and they where pricking me and some where drawing blood. I crawled along the mulch trying not to make a sound. Then a twig snapped under my left hand. I swung my head around and looked at my window to see if Chris was looking out the window. But instead of a head a leg proceeded to come out the window. Crawling will take too long, I reasoned. So I jumped to my feet and followed the only coherent thought my paranoid mind could form: RUN……

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