Chapter 11

"Were are we going?" Katie finally asked Mandi, after they had been driving out of town for almost twenty minutes.

"I don't know." Mandi shook her head,

"Just away from him." She looked down on the dashboard and sighed.

"We're going to run out of gas soon."

"Well, pull over somewhere, we can't just keep driving forever." Katie said, while she looked down the road ahead of them for someplace they could park.

"What about up ahead, at that little Mom and Pop dinner?" Mandi nodded, and pulled into the parking lot.

"By the way Lotte, this isn't just some little dinner, it's the most popular place in this little hick town I call home." They got out of the car, and made their way into the small dinner. They found themselves a small table in the back corner, away from any wondering ears.

"What happened Jammes?" It wasn't till just that moment did she notice the medical gauze on her friend's neck. Mandi gave a final glance around for Tarek, then told her about the night before.

"Tarek came to me last night. He told me I was holding you back, that our friendship was hurting you-"

"That's absurds, your the best thing to ever happen to me, Jammes." She cut in, but Mandi rose her hand to silence her, so that she could finish.

"For some reason, I believed him, something in his voice made me believe him. He told me it would be best if I took my life." Katie's eyes widened with fear, she knew the power of his voice, after all, it took her multiple accations from reality, and made her do things she wouldn't have in her right mind.

"But..." She started, but couldn't find the words.

"I told him to leave, before I did it. I didn't want anyone around, he made me fell completely worthless. I didn't want to burden him..."

"Your not worthless Little Jammes, your not in the least bit. I don't know what I would do without you." Katie paused for a moment, not sure whether to continue or not. "But, you didn't go through with it, how? I know what his voice can do, what snapped you out of it?" Mandi remained silent. She looked beyond Katie, recalling the voice that saved her from committing the unforgivable sin.

"This voice stopped me."

"A voice?" Katie questioned, not understanding what Mandi meant.

"It talked me out of it, like how Tarek talked me into it. He told me to save you."

"Who was it?"

"I don't know, I knew the voice, but I didn't. It was familiar, yet I don't think I have ever heard it before. It sounded perfect, like an angel."

"Like Tarek's?" Katie asked frightfully, hoping they didn't have another one to worry about.

"No, not like his, this was different. It didn't sound like it could have belonged to a man, but..." She stopped, not sure if she should continue.

"But what?" As Katie picked up on her hesitation, a waitress came to take their orders. Once she was gone, they picked their conversation back up.

"But what?" She repeated.

"Well, I thought I saw his eyes looking back through my mirror, but that was probably my imagination." Katie's face lost most of it's colour.

"His?" She recalled seeing the same set of gold eyes after she had first met Tarek, and when her dreams started.

"Yeah, but it was probably nothing." Mandi dismissed the thought. Just as she did, Katie's cell phone rang. She rummaged through her jacket pocket, then answered it.

"Hello?"

"Calm down Little Meg."

"What?"

"Oh my God. I'm so sorry, how?" All the pigment that was left in her face fled.

"Yeah, she is with me. I'll tell her."

"Do you want us to come over?"

"Are you sure?"

"Alright, We love you Little Meg, Bye."

Katie hung the phone up, a dazed shock expression covered her face.

"What?" Mandi asked impatiently, she had been sitting on pins and needles the entire conversation.

"Father Sean, he's dead." Guilt over took Mandi as tears ran down her face.

"This is all my fault." She sobbed out, as she buried her face in her hands.

"No, it's not." Katie tried to comfort her.

"I asked him to distract Tarek. If I hadn't gotten him involved..."

"We don't know for sure if Tarek did this." Katie tried to rationalize the actions of her 'angel', but she couldn't, there was no excuse fro what he did.

"Of course he did it." She looked into the eye's of her friend, who also began to cry at their situation.

"What are we going to do?" She squeaked out in fright.

"I don't know." They sat there in silence, contemplating their choices.

"We can't go home Lotte. I won't let you. He won't take you again." Mandi vowed.

"But were are we going to go? He will know if we go to your house, we can't go to the others, that would just put them in danger."

"We don't have the money for a hotel room." They watched as their options dwindled to nothing.

"Somewhere he won't find us, somewhere he wouldn't look."

"What? Like a strangers? Who would take us in?"

"Not a stranger, but someone distant, like a relative, or an old friend." They racked there brains for a person, but no avail.

"Look, I don't think anyone around here would just let us hide in their home, while we try to figure how to allude a screwed up modern day Erik." Katie said hopelessly. Just as she did, an idea crossed Mandi's mind.

"A Phan would, and I think I know just were we could go."

"Were?" Mandi went up to the cashier and paid for their meals, then returned to Katie to grab he coat.

"Were Jammes?" She followed her out to the car.

"A Phan, right beneath his nose."