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Here's chapter five!

Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi.

As soon as we got to Eli's house, we went right in, and locked the door behind us. Then, we made sure all of the windows were locked.

Soon, nighttime rolled around, and with night came darkness. I decided to go take a bath, and change into my pajamas before I went to bed.

I walked into Eli's bathroom, and flicked the light switch on. Just as I was about to strip down I suddenly had an eerie feeling that I just couldn't shake. Like I was being watched...

I swung around, towards the window.

Ethne had her face pushed up to the glass, peering in.

I looked like a deer caught in someone's headlights. My mouth fell open, and my eyes widened.

I ran out of the bathroom, shouting Eli's name all the while.

He ran to me as fast as he could. "What is it?" He asked, while wrapping his arms around me.

I tried to tell him but nothing came out. My lips were moving, but there was no sound.

I took a deep breath.

"Ethne." I mumbled.

"What about her? She can't hurt you, Clare. You're safe here with me. I doubt she even knows where you are."

I shook my head vigorously, from side to side.

"She's right outside!" I shrieked.

"What?" He gave me a look questioning my sanity.

"Eli, I am not crazy. I was about to take a bath, and she had her face pressed up against the window. I'm not seeing things! She's out there!"
He rubbed my back in circles, trying to soothe me, as you would a toddler. I jerked away.

"Eli! Why don't you believe me?"

"It's not that I don't believe you...It's just that, well... I know you've had a long day, and it's dark outside. Maybe you just saw your own reflection, or maybe your eyes are playing tricks on you."

"No! They're not! She's out there, and if you won't believe me then I will prove it."

"How?" He wondered.

"Watch me."

I slipped my shoes on, and headed for the door. Eli grabbed me by the arm.

"No, Clare."

"It's the only way you'll believe me."

"I believe you." He blurted.

I looked into his eyes for a moment, and was less than satisfied with what I saw there.

"You're lieing." I accused.

I unlocked the door, and stepped outside.

"Clare! I'm not lieing. I believe you, okay? Can you just come back inside?"

I stuck up my hand, and motioned for him to come outside with me. He did.

"What exactly are we doing?" He asked.

"I told you that Ethne was looking in through the bathroom window. If that's true, then there will be footprints, right? I'm going to show you the footprints so you'll believe me, and stop thinking I'm crazy."

"I don't think you're crazy, Clare. Just scared, paranoid, and confused."

I sighed. "Same thing." I muttered.

I walked around the back of the house, to the bathroom window, where Ethne would have been standing. Where her footprints should have been. There were no footprints.

"Can we go back inside now?" Eli wondered.

"Maybe she covered them up. She was out here!"

As I was listening to myself speak, even I started to doubt my sanity.

We walked back to the front of the house, and went back inside.

"Lets just go bed." Eli muttered.

I was tired, so I didn't protest.

As he turned out the lights, I began to drift to sleep.

I awoke suddenly from a deep sleep. I was hot, and sweaty. I looked to my right where Eli had been laying. He wasn't there. I was about to say something, when a cold hand covered my mouth...

It was dark, and I couldn't tell who it was.

Fearing the worst, I put up a fight, biting the intruder's fingers in the process. They removed their hand from over my mouth.

"Clare." Eli whispered.

"Eli?"

He shook his head yes, and put a finger to his lips, motioning for me to be silent.

I cocked my head to the side, not fully understanding.

He pointed towards the door.

I still didn't get it.

He pulled out his cell phone, and started typing. He let me read it. This is what it said: Ethne texted me a few minutes ago and said that I'd be sorry for choosing you over her. She cut the phone line. And the lights aren't working. But I don't think she can see us. She can only hear us. She must be underneath the house. I'm not getting any bars anymore, otherwise I'd of called the cops already.

I pulled out my cell phone. It had a low battery, but I had a signal. I dialed 911.

"911. What's your emergency?" A woman asked.

"There's somebody outside, trying to break in. They cut the land line." I said it fast, and it all ran together, but I'm sure she understood.

"Are they still there? She wondered.

"Yes."

"I'm sending the police right now." She replied.

I flipped my phone closed, and wrapped my arms around Eli.

"The cops are on the way." I whispered into his ear.

He nodded, acknowledging what I was saying.

"I'm sorry that I dragged you into all of this." I whispered.

"I made you." He replied. "And it will all be over soon." He added.

I would have normally been comforted by that fact, but something told me that it wasn't true. That all of this was just the beginning, and there would be worse things to come. But I didn't tell Eli that. Instead, I just sat back down on the bed, and waited for the police to get here, knowing they wouldn't find an intruder. Knowing that Ethne was probably long gone by now.

But I waited nonetheless...

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