Whats up guys? This is the other chapter Milymet P. Runsage requested. Tori's PoV for chapter Fourteen of ' The Awakeninng'. Hope you like it!
Me and Chloe snuck past the night guard who was to busy reading a Playboy magazine to notice us, so we snuck right past, with Liz apparently keeping watch for us. I hated not being able to see or talk to her. It sucked.
We made it through the main building and into the yard. It was freezing without the sun and the stupid breeze coming from Canada. It was dark but we could still be seen if there was someone close by, so I mentally sighed when I realized that both Chloe and myself were wearing dark clothes. Me in my navy Blue American Eagle sweat shirt and leather jacket, and her in dark jeans and a dark green shirt. I actually felt sorry for her. She must have been freezing!
We made our way to the old warehouse on the opposite side of the yard, but it was taking forever because, as Chloe was telling me, Liz was having issues with finding the Edison Group guard. He was probably cloaking himself. So we had to go the long way, moving from shady tree, to shady tree.
When we finally mad it to the warehouse the door was unlocked, which I found weird until I saw what was inside. Just boxes, crates and wooden pallets.
After the door was closed Chloe went to search for a few minutes. I used that time to think. I couldn't go on the run with her, Simon and ugly. I couldn't leave my dad alone here with my bitch mother and sister.
I was still contemplating what to do when Chloe sighed and said, "We'll have to wait until morning." And that's what made my mind up. I wasn't about to stay here all night with the rats.
When I didn't answer She squinted in my direction.
"This is my stop." I told her.
"Hmmm?" she was still squinting at me.
"This is where I get off." I was to tired to put the bitchyness into my voice. "My adventure, as fun as it's been, ends here."
"Just hold on until morning. If there isn't a note, we'll figure something out." She was trying to persuade me to stay. It wasn't about to work though.
"And if there isn't a note? I wanted to join you escape, Chloe, not your crusades to find Simons dad."
"b-but he'll-" Got I hated her stutter, and I wasn't willing to listen to this speech again.
"Save the day?" I actually managed my normal voice this time. Good. "Rescue us from the mad scientists, cure us, and take us to the land of lollypops and unicorns?" I know I was being very pessimistic but I needed to get it through her thick scull that I wasn't staying.
Her voice hardened. "Finding him might not solve anything, but right now, we're a little short on options. What are you going to do instead? Go back to the Edison Group and say sorry and it was all a mistake?" Wow…who knew she had a bitch side?
"im doing what I planned all along. We needed each other to get out. But that's all I wanted from you. I'd help you find the note, but I wont stay until morning to do it. I'm going home, to my dad."
When I said that her face went from pissed-off, to holy-shit!-I-just-saw-a-ghost, No pun intended.
"So your dad…he's human?"
"Of coarse. He doesn't know anything about this. But I'm going to tell him." His wife was a statistic bitch, he knew that much, but he didn't know that she was a statistic bitch of a witch. He didn't know anything about me being an experiment, he didn't know anything!
"is that such a good idea?" God, I think she's been spending to much time with Derek.
"He's my dad," I snapped at her. "When he hears what my mom did…? Everything's going to be okay. My dad and I get along great. Better than him and my mom. They hardly even talk. I'm sure they only stay together because of us kid's." It was true. Mom and dad rarely talked, and when they did it was always a yelling match. Not much fun in the relationship….eh, who knew, maybe the bedroom stuff was good…?
"Maybe you should wait a day or two. See what happens." Why was she pushing for me to stay? I know it wasn't because we were friends and she didn't want me to leave, so what was it?
I laughed instead of asking her WTF? "And join your band of superheros? Sorry, but im allergic to spandex." I turned away then, trying to get her to realize that I had made up my mind and wasn't changing it. "say bye to Liz for me."
"Wait!" I turned around slightly then to see her tugging off her shoe. "Take some money."
"Save it. I don't plan to ever get a chance to repay you."
"its okay. Just take-" I cut her off. I wanted to leave and I didn't want to take her money. I had no idea how much she had and I knew she would be on the run so every penny counted.
"Keep your money, Chloe. You'll need it more than I will." I turned around and started walking again, but stopped. Chloe could come with me and forget this whole mess. She actually wasn't that bad. She wasn't the typical blond, just the typical short clumsy kid. We could leave the insulin here for the guys along with a note saying that we were going on our own to find my dad. They would understand. "You could come with me."
"I need to get Simon his insulin." I knew she was gonna say that but I wasn't going to push her into coming with me. I didn't want to seem like I was starting to like her, even though I was, and I didn't want her to think that I needed someone with me.
"Right. Okay then."
I then turned and walked away. I didn't say good-bye, and I knew she thought I would. All you could hear as I left was my sneakers hitting the cement floor and the door as it creaked shut behind me.
I was just getting to the convince store that was down the street, and I could see that there was someone at the pay phone. I could wait my turn but I didn't want to wait there, just in case. So I went into the store and looked around until I saw that the person had left.
I walked up and put in 50 cents so I could make the call. It rang, and rang, and rang. I was about to hang up and try again when I heard a muffled and groggy "hello?"
"Hi dad. Its Tori."
"Tori? Tori! Oh my god, its been forever! How have you been kido?" I loved my dad, but he still treated me like I was 5 sometimes.
"Not to good dad, that's actually why im calling you. There was something wrong with Lyle House so they transferred me to this other place, but it was even worse, so I escaped. I want to come home, but away from mom. Can you come and get me?" I said in a rush. I wanted to get it all out there now, and if dad was somehow connected to my mother and Davidoff then I would be screwed, but at least I would know who I could count on. No one.
"Of coarse! Where are you? And why would you have to escape? It couldn't be that bad…"
"Trust me dad, it was. Im….." I told him where I was and he told me to just sit tight and he would come and get me. I told him that I would be waiting by the store, or across the street.
I don't know how long I sat in the ally behind the dumpster when my dads car pulled up. I started to get up and move, but I couldn't. I don't know why, but I had this bad feeling that if I went out there I would end up somewhere other than my dads.
So I waited. The car windows were all up, and the tinted windows made it impossible to see through. I couldn't see who it was. Until the driver opened the door.
I almost made an audible sob as she looked around for me. It was really dark down the ally way so she wouldn't be able to see me. This couldn't be happening! My dad couldn't have sold me out!
My mother kept looking for a few minutes then turned toward the alleyway. She started to walk into the opening, and I was getting ready to bolt when I heard her cell phone go off.
"What?" a pause while the other side talked. "No I haven't got her yet! She was lying! Shes not here!I used my tracking spell on her even! It says shes halfway across state!".…"Yes, im coming back now Marcel. See you in a few minutes." She then hung and turned back to my dads car.
When she drove away, I stayed hidden until I couldn't here the car anymore, then snuck back to the pay phone. I called my dads house, but this time with a blocked number.
I waited about the same amount of time I did last time before the phone got answered.
"Hello?" It was my dad. He had sold me out!
I hung the phone up before I started screaming at him.
I fell to the floor of the booth then, sobbing loudly and uncontrollably.
I decided while I was sitting there trying to get my breathing under control again that I would use the bathroom in the store to clean myself up and then go back to the warehouse. Chloe would be ecstatic that im back im sure.
I was back at the warehouse now, just sitting beside the dumpster out front. I have just been sitting here staring at nothing, and Im quite sure I felt a breeze caress my arm. It was either Liz or I was finally going crazy.
It was no sooner I thought that when the door opened and Chloe stepped out.
"Tori?" I didn't look at her until she touched my arm. "Come inside."
I followed her without a word of complaint. She showed me her little fort of boxes and I sat down on one of the boxes that she had laid down on the cement.
"What happened?" She asked me after a few minutes of silence.
I thought about if I should tell her or not, but I decided that I was going to because its not like she would keep something like that from me, even though we were close to being mortal enemies, and I really needed to talk to someone about this.
"I called my dad and told him everything. He said to stay where I was and he would come and get me."
"And you changed your mind. That's okay. We'll-" I cut her off. I wanted to finish this before I started balling again.
"I went across the street to wait. I was in an alley, so no one would see me before he got there. The car pulled up and I started to step out and I didn't. I kept telling myself I was being stupid, that I'd been around you to long, getting all paranoid, but I needed to see him first, it was his car-my dad's. It stopped right where I said I'd be. Then the door opened…It was my mom."
"she must have intercepted the call. Maybe they switched cars. Or she got to his car first, knowing you'd be looking for it. He was probably on his way, in her car and-"
"I snuck away and called my house again, collect. My dad answered, and I hung up."
"Im sorry," was all she said. No 'I told you so'.
"Not even going to say 'I told you so'?" I asked.
"of coarse not."
I shook my head at her. "You're too nice Chloe. And I don't mean that as a complement. There's nice, and then there's too nice. Anyway, im back." I then remembered what I got from the store and pulled it out of my pocket. "With food."
I then handed her a snickers bar.
"Thanks. I thought you didn't have any money."
"I don't. Five-finger discount." I moved a bit further onto our cardboard mat making my sneakers squeak again. "I've watched my friends do it plenty of time. But I never did. Know why?" I dint wait for an answer. "Because I was afraid of getting caught. Not by the store or the cops. I didn't care about that. All they do is give you a lecture, make you pay it back. I was afraid of my mom finding out. Afraid she'd be disappointed in me."
A crackle as I opened my wrapper and took off a piece. "Not really an issue now, is it?" The I clunked my candy in my mouth.
:D Im soooo happy guys! Im catching up on the chapters and im going camping after work! :D I get to see my bestest friend in the whole world, who I havent seen in almost three months! I misses her soooo much!
Well I hope everyone has a good weekend and I will see you when I get back on Tuesday!
Love y'all to death!
~RenesmeeRedbird~ 3 3
