I stayed up all night looking out the window, thinking of the next day after the incident when I woke up on a hospital bed. "They found you in the woods," mom stated. Her eyes were puffy, traces of tears streaming down her fear-stricken face. "You had very dark bruises on your face and one tooth was loose.
"Honey, when I got that call the first thing on my mind was coming to see you." My jaw was swollen so when I tried to talk it felt like someone was stabbing me with pins and needles."Don't try to talk. Dr. Richard said not to."
Mom continued. "And then they said you... were hit with a hammer on your knee. They did some x-rays and your knee was out of place. Oh, baby, I'm never leaving, ever again, I promise." So much for that promise. Now I'm STILL staring out the window all alone in an empty house with no one but me. The sun blinds me until my eyes adjust. My phone rings. It's probably Vee. Anyone would be better to talk to than my abductor, who I don't know what he looks like, but recognize that anger-filled voice.
"YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT- WHO I AM LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW! CALL ME WEIRD AL BUT... WOW!" Bee gladly exclaimed as if she followed a rabbit with frog legs. She's for sure watching a guy or maybe Marcie, that sleazy tramp that hates our guts.
"Who's the unlucky person getting stalked?" I ask.
She sighs and lets out a high pitched yelp. "Marcie's dad just walked in on her having sex with Elliot Saunders!" My face lit up as laughter filled the farmhouse. I laughed until my asthma kicked in.
"Holly freakshow. They saw me, no...wait-" then I heard someone yell out the window.
"Who the hell is hiding in the woods!? Move it, scatter."- for sure it is Hank Miller.
"Ugh, oh, Vee."
"What? They'll never know it's me, if I just slowly walk away... holy shit, cow, chicken, elephant, and all other things that shit! Ow!" Branches break from what I can hear.
"What's going on?"
"Oh, nothing. Simply branches breaking because I tripped, no biggie," she said with sarcasm. "Gotta run, I'll be there in twenty. Bye." Then she hung up. This girl is something else.
"...out of nowhere, Elli crawled through her window at, like, five 'o' clock. She was expecting him I think. She didn't get scared or anything. She-Devil threw herself at him on sight. Girl, it was like watching Animal Planet with an alpaca and a sloth. Of course, the alpaca being our little anorexic pig."
"When did you get there?" I ask, moving the key chain around my fumbling fingers.
"At four. I was trying to record what she does in the mornings, to try and bug her with her personal life. So anyways, we're going to Bo's." Unbelievable. Last time we were there, she had me sneak out to see some "hot guy" that she met at Enzo's who told her to meet him at the arcade. Turns out he was a psychopathic freak who chased us down the boulevard. Ever since, it's been on my stay-away list.
"Remember what happened last time? We almost got kidnapped by a red-head maniac.
"He got arrested afterwards," she stated matter of fact tone.
"So, it's still dangerous."
"Please?" She gave me her signature pleading face. I have no choice.
"Fine."