Chapter 2-Jeremy's Back
I wasn't expected to see Jeremy anywhere else but the news after they caught him, but I saw him not too long after he had been left in Nebraska. He came home in a mini-van with some woman I didn't recognize.
Then, it happened, he turned in the car and was holding the largest knife I had ever seen and stabbed her right in the stomach. I slightly squeaked and jumped in my hiding spot of a bush and was glad that Jeremy couldn't see me at this specific moment. Then, he got out of the car, closed the door, leaving a bloody handprint, grabbed a skateboard, and started skating away on David Marley's skateboard.
I couldn't help it, I ran after him, faster than he was with my shortness and all. I jumped from bush to bush, climbed limberly into neighbor hood trees, and behind backyard fences.
Thank God I was a tom boy when I was a little girl, and still had those skills. I stayed out of his sight all the way back to his house and then swiftly crouched behind a large shrub. He bent down, grabbed the spare key under a special brick, and looked around. I crouched lower behind my green and brown hiding spot.
As he ran inside, I ran again, this time to the back of the house and peered into the back window, knowing I wouldn't be spotted for the trees around the small house. I saw him walk in and grab his sister by her hair. He started talking to her, but I couldn't hear what he was saying and I was always lousy at lip reading.
I heard a car coming down the road and so did Jeremy. He quickly grabbed Anne up and swung her into his arms, still holding her hair and turned her towards the door. The car stopped and I realized I could be seen from my current position and moved to the window closer to them and hid behind the bush covering me up quite nicely.
Ms. Sayer ran through the front door and saw the scene in front of her, then slowly she set her cell phone down on the side table with tears in her eyes.
"Hi Mom." I slightly heard Jeremy say. I could tell Ms. Sayer was trying to get Anne over to her and to safety. Jeremy quickly jerked up the huge knife towards Anne's throat and I had to stifle a scream as Jeremy started yelling but I couldn't barely understand him.
"I was pregnant with twins! Then one day, I wasn't. Is that what you wanted to hear? The doctor said one fetus consumed the other!" Shouted his mother.
"I WASN'T EVEN BORN YET...AND YOU BLAMED ME!" Shouted Jeremy. Then his mother started screaming things about how she hated him and that he was rotten to the core. I almost cried at the look on his angelic face.
That's when two FBI agents ran in, one average height woman with black hair and an African-American man who pointed a gun at Jeremy's head. The male agent asked if Jeremy wanted to die but I didn't hear his reply although I could tell it was something about killing Anne because the agents, Ms. Sayer, and Anne all jumped slightly.
Then the moment I thought was impossible came...Jeremy surrendered. He let Anne go and she ran to her mom. The male agent yelled at Jeremy to turn around and I didn't realize that I had stood taller ever so slightly during the action that I had just witnesses. Jeremy saw me and I knew it. I saw him drop the knife and the agent began to handcuff him. He had a spaz out of epic proportions as he was cuffed and he saw me slink down lower to avoid the eyes of the FBI.
I was running out of the Sayer's backyard and behind my own bushes watching as the agent tried to calm Jeremy down. He forced him against the car and I heard Jeremy say rather loudly that he would see her in five years and I wasn't sure if he was talking about me or his mother. Jeremy was forced into the police car and they took off with my friend looking back in my direction.
I ran back to my house and locked myself in my room, ignoring the strange looks from my parents and brothers. I knew I would be endlessly questioned by them later at dinner. I hoped and prayed to God that the FBI hadn't seen me and wouldn't come over. I knew the agents and police would be crawling around here for a little while longer. I didn't want to deal with losing my baby boy and having to balance my family and worry about the police but I had to manage or b crushed by all the pressure.