Alec froze in his spot and looked at Anais. They both stood there for a moment in shock until Anais quickly got off the bed. Alec immediately stopped her from going anywhere else and put his finger to his lips signaling for her to be quiet."A-Alec?" She said hesitantly to which he replied by nodding his head. After this she hugged him as tight as she could and cried slightly. "I-I t-thought you were d-dead?" She said silently, hugging him tighter. Alec could hardly breath from the choke hold she had on him. She soon let go and looked at him.

"If your wondering why I'm here I came for my stuff. I need to stay far away from you guys." He silently explained which made Anais looked down slightly "If I can stop Tess maybe things will go back to the way they were before all this happened. But I can't put you guys in danger anymore, I shouldn't have in the first place." He said quietly, sighing afterwards

"Ok.." She said sadly

"Now Anais, they're going to come here to look for me, they won't hurt you, I promise. But you have to keep this meeting here a secret, they'll just search the house and ask some questions. I'm here to make sure they find no evidence of me being here, ok?" He said looking at her with hopeful eyes and she nodded her head in response.

"But can't you stick around to say goodbye to everyone?" She asked looking at him with the same hopeful eyes he had just shown her. Alec couldn't give in no matter how much he would hurt her feelings.

"I-I'm sorry but I can't, I'll be jeopardizing you and the rest of the family's safety." He said which made Anais frown.

"You have to act like I never came back, got it?" He asked

"Yes." She responded and with that Alec smiled at her

"Oh wait can you keep the rest of the family away from the door so I can get my stuff?" He asked to which she nodded and walked out into the hallway to keep watch. Alec immediately grabbed his backpack which was conveniently lying next to the computer desk. He went to the closet and grabbed all of his clothes, he folded them to make more space in the backpack. After he was done he grabbed the rest of his things that were under the bed and put them with his clothes. With that he went to the door and opened it to Anais, she immediately turned around when the door was opened and looked at him.

And with two words he made her confident he would come home. "Thanks sis..."

Jamie
Jamie had been looking for Alec for the past thirty minutes but with no result. She was going to give up, she'll see him again someday that she knew, but when? Years? Days? Who knows. But she still looked on the bright side and kept her head high with the hope that he'll come back. So she went home to wait.

Alec
He had left the Wattersons fifteen minutes ago and he felt guilty that he had to leave them behind. He saw Anais smile at him when he said thank you, she was trying to assure him that she was alright. But he knew she was hurt, and broken, he could see it all in her eyes. She was afraid of what was to come, and he didn't blame her because, he was just as afraid.

He decided to find a place to stay with the money he had. So far there was forty seven thousand still left, he barely even dented the stack. While walking he looked down at what he was wearing and realized he needed to change his appearance. Luckily there was a clothes shop nearby. He walked into the store and noticed an assortment of clothing he could choose from. He ended up choosing a brown Wtap Dept. jacket. He quickly paid for his items and went out the door, he immediately took off the tags and put on the jacket, also taking out the fedora of the dusters outfit that he still had, and putting it on to hide his face. He kept his head low and only lifted it to look at addresses. As he walked along he noticed many were avoiding him as his fedora blocked his face making him look like a criminal.

*sigh*'i don't blame them.' He thought looking around to see them all. I'm a freak. A freak, that name he deserved considering the things he had done. He pushed this thought far away as he had no intention of being saddened even more. He walked and walked trying to figure out where to stay, he didn't buy the apartment they gave him he had just stayed there they did everything. He walked by and saw a newspaper stand, there was a tall pigeon standing there reading one of his own papers. Alec walked up to the stand earning the portly pigeon's attention.

"What do you want?" He asked taking his eyes off the paper.

"The latest" Alec replied

"Local or world wide?" He asked again leaning on the counter

"Local." He said and the man pulled out a paper from the many that were around him and handed it to Alec.

"That'll be 2.50..." He said, Alec didn't care about the outrageous price so he just handed him a five and walked away. The man didn't complain. Alec looked all over the newspaper looking for an apartment ad. Suspecting that if there was a place available it would be in the news. He looked and looked and noticed one that said "descent one room one bath apartment." It didn't show amenities but it did show a phone number. Alec immediately went to the nearest phone booth and dialed the number listed. Shortly a gruff voice answered.

"Mm..hello?" The man groggily asked

"Uh I'm calling about the apartment?"

"Oh oh yeah, um well if you wanna stop by and check it out its at, 4335 Ellison drive.." He said trying to throw the fatigue from his voice.

"Ok I'll be coming by right now if you don't mind.." Alec said looking around a bit to make sure he wasn't being watched. After he said this he heard a couple bottles clash in the background.

"Um...sure,yeah that's fine." He replied hastily, after this Alec immediately decided to head over.

"Goodbye." Alec said before hanging up and walking out of the booth. He walked silently to Ellison drive, thank god he memorized the city. It was halfway across town, he was sure to raise suspicion but he had to get there somehow. He walked and walked making sure to take any short cut he could, this reminded him of when he first came to Elmore. He never would've thought of, well, any of the events that succeeded it. And to think he hated Elmore when he arrived. He chuckled at the thought, no one was on the streets at the time as he was on the more unpopulated side of town there was no one around to look at him. They would most likely stare at him with disgust or think he's some deranged lunatic. He arrived at Ellison drive in nearly thirty minutes, precious time lost.

He walked down the street looking at each mailbox to see if it matched 4335. Looking at a mailbox in scratched on letters he found his destination, the property's were more separated because he was on the outskirts of town. The mans property consisted of one big two story log cabin with a little one story a little further up with a dirt path that lead to it. With a deep breath he walked up to the two story building...

Notes~
I'm going to cut it off here, sorry. I have a surprise for next chapter, I hope you didn't forget about her (hinthint). PS there's going to be a lack of Jamie for a while. Read & Review, until next time!