Chapter 60
All of these questions plagued my brain for several hours as I pondered my decision.
It was almost dawn when I left the beach, the wind had picked up, so I put on the coat, it had a very distinct smell, like marigolds, and incense. It lulled my senses and hazed my judgment, I was about to do as I was told, but the wind picked up and the sent left my mind.
I walked down the road and hitched a ride with the first car that I saw. The navy blue Jeep Cherokee was a sight for sore eyes, the little family that picked me up, was nice and even treated me to breakfast.
Two days later whenwe stopped in Sacramento, I was very grateful that I made the little boys a present, I drew them. It got cool when they hugged me and wished me luck, I'd be remembering Diego and Isaac as Spiderman and Max Steel. There favorite superheroes.
I walked to the nearest motel and washed up, I ordered a pizza, charged my phone and went to sleep. I hadn't turned my phone on when I heard it vibrate against the wood of the night stand, with a new message.
CALL HER… DON'T CALL FROM THIS PHONE…THEY'LL KNOW WHERE YOU ARE.
What the fuck was going on?
I walked out of my room in the middle of the night down the street where I had seen a payphone before.
I called Alice's cell phone. She answered after 3 rings and when she heard my voice she started to cry. Her blubbering questions were making me miss her more.
I told her everything right there and then. She admonished me for keeping it from her, and told me to come back, that together we'd find a way to get me out of this.
But I knew that there was something weird going on, well aside from the freaky shit that had been happening to me. I kept the whole hooded scary figure appearing in my room or around my house or even in the library at school all to myself. I didn't want to add crazy to the list of my already messed up shit.
She told me to call her and to take care of myself, and that she would be on the look out for this or anything weird, she asked me what to tell Charlie and Renee, I told her to say that she didn't know where I was that she hadn't heard from me. I knew it was too much to ask but still I needed the help. We said our goodbyes and hung up.
I walked back teary eyed and tired. As I walked up the street to the motel I passed an alley and heard a noise frightening me and making me walk faster, the cat that sprung up from the trashcan growled at me. I moved even faster trying to get indoors as soon as possible.
I walked in to my room and felt the chill as the temperature changed; it felt colder inside than it had been outside. I walked over to the thermostat but it was warm enough. I crawled in to the covers and closed my eyes defeated and depressed to be here.
Sleep clamed me soon after.