SHE'S A GUN | TARA CARPENTER ✔️

5. on edge

Chapter Five 

on edge

3rd person pov 

dakota didn't like being away from tara now, especially since they're girlfriends and they need to have each others backs. she sat in the apartment with the others and Mindy turned to look at her 

"soooo you and tara? did that just happen?" mindy asked and dakota laughed with a smile and a nod. ethan stared at her with a dark stare and she moved her eyes from him not in fear but she knew that she could hurt him if she tried and she didn't want to do that right now. 

"yeah I guess you could say that" dakota told mindy and chad smiled 

"oh thank god, I was waiting for this" he said and she nudged him with a smile before she turned and looked at quinn who smiled at her too. all of them seemed to be happy for tara and dakota but ethan. however she wasn't going to let the nerd ruin her mood, not right now. not of all times. 

"tell me everything" mindy told dakota as she sat down and she began to tell them the details about her and tara. ethan shifted in his seat and she couldn't help but wonder what he was thinking. she remembered her freshmen year of high school, she was experimenting with a girl and a boy saw them, he got aroused at the thought and look of them and he ran off. he was sitting down and shifted in his seat the same way ethan was but there was a different look in his eyes. she knew that look, she had seen it once or twice and she wasn't scared. she could handle this look. 

"hey guys I'm a little bit worn out so I'm gonna head to my dorm. I'll call you all later. i have a tazer in my pocket and my knife in my shoe. if anything happens, keep your ringers on. ill call one of you and call me if anything happens. i gotta go though" she stated and she got up from the chair she sat in as she grabbed her stuff and she walked out of the apartment. 

she headed to her dorm where she opened the door and there her roommate was with a bat in hand 

"jesus emily, you trying to kill someone with that thing?" she asked as she closed the door and locked it. she turned to her roommate who sighed and shook her head. she dropped the bat and leaned against the wall 

"just a little on edge after what happened at the party and apparently at another dorm. speaking of how are you doing? i know that you used to live in woodsboro and you were involved with everything last year" she said and dakota shook her head as she put up her hair and sat down in one of the loveseats in the living room. 

"honestly I don't know, you would think that I would be used to death since everything happened last year but I actually have no idea what I'm doing or how I'm feeling. i moved here to get away from this, so I could go to college and get my degree in teaching and so I could live my life with no worry about dying or being chased and yet here I am. with a tazer in my pocket and a knife in my shoe, locking all my windows and doors. checking everything once or twice and making sure that nothings gonna jump out and kill me. ya know five year old wasn't as scared of monsters under her bed as I am of a murderer being in my closet" she ranted and emily smiled at her 

"its because someone's trying to actively kill you kota. Five-year-old you was scared of monsters because every kid thinks there's monsters under their bed. But not every 18-year-old girl in college thinks that she's going to be murdered and that there's a murderer in her closet" emily said and dakota sighed 

"I just wished this was easier" dakota said 

"tell me about it. My dad's a cop so every night when he came home, he told me about what would happen and the people he had to stop from killing someone someone or the people he had to arrest or the people that he had to kill or the people he had to talk off the ledge. I think about that compared to now and how we're in New York and you're being chased by a murderer. I got used to hearing about these things from a young age but I never had to deal with it and you do." emily exclaimed 

"I never knew your dad was a cop" dakota spoke 

"well we haven't exactly had time to sit down and talk to each other. you've been with your group of people or your mom or at class. its only been 2 days, we still have time to get to know each other" she told her and dakota smiled 

"thanks for listening em" she said 

"anytime, now you need to get some sleep. I'll lock everything up and I'll make you to record it for you so you know that I did do it, I checked for murderers and monsters already. have a good night dakota" emily stated and she watched dakota get up and walk to her room with a smile on her face. the two girls were already good friends and she was happy that she could bring some sort of comfort to dakota in this time. 

however dakota would be bombarded with calls and texts the next morning about her girlfriend and her needing to be somewhere. how dakota would deal with this? she didn't know

-ABBYS NOTES-

oh how I love the group dynamic . also emily is played by Katie douglas.