It's the third ATM machine that's done this already. But I know it's not the machines, it's the card. The first thing my dad thinks of once I went missing is to freeze his card. Wow. Its been three days since I escaped, my cash is running out, same with the food. the farther I drive the creepier the roads are turning out. Sleeping in my van will soon run out as an option. But anything. Anything. Is better than living with that monster. I don't know what im going to do next. But I have to figure it out. And soon.
The night is howling at me, but my surrounding are silent, too silent. My car is only a few steps from me. The lights of the gas station are bright, but not enough for me. even though im far away from him, its like his eyes are latched on me, I can feel it. The hairs on the back of my back are staning up, so are the ones covering my whole body. And im sure its not fro the night breeze.
Im hurrying to my car and trying to zip my backpack, there's something wrong. I can feel it. And I don't like it. I'm calming myself down. he's far away. He can't catch me. he cant. I get to the car and try to open it, but the keys can't keep still in y trembling hands. I don't want to turn. don't turn. don't turn. but I can feel him coming!
The car opens. I jump in and lock it straight away. My chest is getting tighter with each breath, I feel like the car is too. I want to rip my shirt off. I cant seem to grasp the slightest breath of air. Im choking on nothing. My body is still trembling. I'm clutching my legs and rubbing them.
I look out to the window and nobody's there. I knew that. I 'know' that. He's miles away Melody. He can't get me. but, this is my dad. He will find me...he will.
Don't, don't do it. But my eyes fail me and I do. Tears run,one, after another and they're not stopping. I don't even bother wiping them away. I glance at my sister's photo taped to the radio.
"What did you do?" I sob to it. Harmony was so happy in that photo, mom too. Im clutching my chest, this is the doing of tears. It was Harmony's eighteenth birthday. Her last. It was three ago. Mom has her arms wrapped around her, they both looked beautiful.
Harmony was a copy of mom. The both had strawberry blonde locks, that flowed gracley over their backs. Freckled masterpieces of beauty. And, the same heartwarming smile. When they smiled, you had o smile. You just had to, no matter how deep you were sunking in black and grey. That smile pulls you out of it and washes you with yellow and sunshine.
I still can't believe there not here anymore.
I blame myself. Every. Single. Day for that.
Three years ago, Harmony had had enough. She was the only one brave enough to even think of running away from dad. Mom never had the guts. I was still young. I wish I weren't.
I wish. i. weren't.
Harmony had set to go at night, she already had been saving money, and managed a ride from a friend. She told no one about it. No one but me. I begged her to take me with her. She was.
"I will. I promise you Mel. I just have to settle and reach someone so I can put an end to...this. As soon as I do, I'm coming for you and mom. And all of this will be over. No more of this hell." She held my face in her hands, as I sobbed like the girl I always have, and she kissed my nose then head. "I love you Mel. I love you so so much."
And that was the last night that I saw her...
She had given me a number to only call in absolute emergencies, and also had given me a phone, that is only for her to call me. she'd always call Saturday at midnight. And I remember I used to be so afraid that anyone would hear me talking to her. I hid in the closet wrapped in three heavy blankets and spoke under a pillow.
Till one night. Everything , turned upside down.
I wasn't careful enough. I should have. I should have. I beat myself every time I remeber it. I had a fever that night, I was a mess, but no way was I missing her phone call. I was too sick to move, so I hid under my blanket on the bed and talked to her, she was telling me that she was almost there, to where she was going. She told me the name of the place, I said it, too loud.
And the door slammed opened. It was my dad.
He pulled off the blankets and I curled away from him hiding the phone under me. my mom hurried and was at the door frame shouting at my dad to leave me. she was pulling him away, but she was such a fragile thing that he knocked her away. I kept screaming and crying.
"Give me the phone." he growled.
"No." I cried. But he Pushed me away and grabbed it.
"Orange county huh?" he snarled at the phone, "im going to get you. And when I do...youre going to regret that you ever left that house."
He did get her, She died in a car accident running away from him. Mom died of trauma.
It happened as quick as those three sentences.
But I'm not going to let him catch me. I won't. I'm going to head to the place Harmony was supposed to. And tell everybody. Who my dad really is. what he'd done. And what he'll do.
Something moves behind me and I freeze.
I'm slowly lifting my gaze and turning my head, then a knock on my window startles me. there is a man standing outside. He's tall, pale, and has white hair. Something about his features are unsettling. His eyes as well. He's stiff even as he asks me to let down the window. But I don't. I'm not crazy. (What does a man in the middle of nowhere, not to mention at midnight want?)
I don't want to think about the answer either...
"What do you want?" I say, with my window still drawn up. My hand is slowly sliding under the wheel to insert the key. I'm holding every stupid keychain in my hand. I don't want their rattling to alarm the creep.
He hasn't answered yet. He's just, standing there, staring at me. his stare are crawling all over me.
Shot! A key chain falls out of my grip and he's alarmed!
"shot shot shot!" I screech to myself.
I shove the key into the ignition, and the creep has his grip on the door handle, he pulls it
And, he rips, the door, of, the car.
"Oh my God!" I scream and climb to the back. But the man grabs my leg, and tugs. I scream and kick but his grip is almost crushing my leg, and I scream from the pain. He's got both of my legs, but I'm struggling I'm trying to grip a hold of anything. but, one final pull from him, and he has a hold of me. I'm scream and kicking, and he's got me locked. He's arms are caging me. and all of the sudden, we're not alone. A circle of men, who look exactly the creep are surrounding us.
Im trying to think. I can't. I don't know what to do. Is this the end of me?
And there I am again. Sobbing.
"Let go of me!" I scream. And scream and scream.
Scream for what's happening, scream for mom and Harmony. Scream for my whole life and for every moment that all I felt like doing, all I felt saying, was scream.
One of them comes in front of me and is scanning me with his eyes. Whats wrong with them and their eyes?!
And as he does, my mouth drops. He's eyes. Go white. The iris disappears. Just like that. And he holds up an odd object to my head. An odd gun. And it is, going to be the end of me.
So I sob and scream for the last time and he pulls the trigger.
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