Him

hide and seek

CHAPTER 1

Run before he catches us. Hand in hand we run to the hay loft hoping to hide before he finds us. We stay as low to the ground as we can. Watching our every footstep. Praying he doesn't hear us. Sweat is forming on my face as I cover my mouth with my hand. Shaking. I can hear my heartbeat beating so loud I worry he will hear it. Jean. Haley where are you guys? Come on out. I'm not going to hurt you guys. (Flash back) Come on bug let's go. My dad says as we load into his truck. I'm getting ready to go spend a month with my best friend and what I call my other family in a small town called waterville. It's in eastern Washington or I guess my hometown. I'm 14 at the time and i couldn't be more excited to see my best friend jean and ride horses in the sun. I grab my camera and were off. The trip seems to take forever but the sun is out and I get great pictures of the water. Not knowing that this trip was not planned with me moving here. As we take the exit we turn onto a dirt road. The wide open road. The smell of cows. It feels like I'm home. (Flashback over)
Come on we gotta go. Jean says. I slowly get up and start walking. Trying to keep as quiet as I can. I peek over the ledge as I see him looking into the stalls to see if we are in there. I see my horse hidle start pinning his ears  as he come close to him. Easy boy I whisper.I whisper. Praying that he doesn't look up and see us. Girls just come out I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to show you guys love. I feel my eyes start to feel up with tears. How could someone be allowed to be around children and do such a horrible things. I feel an arm touch me. "Look he's leaving" I look to see him finally leaving the barn. "Let's wait a couple minutes so we can grab the horses" we wait until we hear the click of the front door close. "We gotta be fast before he comes back." We run down the steps and creep over to the horses. I open the stall door and grab hidle bridle. I see jean has indeo already tacked up. I choose not to put a saddle on since me and hidle both dislike the saddle. We grab the horses and creep below the window that looks through the kitchen. Were almost to the road when we hear the one sound we were dreading. "Well there you two are". "Run" we jump on the horses and push them from a stop to a run. Putting more and more distance from us and that house. Farther and farther from that house. Praying he stays far way from us. We push the horses till we're a out 30 miles away. "We can rest here tonight and travel more tomorrow". We find a near by hotel and stable.