Leaving the cave, going into the unknown

I ended up staying the night at Kate’s house, we had a classic Kate and Alex movie night filled with junk food and horror movies. It was like no time had passed between us, nothing bad had happened in that moment. When I told Alan I was staying the night he was a little resistant, I reassured him that it was fine and if there were any problems I would call Tom to come and get me. Alan wasn’t going to be home for another 2 weeks and I could tell he was on edge about the baby and I. It hurt me to know that he was constantly worrying; it’s mostly because the last time he left me alone the guy broke into the store. He had this irrational fear that if I were left alone with someone whom he didn’t trust or left by myself that I would get hurt. I still wasn’t over being alone anywhere so I understood that part of his fear but I didn’t understand his worry about me being with Kate. “So do you have any name ideas?” Kate asked me, we had just finished A Nightmare On Elm Street and were sharing a tub of Cookie Dough ice cream. “I like Isabella for a girl and Jack for a boy.” I had always wanted to name my kids that since I was little. “Does Alan like those names?” “Ya, he said if I got to pick the first name then he gets to pick the middle name which I’m fine with. I don’t really know if he likes them or not, I think he just wants me to be happy.” I smiled at the memory of when I told Alan what I wanted to name our child. He looked uneasy but once he saw the excitement on my face he went with it. “Well I love them both. I really hope you have a girl, so many cute outfits!” Kate got really giddy at the thought of dressing up my little girl. “It doesn’t matter what it is, I feel like Alan is going to have the kid playing guitar before it can walk.” We started laughing, and as funny as it was it was totally true. He had already bought a tiny acoustic guitar for the baby. When I told him that it was way too soon to be buying something like that he said ‘You’re never too young to rock’ I just shook my head and went with it. I could imagine the joy it would bring him to show the baby what he loves to do for a living, just like I couldn’t wait to show my baby art. There was a knock on the door and I looked at Kate confused. “Sorry were you expecting anyone cause I can go home, I know I kind of threw this on you.” I said while getting up with her. “No I don’t think I was, it’s probably just someone who’s lost I’ll be right back.” I watched as she got up and walked to the door and looked through the peephole, the second her eye focused on the person outside she jumped away from the door and looked at me. “You have to go and hide somewhere now Alex do it now.” She said as she ran over to me and whispered as loud as she could. I didn’t want to question it so I hid in the laundry room near the kitchen that had a lock on the inside and a door to the outside incase I needed to leave. I heard her open the door and some mumbling, I wanted to know what was going on so I stuck my head outside the door for a moment. When I did I felt my whole body go fidget with fear, there standing in front of Kate was the man who broke into the store and attacked me. He looked somewhat beaten up and tired but it was the same man. From here I could hear what they were saying clearly. “I know she’s here Kate, her car is in the drive way. You can’t bullshit me any more, you know what I can do and because of that bitch I’m probably going to go to jail just because she had to be there that fucking night.” He spat at her and she flinched slightly. “She’s not here, she went to go visit her boyfriend on tour and she just left her car here for safe keeping.” He didn’t seem to like that answer because he grabbed her arm violently and I gasped, what I thought was a quiet sound caught his attention and he looked up to see my head peaking outside the door. I immediately closed and locked it and ran outside, I could hear him banging on the door yelling my name. I closed the door to the outside quietly and started to run, of coarse it was raining and I had no shoes on. I took out my phone and called Tom as fast as I could while I ran towards the direction of his house, which was 4 blocks away. “Hey Alex is everything ok?” He asked. “No the guy that broke into the store found me at Kate’s house and I’m running to you right now. I don’t know if Kate is alright though I just started running, I’m outside your house let me in.” After I finished my last word the door opened reveling Tom, he grabbed me and took me inside before getting me a towel to dry off. I tried calling Kate but it went straight to voice mail every time. I sat down on the couch and kept calling and calling her but it was no use. I was really worried about Kate but more importantly, how the fuck did he find me?

Notes

Hopefully this makes up for the short shitty chapter i posted before!!! Enjoy! Let me know what you think!