Leaving the cave, going into the unknown

Tom called the police and I kept trying to call Kate but I was still unsuccessful. I thought back to the conversation I had heard, he knew her. He called her by her name meaning they had met before; he must have come to the house earlier once he found out who I was. Why didn’t she tell someone or more importantly why didn’t she tell me that he knew who I was and that he found out where I used to live? Tom came back into the room and gave me some water.

“Alex I know that this is hard and stressful but I need you to calm down, it’s not good for the baby for you to be this stressed. The police are on their way and they’ve sent a car to Kate’s house so they can see if she’s all right. In the mean time until Alan gets back you’re staying here, I can’t risk him finding you. Now, I think you should call Alan and tell him what’s going on.” I nodded; I needed to hear his voice even though I knew he was going to be freaking out by this situation. Tom was right, I needed to calm down it couldn’t be good for the baby for me to be freaking out this much.

“Hello?” Alan answered after one ring, as if he knew something was wrong.

“Hi, it’s me Alex.” I whispered into the phone.

“Is everything ok?”

“No it’s not. I was at Kate’s and she went to answer the door and the guy that robbed the store was there. She told me to hide and she talked to him for a bit and he saw me so I ran to Tom’s and now I can’t contact her and the police are on their way and I’m freaking out Alan. I know it’s bad for the baby but I can’t help but be worried about her, and what if he finds me and something happens to the baby?” I just started to spill every thought that was in my head all at once, I’m sure Alan was struggling to understand everything.

“Ok Alex breathe, ok just breathe. Is Tom there? Put me on speaker so I can talk to both of you at once.” I called Tom over and we sat on the couch with the phone on speaker.

“Now I’m going to come home…” He started to say before I cut him off.

“No you’re not. You are not going to let all those people down and cause a huge ruckus because of this that will only stress me out more. I’m going to stay at Tom’s and you’ll be back in a week. I’ll just stay inside and I’ll do my work from home then when you get back we’ll figure something out. But I can’t have you leave during tour, just don’t.” I started to cry. I thought back to when I would go to the concerts and see the girls line up since early that morning or in the rain to meet them or see them play. I wont let him disappoint people because of me when him being here or not being here wouldn’t make a difference.

“Alex I need to protect my family, both of you are my responsibility and if you get hurt again because of this guy and I wasn’t there to protect you I’ll never be able to forgive myself.” He started to cry as well, I knew how much this affected him but I wasn’t going to let up.

“No, one week Alan just one more week.”

“Alan I’ll watch her, you know I would never let anything happen to her under my watch. She’s my family to; I’ll make sure she never leaves my site. Just stay on tour and when you get home we’ll figure everything out.” Tom said while putting his arm around me, he was always a big role model in my life and I owe most of what I have and am to him.

“Alright but I’m going to be checking up all the time and keep your stress level low.” Alan sighed in defeat; I put him off speaker while Tom answered the door for the police.

“I love you more than you will ever know Alan and I will be as careful as ever so me and our little one are alright.” I whispered into the phone.

“I love you too, now go and talk to the police.” I said my final goodbye and went off to do just that.

I told them word for word what happened, they already had the incident that happened at the store so I didn’t need to explain that as well. They told me that they would put out a warrant for his arrest and a cop car would be sitting outside the house until he was caught. I felt slightly better but I was still very scared, it wasn’t just me any more I had another life to worry about now. Tom and an officer took me to Alan’s house and I got most of my clothes. We went back to Tom’s house and I set up the guest bedroom well enough to stay in for a week. The officers told me that when they went to Kate’s house there was no one there but there was also no sign of struggle, which is always a good sign I guess. They found her phone and told me that if she wasn’t seen in the next 48 hours then they would file a missing persons report but until then they couldn’t do much of anything. I put on some PJ’s and went back downstairs to find Tom with some hot chocolate and a movie. We curled up on the couch and sat and watched 500 Days of Summer. All I could think about is how worried I was about Kate and how much I wanted Alan to be here and holding me right now.

Notes

Chapter 30! Never thought i would stick with it enough to get this far but I owe it all to you guys for still reading a commenting on this story!
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