23. cat and mouse

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Aaron is out on the road trying to flag someone down as we make it out to Malek he grabs my wrist and pulls me ahead making me run faster with Jesse as we make it out to the road.

Suddenly we hear a helicopter but we can't see it yet and I start to panic when Jesse runs out to the road and is able to stop a camper van?!

"PLEASE TAKE US PLEASE" she screams as she already has the door open as we start to file in the back.

"Who are you?" The young lean man our age with blond curly hair says from the front seat, scared out of his mind obviously

"DRIVE" Malek yells as he shuts the door

"Please we will explain" Jesse says through heavy breaths and with that the car rolls back into the road as the scared boy starts driving. I start pulling off my layers as I'm dying of heat from running with all these clothes.

Malek leaves the back of the camper van and sits in the front seat facing the stranger making sure he drives as I fall back onto the bed in the back, panting and trying for air as my heart is racing so fast I can hear it banging in my skull.

"We need you to get us out of here" Malek says through even long breaths as he starts rummaging through the glove box before finding a map.

"Where are we" Aaron says sitting back into the chair in the back with Jesse on his lap

"Montana" the boy says unsure of the question. "What is happening" he says softly keeping a sharp eye on all of us through his mirrors

"We where kidnapped and they are looking for us" Jesse says and Malek shoots her a look not to say anything

"Kidnapped? Shouldn't we be going to the police?!" He says frantic

"No" Malek says sternly "keep driving straight"

"So..." he says with a shaky voice "your prisoners?" He says clearly scared. Technically he's wrong and right.

"No" I say quickly and he nods but doesn't say anything else

"Where are you going" Malek says grabbing a pen and drawing a line on the map when I hear a helicopter pass over us and my heart stops for a second. Thank god this is a relatively busy road.

"Seattle" he says unsure and Malek nods "we're going to California" he says and Aaron looks at him weird but he doesn't explain himself.

"Okay" the boy says and nods, clearly shaking he's scared.

We drive in uncomfortable silence for at least a couple hours when we finally get off the road and enter into a small town? I finally feel like we might be okay? We actually got here, I have to be dreaming.

"I need gas" the boy says finally breaking the silence

Malek leans forward and checks his dash before nodding. The boy pulls off the main road and into a gas station.

The boy then goes to open his door to get out when Malek quickly lunges across from his seat and grabs the door and pulls it shut before locking it.

"Aaron" Malek says sitting back down not moving his eyes off the driver.

Aaron gets up and moves to the door before handing Malek the electric baton he took from the gaurd. He then slowly opens the door and looks around before stepping out to a quiet dark ghost town as the sun has now went down.

"Fill it" Malek says reaching forward and grabbing the guys wallet from his pants before handing it to Aaron.

We sit in silence as the guy watches Malek grip the Baton facing him incase he moves.

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