The Mystery Of The Shadowed Man

By Thomas Tucker

Chapter one The meating

I was walking down a sidewalk in miami it was a hot sunny day, when I was allmost at the pool, it got dark realy dark I thought it was a eclipse but it was to long to be an eclipse. it cant be nighttime it was 3:15 pm and all of a sudden I heard a wisper it called my name in the wind. The wind made the hot day feel cold I had chills going throught body. than somebody just appered they were really tall I felt little. They asked me if I was Thomas I was scared and I said yes. They had a gun and the first instinct was to run so I ran to the police station. The police station was only a block away so I ran and ran the best I can. I was at the police station and something grabbed my arm and pulled my in to the alley it was cold and dark. He wanted to get ransom money from my parents. he tied me up and walked away and the called someone I saw a metal pole and I grabbed it, it was heavy I hit him on the head and tied him up he was unconscious and I mean he was out cold. So I ran into the police station and told a police officer. Me and the police officer went outside to show him but the man he was gone. I tried to explain what happened I convinced him to give me a lie detector test. The tests came back negative I was not telling the truth and he took me to the hospitlal. and I had a fracterd skall and I had amnesia two hours latter the police told me that I was in a biking accident but I did not ride a bike I said to the police and they said that whare the guy I saw was their was a biking acciden earlier that day. It was an hour beffore I showed up and I said so I was unconscious in that alley for an hour the police got mad at me for tring to make a fight happen in betwen us. so they left the nurse who took care of me when I was their they said that they would keep me at the hospital for two hours to do more test and that he would keep me company. I got x-rays doen I broke my arm and my leg I was sent back to my room me and him became friends when I told him my name he said he knew me. he explaned that we spent our childhood together he said his name is landon I find it weard that I dont rember him. me and him must mave been good friends he knows me prity well after 15 min the docter came into the room and he said that I am free to go. all thought I was happy but I will miss landon and the doctor said that he would have someone check up on me so cince me and landon know each other and I will miss him I asked the doctor why not landon I mean me and him know each other. landon what do you thank I said I thank that will be wonderfull said landon I told him where my modern home on star island. The house is my dads but he lives in bel air californa he said that the house is mine but it is in his name so I dont have to pay taxes him and mom wanted to come but I wanted to find someone to date. I just came out as gay to my parints they were supportive but dad wanted grandchildren and mom wanted a daughter and I am the clossest to it she has two kids my older brother and me. the docters said she had a rare condission where she could not have aney mor children. I was up set so was she. When we arived he was schocked. he was jelous I told him if he wanted to stay with me and him to get to know each other better. me and him had fun catching up it was almost as if we had a conection it was weird. it was getting late luckely I was my left leg that got broke so I drived him home and he lived in a small apparment building he invited me in I said no it was getting late. he said than he will see me tomorrow and I said ok on my way home. I thought about him and I rembered him as a kid his famlly had a lot of money like mine but he lived in a aparment so i asked him and he said that he stop going to privet. school and that is why I dont rember him vere well because his dad got into a scandle with with an oil leak and made millions sick. so he lost billions he was still rich after that he had 30 million dollars left but when I turned 18 he made me payed for nursing school for me and then cut me off. he had nothing left said landon and I knew that he has a low income nurseing job and his schooling was expensive so all that he could only afford that small aparment so I made a risky move and invited him to stay here. he refused but I said that I will not take no for an answer so latter that day I helped him pack and move in I showed him all round the house and the first thing he did was jump in the pool even though we are on an island and right next to the ocean. it looked like fun and my leg was better but still broke and my arm was all most heald so I jumped in and he got mad and said that I have to go the hospital to get a new cast for my arm and leg. when we got back to the house he said that he was sorry i just got wored and I said about what and he said woried that I would mange to get the cast off and be in pain so that made me thank that he was consernd for my safety. witch also means that he cares I said sorry that I was not thanking and thanked him for worring about me and he said no problem. after the excitement we just went in side and watched tv and played bord and video games at the end of the day I wen to the sana to relax he just took a shower. he said that he was uncomfortable with me and so I thank that he likes me and I am fine with that. he looks very good he is skinny not very much mucle he has longish hair died a purpleish bluish collor and he has acne but under that I see him for him looks for me dont matter pornsanlty does he has a lot of that. he was out of the shower when I got out of the sana he was watching tv disstracted he has told me that he has alwas wanted a husky. so have I but I alwas put it off I just got out of colloge so I went out to buy me and him a husky. on my way back he called me asking me whare I was because he was looking for me and I told him that I was on my way and should be home in a liltlebit when I got back. I came in and had him stand at the front door blind folded when I walked in and had him take off his blind fold his expresstion was priceless he was tearing up he was laughing as he neld down and started hugging the dog and started crying with hapyness. then asked me how I knew and I told him that he has told me in the hospital and he said that i shouldnt have. then gave me a hug I was schocked by first but I hugged him back he was blushing so was i. after a few sconds i cleared my throte and said what should we call her. he said shadow and I said it was because she was black and white like a cow and I said that he laughing and said no kidding i said. he had a dog that had ran away and thst she looked like her and I said sorry I said that it was getting late and that he wanted to go to bed. i herd a loud sound like glass braking and i was wondring what it was. landon was on the othe side of the house I was walking to his room to see what it was and on my was I heard a screem and I started running and I saw some one leave therow the window but I was more focesed about landon. he was bleeding and uncautious I called an amblance and they rushed to the hospital. I was not able to see him. he was in the E.R. he had to get stitches on his head the docters told me that he was in a short state coma, but also that he was hit in the head and that who ever did it used a bat with a corner because it cut open the skin. The only reseon that he is stil in a coma is that his brain was swollen. I told him that I went to med school and was top of my class so if he needs to have anythang done medacly that I will do it. then i told him how i went I went to havard university and I should be capable. the docter said that he will keep me updated and that I should get some rest so i gave the docter my number and I went home and it was 6:45 am and I went to sleep. i woke up to my phone ringing and it was the docter he wanted me to bring landon some cloths to whare and that he was up I went to his room to get him something to where and I found a note and it said' ''dear Thomas we meat again but if i was you i wold would try to save you boyfrind he may not have mich time left'' and I started blushing beause we were not dateing and I was thanking what should I be wored about he is awake and at the bottem it was signed the shadowed man as I went to see him he was hooked up to an IV filled with fluded and pain killers he was starting to say something but he notesed someone on the hospital roof with a gun he was struggleing to get out of the bed he got up and grabed me and pushed me and i said what the hell he said you will thank me later and their was a loud boom and he was bleading and he flatlined and luckly I got my cast off before I saw him abd that were in the a hospital I told the docter to prep me for sergry and get me an x-ray he had a bullet in his back and I was determed to remove it and I was not going let him die on me I care to much after a few hours I got the bullet removed and we put him in a recovry room it was late and I got cleaned up and slep in his room I got him in a high class room he woke up from and he was sobing in pain so we got him a higher does of pain killers and he would not be in shape to talk to famly or other people for a day but kept close to him so I hired a guard to watch the house just in case that mystory man appers a few days past no word from the guard so I called him no anwser so I left the hospital and went home and when I enterd the house it was a mess so I called my dad to have him send a body guard to watch landon while I clean up the so I can get landon home so I can keep a close eye on him when matthew arived I knew he was safe matthew was my body gurd when I was 13 mom and hired him after I was kidnaped for ransom money and he was their for me and I could trust him he saved my life when I was 15 we were at a party and ther was a shooting the same guy who kid naped me and matthew jumped in front of me and he got shot the guy went to prison and I though was matthew was alwas around me because my parints did not trust me now I knew all that time he was asking me if I was ok when I fell or got a cut on my arm he was ther to protect me and now I know that he would protect landon when I was cleaning up the house I realised my grandmothers broch she gave me to rember her by after she passed away it was gone but it was such a sad time and other than the broch she left me her huge ranch it also has a huge house in Nevada she said that her and grandpaw bult it in a hot june 26 1957 I promised my self to spend my winters their but I could not put the emotional courage to go I have been avoidin it too many memories will come rushing back and but not only that some limited adition watches were missing and I found a another note it said ''you should have been shot and I should be living the dream but I got thrown in prison. You were alwas a brat and you dont know me as if I never help rase you but who cares I will get my revenge on you and your family and get what is rightfully mine''. I was scared now I was worred if I should stay and so I went to see how landon was If he is ok I will bring him home. on my way to the hospital my check engon light came on and my car stalled on the highway and just stoped my car was only 2 years old why is this happning to me to day on the way to the hospital to see how landan is so i can bring him home so i had called the towing company it took then an hour to come tow my can hopefully can get to the hospital before visation hours end as i got the rental car they told me it would take 3 days to get it fixed. on my way to the hospital i got a text on my phone it was landon he was wondring where i was so i pulled to the side of the road and texted him telling him i'm on my way and if there was anything i could get him he said no but i stoped to get him something to eat just because he is in a good room doesn't mean heel get any specal treatment i know that hospital and how it runs i was their. when i was little i had apindisidis and got my apindix taken out i got no specal treatment they did not care who my parints were but i don't care eather i just care how landon is as i got to his floor i here someone scream let me in my sons room as i get there i see his mom matthew will not let her in as i went to see what was wrong matthew said Thomas thank god you are here this women just showed up 10 minuts ago and will not go away she keeps on saying her son is in there let him out but i will not let her go in and him out. ok i said who are you and she said landon is her son i know who she is but i will not let her on who i am untill matthew says my name first and last and she says well well well you are just like your mom and dad tring tare our famly appart not my son. i told her that i saved her sons life and i called her but no answer and i left that at that. told her that i will not let her see her son after how she treated her son by kicking him out and forces her son into the streat i told her when i saw him he was a nurse and took care of me when when i broke my arm and leg and had a frctured skull and when i saw him living in a cramped apparment and i know that he was only one of few who was kicked out with a bad famly name he still made a living as she tried to stop me dead in my tracks i looked at matthew and said let me see landon and don't let her see him she told me that i can't do that and it was simply unfair and i looked back and said unfair was the the start of the story that you or i will not finsh as i went in she tried to get in but i shut the door and locked it as i was in the room landon was awake and asked who was screaming and i said that it was some delusional womon was asking for her son and he said more like screaming so i asked how and what he thought about his mom he said after the virbal abuse and how her and dad kicked me out im not a fan of her or dad why do you ask oh my god please don't tell me that was her i said softly and solwly yes it was her what do you want me to do i will talk to the doctors about a relese form he said that he will talk to her but only with me in their with him i told him i was on my on the way to talk to doctor and get that relese form as i left his mom asked me how her son was i said he wants to talk with you she stoped me and blirter out in excitment and said realy but i told her only when i am in the room and you only have the time it takes to fill out the relese form as i'm talking to the doctor i here her yelling at matthew again i satrted smiling and sai god i need to give him a rase for this as i got the form and on my way back she saw me coming and looked at matthew and then asked kindly if she can go in now i said wow i did not know that any kind words were in her dictnory and she started cring and the fell to the foor and then i ran to her and as much as it to pains me to do this i ask her what is wrong and then she told me how his dad kicked him out i said that i know about this and if she is going to make me pitty her into leting her in their is no point because she is going into the room anyways and then she interuped me and said that is not the point i missed him so much and that i had no choise his dad had so much rage and he was so homophobic he kicked him out because he thought he was gay and now i thank that he is now but i just don't know how to tell him all of this in maby 4 minutes and then she realy started crying so i told her to tell him that later you will not see him and then she said why and i had no right and i told her to let me finish my sintince because you are coming to my house to talk to him so you can have more time to talk to him and i have never seen her so happy but i told her but not tonight and she said fine as i went into his room and said that you mom will not talk to you tonight but tomorrow and he said is that the best you can do just shew her away i don't want to talk to her no i said you need to talk to her trust me after you finsh this paper work we can go home on the way home he asked me if i got a new car no but i might have to i said mine broke down we got home and went inside and got him settled and then we went to bed in the morning landon asked me if i thought he was gay and i did not know i thought he was i told him i had my thoughts and his face turnd red and he looked at the floor and said i am but and then he stoped and i said dont worry i am to and then he started agian and said with a studder and said but i like you and then my hart droper and then i said thinks i like you to and then he said no like you like you and i said oh well i kinda like you to i said awrkedly and he said realy and i noded he gave me a hug and then kissed me as we stoped we looked each other in the eyes with a smile and all of a sudon there was a knock at the door