In The Blink Of An Eye

Runaway

Evan picked me up and threw me over his shoulder like I was a five year old kid. Phil grabbed all our stuff and followed behind him.

"EVAN! What the hell are you doing? Put me down. Now!!!"

I tried moving around and kicking as if he was kidnapping me. If someone saw us right now, they would for sure have called the cops. 

"Quit moving around. I'm not letting you go."

"Put me down or I promise I will never speak to you again."

"Guess what? If you're dead you can't speak to me anyways. So I would rather you be alive and not speak to me." 

Ugggh he was so hard headed. It was annoying!!! I didn't want to go back to the hospital. He would eventually have to put me down. He couldn't walk me all the way there, we had to get inside the car and drive. As soon as he put me down I started to run. I was not going back to that place, not while awake and able to move. 

"I told you she was a nightmare," shouted Phil. 

"Yeah, I see that now." Said Evan as he was running after me. 

We all looked like a bunch of teenagers. I continued running and when I got to my room, I quickly entered and locked the door. 

"Hey, open this door right now!"

"Heheh did she just lock you out?"

"Shut up Phil! She locked you out too."

"I will not open this door, until you both promise me you will listen to me and do as I say. Otherwise, have fun sleeping in the hallway tonight."

My headache was already feeling a lot better. For the past couple of years I always got hunger headaches, they would get so bad that at times I would feel like passing out. The difference is, I wasn't hungry all the time the way I was now. I had just finished eating, and I knew the headache would go away but Evan didn't listen. 

"Sooo? Have you guys made up your mind?"

"Fine, you win. Let us in and you can do whatever you want."

"Do you promise?"

"I promise."

"Phil... you too!!!"

"Okay I promise. I will do as you say. As if I hadn't been doing that the whole time."

I unlocked the door and let them in with a smile on my face. I was enjoying bossing them around. If I have to admit, it was kind of fun. I knew what I was about to say next was going to piss them off, but it was something that had to be done. I didn't want to wait any longer, I had to go and drop all this evidence off. I needed to go alone. That's the part I was scared to tell them. 

"Now, I need the car keys. Whose car keys? I don't care. You two decide."

"Car keys? For what?" Evan asked. 

"I need to go to the police station and give them everything we found."

"Before you say anything, no, you and Phil can't come along." 

"You're not going there alone. Let us at least drop you off." 

"I don't want the police knowing you two had anything to do with this, at all. I'm not getting you guys involved."

"But I am already involved."

"They don't need to know that Phil. That stays between us. After all, I have the messages from Jake, I have the voicemail he left me, and I am the one he wanted me to find. So, this is something that I have to do alone."