𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐌𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐎?

𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘, 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘, 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗗

𝙺𝙸𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙻𝚈 𝙲𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙳𝚈

The night air was nippy when Eddie agreed to walk me home. You would probably find this strange considering he had his van, but sometimes it was nice to just walk out in the nighttime. It was quiet and peaceful, the sky gleaming down on us as we walked the pavements of the earth. It was romantic.

Eddie stopped as we walked hand in hand down an empty and dark street, only a few blocks away from the trailer park.

"Hey." I tugged at his hand, my voice at a higher pitch than usual. I turned to face him with our fingers still intertwined. "You okay?" I asked delicately. His eyes flickered to mine, darker than usual.

"If I ask you to do something, will you do it?" He asked in an almost whisper. I dropped my hand from his and moved my feet so I was directly in front of him.

"I-Eddie, what's-" i stammered, lost for words.

"Kimberly, do you promise?." Eddies eyes moved to something behind me, his lips curling into a thin line and his adams apple bobbing in the back of his throat as he swallowed nervously.

"Yes, yes. I promise." I nodded in fear, knowing something was wrong. He groaned and breathed out of his nostrils, pulling me into his chest and leaning his head besides my ear.

"Run." He snarled lowly, pushing my body behind his and walking in the opposite direction. I didn't think twice before my brain commanded my legs to run and don't stop, and I listened.  I couldn't hear my own sobs over the sounds of my feet slapping against the concrete as I darted as far away from Eddie as possible.

I shouldn't have left him, was all I could think. I should've asked why he needed me to run, why he made me promise to run. Was he in danger?

My calves burned and my vision was blurry but I didn't know how far away I was running, so once I saw the trailer park I made a tight cut off into it and found myself entering the forest at the back.

Running. Running. Running. There was no stopping that cycle for over half an hour until my legs came to an abrupt stop as the thoughts overpowered me. I finally felt the harsh splatters of rain hitting my face as the adrenaline evaporated around my body. I looked over my shoulder into the distance, realising I was in the middle the woods now and no longer in plain view of anything.

"Oh fuck." I muttered to myself, scared of what I didn't know. My body twisted and turned as my eyes scanned the darkness for something familiar. "Eddie.." I whispered, understanding the predicament I had wound myself into.

I was a young girl: alone and scared in the woods, on my own in the dark at 10:30pm, I was fragile and breaking without Eddie, not an incline to what it was that made his eyes fill with horror.

I heard a crunch from besides me, scaring me to my core as I quickly turned towards the sound.

"Eddie..if that's you, quit playing. It's not funny." I spoke into the open, my voice trembling. Nothing made a sound, no crunch or snap, not even a breath. "Nope. Not today." I shook my head and said, carrying on forward to what I assumed was the way I had just ran. "Ain't nobody murdering me tonight. I have things to do, places to be and here..in the woods.." I spoke to myself, cautious of my surroundings. "Is definitely not one of them." I cleared my throat and wiped away the rain water tricking from my hair into my eyes.

My legs were tired but I was determined to at least get out of these woods, if not back to Eddie. I just needed to know he was safe and I was over thinking, over reacting.