Follow Me Down

Chapter Three

Rayna got here about an hour ago, and we've been in the living room watching movies. I'm so glad she came back over to stay with me. Im still so scared of what I saw earlier. I didn't tell her that I had seen the fox or man, I don't even know if she'd believe me.

"I'm ready for bed, how about you?" Rayna yawns after asking me. I laugh and agree, I'm feeling tired too. We head up to my bed and lay down together. "Goodnight" I say and I hear her say it back, and turn over facing away from me. I close my eyes and try to fall sleep, but I keep thinking about what has happened and the red eyes staring back at me. I hear a noise come from outside my room and I tense up. But I see Luka wondering in and hopping on the bed. I sigh in relief that it's just my cat and not some stalker breaking into my house. After my heart finally stops bounding, I'm able to drift off to sleep.

I awaken by Rayna shaking me "Athena" I look at her with blurry eyes and ask if everything is okay. "yeah, I need to get going. will you be alright ?" I nod my head and roll back over to go back to sleep. I hear her laugh and say bye.

I wake up around 12pm and hop into the shower, to wake myself up. I felt like I could've slept for hours but I know I needed to tend my garden, since I haven't in a little bit. Heading outside I find my trashcan knocked over, bending down, I pick it up. It might've been the wind that knocked it over, or the strange fox I keep seeing. After about an hour of pulling weeds, and cleaning up my mess outside, I head inside. "Luka" I call, as I pour cat food into his bowl. I hear his little bell as he runs down the steps. I'm glad I have Luka to protect me, well maybe not from a stalker. But I'm sure he'd protect me from that strange fox.

I sit down at my kitchen table and open up my laptop, I was going to look for some jobs around here. I had plenty of money that my parents left me with, but I wanted a job to get out of the house. Now more than ever, with all this weird stuff happing. I sip on my tea as I scroll through job listings, hoping that I'll find something interesting.

I ended up filling out around 10 jobs that peaked my interest. My phone vibrates on the table and I pick it up seeing a text from an unknown number. I almost don't want to open it, I'm nervous of what it'll say this time. 'Bookstore clerk wanted' I sigh and realize it's just one of the jobs writing me back for an interview. I laugh to myself a little, I am really working myself up over this. I respond back saying I'm available tomorrow.

Putting my phone back on the table, I closed my laptop and bring my cup over to the sink. Looking out the window I see some movement in the woods, and I can feel a chill run down my spine. Oh, god what if the man is back? I lean over to get a better look outside, but I see no more movement. Sighing, I head back over and grab my phone. I think today I'll head out to the store to buy some groceries. 

Getting in my yellow Volkswagen Beetle, I drive towards town. After about an hour drive, I reached my destination, grabbing my bag I head out of my car, into the small grocery store. I only needed to grab a few things, I pulled out my list and look over everything I wrote down.

Eggs, chicken, milk, cream cheese, tea, and some snacks. After grabbing all my items and checking out, I head back out to my car to load my two bags in. A voice catches my attention "I'm working on it." it was a deep voice, it reminded me of the man who called me saying he 'was coming for me'. I shut my door and look around to see if anyone is near me, but they must have already passed by. 

I begin to walk over the driver door, but a man across the road catches my eyes. He's abnormally tall, maybe 6'6 or so, with jet black hair. I noticed that he was now staring back at me and I can see his eyes are a crystal blue, and almost like there are glowing. I snap out of my trance from this handsome stranger and quickly get in to my car, and drive off. I didn't even bother putting on my music before leaving.

I couldn't get the image of this man out of my head, why were his eyes glowing? Could he be my stalker? I've never seen this man in my entire life, so I don't know why he'd be after me. He could also find someone a lot prettier to stalk, than a boring girl that lives in the woods. I look in my rearview mirror to see my green eyes and long brown hair, with my boring pale complexion.          I am only ordinary. I don't know why a man like him would want to stalk someone like me. His eyes probably weren't glowing, it was most likely just the sun hitting them weird. 

Taking my bags out of the backseat, I head inside to put away everything. I look at the clock on the stove and see it's already 5pm. I check my phone and see the job for the bookstore has texted me back, wondering if I could come in at 11am tomorrow. I respond with yes, and start to make dinner. 

After cleaning up the dishes it's 7pm, so I head up to get changed into my pajamas. I put on some shorts and a baggy t-shirt. I feel like going on a night walk, but I'm unsure if that's a smart idea since I've been seeing things out there. So I decide I would sit out front on the porch, while reading a book. At least then I could run inside quickly if I do see anything.

I'm only a few chapters in, when I hear a tree branch snap. My eyes dart to the area where I think it came from. Maybe this wasn't a good idea since I'm still paranoid and I'm not sure if I have an actual stalker after me. Looking around I don't see anything, but head inside just incase someone is watching me. Locking the front door I go over to the couch, in the living room to continue reading.

Thankfully the rest of the night was silent and nothing strange happened. I finally was able to get a decent nights sleep.