The Moon Is Shining (MjFantasy)

Chapter 20 - Perilous Mission

Cameron turned around to face me.

His gaze was full of hate, during some seconds I even thought that he guessed what I was planning to do.
I stop breathing, waiting for his answer.

" You, the girls, and your fucking obsession with the restrooms, damn... Fine, we'll stop somewhere but you better hurry your pretty ass, little bitch, I'm warning ya. "

While he was saying this, he was heading to a little gas station.

I hid the crowbar behind my back and took a deep breath.
He stopped the car in an empty parking lot. I was already thinking about how I was going to knock him out : I knew that I wasn't supposed to kill him, just to make him unconscious for a little while. Enough time for me to run away.

The fact that he was high was a really good news though : he was going to be less attentive to what I was doing or planning to do. Less suspicious.

Great.

"Get out of the car. I'm waiting here."

I had been tented by the idea of escaping from the backdoor.
There was probably a backdoor in that gas station. But he would have found me too quickly.

I had no choice.

I got out of the car, the crowbar still in my hand, and I decided to find a way to make him get out of the car as well.

"Cameron...? There is a strange noise that... comes from... The trunk ! A strange noise comes from the trunk. You should come over there and see what it is."

He groaned and grumbled but eventually he opened the car door and joined me. Stumbling, he stood behind me to check the trunk.

Everything went really quickly.

I didn't really know how when and where to hit him. If my planned failed, I was dead for sure.
But when he leaned over the trunk, I notice that he wasn't paying attention to me anymore and I knew it was my only chance.

I tighten my grip around the crowbar, took his neck as a target, and hit him with all the power my body possessed.

The blow was so violent that I heard an atrocious sound of something breaking.

I don't know what I broke but I really hoped it wasn't his neck bone because if it was, it meant that I had actually killed him.
He let out a scream and feel on the trunk.

Unconscious.

I put my fingertips on his neck trying to find a pulse. I found one. It was very weak but he was alive.
I didn't have a lot of time.

I ran to the gas station, and decided to call someone.
While I was looking frenetically for some coins in my pockets to use the phone box, I had a revelation : I didn't have any number.

Not even Michael's.

 I took my last dollar out of my pocket and kept it in my hand while I was looking, pensively, to the phone box.
I then had an illumination : I was wearing the same jean when I met Karen for the first time. Before she left, that night, when she hugged me, I felt her sliding something very thin, certainly a piece of paper, in my back pocket, but I forgot it and never looked at it.

I checked that same pocket and took a paper out of it. A line of numbers were written on it, and the fact that I washed that jean two days before didn't erase the numbers.

« God bless you Karen. May God fucking bless you ! »

I typed the number as fast as I could, pressed the receiver against my ear and held my breath.
"Bip.....Bip....Bip...."

« For God's sake, Karen, ANSWER THE DAMN PHONE. »

"Bip...Bip...Bi... Yes ? Who is it ? "

It was her ! Her voice immediately brought tears into my eyes.

" Karen ! Karen, it's Moon !"
"Moon ?! What's happening ?!"
"Listen I don't have a lot of time to explain you, you just... You gotta call Michael or Bill or whatever and tell them that I am..."
I paused and looked around me.
Where was I ?
I didn't even know.
Suddenly I remarked an advertising board, it was reading the name of a city that I have never seen before.
"...I'm in a gas station not too far from Rosamond."
"Rosamond ?! What the hell are you doing in Rosamond ?! You're at two hours away from Los Angeles !"
"Vin found me, and he tasked somebody with kidnapping me again. Ok, Karen I really gotta leave now."
"Oh my God. Fine Moon. Oh Gosh, I'm going to call Michael right away, be careful don't move ! Please I beg you, try to stay safe !"