Escape

Chapter 5

Rosemary's Story

My heart was skipping beats, breathe, i begged. Please just breathe, this cant happen now. I have to be strong, like she always was. I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. As cliche as it was, the most helpful thing for me is picturing my happy place. There's no airport for miles, we cant go back to the bus stop he'll expect that, and we cant walk that would make us vulnerable. " Rosemary its okay, I know what we can do. We'll have to take the train, unfortunately." The train in our town has a bad history of crime. You have to be really careful. Get on the wrong car and you might be robbed, beaten, or worse. Our train had a main stop just before ours in an even smaller town called Zerona, more of a neighborhood than a town really. But this spec of a town terrifies me. It was built around the only prison in Malheur county. Which is why the train is so dangerous, because a lot of the riders are just let out of prison or trying to avoid the police. " I know its dangerous but we have no choice." " Onyx, don't worry the train is a breeze, I've ridden it before. All you have to do is make sure you get on one of the cars 1-3. There all first class and very exclusive. There also into so very expensive but we have no other option." I pulled her up into a hug. I never remember her riding the train but i didn't ask. All in good time. The train station was just around the corner a couple blocks. It was crowded we shouldn't run in to him again. " So i promised I wouldn't ask but I have to know. How did it happen?" "She looked away and i saw that look again, the one i was growing to hate. " Its okay, you don't have to tell me. " Rosie sighed. " Ill tell you, I knew I'd have to eventually. So remember when you had your first attack?" I nodded, of course I remembered, you don't easily forget the day your heart stopped beating. " So when that happened, I couldn't handle it, I ran to the woods and screamed a lot. I didn't know why this had to happen, and I blamed god. This wasn't fair, you never did anything wrong, why? So i did the only thing I knew how to, to calm down. I ran to Sofia Lamona's house, and bought drugs. cocaine and sometimes weed, I could never do heroine, the needles scared me. Then I brought back to the forest and did drugs. I will regret that decision the rest of my life. At first I was extremely careful that no one saw me. But as it got worse I got sloppy. Then one day i got a call, the scariest most haunting call ever. It said that it saw me, and had pictures, that if I didn't bring weekly payments to the forest he would kill our whole family. So I did, for months, $150 a week. Which was extremely stressful. Finally after two months I couldn't take it anymore. I went to confront him and he kidnapped me. He knocked me out with chloroform the minute I told him I wouldn't pay. The next thing I knew he had me, and I had no idea how to get out. That's all I can say for now, Its too painful. I caused all of this, I deserved it." Tears rained down her cheeks. I was dumbfounded, Rosemary had issues but she ran the drug free club at school, I never in a million years would have guessed that. I hugged her tightly and whispered in her ear. " No matter what you think, or what bad decisions you made, you are a kind conscientious young adult, and you DID NOT deserve that. By the time we got to the train station, bought our tickets and boarded the train, I was ready to pass out. We sat down in the plush red recliners, and fell asleep.