Almost Alice » l.h

3.9

"I was thinking," Luke began, his relaxed tone contrasting with the tense and scary situation I was in at the moment, "do you not like the nickname Ali? Everyone calls you Al so I want-"

"Luke, I have a problem." I blurted just to get him to focus.

He paused for a second before responding in a hard voice, "What's wrong?"

"I'm with Violet in her car, and Ross is following us." I explained quickly, not wanting to go into detail as to why he was following us.

Of course, I knew Luke's next question would be, "Why?"

I whined, "Luke, please just get to Michael and Ashton's! We're scared!"

"Don't worry, I'm on my way." he stated as I heard his engine start. "Are you there now?"

"No, we're almost there."

"Why didn't you just go to Violet's dad?"

I looked at Violet, knowing she could hear what Luke was saying through the phone. She frowned a little because she knew I didn't want to tell Luke that I'd went to a party alone to meet Ross, but it would come up eventually. I just didn't want Luke to get mad at me.

I sighed, "I went to a party and Ross was there and-"

"You and Violet went to a party?" he quizzed since Violet and I didn't hang out just the two of us very much.

I glanced at her and shrugged apologetically before I replied, "Yeah, plus her boyfriend. Look, can we talk about this later and can you just tell us what to do?!"

"I'm just confused." he admitted, a slight tone of knowing in his voice like he was catching me in my tiny lie. "If it's just you and Violet, what happened to her boyfriend?"

I looked and Violet and shrugged again, this time because I didn't know what to say. Thankfully, we were pulling into Michael and Ashton's long driveway.

"We're already at their house, what do we do?!" I panicked, getting incredibly scared and worried. The two boys didn't even know we were showing up.

"Okay, okay, calm down." he instructed. "Do they know you're-"

"No."

He sighed softly. "Okay, um, call them and don't leave your car. I'll be there in five minutes."

"Okay, thank you." I replied quickly before hanging up and calling Michael, hoping he wouldn't be asleep.

As the phone rang, Violet pulled up behind Ashton's car and parked. She made sure the doors were locked before turning her head to look behind us. It was all she could do, really. She had some pepper spray in her purse but that was about it.

My heart dropped suddenly when his phone went to voicemail. I hung up and tried Ashton's.

"He really didn't answer?!" Violet cried and hit the steering wheel a few times. "We're so fucked, oh my god! Alice, I'm scared!"

I didn't respond as I waited for my phone to connect. When it did, instead of ringing, it went straight to voicemail.

"Fuck..." I hissed, deciding to just call Luke again.

There was a a loud noise like someone pounding their fist against my window. I turned my head and saw exactly that - Ross' fist slammed against the window and an angry look on his very red and swollen face.

"Get your ass out of this car, Ackerman, or I'll break this window and drag you out." he threatened.

If I stayed in the car, it was likely Ross and his friend would also hurt Violet so I knew my only option was to just get out and take whatever was coming to me. I couldn't let Violet get hurt because of something stupid I did. I just shouldn't have gone to the party.

To my surprise, Luke didn't answer. I didn't know how much longer until he'd show up but I couldn't take my chances and wait. Ross could easily smash the window to get to me and Violet.

"I gotta get out of the car." I told her, already putting my hand on the door handle.

Violet looked at me with wide, fearful eyes and shook her head quickly. "N-no! No you don't! Alice, you can't!"

"They'll hurt you too if I don't!" I told her.

She let her finger rest on the lock button. "I'm not letting you out of this car. Luke will be here soon, you heard him."

Outside the car, Ross and his friend continued to taunt us loudly and bang against the car.

"Violet, I-"

"Hey!" Luke's voice suddenly boomed. I turned and saw a shadow cross in front of the headlights of Ross' friend's car. "What the fuck do you think you're doing, asshole?!"

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Cliffhanger bc it's v late rn buuuut I wanted to update bc my birthday is tomorrow (the 28th) so yaaaaaaay!!!

Also I'm gonna dedicate this to @1Dstagram28 since we have the same birthday and I think that's p rad so happy birthday boo!

But anyway I might go back tomorrow when I get home and edit this to be slightly more detailed since it was short. Nothing major will change so it won't be necessary to reread but I'll tell you next chapter if you should go back

Okay that's it gn and I love you guys!!