Chaser

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It was a dark and chilly night when everything started. It was family night which took place on Fridays. My parents were planning to make a costume party once we arrived to New York City since we are moving there in the beginning of October.

Able, my father got a promotion in his job and had to make an extensive agreement. He had to choose between our life right now and a new life. He made a big decision of moving to New York to make a new life.

The trip to New York felt long since I've never traveled so far before. My mom got rid of most of our things even though I didn't want to. This drastic change was really hard for me especially since I had to make a completely new life and make new friends.

Once we arrived to our destination my parents kept planning the party. The week after we arrived we started buying the items for the party. Most of the guests so far where my dads working partners.

Me, Lamar I was enrolling into one of the local high schools of New York. I started making friends right away. Since I started making friends I invited them to the costume party. I was hoping they would show up so that way I would get to know more about them and share good times with them.

A couple days before the party we decided to go to the store to get the things that we were missing for the party. My mom Valerie, was looking for costumes for all three of us. I was looking for more decorations and my dad was looking for the food. When we had all of the items we went to check out. While at the checkout line I noticed a guy glancing. He kept looking at my father. I told my dad without the guy noticing. The guy turns around and acts like he wasn't staring at my dad. Once that happen we ignored the fact that the guy kept looking at us. We were about to exit the store and the stranger stops us.

"Able.!?" The stranger yells towards my father.

We all turn around. We were scared so we kept on walking. Then the guy comes up to us.

"Do you remember me? Lamar." He asked my father.

"Oh yes we went to middle school together." My dad replied.

"Hi my name is Lamar." Making eye contact towards me and my mother.

"What have you been up to?" My father asked Lamar.

"Nothing much just working." Lamar responded.

"I am running late, we should meet up some other time for dinner." My dad said politely.

"Yes, can I get your number.?" Lamar asked.

"Yes here you go." My dad handing him a business card.

"You will be getting a call from me soon." Lamar responded smiling.

"Good bye" we all said.

Lamar just smiled back. I saw something peculiar in him. I knew there was something wrong with him.

One day I arrived home from school. My father was working and my mom was at the gym as always. When I go up the stairs of the house and then I see something at our front door. I was standing there and see a wine bottle with a note on the ground. I grab it and go inside. I opened the note and it said "hopefully we can have dinner soon!" It was signed by Lamar. My mom got home five minutes after I arrived and I showed her. We didn't put that much of importance into it.

We all had dinner together as a family. My mom mentioned the guy that we saw at the store. My dad tried to avoid that conversation. My mom kept on talking about Lamar and said we should invite him to come over sometime. My dad just responded with a sure.

With the topic of this guy we almost forgot about the party. The party was going to be a week from now it would take place at our house. Since my father didn't want to have dinner with Lamar we just decided to invite him to the party.

The day of the party was here. People were starting to arrive and I was nervous because I didn't know if my friends were going to show up. My friends didn't end up showing up. I didn't worry though because they messaged me saying they didn't have someone to bring them. Since I had no one to talk to the party was pretty lame.

The days went on and we kept on getting gifts from Lamar. I was getting scared because this is not normal. Especially since we barely know him. My parents didn't give that much importance to it. I did.

One day when I got home from my friends house my parents call me into the living room. I got scared because I thought I was in trouble. Turns out that I wasn't. They wanted to tell me that there was a new baby on the way. I was speechless I couldn't believe it. My emotions were mixed I was full of sadness and joy.

Time passes by and I couldn't wait for the new family member. Once the day came I didn't know how I felt when I carried my baby sister, Lydia. It was magical. The truth was that everything was a lie.

My new baby sister wasn't even my baby sister through blood. The day my baby sister was born my father had to go home since he was going to get fired. Once he arrived home he saw a big box which was a gift from Lamar. He went inside and opened the box. There were three boxes inside of the big box. Each box had a number in it. The numbers where one to three. My dad opened the box with the number one on it. It had a key. The key was from our front door. We had no idea how he got a copy of that key. Up to this day we still don't know and we can't figure out this mystery.

My dad headed to the next box, the box that had the number two on it. He opened the box and found a DVD. The DVD had a note on it which said play me. My father turned on the TV and played it. It was a video of him stalking my mother when she was home alone. Since he had access to our home he showed in the video that he entered our house. He entered our house when no one was home. I would be in school, my father would be working, and my mother would be running or at the gym. When he entered the house he went into our fridge and put something in my mother's drink. That would make her faint and go unconscious. He put it on my moms drink that she always drinks when she's done exercising. Five minutes after she drink the juice she went unconscious. She fainted in the middle of the hallway. Lamar took advantage and when into our house. He made my mom pregnant.
My dad was screaming of deception. While my father was crying he went to get the next box which had the number three on it. It was full of baby clothing.

My dad lost his job. Valerie, my mother left my father. Lamar disappear, and I lastly was full of depression and deception, knowing that my mother didn't know anything.