Saviour

Chapter 15

By the fourth film, it was reaching ten o'clock and Grace had fallen asleep, with her head resting on Connie' shoulder. Connie was laid on her back with her hand resting on Jacob's.

'Is she asleep?' Jacob asked, rolling over to face Connie.

'Yeah, she's giving me a dead arm.' Connie nodded back.

Jacob chuckled, and bent his arm then rested his head on it. 'You seem really happy.' He whispered, looking at her face.

'You make me happy, and Grace makes me happy. Now you're both here, I'm happier than I've ever.' Connie whispered back turning her head to face Jacob.

Jacob smiled at her and moved closer to her. 'I'm glad. All I ever want to do is make you happy.' He whispered, before kissing her lips. After they pulled away, Jacob rested his head so their foreheads were touching. The stared intently into each others eyes. Causing them both to smile. They stayed like that for a while, before they both fell asleep.

'Mum?' Grace whispered, poking her shoulder. 'Mum, wake up.'

'Grace?' Connie mumbled, with her eyes still shut.

'Your phone is ringing, its rung three times.' Grace told her.

'Okay, let me get it.' Connie whispered back, before scrambling over Grace and picking her phone up, and then turning it off.

'Just a private number, probably a sales call.' She whispered to Grace after she had climbed back in between Grace and Jacob.

'This time at night?' Grace questioned.

'They call at any time of the night. You should go back to sleep.' Connie replied, kissing Grace's forehead.

'Night.' Grace whispered, rolling to face away from Connie.

Connie was woken up an hour later by Jacobs phone ringing.

'What is this?' She muttered to herself. 'Jacob, your phone is ringing.' She whispered, poking him in the ribs.

'Ow!' He said loudly, waking Grace up.

'Sorry.' Connie apologised, trying to stop herself laughing.

'It's okay.' Jacob replied, a little grumpy. He got out of their makeshift bed and walked over to his phone.

'Who is it?' Grace asked, opening his eyes.

'A private number. That's weird.' Jacob shrugged, turning his phone off.

'That happened to Mum earlier. Are you sure its not the ED?' Grace asked, burying her head in the pillow.

'No, they don't use a private number.' Connie told Grace, sitting up right.

Jacob heard a noise outside and held his hand up 'Listen. What's that?'

They all listened, and heard footstep noises coming from outside.

'Mum. I'm scared.' Grace sounded really worried, and moved over to Connie, who held her to her chest and hugged her tightly.

Connie looked over towards Jacob, who put his phone in his pocket and moved towards the window.

There was a sudden knock on the front door, which made Connie and Grace jump.

'Stay here.' Jacob told them.

Jacob grabbed a candle stand and walked out of the room to the front door. He didn't feel as brave as he was acting, but knew that he needed to protect Connie and Grace.

He raised the candle stand before opening the door.

'Hello Jacob. Just wanted to talk.' A man smiled creepily at Jacob.

'Ollie.' Jacob felt anger built inside him. 'What the hell are you doing here?'