The Couch

Chapter 4

He held my hand, lifted me up, and we headed for the door. As we went down the stairs, I saw red and blue lights. I froze like a deer in headlights. Everyone was scrambling everywhere to get out.
     Before I had time to think, Tyler pulled me back upstairs and ran down the hallway.
"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!! " I panicked. "What do we do!? What do we do!? What do we do!? " I was so scared I thought I was going to die.
     "OK I have a plan. " Tyler said to me. " We can slip out of the window in the room, and run down the street. Okay? "
I didn't really want to jump out of a window, but it was what I had to do. I nodded, and we went to the room.
     "I''ll go first, and I'll catch you when you jump, okay. " He kissed my check as he said this, slipping out of the window, onto the roof. He signaled me to come along, so I did so.
     We ran down the side of the roof, until we saw the other side of the street, where the cops weren't. I looked back into the room, and saw a few cops searching the room.
     When we got to the edge, he jumped first. He landed with a roll. I thought that he was going to run away, like in the movies. But he didn't. He opened his arms and waved his hand down for me to jump.
     I closed my eyes, breathed, and jumped. Instead of landing on the hard ground, I landed in his safe, warm arms. He let me down, grabbed my hand, and ran.
     I didn't know where we were running to. We just kept running down the street, when we got to a house. I assumed it was his, because he lead me to the front door, and lifted the mat for the key.
     "Are you hungry? " he asked me as we entered the house. It was really dark in here. I couldn't see anything, until he turned the lights on.
     "I could eat. " I told him, as I walked around the living room, looking at all of the pictures of him when he was younger.
     "We don't really have much food in the house, so I'll take you out. Is that alright with you? " he asked me as he searched for his keys,  finally locating them.
     
     We headed for his car,  when I heard gun shots not too far away. I looked in the direction of where they came from.
     "That sounded like it came from near my house! " I yelled in a panick.  I looked over at Tyler.  He was frozen.  He didn't know what to do,  and I could tell.  He looked back at me, smiled,  and said " I'm sure it was nothing,  maybe a copy or something accidentally shot like the wall or something like that. "
     We both were thinking the same thing though. We knew that someone was going to due tonight,  we just didn't know who.