House Of Horrors

Chapter 4

We arrive at my house and go inside. We remain silent as I grab the oversized cooler from the closet and start stuffing food from the pantry in it. Emily goes to the refrigerator and starts grabbing bottled water and puts them in too. After it is filled I store it in the trunk of the jeep and come back in to see she has already started filling another cooler with food.
"There is camping supplies in the closet down the hall, can u gather some stuff why I go pack my things?"
"Yea, sure." She says heading down the hall. I run up stairs to my bedroom, shutting the door before I break down completely. I cry and scream into my pillow, my brain replaying the events from the past 24 hours.
I manage to calm down and grab my suitcase. I start stuffing my clothes in it along with my essential toiletries and head down stairs.
Emily looks up from the tent she was examining, "will we need this? Or will we just stay in the jeep?"
"I think we should bring that and also sleeping bags, I don't want to stay in the jeep the whole time.."
"Where are we even going? What are we doing, Alex? We can't do this!" She cries, covering her face. I set down my suitcase and walk over to her.
"We have to do this. You will never be safe unless we do...I don't know where we will go but I don't care as long as it's far away from here."
"But-"
"But nothing! You can't stay with them? Jeff rapes and beats you and your mom doesn't give a damn what happens to you!" Emily looks down at her feet, tears dripping from her eyes.
"I-I know..." She tilts her head back up and smiles "okay, fine, lets hurry up." I smile back and put the sleeping bags, tent, and my suitcase in the jeep. Once back inside I grab the first aid kit, a pot, plates, silverware, and cooking utensils. I pack them in a box and load them up. I go to my parents bedroom and go to the safe. 36-02-49. I put in the combination and open the door. I grab about five bundles of $100 bills, enough to last us awhile.
I run back to the kitchen and grab a pencil and paper to write a note to my parents:

---------Dear Mom and Dad,
I'm sorry to tell you this but I am running away with Emily. She needs to leave town and I am not letting her go alone. I hope that one day you will understand. I love you very much,
                                            -Alex
              P.s. I might have borrowed so money from the safe, sorry...----------------

I place the letter on the counter and lay my cell phone next to it, I won't need it where we are going.
"Alex are you really sure about this? I will be okay at home, you don't need to run away from home, from your parents...." she whispers.
"I do, Emily, you can't suffer anymore and I can't leave you alone." She nods at me, not saying another word about the matter.
We walk to the jeep and get in. I say one last goodbye to my home and drive off.