I sit in silence for a while, thinking about what just happened.
How did he get my number???
How did he know I phoned the police???
How did he find out my name???
I don't have an answer to any of these questions, so I put my phone on my bedside table and go to sleep. Well, try to go sleep. That call has made me start to worry about those men in the woods. If they can find my number that easily, it doesn't seem like it should be too difficult for them to find out where I live. And if they are angry at me for trying to get them caught, who knows what they might do?
It takes me at least 4 hours to get to sleep, and I only manage to get half and hour of sleep before my mum calls me downstairs for breakfast.
I sit down at our new table and wait for cook to come and serve breakfast. She walks in and puts a plate in front of me. It's a bacon sandwich! I pick it up and take a bite. My dad does the same.
"Mmm!" He says, "This is amazing! Cook! You've done a good job!"
"Yep I definitely agree!"
"Yeah, I've always loved bacon sandwiches!"
We eat about 5 each and then my mum and dad go and get changed, ready to go cycling. I'm not going with them, so I go into the lounge and turn on the news, like that man told me to. For a while the woman just talks about things that have nothing to do with me, but after a bit she says,
"Now we move on to a case that has been going on for the past few weeks. We finally have a suspect as the bomber. We will now show you a video of the suspect near the site of the latest bombing, taken a few weeks ago."
They show a video of me running up the steps in the woods, just after I'd seen the men! Oh no. They had seen me! And now they've framed me for what they were doing. But surely a video isn't enough proof?
"The suspect has been named as Katie Turner. We also have reports from locals seeing her run from the woods, soon before the bomb went off."
What? I didn't even know that they'd managed to blow up the forest!
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It's 12:30am and I'm still not asleep. I've spent the whole night so far lying in worry. I'm so scared. The police could find me at any time, and those men could get me at any time!! I feel like I can't just stay where I am.
I have to do something!! I could always run away...? No, I can't, I'll just have to convince the police it wasn't me. No, I can't do that, if I do I'll have to tell them it was the men and then they'll want me dead!! So what can I do? I know. I will run away. No. Yes. Should I??? Yes. I'll have to....
I get out of bed as quietly as I can and change it to my warmest clothes, it will be cold sleeping outside every night. I find my rucksack and fill it up with spare clothes. I also pick up my phone, I'll have to leave my laptop behind, I don't have any more room in my bag.
When I've got everything I need from my room, I go down the stairs as quietly as possible and sneak into the kitchen. I take a canvas bag out of one of the cupboards and fill it up with food. After that, I go the the front door and open it. As soon as I close the door, I won't be able to open it again, so I check I have everything I need, then take a deep breath and shut the door.
I start to run away as fast as I can, because I don't want to be anywhere near here when everyone wakes up and finds out I've disappeared.
After a while of running, I realise that I have nowhere to go. Usually if I wanted somewhere to stay I would go to Millie's house, but they would definitely tell my parents if I went there now. So where can I go? I can only think of one place now. The forest. But definitely not the one I saw the men in. There's another one on the other side of town. I'll go there. But I've never liked that one it feels so isolated, like its in the middle of nowhere. But the upside of that one is that no one ever goes there, so I won't be found easily.
Okay, I'll go there.
When I get there I start to feel scared. It's so dark that I can barely see anything, and cots completely silent, so whenever I step on a twig or a leaf it makes me jump. I eventually find a slightly comfortable place to lie, on the floor and manage to somehow get to sleep....
