The Man Out To Get Me

I wake up. It's 2:30. Great. I go to the doctors in six hours. Should I tell him about the man? No. He's a doctor not a therapist. Should I tell anyone? How many people will understand this? I'm probably the only person that this has ever happened to so maybe I should just keep it to myself for now. I'm wide awake but I know that I'm going to be tired by the time I'm supposed to go to the doctor so I just try to go back to sleep.

My mom came in to wake me up. No dreams about the man out to get me. As I get ready for the doctors I look out my window. There he is. He's looking up at me. Now I'm scared. Why is there? Why is he looking at me? Maybe it's just another coincidence. Maybe he wasn't looking at me. Maybe he was looking at something that caught his eye by my window.

I decide that must be it and continue getting ready. As I'm going down the stairs I am startled and almost scream when I see the man talking to my mom.

Oh no. He's going to kill me now. That's it. This will be the death of me. All these thoughts run through my mind as he stands right in front of me. My mom looks at me in concern.

"This is my daughter, Amanda. Amanda this is Jude. He's our new neighbor." my mom says.

"Hi." Jude says in calm and gentle voice.

He doesn't sound like I expected him to. The calmness if his voice makes me relax a little bit. My mom jumps up.

"We're late!" She says in a panic.

Jude looks at her oddly.

"Amanda has a doctors appointment". She declares.

He looks at her with a sympathetic expression on his face and then looks at me.

"I guess I should let you get going then." He says in a voice that almost sounds sad. He then turns and walks toward the door. I watch him as he goes and once he starts to close the door he looks back at me with a glare on his face. I feel terrified and I'm assuming it shows because he then smiles as he faces forward again.

Great. The man out to get me and who has haunted me in my dreams is now my next door neighbor. Even though I'm in absolute horror and feel terrible I follow my mom to the car to go to the doctors.

The waiting room is so boring with its bare white walls. As we wait I look around to see if Jude is anywhere near. I don't see him so at least he isn't stalking me (that I know of anyways).

I'm running again. If I stop Jude might kill me. I can hear his deep breathing and heavy steps right behind me. There is no losing him this time. I pick up my pace until I think I'm at my breaking point. Unfortunately so does he. Suddenly I don't hear his heavy steps anymore and his breathing is getting fainter and fainter. I don't dare stop though I keep going for about another minute before I stop. I look behind me. He's not there. Where did he go?

I wake up. I'm on a table in the Doctors office surrounded by doctors examining me. They see that I'm awake and all ask me what happened and start rambling off questions that I do the have the answer to. I tried my best to answer them but every answer I gave only brought more hard questions.

Eventually it got so overwhelming that I just stormed out and went to sit in the car ignoring my mom. I could see thorough the glass windows that they were now questioning her. Soon she did the same thing and we left.

As we were driving home I saw Jude. He was only about a block away from the hospital. Once we got to our driveway I looked at Jude's house. He was there sitting on his porch. How did he beat us home so fast? I assume that I made a mistake in identity down by the hospital. After all I did only get a short look at the guy.

My mom is upset that the doctors questioned us like that but said were going back in two days.

Great now I've missed almost a whole entire week of school since I know she won't let me go tomorrow.

I go back to my room to see if I can get any of my homework done. I sit at my desk and try to focus enough to get at least all my algebra done. Right now I don't think my teachers will care much. At least, I don't. I finish all my algebra and go straight to bed. I'm swamped out.

Where did Jude go? He seriously just vanished. I turn around toward the direction I was going again and there he is. There I am again standing right in front of him. This time he says

"Don't try to run this time. It's useless. You can't hide."

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