Kidnapped By Josh Dun

I Feel Like Im Being Followed

It's Sunday, a few days after the concert. Rolling over and looking at my alarm clock, I see its 10:00 in the morning. I guess I should get out of bed, I think to myself.

After taking a quick shower, I decide to go out. A walk in the park sounds like a nice idea. I put on some jeans, sandals, and a floral crop top.  Once I do some quick makeup, I'm all ready to go.

It's a beautiful sunny day, with the sun out and a little bit of wind blowing. It's a perfect day to listen to Trees, I think to myself and put my headphones in, playing Trees on Spotify. After about 20 minutes of walking, I get to the park. The park by my house is pretty nice, with a walking path through it that's filled with flowers and trees. It's really peaceful to walk through the little forest type walking path with all the flowers.

I start to walk through the walking path, while listening to my Twenty One Pilots music. I've been walking through the path for around 5 minutes when the feeling of being watched returns. Ever since after the concert on Friday, I've been getting the feeling that someone is watching me. I watch a lot of scary movies and tend to be paranoid, so I just tell myself that it's probably nothing and keep walking. A twig snaps behind me, and I whirl around to see what made that noise, but I don't see anyone. It's probably just an animal, I think to myself, but I quicken my pace just in case. Another 40 minutes passes, and I finish walking through the path. I breath a sigh of relief when I come back to the crowded park and the start of the path. Since it's only noon, I decide to go to a restaurant to grab some lunch since I didn't really eat breakfast.
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When I walk into the small restaurant, I see my crush, Logan, sitting at a table with all his sporty friends. He's sitting next to Daniel, Isabelle's boyfriend, which isn't a surprise considering they're like best friends.

Daniel waves at me and calls out "hi Nicole!"

That makes pretty much the whole table of popular footballers turn to look at me. They all smile, and some wave, including Logan. I smile and wave back, then walk up and sit on a stool at the counter. I place my usual order of a strawberry lemonade, salad, and fries, then go on my phone, deciding to listen to music until my food is ready.

Someone slides into the stool next to mine, making me look up. I see Logan sitting there with a smile on his handsome face.

"Hi Nicole" he says while smiling at me, showing off his dimples. I almost fall off my chair.

"Hi Logan" I answer. There is an awkward silence before he speaks up.

"So I was wondering if maybe you would want to go see a movie with me sometime."

"Like a date?"

"Yeah I guess you could call it that" he says with an adorable smirk.

"I would love to" I answer back with a huge smile.

"Great! I've been wanting to ask you for a while, I just wasn't sure how to get you alone. I'm usually surrounded by friends, or you're with Isabelle, but I'm glad I got to ask you" he tells me.

While Logan is sitting there, I get my food, and I offer to share my food. He accepts and we sit there sharing fries and talking for a few hours. We talk about a lot of stuff. We talk about his football stuff, music, my concert. By the time we stop talking, it's getting dark out, and I realize I have to get home.

"Hey Logan, it's getting late and I have to head home" I tell him while standing up and grabbing my purse.

"Okay. Do you want me to walk you home?"

"No thank you, it's only about a 15 minute walk so I should be fine"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah I'm sure. I'll see you at school" I say and give him a small hug before walking out the door. I begin the somewhat short walk back to my house.

After around 5 minutes of walking, I think I hear footsteps behind me. I'm filled with dread as the feeling that someone is following me returns. I start walking faster, almost breaking into a jog. I don't hear the footsteps anymore, but the feeling of being watched is still with me. Only another 5 minutes until I get home, I think to myself. The footsteps can still be occasionally heard behind me, and it's getting really hard not to panic and take off running, because that could provoke something. I quickly take out my phone and call Isabelle.

"Hello?" She asks sleepily.

"Izzy I think I'm being followed."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm not sure, but I think so. I went to the diner and I was there talking to Logan for hours and when we finally stopped talking it was dark out. Logan offered to walk with me but I said no because I didn't think anything would happen."

"Well Daniel and the boys are still there, I'm texting Daniel right now to send him after you. If you get to your house before he catches up, just lock the doors and wait for him. Stay on the phone with me and keep walking."

"Okay I will."

"I'm sure Daniel will be there soon, him and Logan are running. Knowing your walking pace they should probably catch up soon."

I hear running footsteps coming towards me, and turn around to see Daniel and Logan bolting towards me at the speed of light. I guess all that football training comes in handy for a situation like this.

"Hey Izzy they're here. I'll text you when I get home" I say and then hang up, walking towards the guys.

"Hi again" I say quietly, still very scared. Logan and Daniel both walk towards me, and Logan wraps his muscular arms around me in a hug.

"You okay?" He asks, leaning down so he can look in my eyes.

"I guess so" I answer, feeling safer with them here.

"We'll walk with you to your house to make sure no one follows you. Okay?" He says, and wraps me in another hug. The three of us start walking, with Logan on one side of me and Daniel on the other.

"Thank you guys so much for getting here so fast" I say.

"It's no problem. Isabelle texted me and I just jumped up and grabbed Logan and we took off to find you." Daniel says with a small smile.

"Yeah we would never let anything happen to you" Logan tells me with a grin as we walk up my driveway.

"Go inside your house, lock the front door, and go in your room for the rest of the night. I'll see you in school tomorrow" Logan says and gives me a hug.

"Bye Nicole" Daniel says.

"Bye guys, I'll see you later" I say and close the front door, making sure to lock it. Before going upstairs, I make sure the door to the backyard is also locked.

After taking a quick shower, I put on some pajamas and crawl into bed. I wonder if someone really is following me, is my last thought before I fall asleep.