Until I Say Goodbye | ✔

racquet

*beep*

*beep*

*beep*

Kyle, is that you?

Thank god, I thought something happened. Are they still downstairs?

Yeah. I can hear them moving around. They haven't come up yet. I don't know how they managed to break into the house.

Your voice is shaky.

That's because I'm shivering from fear.

Don't. Like I said, I'm already heading to your home.

....Thanks for that, really. Won't your parents be worried though when they find out you're gone?

.......

Poor them. They're going to get a heart attack when they wake up.

Too late for that. Have you got something ready to whack their brains out?

Yep- oh my god. One of them is coming upstairs.

Can you climb out the window?

No, it's shut tight. I can't make it budge!

You just found out? Ah, no wonder you sound so stuffy all the time.

...you still wanna make jokes?

Sorry. Um. Let me think. Do you have something to use to break the glass?

Like in Bad Blood? And yes, I have my old badminton racquet.

Good. What's Bad Blood?

......

.........

Oh no.

What is it? Are you alright?

They are coming upstairs. I can hear their heavy breathing.

Okay, I'm legitimately sprinting like my butt's on fire to your house now.

That was embarrassing to say.

Hello?

Camilla, are you there?

*the phone call abruptly ends*

Hello?

Oh no-

*the line comes back to life*

Phew. That was some work.

Work?

You were being noisy, so I had to end the call.

.......and I assume you're okay again.

Yep. Just whacked those two in the head real hard with the racquet from behind the door.

In succession?

They kind of rolled back like bowling pins.

Fierce. Unrealistic. And plain stupid.

Why?

For putting yourself in danger and confronting them head on. Now tie them up, make sure they stay unconscious and that you're safe at all times, call the police, and whack them harder in the head if you need to.

Done the latter four already, and I'm not giving them extra concussions.

As a suggestion, merely because these goons just tried to raid your house. I still can't believe you managed to take them down.

Also, make some hot chocolate.

Tying them up now- wait, what? For myself?

No, for me. I'm not going back empty-handed until I have hot chocolate in my veins and blood and heart and basically every inch of my body. It's freezing out here.

Don't forget arteries.

Arteries. The least of our problems.