Ice cream Thief

Chapter Eighteen

What happened tonight was something I would have never expected in a million years.

I was off on a stealth mission to steal tonight's popular flavour as usual and I was almost back home when it happened.

I heard rustling in the trees behind me and turned around. Cold shivers pressed down my back and tingled as fear gripped me on. Wind whispered around me and caressed my cheeks and suddenly I saw movement behind the trash cans around the corner of a house.

I was being watched.

My every move was being analysed and I knew I had to be careful. Sweat pulsed around me and my heart thumped louder than ever and panic surged through me.

Please not now please not now.

I thought as I didn't want to be caught after months and years of my favourite ice cream hobby. My breaths were short and ragged and I was so close to home. Just a few more blocks.

If I ran I was sure to be ambushed. I had to take it slow and trick whoever was watching me and ensure that they didn't know that I knew that they knew that I knew that they were watching me.

I let out a slow breath and took careful steps towards my house keeping a mental note of the distance and how close I was getting.

I was almost there now all I had to do was turn the door knob and enter and run towards my room and cover myself under blankets and snore.

Alas, that seemed like a dream right now.

Just when my hand touched the door knob, someone's pasty bone thin fingers touched my shoulder and froze me to the bone.

"We finally meet"

I gasped out and sat on my bed. I was breathing heavily and my eyes shot open like bullets. I've not had such a startling wake up since I was five and had that nightmare.

I shuddered at the thought. I need air. I breathed out a few more short breaths and tried to calm myself, my gut twisted and I had the craziest feeling that something went horribly wrong.

I quickly got out of bed and races down the stairs to the shop and switched on the lights. Nothing seemed to be moving or our of place except today's popular flavour that seemed to have been scooped recently.

I sighed, she must have been here but I had the slightest feeling that was not all. I remember googling it once that if you are ever startled awake that could only mean two things.

a. You were in someone elses dream.
b. Someone you loved was in deep danger.

I just hoped it wasn't the second one. I quickly jumped up two steps and climbed at a rapid pace as I raced into my mum's room. I opened the door and let out a sigh of relief as I watched her soundly sleep. I slowly closed the door before leaping off the last stair step and running towards my best friend's house.

I jumped into his room and let out a second sigh of relief. I went back home and now I just had to check up on one last person.

I took out my phone and with shaky and sweaty fingers typed out message to Indie.

Heyy err can't sleep.. you're fine right?

He clicked send and bit his bottom lip at his stupidness. How the hell would she see that if she was actually in danger. He cursed at his stupidity and got out of his bed.

He had to actually make sure she was okay no matter how creepy that looked. He put on a pair of sneakers and ran out of his house.

Just a few more blocks and he would finally be there. He raced on not knowing how little time he had before Indie encountered someone she wouldn't dreamed to have ever met.

Little did he know that the moment he stepped on her porch would be the moment their lives changed forever.

He pushed all those thoughts out of his head for now with only one aim in his mind at the moment.

I need to find Indie.

Alice had always dreamed of adventure. Little did he know he had already stepped into it since the moment he saw her escaping from his shop at the wee hours of night with a bucket full of freezing cold deliciousness.

Adventure was what tied their lives together and neither would want that bond to break because for Indie, adventure was the oxygen that she breathed while for Alice it was the cherry added on his cake.

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So yeahhh  the story is going to be escalating from here muahahaha I live for cliffys hahahaha