I Knew You Once

Chapter 7

I am struggling for release. I reach into my purse and pull out the pepper spray. "Shh." The person says. Is this Bryan? It can't be, I saw the news. I spray the pepper into the person's eyes. "Aaaaaahhhhhh!" The person yells and lets go.

I turn around to see the crook. "Mason?" I push Mason to the floor. "What is wrong with you? Why would you come into my house and attack me!"

"Will you keep it down?!" Mason whispers and rubs his eyes.

"What? Why?" I am furious.

Mason grabs my arm and pulls me down. "Will you shut up?!" "He stands up slowly. "Hurry, follow me."

"Where are we going?" I follow Mason.

He leads me to the back yard. "Look out the window."

I look out the window. There is a man digging a hole in my back yard. "Who is that?"

"I don't know." Mason takes a deep breath." I was hoping you'd tell me."

"Why'd you attack me?"

"I was trying to get you quick so you could be safe and quiet."

"Really? You couldn't have just texted me?"

"I lost my phone, remember?"

"Oh yeah, it's up here." I walked towards the cabinet and opened the door. I looked around in the cabinet. "It's gone. It's not there anymore."

"Are you sure you put it there?"

"Yes, I'm sure. I put it in the cabinet above the refrigerator."

"Well, that's not important right now. We need to do something about that guy in your back yard."

"No, this is important."

"What? No it's not. I can get a new phone later, let's go." He pulls my arm.

I pull away. "Someone took it. But who? No one knew the phone was in there but me."

"Maybe your parents found it. They were probably cleaning."

"No, my dad hates cleaning. My mom would never go near any of the cabinets because she hates the dust."

"Okay... So who do you think took it?"

"I don't know. It has to be someone that had something to do with the stuff on your phone."

"Like, what stuff on my phone?"

I look down. Then I look up. "Sophia, your drug buddies, me."

"Don't call them that. They aren't my drug buddies. Anyways, how would you know?"

"Him." I look out the window at the man digging the hole.

"What?"

"It's him."

"How do you know?"

"Just watch." I take my phone out and call Mason's phone. "It's ringing. Your phone is ringing."

"Yeah, I can hear it." Mason walks to the back door and opens it slowly and quietly. "I hear it out here."

The man keeps on digging the hole deeper and deeper. He takes out Mason's phone and drops it into the hole. "What is he doing?" I say quietly.

The man suddenly turns around with a glare. I gasp. Mason comes back in the house quickly and shuts the door. "We gotta go." Mason grabs my hand and runs to the front door.

"Where are we gonna go?" I run with Mason.

"My house." We are running to my car. I give Mason the keys.