Kidnapped at age 15

Chapter 18

Max's pov

Me and Brittney havent talked much ever since her dream. All she does is sit in the cornor of the living room area staring out the window. Occasionally getting up to put more wood into the fire place. I sighed and walked over to her taking a seat on the floor right next to her. Her knees were pulled up to her chest and her arms wrapped around them.

"Whats up with you? You havent talked all day."

Brittney gave me a quick glance and shook her head.

"It just seemed so real. The dream."

"You know it didnt happen though, right? Your not a ghost, you dont have a knife stuck in you. Your okay." I said giving her a little laugh.

Brittney looked up at me and gave me a small smile. "Maybe it didnt happen now but you never know, maybe its going to in future. Shes still out there Max.. looking for us. She wants us dead, gone, shoved into a ditch to die. What if thats the way its going to happen to me? Its possible.. shes done those things to me before, to us." I saw the panic in Brittneys eyes.

"I know those things have happened to you guys before, I'll never know how it felt to be treated like that and have to go through that for basically all your life. But, I'm scared too. I'm terrified that Lizzies going to find us again and this time shes going to actually kill us.. but we cant be so afraid of that. We cant just stay here forever till shes caught or dead. I mean were living on berries at the moment."

"Are you saying we need to leave?" Brittney sat up and turned herself so that she was facing me.

"I am. I think we should go."

"Max, do you not realize that we are stranded? That we have no where else to go? We cant go back into town.. Lizzie will find us again. That's how she did the last time! We need to stay out of the lime light. We can't go out there."

I could tell Brittney was scared by looking into her eyes and hearing her voice crack as she talked. I don't blame her for being scared, I'm scared too. But Alex is out there terrified and shes all alone. We have no idea if Lizzie has gotten to her or not. I would rather have the chance of running into Lizzie myself while looking for Alex then just waiting here hiding like cowards waiting for something to happen. If anything, I thought Brittney would have realized this the first day being here. I stood up looking into the fire. I knew I had to do something. And I think that something is leaving.

Brittney looked up at me with confusion as to why I was standing up all of a sudden. I turned my back to her feeling the heat from the hot flames on my back. I heard shuffling on the wooden floor and in the corner of my eye I saw Brittney standing beside me.

"What are you doing?" She asked as if I was about to leave her forever. I was going to leave.

"We need to go. We need to get away from this place." I said whispering slightly.

I walked away from Brittney and towards the kitchen area where all our stuff was sprawled out at. I grabbed as much stuff as I could shoving it into a bag we had found wondering one day. Brittney came walking in trying to stop me from packing and leaving.

"You can't just leave like this Max!" She grabbed a hold of the bag trying to pull it away from my grip but I shoved her off continuing to put the last of the food we had in the bag. "You can't just leave me! Do you know how dangerously stupid it is to be apart right now!"

I stopped in my tracks. I turned towards Brittney and looked her right in the eyes. "It is dangerously stupid to be apart right now and you know who is apart from us right now? Alex. Shes somewhere out there alone and scared and all your worried about is yourself! Quite being a self centered bitch and think about someone else for a change!" I yelled. Brittney was taken back from my outburst.