He's a country boy

Chapter 24

"Carly! Get up!" That voice was annoying and I wanted it to go away, it came every morning before school. This morning though, the voice was different. I rolled over to see Jesse standing there, it wasn't morning either. It was the middle of the pitch, black, cold, night.
"Jesse what are you doing? What time is it?" I said rubbing my eyes, Jesse was freaking out, I couldn't figure out why.
"Carly get up we have to leave. It's only 4:30 in the morning." I crawled out of bed and I just stood there. Jesse was running around and talking to me, I was to tired to care. I finally grabbed him by the arm.
"Jesse what's going on, that's so important at this early in the morning!?" He held me.
"Carly, Taylor's dad is coming to hurt you, he knows that you know where Taylor is and he wants her. He's to drunk to figure out where she is himself, but he wants you too. He might just end up finding us if we don't leave now, and then we'd be on the run. Pack a bag we gotta go." I stood there trying to comprehend the information that just got shoved into my brain. This wasn't like math I couldn't just learn it later, it had to process now or my body wasn't gonna move.
"Hey listen to me, I'm gonna be here the whole time I'm going to protect you." I nodded, no time to say goodbye to anybody nothing. I threw as much clothes as I could into my duffle bag grabbed my phone and left.

"Jesse where are we going?!" I asked.
"It takes three days to get down to where Josh and Tay are. Were gonna drive tonight and tomorrow and then stay in a hotel." After I calmed down a bit I began playing with the radio, I had nothing else to do. 'Play It Again by Luke Bryan came on the radio, Jesse turned it up way loud. I jammed out and Jesse laughed at me the whole time! After a while I laid my head down on Jesses shoulder and slowly fell asleep.

"Yea uh I'll take a Big Mac, and some, uh." Jesse hesitated.
"Chicken nuggets!" I blurted out as I opened my eyes from my long nap.
"Chicken nuggets!" Jesse finished placing in his order at McDonalds.
We pulled a head to get our food.
"Good morning!" he laughed elbowing me. We pulled into the parking lot of a nearby groceries store to eat our food.
"Hey there's Dave!"
"What?"
"That guy was at my house the other day!" I continued to eat my food, totally oblivious as to what just came out of my mouth.
"Carly?" I realized that we were no longer in our hometown anymore but a thousand miles away.
"That's Taylor's dad! We have to go." Jesse dropped his burger back on the paper and sped off. "Carly please explain what's goin on!"
"That guy said his name was Dave. He came looking for information on a missing Taylor. I didn't think anything of it at the time but that's her dad!"
"Carls! Why didn't you tell me he was there!?" I forgot was all I could get out. The man hadn't followed us out of the parking lot but who knows how he found us. We began the drive for the rest of the day only stoping here and there.

"I'm gonna go check in you grab our stuff okay." Jesse went into the big brick hotel. I pulled my bag out and grabbed Jesse's bag too. I stood by the car until Jesse came back out.
"I will carry them. Here." He handed me some papers and the room key. I went up three levels till,I got to room 308. I slid the key in the door until it opened. It was like a normal hotel, all the boring colors, it had one bed, and a small bathroom. It was really late, like one in the morning. I was in the bathroom putting on my pajamas when I herd Jesse talking.
"Were in uh, uh Cederman, yea man. Alright." I came out of the bathroom just as he was hanging up the phone.
"Who was that?" I asked as I shoved my other clothes in my bag.
"Josh," he kissed my forehead and went into the bathroom. Why would Josh be calling? Probably meant something was wrong. I turned off the lights, grabbed the remote, and climbed up into the large bed. I cuddled up into the blankets as I waited for Jesse. He came out, wearing just a pair of shorts, no shirt. He laid down next to me and put his arm around me. I turned my head a little, since he was laying behind me.
"Jesse why did Josh call?"
"Everything's fine baby, Corey is there so there gonna meet us here."
Corey is Taylor's dad. Corey is Dave, which scares me knowing that he fakes being different people and could be anywhere.
"What if he follows them back here?"
"Hey stop asking questions, go to sleep everything will be okay."

"Yea shhh, she's still sleeping." I slowly opened my eyes, Josh was there with Jesse and Taylor was there too. I jumped out of bed and hugged her.
"Oh my gosh! How are you?!" She screamed.
"I missed you!"

After saying our hellos it was time to make a plan. Josh and Jesse had a big map and were planning out things to do and places to run to. Taylor and I sat around and talked and got caught up.
"Josh!" Taylor said worriedly looking at her phone.
"Yea babe." He got up and grabbed it
'If you don't come back I will kill Carly and Josh. You better hurry the clock is ticking.' It was from her dad. Taylor cried. I held her. I was scared, he was gonna kill me? No Jesse wouldn't let that happen. Josh would take a bullet for Taylor any day though.
"Jesse." I got up and tucked into his chest.
"I got you, nothing's gonna happen, shh stop crying, you'll be okay." I calmed down a little and the boys continued making a plan.
"We have to go to the abandoned trailer, it still works. I had friends that stayed there once it'll be perfect he won't find us there." Josh said circling a specific spot on the map.
"That'll be plan A, what's plan B?"
"There is no Plan B." Josh rolled up the map and we all began packing our stuff.

We were going to stay in an abandoned trailer. He wouldn't find us there, but maybe he would. I was terrified. If he found us he would kill Tay and I for sure.