Changes That Make Us

Hero

Sarah's Perspective

All I could remember was Henry leaving the room again and then I blacked out. I woke up in a hospital bed with a bunch of cords connected to me. I looked to my left to see Ben sleeping in a chair, it was probably pretty late. I knew he'd come for me, I thought. When I looked to my right I was surprised to see Kade also sleeping in a hospital chair. What was he doing here? How did he know I was here? I had so many questions but I didn't want to wake them up to ask them. I just went back to sleep for the time being, happy I was safe.

Bens Perspective

When I finally woke up it was morning and Sarah was still sleeping but Kade was already awake. Kade and I talked for awhile since there was nothing else to do and we surprisingly got along. I still didn't like him though. An hour passed and Sarah woke up, she didn't remember how she got there so we had to explain it to her. She asked a lot of questions, which we answered and when she asked what time it was I realized I was late for work.

"Don't you have to be at work right now?" Sarah asked.

"Yeah, but I'll just call off today," I told her.

"Ben it's fine, I'm safe here, don't worry about me"

"It's hard not to worry about you," I told her.

"Ben it's fine, you can go to work, I'll stay here with her and make sure she's safe. I'll text you every so often to let you know we're okay," Kade said.

I sighed then gave in, "Okay, but I'll be back as soon as I can," then I leaned into Sarah and gave her a kiss, "I love you"

"I love you too," she whispered in my ear with a grin.

Then I walked out and headed to work, maybe I could get off early today.

Sarah's Perspective

Kade and I were left alone, we talked for a while and watched TV for a bit. It was so boring there. When three o'clock rolled around the unexpected happened. A nurse came into my room and told me I had another visitor. Kade was paying no attention so when Henry walked in, he didn't notice. Kade finally looked over when I gasped and he immediately stood up.

"Get out, now, or I'll call the police," he told Henry.

"That's sweet that you think they'll believe you," he laughed.

Henry took another step forward and Kade moved closer to me. I removed all the wires that were connected to me because I had a feeling we wouldn't be staying here much longer. Henry circled the room and was standing by the far window. I could see that he had a gun so when Henry was turned away I motioned to Kade to show him. Henry was rambling on about nonsense as he looked out the window, so Kade scooped me up into his arms and ran out of the hospital room. Henry wasn't far behind so we took a longer route to confuse him.

When we finally made it to the parking garage and into Kades car there was no sign of Henry. Kade backed out and started driving away, he drove for a while and didn't look like he intended to stop.

Eventually I asked him, "Where are you taking us?"

"My parents summer house in California," he said, "Henry can't get to you there"

I wasn't going to argue with him so I just laid back in the seat and relaxed. A few hours passed and he told me I had fallen asleep and we were in California. We were only a half hour away so I checked my phone to see what time it was. There was 12 missed calls from Ben and 27 new text messages from him. I read through some of the texts.

3:45

Ben: Is everything okay there?

4:07

Ben: Sarah is everything okay?
Ben: Why aren't you or Kade answering?

4:10

Ben: I'm on my way over there

4:17

Ben: When are you guys??
Ben: Are you okay??
Ben: Sarah please answer me
Ben: I'm worried about you
Ben: The nurse said you guys ran out
Ben: Please tell me you're okay
Ben: Where are you at Sarah??

I felt so bad, he was worried about me and neither Kade or I responded to him. I need to let him know I'm okay.

7:35

Me: Ben I'm fine

Ben: What happened? Where are you???

Me: Were going to Kades summer house in California.

Ben: Why??

Me: Henry showed up at the hospital and we had no where else to go.

My phone died after I sent him that text so I couldn't send him the address. A few minutes later Kade told me we were there, I didn't even notice because there were so many thoughts racing around my head. We got out of the car and he showed me around the house, it was really nice. It was right on the beach and couldn't be seen from the road. It was getting dark outside so he showed me to a room and told me to get some rest.

"I can't sleep. I'm not sleeping tonight," I told him. I was just to scared to.

"Okay, I get it, well we can play Minecraft on the Xbox or watch a movie or something"

"Sounds good," I said and he pulled out the Xbox controllers and got it ready.

All the negative thoughts escaped my mind as we laughed and played. We were sitting on the bed playing but I had never played on an Xbox before so I didn't know how the controller worked. I was having a hard time figuring it out so Kade came up behind me, wrapped his arms around me, and put his hands on top of mine to show me how to hold the controller. We played for a few more hours until we got bored of it. Ben kept calling Kade and asking where we were so he gave him the address and apologized for responding so late. It's not his fault, we were distracted. Then we made cookies, well I made cookies, Kade just ate the chocolate chips.

"Kade you're going to get sick if that's all you eat today," I laughed.

"Well... I ate some of your jello when you were asleep at the hospital," he says and we both laugh.

We brought the cookies back into the bedroom when they were done and we searched for movies on Netflix.

¨What kind of movie do you wanna watch?¨ Kade asked.

¨A scarry movie,¨ I said.

¨Are you sure?¨

¨Yeah, it will help me take my mind off of all the scarry things that happened in my life¨

¨If you say so,¨ He said with a laugh.

Kade put on the scariest movie he could find and I was exited. Halfway through it got really scarry, sometimes I would jump. Kade noticed and as we were laying on the bed, he grabbed me by the waist and pulled me closer to him. He stroked my hair to calm me down and soon we both fell asleep.