Who is That?

When I got there I could smell the moss and mist just like what I liked. I guess I just need some space. I really didn’t want anyone to find me. I just want to run far, far away. I could probably do it, but I couldn’t with my mother.

I sat down at a small trunk of a tree that got cut down when I was 7. I stood up for the tree and yelled at the workers, but they didn’t care.

Standing there now just staring off in the wilderness, I guess I could have been the only girl in the entire school who would actually care. I mean come on who would listen to a girl that hangs out with her cousin and a bunch of guys? I was the only one who knew how it was to be in this position. My dad just died, I’m now thinking Toby and I shouldn’t be together, and most of all I feel like I’m being watched all of the time. If I were to tell my mom about Colin, with all of this stress she would flip out and scream at me. I had to think of what I was going to do.

I stood up and I had so many thoughts going trough my head, like why all of this was happening at once and why it was all on me. Some many thoughts mostly negative and all at once were so much for my blonde-haired head. I fell to the ground and screamed as loud as I could! I’ve never done this before and it felt amazing. I was breathing very heavy and shaken but leaves and a dark figure walking my way. I closed my eyes very tightly to make I wasn’t hallucinating and Em was standing there.

“Your mom is worried sick,” Em said coming out of the foggy moisture, “Oh my gosh are you okay? You’ve been crying and I know you. I’m here you can tell me.”

“Jeez, say a lot in one dialogue?” I say standing up.

“Hey, I know about your dad,” Em said helping me up.

I look at her and see the worry in her hazel eyes. I take a huge breath and try to figure what I could possibly put this without sounding crazy.

“After Taylor had her accident, I found a note in the barn…” I say without looking at her.

“Like what?” she asked.

“It said ‘I’m watching you’…” I said. I waited for a response but she wouldn’t reply so I looked at her. Her face was frozen.

“What are you thinking?” I ask as I sat down on the tree stomp.

“The… The guys and I were talking and we got on the topic of notes like that and we all got one too. With anonymous written on it,” Em said as she took a huge breath.

“How? Do you have any ideas on who it may be?” I ask as I have a thousand thoughts going through my head.

“No, we don’t but maybe someone is just playing with us,” Em said as she looked me straight in the eye.

“Well it’s not funny and I hope they know it,” I said trying to push it over.

Em and I just stayed there and looked at each other. I knew that she knew that I was upset. I just didn’t want to deal with this anymore. I knew that my life is still good but I couldn’t just leave everything alone.

I thought a lot about what to do and it took at least 5 minutes until I finally said something.

“I think…” I said trying to put the words and phases together, “I think, I’m going to go home.”

“Ok… are you sure that’s the best thing to do?” Em asked looking at me.

“I think by not going home, I’m hurting them. Tsunami and Taylor need me to talk to and Glory needs me to flip out on. But my mom,” I tried to think of a reason but none came to mind, “I don’t know… She just needs me.”

I stood up and turned away. Before I could take my first step Em grabbed my arm and pulled me in for a hug. This is exactly what I needed at this moment. I needed a nice, long, warm hug from my cousin.

We finally let go and I left. It was about a 9 minute run home but I wanted to walk really slowly, so it should take about 10-15 minutes. With this amount of time I could easily think and deicide on what to do fully.

I got to my creek and I just wanted to sit before I would go inside. I saw a big enough rock for me to sit on so I did. I had my hands on my chin and my elbows on my knees. I was just about to cry in my lap but before a tear could shred, I heard leaves more and a twig break. I looked up and a figure hide behind a tree.

I stood up as quietly as I could. I kept an eye on the tree that the figure hides behind. I slowly started to walk towards it. I don’t know what could have happened but it must have heard me because all of the sudden it took off running. My first instinct was to follow it but I decided that I wanted to know who it was, so I chased it.

We must have ran like a mile or so cause I was almost out of breathe and tired but I didn’t want to give up on this fight. I finally got close enough so I decided just to jump on it. I jumped and I closed my eyes. We fell to the ground with a thud. I tried to see who it was but they were smart and had a mask on so I couldn’t. I tried my hardest to take the mask off but it didn’t budge. I don’t remember anything else except waking up with a huge headache…