Running
chapter
six
"Home"
As
she walked more and more, she stumbled up across a graze in the
hedge. An opening. An exit. JACKPOT. She jumped excitedly, and
looked at where she came from the house and the longer hedge
archway. Coast is clear. She jumped through the escape quite
easily, and found herself right on the world. Open and free. What
was the first thing for her to do?
She couldn’t believe Alfie made that
mistake of leaving the archway open. Unless it was a trap. She
ran and ran until her small leg’s gave in. She knew where
she was; she was at Greydeen, by the beach where she used to be a
lifeguard!
She ran to there and saw her friend,
Katelyn, from before. “KATE!” she screamed as loud as
her lungs could scream. “KATE!” she ran into Kate,
who went tumbling on the floor. She rubbed her eyes and then
realised. “WHAT THE FU- DESIRAY!?” she yelled hugging
Desiray while Desiray started crying.
“YOU DIDN’T DIE!” she got
bombarded by the other girls, Danielle, Sara, Brianne, and
Taylor. “I never went missing – I got
kidnapped,” she sobbed while hugging all the girls.
“Where’s Jayden?” I asked them. “He said
he was with your mom, they we’re sorting out your
stuff.” That made me cry harder.
How could Alfie just take me away from my
family and just get them to expect I was missing or died? With
ease, probably.
“I’ve missed you so much,”
Taylor cried. Mrs Jenners, our lifeguard teacher came.
“What’s all this about?” she said angrily until
her eyes scanned Desiray. “DESIRAY!?” she went over.
“Are you okay? What happened? Why did you leave? Where did
you go?” she was bombarded with
questions.
“She seems tired,” Brianne and
Sara stated. “We’ve got to call the police –
everybody thought you died, Des,” Mrs Jenners said.
“I’ll call them!” Danielle offered, already
dialing 991. “I’ll call Mrs Evans and Jay and
family!” Offered Taylor. Katelyn was sobbing on Desiray.
She was Desiray’s best friend, along with Ariana and Kyla
and the girls. And Jay.
“Jay,” she murmured softly. Then
it dawned on her. What if Alfie came for
her?
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