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It's just weird to be getting a text from her out nowhere like this, I mean, I do miss her a lot, but she's used me. And if she goes to someone, it possibly means that she wants or needs something.

I was heading to my secret spot, where no one knew. As soon as I reached to my spot, I sat down on the relaxed grass and had a few thoughts going through my head.

Is she going to use me again?

Why does she contact me now?

Can I trust her or give her another chance?

But I've given her many chances and she fails to keep those chances up. I probably shouldn't...

I look at the beautiful view of the dusky evening.  I stay there looking at the slow setting pass by until I felt comfortable of going home. After about 2 hours, I check my phone and see that I've missed about 4 calls from my brother.

I decided to call back, but there was no answer. I called again, nothing.

I wonder what he was calling for.

I take my leave from the grass and slow paced home. I reached home, saw a note on the fridge. I walk towards the refrigerator and take off the piece of paper hanging from the tape.

Written in my brother's handwriting, it said "Call mom when you can". I set the paper down on the counter and started to call my mom. It kept ringing, ringing, and no answer. I called again, there was an answer, but it wasn't my mom. It was my brother that answered. "H-Hello?", he stuttered. "Hey, it's Jessica. Is something going on or did something happen?".

"D-Dad is in the hospital and he's not in good condition", he says over the phone. I suddenly was in shock of what Chris (my brother) told me. " I-I'll be there in 15 minutes", I end the call and started to get ready quickly as I could. After being ready, I grab the lanyard with a few keys connected to the ring and went into the garage. Opened the car door, got in, turn on the car, and leaded to the hospital.

Jessica reaches the floor of what her father was on. She walks through the hall, trying to find the room number that the front desk assistant told her, then she found of what she was looking for. Room Number #271. She knocks on the door and a crack of it opens. The door swings open from my mother looking at me full with worry and sadness. She hugs me tightly and laid-off the stiffness of the hug.

"Your father...got into an accident from a driver", slowly she says. I was standing, looking at my mother and gave her a hug, she suddenly gives in and cries for a moment. Chris was sitting on a chair that was next to father with his head lowered down. I was feeling burden. "Has he waken up?", I asked.

"No, he hasn't. But the doctor said that he should wake up tomorrow around noon time", mother answered. No one didn't really speak in the room, it was filled with peace, but with sadness. An hour and a half passes by as I started to get tired and sleepy. I told my brother and mom that I was heading home, I also asked if they wanted to go home, but they refuse. I would have tried to convince them, but I wanted to go straight to my bed and fall asleep into a dream.

I grab my bag beside me and left the building.

• Home •

Jessica unlocks the front door, as she enters her family's home, it looked the same as usual, except that there was mail on the counter. Not that she didn't remember anything on the counter before she left, but she thought that someone might have came into the house while being out. She was getting worried and checked all of the rooms in a rush, feeling kind of unsafe. After checking, she cleaned a little bit in the house and showered.

Plops onto to the bed with a few thoughts going through her head. She was worried for her father, very. She doesn't know if everything will be fine sooner or later.., she just hopes that things will be okay. She starts to sink into the bed and covers herself in.

As Jessica grabs her phone, she gets a new message from Rylee.

Rylee: Is this your number Jessica?

I look at the notification for a moment and went ahead to reply.

Rylee: Is this your number Jessica?

Jessica: Yes this is my number! And I'm sorry for texting back late right now. I've been busy doing things. How are you?

Rylee replies 2 minutes later.

Rylee: Okay, that's good! I've been doing okay lately. I was nervous for quite a bit, thinking that it was a different number lol. Busy, eh? But you really don't do much at home or school.

Jessica: Yes I have. Things have changed for a while and it's experiencing.

Rylee: Oh, okay. I might be going back to your school!! I hope I go there!🙏🏼

Jessica: Really?! I thought your parents didn't want to come back over here.

Rylee: Well, they might have been overthinking and changing their minds of things🤔

Jessica: Ohh, okay. Hope everything goes good. I'm going to sleep Rylee, have a nice nap. Goodnight.

Rylee: Okay! Goodnight!

I might have lied to her for the first time in my life. Well, it's not that bad. I really wasn't going to sleep, but I was tired at the same time. So, I was unsure if I should sleep or stay up for a while. I decided to fall asleep under the comfy sheets with my teddy bear that my father had given to me when I was a child.

~•~

I ran as fast as I could into the woods, almost out of breath. I kept running away from something I didn't like much. Hearing the whoosh behind my back developing my fear more and more as I run. Stepping all over leaves that were heard with cracks and crackles, sticks that were snapped and fractured apart. Wounds that have been created from an unknown onto my body. I was frightened, thinking that it was the end of the world trying to catch me. I couldn't feel my lungs anymore.., as they felt numb with tremendous tension on my chest.., not knowing that I was still breathing.. I couldn't feel myself breathe. I gave up my strength and drop onto the ground, feeling the release of tense go away. I try to catch my breath for a moment, till I heard a very light rush of wind about half a mile away from me. My heart was racing. I raise my head up to see where I was located and saw an abandoned car. It didn't look new nor old, so I wobbly ran to the vehicle and entered inside. I hear footsteps coming from ahead, but it was a human being like me, wearing all black clothing. A black hoodie that covered his head, black pants, black shoes, black hair, and figuring out that it was a male. He was coming close to the car that I was in as he looked behind his back. Looking around with fear and worry. As I hear the door open from the opposite of me, the male enters and sits till he noticed me the next second he got in. He startled with small fear and says to me "Who are you?". "I'm Jessica. What's your name?", I asked."M-My name i-is Jungkook", he said anxiously. "Nice to meet you", as Jessica offers a handshake, but the male didn't accept and looks out the window. Jessica puts her hand into her pocket, trying to pretend that didn't happen. "Do you know who's chasing us?", the male turns his head to look at Jessica. "What? What are you talking about?", Jessica replies confused. "That", Jungkook signals her to where he was looking at with a very shocked and scared expression. As Jessica turns her head to her window, there was a tall dark black shadow about 80 feet away from the car, just looking at the two seated inside the vehicle. The shadow slowly starts walking to the abandoned car, getting closer to the male and female. Jessica and the male try to open the doors next to them, but they wouldn't open. They tried the driver's and passenger door.. neither didn't open. They started to panick and both were feeling jittery. "What do we do!?", Jungkook asked. "I-I-I don't know! Um, is there something big and hard?!". Both the male and female search in the car rushing for something useful, as the male found something helpful. "Look! I found some keys!! We can get out of here!", the male shows Jessica of what he found with a small smile on his face. "Good! Let's get out of here!", Jessica responded. The male goes to the driver's seat as Jessica goes to the passenger's seat. Jungkook inserts the keys and turns it to start the car. The car didn't start on the first try, so Jungkook tried 3 more times, it didn't start. "Hurry!!", the female yelled at the male. "I-I'm trying!!", until he turned it for the last time as the vehicle weakingly starts. The shadow was only 25 feet away, getting closer. The male turns the parking to drive and steps onto the gas pedal to leave as soon as possible, to be away from what they saw. The motivated car drives fast of how the male pushed the pedal. The male turns on the window wipers to get the dust off of the windows to see. He drives onto a dirt path without getting hit from a tree. As they reach to the road, Jungkook continuously kept driving far away from the shadow they have seen in the creepy woods. "You okay?", Jessica finally spoke to the male. "Y-Yes, I'm fine. Are you?", he responds. "I'm good...Are you sure you're fine? You have a bad wound on your leg". "I said I'm fine. Don't worry about the wound I have, it'll be taken care of", he says. "Bye", the male saying his goodbye. "Huh?", as Jessica had a confused face expression and having a last look at Jungkook, as he also did the same to Jessica.

Everything faded into black, with silence.

~•~

• Morning •

I wake up from a frightening dream that ended calmly relieved. I usually don't get dreams like this often.  And I wonder who that male was, ..he looked like around my age. Maybe just a random person in my dream like my usual ones.

Oh well, time to go to school.

Jessica gets ready for school, locks everything, and leaves for school as her usual routine.

As soon as she reaches her school, she goes to the cafeteria for breakfast.

There were rarely any students in the cafeteria because Jessica always goes to school 30 minutes early before first class starts. She grabs her breakfast and head to an empty table to eat. Once she was finished, she threw away her trash, and headed to her first period class. Passing through the door, takes her assigned seat, and grabs her phone out. She calls her mother for an update on her father.

Mother didn't answer. Hm.

Jessica started to play games that were downloaded on her phone because there wasn't anything to do inside the classroom until the first bell rang to first period. Students were coming in the classroom, taking their assigned seats while talking to their friends. Once the classroom was quiet and calm, the teacher reminds the students, "Remember that our new student is coming tomorrow, ya hear?"

The new student? Oh, now I remember. He'll be revealed tomorrow, oof.

I've been wondering what that student is like and how he or she is.

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I really been wanting to write a longer chapter than my other ones. I think I like this one a little. I think it's kinda crappy, but I enjoy writing. And while writing the scary part, it was scaring me😂 Hope you have a nice day/night! Love you!