Chapter 114-1
Sofia POU
The basement door slammed shut behind wir with a deadening thad, and for a split second, I felt a surge of relief.
Ashton’s yells were muffled now, his voice ecting from the depths low as my body heaved for more ait.
My hands shook, as I fumbled with the keys, trying desperately to lock him in there, to trap him down there where he couldn’t get to
the ever again.
But my hands, they just wouldn’t stop trembling!
“Shit I curse, suddenly growing desperate, before the keys slipped from my fingers, clattering loudly against the floor and disappearing under a nearby cabinet.
“No! I don’t have the time for this!” I hissed to myself, dropping to my knees, my heartbeat pounding in my ears as I glanced back and forth between the basement door and the darkness underneath the cabinet.
My fingers scrambled over the cold tiles, searching, but the sound of Ashton’s furious, incoherent shouts grew louder and I knew I had to make A MOVE NOOIL..
He was climbing the stairs to find me!
I couldn’t wait any longer or risk being dragged back down there again knowing that his strength undoubtedly overpowered my
Panic seized up in my chest, and I instinctively abandoned the keys and sprinted for the front door deciding to put some distance between us instead.
My breath came in ragged gasps as I threw myself against it, twisting the handle wildly, praying and half expecting that it would Tust be open.
But of course it wasn’t.
It was locked.
Another thing Ashton had carefully considered incase this was to happen!
“No, no, no!” I cried, pulling even harder, hanging my fists against the thick wood in frustration. There was no key in sight, nothing to unlock it with and I didn’t even know where to start looking.
I screamed out loudly, now petrified that there was no way out…
*TILL FUCKING END YOU FOR THIS SOFIA! His insanity filled bellow in the distance is enough to send my feet flying on their own around up the nearest stalttase, my feet barely touching the steps as raced up them.
(chest tightened, suffocating under the weight of the fear I was experiencing. I didn’t doubt for one second that he would kill me.
Right now, this was most definitely a life or death scenario… he wouldn’t forgive me after this….
My body felt like it was moving on pure desperation now, survival instincts overriding everything else.
The upstairs hallway was dim, the light from the afternoon sun barely filtering in through the small windows, casting long, eerie shadows across the walls.
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What day was 11? Hing long had I been stuck here? I didn’t know. nywhere between a few hours, days or even weeks?! I had passed out on I don’t know how many instances that I had lost all sense of time.
I glanced around wildly, searching for somewhere to hide – anywhere where I could buy myself some more time just to think of a
A door was slightly ajar at the end of the hallway, and without exitation, I rushed toward it, showing it open before slamming it
closed behind me.
Inside, the
e air felt thick and stale, the curtains drawn over tight as pay eyes grew wider at the sight before me.
The room was dominated by an old
old bed, where Ashtons grandmother lay still under a faded quilt,
Relief began to surge through me for a second seeing her kind face maybe she could help, maybe she could get me out of here or talk some sense in to her grandson!.
“Excuse me! I need your help! P Please can you help me?!” I whispered urgently, rushing to her side and grabbing her frail arm, finding her to be ice cold to troch
P–Please wake up, I need some help. He’s coming to get me – A–Aston hes My words trip out over each other in a panic, but when she doesn’t everstir, dread begins to sink in instead
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Chapter 114-2
“H–Hello” I shook her hander, but her body remained limp, her breathing seeming non existent. My eyes flicked to the bedside table where a bottle of pills lay tipped over, the contents spilled across the bedspread
Oh no… is she dead? Maybe just unconscious? It was hard to say…
A wave of nausea hits me as the reality set in she was waking up any time soon.
Whether it was the pills or something else, she was completely wat
I was on my own with this….
Behind me, I heard Ashton’s voice calling from downstairs, his footsteps now on the ground floor. “Sofiasa, mocks, his tone groggy and hinting that he was still in pain from the attack.
where are you?!”
Terror twisted itself in to my gut, and I instinctively backed away from the bed, scanning the room for another way out.
My eyes landed on a heavy lamp on the bedside table and without thinking, I grabbed it and yanked it out from the wall socket.
I moved swiftly to the window, my fingers shaking as 1 pulled back the curtain.
The sight of the outside world a glimpse of freedom–made my heart lurch, but it also felt impossibly far away.
I was trapped on the second floor, but I didn’t care. I’d rather jump down on to the concrete below than be caught and dragged hack by Ashton again.
With a trembling breath. I raised the lamp and smashed it against the window.
Glass shattered everywhere, the sound ringing through the room as shards flow in all directions – Instantly cutting my bare legs and
Cold air rushed in, hitting my face and filling my lungs.
I didn’t hesitate despite the fresh blood and the pain. I climbed through the broken window, ignoring the added stings of glass against my palms, as I made my way out onto the roof, sucking in through my teeth.
The tiles were slick beneath my feet, the slant of the roof making it hard to keep my balance. The wind whipped my knotted huir around my face as I crouched low, trying to steady myself.
And then – as I blinked a few times to view my surroundings – I saw hum
Across the street with a phone held up to his ear, standing on the parch of one of the neighbor’s houses with his back turned: Daryl.
I would recognise his oversized black baseball jacket with his initials on the back anywhore.
It was as though my mind struggled to catch up with what I was sering
was this real? Was I maybe hallucinating from fear and
But time eventually caught up to me, as the sight before me remained the same for longer – it was definitely hans
He was reall
“DARYL!” I screamed out at the top of my lungs, my voice cracking waved frantically at him with one hand, waitinn das klas
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turn and find row. “DARYL IIPLP ME, P–PLEASE! IM STUCK UP HER
I watch as he quickly jolts around as soon as he hears me, his head snapping up
His even widened and neatly bell out of his head as they locked out my own.
Fat a slight moment, he just stared, as if he couldn’t believe what he was sering.
surprise to spot
“D–DARYL HE’S GOING TO KILL ME! I shouted, my voice breaking with sudden desperation. T–PLEASE | cesmelugun. I beginning to sob hysterically.
Daryl seemed to shoot in to action next, scrambling off of the neighbours purch as he sprinted across the road towards me, but there
a mixture of shock and confusion.
As he got closet, be called up to me. “Sofia? What the fuck-
There’s no time, he’s still inside!” I interrupted, my voice rising in a panic as I turn to look back at the smashed window in tour Ashton would appear behind me at any moment.
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Daryl’s expression shifted from confusion to urgency. He was almost at the front door now, his hand reaching for the handle but Ending it to be locked like I had done earlier.
“No I screamed again, realising what he was about to do. The dont’s locked, yous can’t
Before I could finish, there was a loud smash from below, indicating that another window had been broken, as my breathing ran out of control.
Daryl was coming up to get me…
But could he take on Ashton in his crazed state?
I think sot:
At least, I hope so?!
Unsure of what to do next, I tried to steady my breathing, attempting to stop myself from sobbing in order to focus.
I looked around for any other people who could rush to our ald – perhaps even to call the cops or just for someone to come and help?!
But as hope ran low, a car suddenly came screeching in to the street, driving at an incredibly high speed down the road before pulling right up and on to the grass lawn before.me.
I know that car anywhere…..
“VINCENT!” I yell down loudly to him, seeing him rush out of the car with Reid closely at his back, them both looking up and
around at the scene
But before I could utter another word, the deafening sound of a gun shot is heard banging out from inside of the house behind me followed by a loud yell, causing me to flinch and almost slip down of of the roof as I scream and clutch on to a nearby pipe to remain stable…
“WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?! I scream out loudly in a cry, as only now a couple of other neighbours begin to emerge out on to their porches to see what was going on.
b Roid pr
now crouched by the side of the car–eyes scanning the surroundings
1 look down, finding no sign of Vincent anywhere, with for danger.
I sob, with my voice cracking as I feel my hands slipping on the pipe due to the build up of
Seeming to come back to reality, Heid instantly moves out to stand beneath me, to scream out again and for him to flinch.
He has a fucking gon! This is getting even more insane!
sweat
before another guy shot is heard which causes me
“Sofia listen to me, just jump and 111 catch you! It’s not as high as items!” Reid states loudly, as the watching neighbours all rush back indoors the sound of the second shot fired.
Surely
y one of them will pl
phone the damn cops at least?!
“I cant I cry out, terrified and feeling paralysed with fear.
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“YOU HAVE. TO JUMP LET ME HELP GET YOU TO SAFETY Reid pushes on, his tone growing more desperate as new yells and commotion is heard coming from inside.
ON THE COUNT OF THREE. LET GO… OK? ONT, TWO… THREE! Beid calls up to me, and with squeezing my eyes tightly closed, I elease the pole and allow myself to fall down screaming before landing on top of Reid with a heavy thud
We both fall backwards on to the for, but Reid is quick to regain his composure by dragging me up with him and towards the car.
GET IN AND LOCK THE DOOR UNTIL WE GET BACK” He yells, sheving nie inside as I am met with Emma’s tear stained face.
Oh am glad to see her right now!
I’m going to be ok… everything will be ok… I’m sale now!
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