Chapter 7: "He was here! Matt was in my room, my house!" I say to myself. I hurry, grab my things and run out the door. I trip over the rug and tumble down the steps. My arm scraping against the rocks as my body hits the ground. "Laura! You okay?" Kyle yells while running over to help me up. "He was there! My room... He was in there! Kyle, take me away from here. Please!" I scream at him and I'm breathing heavier and heavier with each word I say. " Laura, what are you talking about? What's going on?" "Kyle! Matt was in my room. He wrote me a message! He is looking for me. What do I do?" Kyle grabs my arm and drags me to his car. He opens the door and I fall into the car. Right when my eyes are in focus I see Kyle running into the house. "What is he doing? Matt isn?t in there... is he?" I say to myself. No sound is made for a few minutes and then, out of no where, I see Kyle running out the door. He slams the car door shut when he gets in the car. He starts it, and pulls out the driveway, faster than I ever seen him drive. "We need to go to the police!" He screams at me. "No. We can't! Please no. I'm scared!" "Laura, that's the whole point of going to the police!" "Kyle. No. Please, not today." I look at Kyle and he's looking at me with tears forming in his eyes. "Wait, what's wrong?" "Laura, I care about you. Why don't you want to do anything about Matt?" He says to me in a concerned voice. "Just take me to your house." I say not looking at him. We finally arrive at the house at around one o' clock. I don't say a word to Kyle. I can see he's upset. I don't understand why he wants to go to the police. They can't do anything about what happened or what will happen. The only thing that would happen, would be Matt running away from the police, and he would hurt me again. I go and lay down on the living room sofa. My head is pounding. I then think about the message on my answering machine. "Kyle, come see for a second please." I ask him. He comes sit on side of me and I sit up to look him in the eye. "Did you check the answering machine when you went inside?" Kyle looks at me puzzled. "No, was I supposed to?" "No, but I think I know the reason why my mom and Jeff were arguing." I look down at my hands shaking in my lap. "I think it had something to do with my real dad. I think he wants to meet me." I look up and I see Kyle staring into my eyes. I finally explain to him what I herd on the answering machine. My voice is trembling, and my eyes are red. "How will I ever find out the truth." I think to myself. Hours later "It's pretty cold this afternoon, and the winds picking up even more. How about we head home." Kyle grabs my hand and leads me in the opposite direction of the road. We went out for a little walk on the dirt road in the cane field. It's a nice little path. We even had seen a little rabbit hopping across the road. No one was around so that made it very peaceful, and we were able to talk to one another without any interruptions. We almost reach the end of the road when a car finally comes into sight. The car pulls up on the side of the road and I can hear the engine being turned off. We walk by the car without even looking inside. We didn't even notice who it was driving. As we get farther down the road, I decide to look back to see who it was getting out of the car. A tall, dark figure gets out the car and lights a cigarette. He then turns around and looks in my direction. "Oh my God! It's Matt!" I say out loud. I see Kyle looking back in the direction of the car. He looks back at me right when I was about to leave the scene. He grabs my arm and pulls me too him. I pull my self away from him and try to break away from his grip. "Laura! Are you sure that's Matt?" Kyle asks me, not letting go of my arm. "Yes, I'm sure. Now please let me go!" I pull my arm from him and start to run in the opposite direction. I'm hoping Matt don't see me. I'm not paying attention to where I'm going and I trip over a rock. My body scrapes against the ground and I can feel my skin tear upon my arm. Pain rushes up my back and then I have a feeling someone is watching me. I struggle to pull my self up and notice Matt staring me down. He starts walking towards me. I start walking backwards and then I see Kyle walking towards Matt. "What's going on!" I say out loud. I then start walking closer to the scene but still try and stay my distance. "Oh... Look here. It's Laura." Matt says walking over to me. "Stay away from her!" Kyle yells over to him, blocking his strait path towards me. "And what are you going to do? I'm her boyfriend, and I see you?re trying to steal her from me." Matt says while standing right in front of Kyle. Kyle doesn?t move. He's as stiff as a rock and you can see his arms are tense and ready to fight. "You?re not her boyfriend! How dare you still call her that after what you done to her!" Kyle's says; face turning red. Before Matt could say anything else, a blonde hair girl gets out the car. It's the blonde hair girl I seen with Matt the day before! All of a sudden it hit me. It's Erika, Kyle's sister! "Kyle what are you doing! What did Matt ever do to you?" Erika says running over to him pushing him away from Matt. "Erika, what are you doing with him? Do you know who he is?" Kyle is screaming at his sister now and I'm still standing in the background watching. "Well, I should know who he is. He's my boyfriend!" At that second, my heart sank to the bottom of my stomach. Tears rushed to my eyes and started falling to the ground. I hate Matt even more than what I ever thought I would. He was cheating on me with Kyle's sister! I guess I'm not the only one who was shocked. I look and I see Kyle run up to Matt and push him down to the ground. I close my eyes tight so I don't see a thing. I hear Erika screaming at the top of her lungs for them to quit fighting. I also hear a pound on Matt's car each time one of them hit it. I fall to my knees and cover my ears, and still having my eyes closed. Another horrible pain went through my back and it brought even more tears to my eyes. My own screams are floating in my mind and I flash back to the night before and picture Matt's face. Forgetting what was going on, and just wanting to escape from my thoughts, I look up and open my eyes. Erika is standing on the side screaming for them to stop. I look over to Matt and Kyle and moments later I see Matt swing a hard punch towards Kyle. Kyle falls to the ground unconscious hitting the ground with all force. Matt runs over to his car and jumps in and Erika runs over to her brother crying and trying to wake him up. Matt peels out and turns his car around in my direction. I turn around and start to run down the road. He is driving towards me full speed and catches up with me. I stop running and hope he just passes me up. He stops his car and hurries out. He walks behind me and I feel his arms going around me really slowly. I try not to move a muscle and I'm praying in the back my mind he leaves. I feel him move up on me, his body right behind me. His chest touching my back. Tears fall from my eyes and again I feel dirty and used. Then, his hand gently slides across my neck brushing my hair back. He kisses my neck and moves closer to my ear. I feel his light breath against my skin. He the whispers softly in my ear. "Baby, I still love you, but I swear if your new little boyfriend goes to the cops, I will hurt you and him. I'm not going to take you with me today, but just remember I'm always going to be around even if you see me or not." He walks away slowly and my attention is focused on him and Erika in the distance trying to wake up Kyle. Matt gets in his car and looks at me. "Remember what I said Laura." He then smiles and drives away slowly.