Don’t Cry Baby novel Chapter 13

"Tyler, answer me. Why was someone calling you Andrew? Who the fuck is Andrew?" He stares at me with an unrecognizable emotion plastered on his face. I place my hands crossed over my chest and stare at him , impatiently waiting for him to fess up. He sighs and rubs his face with his hand, as he looks back up at me I can see the dark circles under his eyes and the evidence that he hasn't been sleeping properly. I shouldn't care after everything he has done, but I just can't help but want to pull him towards me and hug him. He is so obviously lying to me about something however, which is just icing on the cake of disappointment hes been feeding me.

"Andrew is me...It is my real name."

His real name...what does he mean by real name. His name is Tyler, it has always been Tyler. I stare at him not knowing what to say at all, I turn to find the bed and sit down needing to process the information he gave me. I take a deep breath and bring my legs up onto the bed , pulling them into my chest and hugging them tight. Tyler walks over and sits next to me, his hand, out of habit I presume, finds my back and begins to rub gently. Although I am angry with him right now, the feeling of his hand on my back is still soothing.

"Did you have to change it? I am just trying to understand what is happening right now."

"I did something bad...I needed to be someone else and get away from some bad people. It's important that you don't know anything more Ash. You're safer not knowing okay."

I stare at him and nod, if he says it is safer I believe him. I know he has lied before, obviously considering his name is actually Andrew but, there is something about the way that he is saying that causes me to believe him.

"Okay, so we need to find new transportation. Brad, an old affiliate of mine, will be here in about an hour with our new ID's, passports, things like that. Once he gets here we can go and find a new car. Are you going to be good now that you are not tied up? You still have not toldme how you freed yourself by the way."

"Well basically, you left the key on the pillow next to me. You are not a very good kidnapper, like you are pretty shitty at it."

He rolls his eyes at me and pushes me over on the bed. I giggle and stay lying down on my back

"How are we getting a new car Tyler, and what in the hell did you do to my moms?"

Tyler looks at me with a guilty grin and I grab a pillow placing it over my face letting out a dramatic groan.

"I kind of set it on fire..."

"You set it on fire! What the fuck?"

"I'm sorry but, if we continued to drive it around they would have recognized us."

"This is all so crazy." I continue to hide my face in the pillow, I feel his hands remove the pillow from my face and it is thrown across the room. Tyler grabs a hold of my face and pulls me up towards his face, so close that I can feel his warm breath.