Mommy's Sweet Sweet Revenge novel Chapter 8

The knocks on the door get louder..

I hear some more hard knocks on the door.

I slowly roll off the couch and crawl towards the window. "Shoot!" There's police cars covering the street.

I hear an officer yell something through the door. I see the locks on the door start to shake as the knocks turn into kicks. I take a deep breath and run up the stairs.

"Declan! Wake the up!" I jump on him and shake him fast.

"Need a diaper chang-" He goes to laugh when I pull him off the bed. "Screw you! Cops are here!" His face drops and he slips on his shoes.

We start making our way down the stairs and out the back door. We bolt. We hear footsteps and I run faster,

"LANDON RUN!"

I hear Declan scream behind me.

"Declan!" I can see him being tackled and handcuffed from the corner of my eye.

I jump the fence and head to the woods. Lucky for me Declan lives right behind an abandoned playground. It's all tall grass, over grown trees and vines. We used to practically live here when we were kids.

Some how when we grew up, so did the park, no one kept up with it. We were the last kids in the neighborhood for a while, so now it's just a memory.

I run through broken branches and feel my legs getting cut up by thorns, I hide inside a broken tree trunk to catch my breath. I close my eyes and hope it's a dream. I got to go back and help Dec, but how? I hear the crunching of old leaves and branches in a distant. No. They really followed me in here?

I'm just trying to go home, I'm not some murderer. I close my eyes tight when I hear the footsteps getting closer. it

*beep beep beep*

My phones low battery warning starts to go off. "Shut up please shut up." I take my phone out and press the speaker against my chest, hoping to muffle the beeps.

"Wait what was that noise?" I hear a man whisper to someone else. They walk closer and I can already feel my hands being placed in cuffs. I hold my breath and slowly take out my battery.

"Let's head back, well call in a copter."

I hear the footsteps lessen and now all I hear is faint sirens and crickets. I let out a deep breath and slowly lean up.

"That was so close." I slowly get up and make my way to the back of the woods.

I climb over the last fence and I jump down behind a building. It's pitch black and I can't place where I am. I start to walk towards the white bricks and turn the corner. I look up and smile when I realize where I am.

"Ah high school." Mason and I used to cut class freshman and sophmore year, we'd walk towards the park and eat lunch. It was only a short bit of woods back then.

We stopped the middle of sophomore year when they found that body. I guess that's when everyone stopped going there actually, it was too eerie, sneaking out now would take forever.

I notice an open window and climb inside. I jump down and fall into the gymnasium. I let out a groan from pain. I forgot what a long fall that was.

I get up and rub my back when I hear footsteps. Really? Am I safe no where?

"Landon?!" I go to run when I look up and see..

Mason?

"Nice plan asshole, you forgot about the alarms!" He rubs his arm nervously and blushes.

"Well uh oops?" I punch his shoulder.

"OOPS?! You got Declan arrested and now I'm a runaway!" He covers my mouth and tells me to lower my voice.