7: Run For Your Life

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"We have a child together, is that not amazing, Lorelai", he said as my stomach regurgitated. His voice dipped in and out of a high to a low frequency. His words went up and down just like his attitude.

"What is happening dad, look at me I'm not mom, she's dead, she died years ago", I tried to get him to realize the big difference, between me and her. He wouldn't see it.

"These games Lorelai, where are these filthy ideas coming from?", he said as I shuddered my face away from his peering eyes.

"Don't you understand mom is dead, you're sick", I spat at him. His voice was cold and he quickly began searching in the back for something. He seemed frantic as he pulled the car over to the side.

"DID YOU TAKE IT, GIVE IT THE HELL
BACK, YOU BITCH", he yelled as he went to the back seat and started cussing me out percussively. He tossed the seats up and the blankets that scattered the back seat and just as I saw what he held in his hand, how he admired it so much, I realized why he was like this. A pill bottle rattled in his hand as he looked at the dainty supply, he chucked 6 in his mouth, something he shouldn't have done.

He was disoriented, sick and in need of a mental facility, the bottle was labeled as ecstasy and he began to refill the tiny pill bottle.

"Want any?", he slipped a stick of chewing tobacco in his mouth as he breathed in heavily. He talked calmly as if he hadn't had just an outburst a moment ago.

"This isn't you dad, you need to take me to Melody and then go to the station, your putting all of us at risk don't you care dad", I said as his eyes met mine and he looked sincere for a moment.

"You are my wife, I would never hurt you", his hands held mine as I pulled them away, I had never felt so disgusted and sick in my life.

"Dad I'm not your wife, why cant you see that", I let out in a cry for help, as he wiped my tears.

"There, there we'll be together in the end, Melody doesn't know her dear mother is visiting her", he said with a skip as he got back in the road, we crossed the border into Oregon.

"Almost there to see our babygirl", he said with such a confidence in his voice. He smiled at me and slid his hand over my cheek against the smooth skin.

"Dad, it's Natalie, we're not married, we don't have a kid, Melody is my sister, you are my father, do you know how sick you sound?", I told him as I had never seen this behavior from him, he was pulling his last straw.

"Natalie is dead, Lorelai these games you play are just not true, you need to understand you are my one love", he looked deep into my eyes and the look on his face was excitement as he smiled. Dead, he perceived me dead.

"We're almost there, you need to be on your best behavior, my men are excited to see you", he said giddy, as a sour taste resigned in my stomach.

"I need to talk to Melody",I said sternly as he got off the highway and turned to the side into an isolated forest.

"You will I assure you", he said as that feeling in my stomach resided and his words stuck with me. He stopped the car in front of a cabin. Men dressed in all black arrived at the car. They smiled when they saw me, but it surely faded as he introduced me.

"Men, meet Lorelai my wife", their faces were painted with confusion as I saw 3 men I recognized from Daniel's dinner parties I was made to attend. Their faces were filled with confusion, and Daniel was the only one smiling sickly.

I searched for the jet black hair that I saw from the photo as he held onto my arms aggressively digging into my skin.

"We're going to see Melody", he announced to the men as we walked through the doors with his pesky fingers digging into the surface of my skin and his breath was rapid and rushed.

A click was made against my skin as he kissed my hand, I shook my hands away as he grabbed it again and kissed it. My hands were handcuffed together as he pushed me into a room. The room was narrow and as I faced the front I saw her, the girl I had been searching for all my life, her jet-black hair went down her back.

She was hurt and in pain, I could hear her banging against the wall as it sent shivers through my skin. He held me restraining me from the door. The room had a one-sided mirror as she couldn't see me.

"Let me talk to her", I begged as I shook my hands free of his grasp as he flashed his pocketknife.

He kicked me against the door as she heard the thud, my back pained as I got up. He opened the door suddenly and I ran inside. The look on her face was mesmerizing she knew who I was, she ran up to me as I held her closely.

"I'm so sorry", I told her as she buried her head in my chest she was 13 and was pushing through a war against her father, but she was just like mom, fighting and never backing down.

"We'll leave I promise, someone is tracking me they'll come for us, they will", I tried reassuring her of the danger that loomed over the area, and I could tell by the bruises that she had been here awhile.  My phone was lodged into my boot, and I knew Nolan was tracking me and I hoped he was still on that call listening to every word that bastard said.

"But.. Melody if I don't make it out, or if something happens I want you to run, run for your life and I want you to go to someone you trust, you can't trust the police, you can trust Nolan Clementé, his number is here and he'll answer he will", tears streamed down my face as the same did hers. She looked nothing like Daniel, but she looked just like my mother with some different features. I slipped his now phone number into her pocket as the door was pushed open. The door slammed against the shallow walls as it made Melody shake.

"A little birdie showed me a phone and a gun on my lovely wife, now I told them it wasn't true, you wouldn't do that to me", his condescending mouth spoke freely as the men came with a scanner and Melody was pulled away from me.

The man scanned my body starting with the top and going down and it came to no surprise that my boot made the scanner light up, I had tucked both the phone and gun in my boot keeping it out of sight.

My eyes were fixed on Daniel's the whole time as he swung over and placed his pocketknife against Melody's throat.

"You know the rules. You know what the punishment is, I hurt someone you love, and we have a perfect candidate right in front of us.", he extended his hand out as I saw the fear behind her eyes.

"I never loved you, I don't love you and I want a divorce", I said playing along with his rules or his hallucinations. He looked at me in disbelief as he let Melody go and he looked struck.

"You love me you're just lying, these games Lorelai, not funny", he said as I needed to put an end to this, he was hallucinating from the ecstasy he took way too much of.

"I'm married, I love someone else, it's never been you", I said taunting him knowing he was taken back by my actions.  

"He's high on ecstasy, he won't pay you, he doesn't have any money, and he'll tell you he does but he doesn't they're coming so I suggest you run", I told them as they took off running into the woods.

Daniel held onto Melody's throat aggressively as I began pulling my gun out from my boot.

"Easy, easy", he didn't seem frightened but relaxed he moved his hand and grabbed the gun from his back pocket aiming directly at me.

"You wouldn't shoot me", I taunted him. He grinned and smiled snarking as I studied his face. He was evil, pure evil.

"I would never shoot you, but I will gladly shoot her", the knife began to make an incision as he instructed I should slide the gun across the ground as I began sliding it. I scurried closer as the gun slid halfway, I picked it up and began handing it to him as I saw the look of bravery reside on Melody's face.

Melody punched his sack and grabbed the knife and took off running as I grabbed for the gun and followed her out the front door. I ran for my life, but as I exited the house, I heard him stagger behind me. Melody ran farther as she looked back at me.

The sound of a gunshot hit the tree next to me as my ear went in shock. I kept running trying to dodge behind trees but as I got back to the main path. The sound of a gunshot echoed through the forest as I felt my leg give out. The bullet was deep into my skin as Melody kept running, but Daniel got closer.

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