Song^ On The Run by Corey Harper

"Pull the bag off of her head.. Now!"

I felt someone yank the thing away from my head and I blinked a few times to adjust my eyes to see where I was. When my eyes focused, I was face to face with a gun.

I saw a guy in the front seat, facing me with the gun pointed at my face. I studied him for a second and realized that it was the same guy that kidnapped me the day I left Mrs. Shuler's.

What the fuck.

"Well, hello again," hearing his voice was like nails on a chalk board. I cringed at the sound but tried not to make it noticeable. I'm afraid that even the slightest movement, he'll shoot me. "Nice to finally meet again,"

I tried to calm my insides, because right now everything was shaking with fear. I didn't understand any of this, what the hell did he want? Why couldn't he leave me alone?

I averted my eyes away from him for a second to look at the right side of me. That's when something- or someone caught my eye. They was sitting in the seat, with their head against the window, clearly knocked out. They had a coat on and their brown hair was covering their face.

Mrs. Shuler.

I quickly turned to the guy, "What the hell did you do to her!" I screamed, which wasn't my best moment.

I heard the gun click, and he was staring at me. I need to keep my damn mouth shut or I'll get killed.

"Shut the hell up, we didn't hurt your little girlfriend, alright?" yeah, my girlfriend. If only. "Now, do you want to know why you're here, or are you going to have to get shot?" well, I didn't want to get shot, so I guess the first option I'm going with.

"Why am I here? What do you want from me?" I didn't understand anything because I can't get any of the answers I want. I never understand anything that happens in my life anymore.

He kept the gun pointed at me while he stared at me, "I want to know-"

I heard noises and I looked over to see Mrs. Shuler slowly sitting up. She held her head and I watched as she moved her hair from her face. She slowly looked around and her eyes landed on me. The look of confusion was clearly there, and when she noticed that two other guys were in the front seat, that confusion turned into fear.

I watched as she tried to make sense of this situation, but was useless because I didn't even know what was going on. I'm just mentally banging my head against the window because this is another lie I will have to tell.

Lies after lies after lies.

When do I get a break?

"Oh good, your girlfriend is awake, now she can watch you either die or tell me what I want to know," I looked over to see Mrs. Shuler looking at me with the same amount of fear written on her face. "Now, Sammy. I want to know where your sister is," I looked at him as he was staring at me, with the gun still pointed at me.

My sister? Why the hell did he want to know?

I shrugged, "I don't know,"

"Don't fucking lie to me. I am sick of everyone lying to me, especially your fucking sister," I could see that this was upsetting him and I didn't want that to happen in fear that he would pull the trigger.

"I'm telling you the truth. I haven't seen her since a few days ago, how could I possibly know where she is?" she never tells me where she goes. I don't know where she leaves to all the time, or who she hangs with or what she does. She never tells me anything, because she doesn't care.

"Jessica owes me fucking money. She's been delaying for about two weeks now and I'm getting fucking tired of her lying to me about it!" I watched as he was having a breakdown and I was scared for my life on the other end of this gun. "Tell me where she is, or I'll fucking kill you,"

I sat there and watched him as I tried to count my blessings. I didn't know where Jessica was, so clearly he's going to shoot me. I might as well pray while I still can.

A few seconds went by and that's when I heard Mrs. Shuler, "She's telling the truth," I looked over at her as I was thinking what the hell she was doing. She gave me a quick look then looked back at him. "She doesn't know where she is,"

The guy then pointed the gun towards her and that's when my heart started hammering harder than it was when it was pointed at me. "She's not telling the damn truth, she's protecting her sister!"

"Bullshit! Why the hell would I protect her? She doesn't care about me! She never tells me anything so I didn't know about any money!" I could hear my own voice ringing through my head and it hurt.

"If I don't get that money tonight, I will fucking kill all three of you!"

I cannot believe this was happening. Why me? Why the hell do I have to be put in a situation that always comes back to my sister? Because of her, I lie to everyone because if I told them the truth, I'll be sent off somewhere that I don't want to be. Now I'm going to get killed because of her. Why the hell does Jessica have to be so stupid?

"I want that money, and I want you to take me to her right now," this guy is just not letting go.

"I told you, I don't-"

"Ok, we'll take you to her," I looked over at Mrs. Shuler and now knew that she was even crazier than I thought. "We know where she is, and we will take you to her,"

The guy nodded and contiued to point the gun at us. He looked over at the driver for a second and that's when Mrs. Shuler gave me a look, and I knew that she had no idea what she was getting herself into.

Mrs. Shuler gave him an address, and I couldn't figure out where that was. I didn't understand why she was lying when she didn't know what these guys were capable of doing. She was just digging a deeper hole for us.

The guy drove to that location and I was still confused on why she lead them here. I didn't know this place, and it didn't look familiar. I looked over at Mrs. Shuler and thought how horrible I felt for dragging her into this. I never intentionally meant to, but I wish I never met her so that she would of stayed safe.

She looked over at me and I could see something in her eyes as she was staring at me. She was telling me something, but I wasn't sure what it was. All I could think about is why she was getting herself involved in all of this. This was my situation, not hers. I should be dealing with these guys, not her.

We came to a stop and that's when the guy turned around. "Alright, I need you to get out and lead me to her. I don't want any funny business," he waved the gun around and I was scared shitless.

I didn't know what I was doing as I was being pulled out of the car. Mrs. Shuler was behind me as the other guy was directing her as I was directing this other guy.

I had no clue who lived in this house, and I really wish Mrs. Shuler would of told me her plan, so that I knew what the hell was going on.

We walked up the porch and the guy behind me told me to knock. I was about to knock when I heard a noise behind me and I turned around just in time for Mrs. Shuler to elbow the guy that was behind her, in the stomach, and that's when the other guy pulled out his gun.

My first instinct was to knock the gun out of his hand and knock him down, but I'm not very fast and my kicking-ass skills suck.

The guy knocked me down instead and I saw Mrs. Shuler knock him down as well. She quickly grabbed my hand and pulled me up. Before I knew it, we were running down the sidewalk away from them.

As we were a little ways away, we stopped to catch our breath. I thought I'd be in shape by now from all the running I've been doing, but I don't feel any better but sore.

Exercise is a joke.

After I caught my breath, I was met by Mrs. Shuler's stare. "Want to tell me what the hell that was about?"

I sighed then shrugged, "I don't know," I was too exhausted to lie or even tell the truth.

"Don't even think about lying to me. Clearly that was something," I watched as she was watching me and I felt bad for even having her witness that.

"I really don't know. I didn't know my sister even owed any money, and I don't know those guys," which was all the truth. Jessica never said anything about owing money, and I only seen those guys maybe twice.

"You have a lot of explaining to do, Samantha. This is not something to ignore, and I'm not going to just step aside and let it be ignored," I sighed and nodded. I know that there is no use in lying anymore.

I stared at her as I was trying to get up all my courage to finally let everything off my chest after all these years. I knew that there was no use in trying to lie anymore, because lying just puts me further into the ground and I'm already having a hard time coming up.

I watched as she was staring at me, but I couldn't bring myself to tell her anything. I had something else I needed to address.

"I'm not telling you anything," even though it was dark, I could see her facial expressions change into something else.

"Excuse me? Samantha, I am not joking about any of this, and you will tell me right now or I'm going to the police,"

"Then go to the police! Clearly you need to because some guy just threatened us! I don't care if you get the police involved!" but that wasn't true. I was afraid of the police getting involved because it'll lead back to me and somehow I have a feeling like I wouldn't be able to lie as well to them as I have been to everyone else.

I heard a noise and felt Mrs. Shuler grab my arm and pull me away. We ran a few feet down the sidewalk, then off to the side of a house. It was dark and I knew that nobody could see us.

I heard her tell me to stay quiet and I wanted to be my sarcastic self and say something, but decided against it.

I heard them start running and yelling to each other about where we went. I didn't realize it before but I was pressed up against Mrs. Shuler and I could hear her heartbeat. I felt myself growing nervous so I stepped away from her a foot, but that's when she pulled me back to her.

"Stay still or they'll see us," does she not realize that I'm basically touching her boobs?

I ignored every thought in my head and proceeded to stay still and quiet. I didn't hear them anymore but I heard a car squeal by and that's when I knew that it was them.

I let out a breath of relief and forced myself away from her. I didn't need any contact with her, besides, she told me to not have anymore contact with her, so why the tell was she even helping me?

We walked out on the sidewalk with caution, and I looked over at Mrs. Shuler, under the streetlight. I watched as her eyes scanned around and then they met mine. We stayed like that for a few seconds but I forced myself to look away.

I didn't need to be around her, so I started walking. I didn't get far because she caught up with me and grabbed my arm. "Samantha," I pulled my arm away from her and stood there.

Every question I've ever wanted to ask her after she told me to basically vanish from her life, was haunting my brain. I didn't know what was going on and I was confused.

"Samantha, look at me," it took everything in me not to look at those blue eyes. I didn't want to be drowning more than I already am.

She pulled me to her and wrapped her arms around me. I stood there, frozen, unable to comprehend what was happening. My mind was going haywire but my body was burning up. I didn't know what game she was playing but it was making my head spin.

I pushed her back and looked at her. "I want you to stop," I couldn't take this anymore. I don't know what she was doing, but it wasn't funny and I sure as hell didn't find it humorous. "Stop playing these mind games with me cause you're confusing the shit out of me,"

Even under the streetlight, I could tell that she was confused. She stepped forward but I stepped back. I didn't need any of this because my head was already a fucking mess.

I turned and ran.

I ran away from her, and I ignored all her screams. I knew she was chasing me because I could hear her footsteps behind me, but I didn't dare look back. I knew that if I seen her chasing me, my heart would beg for me to stop.

I decided to cut across the street. I didn't know where I was, but I could find my way back to my house if I ran far enough. Maybe I'll lose her, hopefully.

As I was running across the street, it only took a moment to see headlights and all the stars in the sky.