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VOTE&COMMENT ❤️❤️❤️💖

Anthony

I stared at the police station across the street, contemplating what to do. Yeah, I'm thinking about turning myself in and just putting an end to all of this. I feel like I rode it out enough already. Now it's like a fucking game. See how long you could last trying to run from the police. And I think I've had about enough. And I'm sure Cameron and Tyler have too.

I sigh and run my hands over my face, feeling torn. I know this is the best thing to do. But, I don't want to go to jail. I know imma be getting nothing but life for all I've done. And the truth is that if I didn't have somebody I live for in my life, I wouldn't care. But now that Cameron is in the picture, I don't want to live without him.

I couldn't tell him where I was going because I know he wouldn't let me. But this is something I gotta do.

I get out of the car, bracing myself to finally put a end to all this. I've been out here for nearly fourteen hours, tryna contemplate what to do. But I think I have my mind made up. I walk up the police station steps and open the door up. As soon as I walk into the empty police station, they all turn their heads at me.

"Can I help you sir?" The man behind the desk asks. When I don't answer him he speaks again. "Is there a problem?"
I can't bring myself to answer him, and I turn right back around and walk out of the station. I know sooner or later they're gonna find out that it was me who had walked in, but for now I just need to get out of here. I chickened out.

I feel someone grab my arm, stopping me from getting into the car. "Sir, is there a problem!"

"No." I say through my teeth.

"Well you can't be walking into the stations and walking back out, that's suspicious activity." He says. I don't say anything more before I say something and fuck up. I nod my head and when the officer didn't let go is when I started to lose my cool. I try to pull my arm away, but he got a grip on it. "In a rush?" He asks.

"Let me go."

"I think we need to take you in son. Just for safe measures." He says slowly. I look at his face and that's when I started to black. I yank my arm away and the officer tackled me to the ground. I try to get out of his grip. "Stop resisting!"

I damn sure didn't listen to him, and used my body strength to get him off of me. That's when a whole mob of police officers came out. And I knew that it was over for me.

Tyler POV

I sighed, and continued to caress a crying Cameron. Anthony's been out for some time now and I didn't even know he left until Cameron came pounding at my door, talking about how Anthony left and didn't come back. I don't know why he would do something like that when he knows we have no way of contacting him and finding out where he is. Now he got this boy freaking out.

"Babe, he's coming back. Just give it a minute." Pheonix says, reaching over and scratching his head.

"No he's not, he left." He sniffles and grabs my shirt. I move him from my arms and make him look at me. "Look, Anthony's not stupid." I lie "he probably went to go buy some things. He be back, I promise." I wiped his tears away and Pheonix kissed his forehead. It was weird seeing him emotional again after a long time of being all boxed up. No matter how hard he tries to act, he'll always be a baby to us.

Pheonix sent me a look when Cameron was crying on my lap. She's been good during this and I give her props for that. To be honest, she's crazy for sneaking into the trunk risking suffocating to death. She's only a extra weight to carry being here, but she refuses to leave.

"Excuse me." Cameron got up and went to the bathroom. Thinking he was gonna use it, I wasn't expecting to hear his gagging and the sound of throw up hitting the toilet boil followed by crying. "You handle that." I told Pheonix and she shook her head.

"He don't fuck with me, I think you'd better." She said sadly. I knocked on the door. "Cam?"

"Yes?" He strained.

"Open up."

Cameron opened the door. He flushed the toilet. "Sorry."

"You still getting sick?" I ask. He nods.

"You need to see a doctor because it's going on for too long now."

"We can't do that Tyler."

I sigh and shake my head. All this is just a bunch of mess. Cameron is sick, Anthony disappeared, Pheonix is included into the mix, so am I. "But what if you're like dying or something?"

"I'm not, I'm fine. I probably got a stomach virus." Cameron brushed his teeth and got out the bathroom. He laid on the hotel bed. We were supposed to check out earlier but I had paid for an extra night not knowing when or if Ant is coming back. I'm honestly scared out my mind but I gotta keep my composure because when Anthony is not in the picture, I gotta hold everything down.

"How bout you get you some rest, stop worrying."

"He left almost 16 hours ago and took his things with him, Tyler. How can I stop worrying?" The tears start flowing again and I regret saying anything in the first place. I hug him. "Okay, okay."

Suddenly the door swings open and in walks Anthony, not saying a word. Cameron hadn't realized he walked through the door so I had to bring it to his attention. I turn him around and when he sees Anthony his crying automatically stops. I watch in shock as Cameron walks over to him and slaps him dead in his face; hard. I almost have to cover my eyes to see what Anthonys gonna do next, but he doesn't hit him. He grabs Cameron's wrists to stop him from hitting on him.

Cameron was telling him off and Anthony just took it in. "Where were you Anthony!" Cameron asked. He wasn't crying no more, he was just angry now. Anthony doesn't answer him and pulls Cameron into the hallway.

Pheonix looks at me and I shrug.

"You think I should go out there? Make sure he doesn't hit him?" She asks. I shake my head no and tell her let them be.

Cameron POV

"Calm down. Calm down." Anthony held my wrists to stop me from hitting him. I didn't mean to get physical, it's just that when I saw him I got so angry yet relieved at the same time.

I shake my head rapidly feeling the tears coming again but I fought them back. "Where were you Anthony?" I ask more calmly this time. It's like he had a hard time answering. "We're you gonna leave?"

He shakes his head. "Turn myself in."

I make a face. "T— Are you stupid?" I could tell the way I was speaking to him didn't sit well with him but I could also tell he knew this wasn't the time to start lecturing me on how I should and should not address him.

"They brought me in for questioning. It's only gonna be so long before they find out that I'm wanted and start coming for me."

"They didn't look at your drivers license or Id or anything?" I ask. He nods.

"Yeah, but for some reason they couldn't find my name in the system. They're gonna investigate on me and realize that's they shoulda thrown me in jail."

"Well why didn't they?"

"Because I didn't turn myself in. I just went in and walked back out and they questioned me for suspicious activity. They were gonna hold me but I left. So we kinda have to go right now."

That's when I really wondered what goes on in his head. He left a police station in the middle of questioning, and now he's gonna be looked out for even more. I shake my head.

All of us get our things together and quickly put them in the trunk.

"You gotta go." I told Pheonix. Anthony told me to tell her to leave. She shook her head.

"No the fuck I don't. I done seen too much. Don't let me come and watch me rat his ass out to the police. I know your license plate."

I look at Anthony who was just getting into the drivers seat. I'm not risking anything so I allow her to tag along and lie to Anthony and tell him that I want her to come along. Because if he knew her blackmailing plan, he wouldn't care and still continue on the risky journey knowing that his license plate is out there.

We drive for hours and hours and every time a police car was near, Anthony would turn and try to avoid them as best as possible. I don't talk to him just because I'm still mad at how careless he could be. I'm still upset that he left without a word. And I'm furious that he'd even think about turning himself into the police, knowing what's in store for him. Now I'm feeling like we're not going to get no where far when the cops realize they got a trace of Anthony.

Tyler asks for Pheonix's phone and does the same thing that Anthony did to his. Pheonix cursed him out and Tyler didn't say anything back. She got over it after a while though.

Anthony kept looking at me through the rear view mirror from time to time and it made me uncomfortable. Not that Anthony looking at me makes me uncomfortable, but because he did it so much.

Tyler and him kept talking with their eyes which made me uncomfortable too because I feel like it has to do with me, only because of how much Anthony looked at me after they looked at each other.

"Y'all lookin like y'all plottin to kill us." Pheonix jokes and everyone- including me ignores her. "So y'all not gonna speak?" She asks. When no one says anything again she sighed and shrugged.

Hours and hours on end of driving, Anthony pulls over finally. He made it clear that we weren't making any hotel stops for a while because he can't keep stalling. This time, we pull over to an old abandoned park. "Cameron, come here. I gotta talk to you." He gets out of the car. I follow him hesitantly. When he turns around and sees me lagging behind him, he grabs my hand and leads me to a place far from the car.

We were seated on a bench quietly when suddenly he started speaking.

"The whole reason I didn't turn myself in was because of you, you know." He said making me look up from my fingernails. "I was gonna. But all I could think about was being away from you so long and not being able to like, be with you."

I blushed but then it was quickly replaced with a frown. "That doesn't change the fact that they're coming for you. This isn't about me, it's about you and your life. Worry about yourself first."

"I can't do that. I can't worry about myself first when you're around. You come first for me."

I shake my head, "Don't say that."

"Look Cameron, the whole reason Im wasting time right now is because I gotta let you know that after today, after I realized how much I live for you and after you put you hands on me because I left you," he started "I realized that I gotta make time for this. I have to do this because I know for a fact I'm not making it out of this a free man. Imma keep riding it out, but I'm gonna get caught. And I'm gonna be taken to prison ad they're gonna give me a life sentence and we're gonna go forever without seeing each other again because I could never have you visiting me I'm a jail—"

"Anthony, please stop talking like that. You'll be fine, well be fine."

Anthony shook his head and grabbed m hand. "I don't got a plan, my money's running low, the cops probably know who I am by now. It's okay. I know it's not gonna end like I wanted it to, but that's okay but I wanna give you something."

"When I get sent away, I want you to know that you don't belong to nobody else but me, okay? I sound selfish and this might be a waste of time, but I don't care." He says and holds my hand in his, reaching into his pocket.

"I don't know how to be romantic, but it's not about all that right now. I love you more than anything Cameron. And when time come that we gotta be apart, I want you to have something from me that means something. And I got nothing to lose. Even if I never get the chance to marry you or spend the rest of my life with you, I want you to have this."

My eyes went wide as he put a diamond ring on my finger. It felt so heavy on my hand. I can't form the words to speak as I watch him kiss my hand. "Now don't cry. And I'm sorry I didn't get down on one knee. But just know that this means we're official official. If I'm in jail or something, I don't care for how long, as long as this ring on your finger you not giving yourself to nobody if it's not me, okay?"

I nod, still in awe. I know we're probably never going to get married but this is just as good. I don't care, I'm calling Anthony my husband now. I throw my arms around his neck and kiss him using all my might trying to show my appreciation through it. Right now I just wanna love all over him but I know I can't do that in the middle of the night at an abandoned park.

"I love you. I hated you earlier, but now I really love you." I smile. I'm happy, but at the same time I feel sadness take over me because of what he said about him knowing this is not gonna work out and that he's gonna go to jail. I have hope that it will and it can. I know it can.

"I know. But don't be hitting me like that again. I let it slide because I know you were upset but that's not a open invitation. Understand?" He said seriously and I nod feeling like I was falling in love with him all over again.

"Come on, let's go."

We stand up and he bends down, kissing me once more reminding me of the first time or second time, I can't recall, where we kissed in front of my apartment building. I missed back then.

When we get back in the car I can't wipe the smile on my face so I cover it with my hands. But that didn't do me any good, Pheonix and Tyler gasped and started to talk about Anthony and I and the ring on my finger. Tyler wasn't fooling anybody though, I know he knew already.

But none of that's important. I just hope I can be this happy forever.

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*** I know the police scenes are inaccurate.

Thoughts on..

Anthony?

Tyler?

Cameron?

Pheonix?

Hope you enjoyed. I am getting emotional the closer we get to the end. I feel so ugly lol😥



BYE.


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