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Bab 11: Chapter 11

"Sir?" Cal mindlinks out, knowing he is still listening. "I'm here. I'm outside the residence now in the forest. I can't get too close, her parents will feel my presence. Don't let her escape or leave. If she does, follow her and don't let her know you're doing so. Keep her safe." Cal answers "I understand."

Cal watches as Rose runs inside, slamming the door, tears pouring down her face as she runs upstairs to her room. He gets up to follow her.

He arrives outside her door and knocks gently. She calls out "Leave me alone I've had enough talking!!" Cal says "Rose it's me, let me in. What's going on? Are you crying?"

He can hear her sniffling on the other side but her footsteps come closer and she unlocks the door and turns around before he can see her face. She's gathering her bags together, and looks like she's gonna run.

"...Rose?" She turns around and looks at him with a puffy red face, "I have to go Cal. I'm sorry to leave like this, you can obviously go too, I'm sure it would be weird to stay with my parents without me." She grins weakly and takes a big sigh, not looking at him, "I can't explain to you what my parents just told me, because I can't understand it myself. But I have to go. I have to run and get as far away from here as I can." She grabs a tissue and blows her nose, "I'm leaving now." Cal looks thoughtful and says "I won't ask you to explain it to me, but if you're running, I'm coming too." Her face shows bewilderment as she looks at him and opens and closes her mouth, he knows what she's trying to say, "Rose I'm coming. You're obviously terrified and heartbroken, you have no business being alone right now." She just stares at him and asks, "What about your promotion? Don't you have to go?" Cal replies, "Not for a while, and don't worry about that. I'll push it off. I'm good enough, they'll wait for me." He finishes with a wink. "I'm going to grab my bags, I haven't unpacked yet either. Meet at my car in 10?" Wordlessly she just nodded her head and reached out and squeezed his hand with a small smile.

...

Once they have finished throwing their bags in the trunk, Rose's parents come outside, her mom has tears falling down her face silently while her dad stands still as stone with a frown set in his face and his hands shoved in his pockets.

"Rose honey, please stay. We can protect you here. We can't protect you if we don't know where you are." Her mom hiccups through her tears.

"You can't protect me. You sold me off to someone and he's gonna come collect. I can't stay here and wait for it. I love you guys but I can't stand to look at you, I have to go. I will contact you when I have calmed down."

Cal looks down silently listening to their conversation. He looks back up and accidentally catches her fathers eye. With a silent nod Cal communicates to her father that he will watch over Rose and keep her safe. His face shows gratefulness, but he also shows fear for his daughter.


Bab 12: Chapter 12

The pair drives in a comfortable silence. Rose wonders if Cal believes in otherworldly things. Is she the only person in the world who believed werewolves and vampires and fairy's and every other mystical creature, is fiction? She wonders what signs her parents were talking about but can't come up with anything. She's never shown any powers, never lit anything on fire and certainly doesn't feel anything except... human. Besides her weird ability to not find love or attraction to any boyfriend, or man at all. She even gave women a shot, nothing there either. She truly feels broken.

She secretly glances over at Cal, who's driving. He's calm. His face doesn't show concern or worry and appears to be completely okay with driving aimlessly, no destination chosen.

As if he sensed her gaze, he looks over at her and smirks, "So do you want to tell-" Rose interrupts and says "Nope, I'm not ready to talk about it. You'd think I'm a lunatic anyways", she mumbles the last part and slinks down in her seat, leaning her head against the window. "Actually I was going to say do you want to tell me where we're going." He chuckles. She sighs and shakes her head. "I don't know. Just away from here." Cal stays silent for a moment before he says "Are you running away from your parents or are you running from someone or something else?"

Considering how to answer, Rose finally says "All of the above." She shrugs her shoulders in the dark, "There's a lot to the story and like I said I'm not comfortable talking about it yet, but to give you the short reason I'm running away... evidently... my parents have basically arranged a marriage for me, to a terrible and scary man. They said it would happen on my 21st birthday." She glances down at the dashboard clock, it's 11:47pm. "So I have 13 more minutes of freedom before he comes to collect his prize." She said sarcastically, but she couldn't even fool herself. She sounded scared.

She waited for Cal to laugh, or ask if she was kidding. It never came. He didn't say anything at all. "Really? You have no comment about that?" He glances over at her and it seemed like he had a panicked expression cross his face for a moment, but it was gone with a blink of an eye. "I guess I'm waiting to hear you laugh and say you're joking.." Ahh he's shocked too. "I'm completely serious and completely terrified. I don't want to go with anyone and I certainly don't want to be forced to be with someone. I'd rather die." A tear slips down her cheek and she quickly brushes it off. "I will not show weakness and I will not be weak." She silently says to herself.

She was so thankful Cal was here and she at least had her best friend and seemingly the only person she could ever trust with her. If she was gonna make it through this, she knew it would be with him by her side.

Just then, the clock struck midnight and her eyes suddenly had a mind of their own as she slipped into a hard sleep that she couldn't stop.

.....

Cal watches her eyes close and glances at the clock. "Wow, right on the dot," he says to himself.

"Sir, it's midnight. She went into a deep slumber. What do you want me to do now?"


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