I hated when he dropped me off and left because he had somewhere to go. It didn't cross my mind to wonder where that might be because I was still inside my head. The last few hours had been amazing and I just wanted to rush up to my room and relive them again. It was still relatively early when I walked in though the sun had gone down, it seems like the weather had finally remembered that we were in the middle of spring and decided to act right which meant it was darker than it had been these last few weeks at this hour. "Oh Caitlin good, you're home. Did you put your car in the garage?""No, I left it on the driveway.""Can you run to the store real quick for me? Cody has a fever and I'm out of children's Tylenol, I'm sorry baby, I was just about to ask your dad..." "No-no, it's fine." Other than spending time with Todd this was the next best thing. It would be my first time driving alone but I was more than ready for it. "Are you sure?""Yes mom!" I turn
I made a move, some sound I guess, because she took off running. I heard her hit the side of the house as I went after her, stake out forgotten. My heart felt sick in my chest as I ran after her. She was long gone by the time I got out on the street and all I heard was the powerful engine of her car as I sprinted to the Ranger and jumped in. She was still sitting in her car when I pulled in behind her, probably still scared out of her damn mind. I hadn't been able to hold a thought all the way here and think I only started breathing again when she noticed me and got out of her car. I could see by the way she was walking that she was really and truly shaken up. I got out of the Ranger and found that my knees were weak. "Caitie come here." She walked across the driveway to me. "Did you get hurt?" She gave me that who me look and it took everything in me not to snap."I don't know what you're talking about." "Don't fucking lie to me, not now not ever." She swallo
I didn't go back downstairs after leaving daddy's office but instead went to my sister's room. I was still shaking and was sure I was wearing a look of fear which I'd barely been able to hide from mom when I lied to her once again and told her that I'd run into someone I knew at the store and that was the reason for the holdup. She was supposed to be in bed asleep for the past hour or so but I've long known that she stays up with her laptop in bed under the covers most nights. She jumped when I walked in thinking it was daddy no doubt. I put my finger to my lips and all but collapsed on the bed. The dog whined and moved out of the way as she sat up. The only light in the room came from the screen and the moonlight that shone through the window. "Caitie? What is it, what's wrong? Did you have a fight with Todd?" It took me three tries but I finally got it out. She grabbed my arm and I thought she was going to chastise me for being so stupid but she didn't. "You d
I made my first circuit around the house looking for any kind of alarm system he might have on the outside of the house. I used Shane's little gadget that showed me how many people were inside using heat impressions. There was definitely one person upstairs in a bedroom, but the device was picking up heat signals from elsewhere in the house. From the interference I was sure that whoever or whatever it was had been hidden behind something that was meant to keep others from looking in, maybe the same reinforced steel as the outside door, which I'd only now noticed. I found the grid outside the house and took my time cutting the electricity from outside, that's the easiest way to kill juice to the alarm since I didn't have time to tinker with it. I went back to the little window I'd noticed on my circuit around the house and worked on opening it without making a sound. I squeezed through the tiny window that no one would expect a grown woman to fit through with my
I've loved her since the first moment I laid eyes on her. Not with the burning passion I now feel, as we both get older. Back then in the beginning what I felt for her was softer, gentler, like a flower blooming under the full rays of the sun for the first time and coming into its own. I can still remember the feeling, that rush of excitement, the sense of knowing, as my eyes followed her across the schoolyard that first day. Still remember like it was yesterday, how it felt to fall head over heels in love for the first and what has now turned out to be the last time. I was fifteen and she a mere thirteen when I first became aware of her. That spring day when I went looking for her to see what all the fuss was about, I never expected to find my heart. I thought she'd just be more of the same, but as it turned out, she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen and still is to this day so many years later. It was like being struck by lightning as clichéd as that
We became an item within the first week of me coming to her rescue and she quickly became the best part of my childhood, the leading star in all of my fondest memories. From the first words that we shared until now I never wanted anything more than to be close to her, to be the only one to bask in that special glow that emanates from her in spades. Her tinkling laugh still makes me sweat, and her eyes, those eyes that seem to look into my soul and see only the best of me, still haunt my dreams. She has a strange effect on me, something I'd noticed from the start. It's not something I can put into words, not so you'd understand. But with her, there was none of the usual teenage angst. I didn't feel the need to be anyone but myself; didn't have to do anything stupid to impress her, but it was more than that. I didn't feel the need to rush into anything. I enjoyed the wait and still do, because somehow always in the back of my mind, I knew that we'd grow old toge
I'm still not sure what made him change his mind about us seeing each other, I suspect one of her brothers might have told him what happened at school, not sure, she never said, but whatever the case may be, I'm forever grateful. And though she was the only girl I'd gone through that much trouble for and couldn't even hold her hand without her dad shooting daggers at me with his eyes, I didn't mind hanging out on her couch watching TV, whispering silly shit to each other, until her dad kicked me out when it was getting late. I guess he knows what he's doing as a father, because his attitude changed things. I was much calmer, less rushed; there was none of the usual trying to score bullshit. Until her that's all I knew, though my fifteen-year old self never got any farther than copping a feel here and there, at least it was something. Not with Colton Lyon's daughter though. There was nothing even remotely sexual about my feelings for her back then, which let's fa
The phone rang just as I placed the key in the door to my dorm room. It wasn't her special ring so I didn't rush to answer but the number was another I knew very well when I finally took my phone from my pocket. "Hello?" "Todd, it's me, Catalina.""Catalina? Is something wrong with Caitie?" As usual my heart picked up speed and that sick feeling I always get when it comes to worrying about my girl came over me. It's been this way ever since I had to move away from her and has only grown worst with time. "No-no it's not that. I have to tell you a secret." I smiled with relief as I headed into the room closing the door behind me. Her and her secrets! She has a new one at least once a week. Most of the time I can't make heads or tails out of what she's saying to me. I've known her since she was about five and I still have yet to understand if the things she says are just the ramblings of an innocent or if her mind really is as brilliant as I'm beginning to suspec