A Strange Message

STORM

Waiting is a damn hard job. Sitting around, doing nothing but waiting was damn hard. I didn't know that until today. To make it worse, my heartbeat hadn't even slowed down a bit, if anything it kept increasing, my mind was reeling around a lot of thoughts which consisted mostly of scenarios on what could happen to Justin and Lucy going out for my sake.

What if the townspeople who would by now have turned to bounty hunters remember that they are my friends? They would capture them and torture them to tell of my location. Wouldn’t that be so? I wondered, my mind going to the many gruesome scenes I have seen in the movies. I wouldn’t want that for my friends or their families. But I needed Kaden’s help.

I would have texted him, but Justin had advised that I turn off the phone, so that computer geniuses like him wouldn’t find my location by tracing the phone signals. I had obeyed without hesitation but now I'm wondering if that had been necessary, if it had been a good choice. May