Chapter 6: In Love With An Alien? - Gone

Chapter 6 – Gone

“Who are you?” I asked Rogue.

“I thought you already knew.”

“An alien….. I don’t think so anymore that’s why I’m asking, so who exactly are you.”

Second turned into minutes and my question remained unanswered, Rogue was still crouched over my laptop busily typing away and pretending he hadn’t heard my question. I sighed and gave up, fine he didn’t want to answer my question.

“I’ll be back….” I said after a while.

He lifted his head and stared into my face, “Where are you going Reese.”

The heck if I know, all I wanted to do at the moment was to put some distance between us so I could think clearly, “I need to check some stuff, I’ll be back in an hour or less.”

“Ok……..thanks for everything Reese.” He said.

I frowned because it sounded like he was saying goodbye, “Hey you have to stay in here because those law enforcement officers who are looking for you are outside.” I warned him that should discourage him in case he wanted to leave.

He smiled at me and nodded.

I walked out of the storage room and headed towards the cabin, outside dark clouds had gathered in the sky and it looked like it was going to rain heavily.

“It still hurts.” I heard Clarisse complaining to my mom in the kitchen.

“Did you take the pain killers?” My mom asked just as I stepped into the kitchen.

“Of course I did but it’s not working.” Clarisse complained.

“I told you to take the pill and sleep it off, the sooner you do that the better it would be for you.” I scolded her.

“Fine.” She mumbled and stormed out. I sat down in one of the empty chairs, grabbed an apple and began to munch on it.

“Oh darn its raining again.” my mom swore staring through the kitchen window. “I wanted to go to the saloon.”

“Mmm.” I mumbled not really caring, why didn’t rogue want to tell me who he was, he couldn’t be human because he had frozen that tiger in mid air, how many human could do that? So what was he?

“What’s gotten into you lately?” My mom questioned distracting me out of my conflicting thoughts, “And don’t tell me it’s nothing because I’m not stupid.”

“Let’s talk about it later ok mom cos I don’t feel well right now.” I said sliding off the chair I had been sitting on. “Please.” I added when she looked like she wanted to further discuss my new attitude.

“Fine.” She sighed and watched me leave.

I climbed up the stairs and went to my bedroom,  the minute I saw my warm bed I felt drowsy, I crawled into my warm inviting bed thinking maybe after I slept the I would feel better and all my questions would be magically answered.

“Reese wake up……… Reese.” Clarisse shrieked at me.

“What.” I yelled. It felt like I had closed my eyes for a couple of seconds before I was being awaken.

“Mom made dinner she wants you to come help her set the table.”

“Dinner……” I asked baffled, what did she mean by dinner it was early in the morning.

“Yes dinner.” She hissed at me, “My God you are lazy do you intend to sleep till the next morning.’

But I wasn’t listening to her I was staring through my bedroom window, it was dark outside I realized, I quickly jumped out of my bed.

“Shit.” I swore, I told Rogue I would be back in an hour but by the looks of it I must have been gone for at least 7 hours.

“What is the matter with you?” My sister called after me as I rushed past her.

I hope he was ok, someone as injured as him shouldn’t be left alone for that long what if he bled to death. I’m so stupid I scolded myself as I took the stairs three at a time.

“Where are you going?” My dad asked as I opened the front door.

“I’ll be right back.” I shouted back so that he didn’t come after me. Outside the ground was wet and mushy; by the looks of it had probably rained when I was sleeping. This time I slowed down because I couldn’t speed towards the storage room because I might slip.

It seemed to be hours before I managed to get across and opened the storage room door, “Rogue.” I called before I set my eyes on the room.

I didn’t immediately see him, maybe he was sleeping behind the boxes, I hurried towards them and pushed them aside but he was not there.

The only thing I could see was bloody bandages, which I distinctively remembered using to cover his wounds. Had he removed them? And where the hell was he?

“Rogue.” I called out again.

“Who is Rogue?” Steven voice sounded behind me.

I turned around in shock, my heart racing. The minute I saw Steven I shuddered, did he have Rogue? did he have my Rogue locked up in some god forsaken lab, I swallowed the bile that had risen in my throat, no I refused to believe it.

“What.” I said trying to play dumb.

Steven advanced towards me and then said through his teeth, “I asked who the hell Rogue is.”

“It’s a cat that I found in the woods yesterday.” I lied, my hands had started to tremble, I slid them in the pocket of my jeans so that Steven wouldn’t notice them.

“And let me guess those bloody bandages laying a few steps away from you belong to this cat which I presume is injured.” He hissed at me.

I nodded slowly, wherever Rogue was I prayed he remained there because if he came back and Steven saw him terrible things would happen.

“Liar.” Steven spat at me and whistled, immediately, ten people walked into the room, they were all men and they had this air about them that said they were inhuman, these were the kinds of people who were capable of killing their own mother or torturing their fellow human being.

I tried to back away and escape the room but Steven grabbed my left arm and squeezed it painfully, I whimpered in pain.

“Please I don’t know anything.” I begged but Steven ignored me.

“Search behind those boxes it must be hiding here somewhere.” Steven ordered and immediately the men attacked the boxes shifting them apart searching for Rogue.

My heart fell into my stomach, was Rogue behind those boxes I wondered, was he hiding for his dear life, tears dripped down my face and it had nothing to do with the pressure Steven was Putting on my arm, I was just scared that they might find Rogue and hurt him.

“Whatever that was here it’s long gone.” One of the men that were searching said a few minutes after they had scattered the boxes everywhere and found nothing. “But we found some bloody sheets at the back though.” He added.

Steven nodded silently and then said, “Lock the door.” He ordered.

My eyes opened wide in shock, why the hell was he locking us in this room, “W-what d-do y-y-you t-think you’re d-doing?” I managed to say in between sobs.

His answer to my question was grabbing my throat, I choked as he applied pressure to my neck, my hands instinctively went over his hands, Trying to claw them away from my neck, but he was too strong.

His eyes turned into venom and he looked at me as if I was some useless piece of trash he could get rid of anytime he wanted, “Where is the alien that landed in the woods Reese.” He shrieked at me.

“I-I s-swear I - I don’t…….” it was difficult to talk as he was squeezing my throat, I felt the blood draining from my face and my stomach and chest burned painfully as I began to run out of air.

“Don’t lie to me.” He yelled and Squeezed my neck tightly.

I gasped gulping for air like a fish out of water, my eyes felt like they were about to pop out of it sockets, and to make it worse black dots appeared over me and I felt myself slipping into darkness.

suddenly a gun went off and the storage door burst open, Steven let go of my neck and I sank into the floor, coughing and choking.

“How dare you touch my daughter.” I heard my dad yelling.

I tried to speak, to beg him to help me but it seemed Steven had squeezed my voice out of me, my throat burned and I continued to choke and gasp for air, a couple of hands grabbed and pulled me up, my legs wobbled and I felt myself being carried outside.

“It’s ok.” My mom’s voice whispered in my ear, I looked up and realized she and my sister where the ones carrying me, they helped me into the cabin and laid me on the sofa.

“Honey breathe slowly or you’ll make it worse.” My mom whispered, I could hear the fright in her voice, I tried to tell her it was ok but my voice hadn’t returned and all I ended up doing was making this retching sounds as if I was choking on a grape.

“That bustard.” I heard my dad yell and then the front door closed loudly. “Where’s Reese.” My dad yelled again.

“She’s here with us.” My mom replied,

At the same time I began to wonder how he had known to come after me and stop Steven from choking the life out of me, because I hadn’t had the time to scream for help.

“What the hell happened in there?” My dad knelt beside me to ask, “One minute I see you running into that storage room and that bastard and his men follow you and then lock the door but I thought maybe they were trying to contain something yet it seemed too fishy so I decide to follow and then when I look through the window that brute is choking you” my dad ranted in fury.

“He – has- to – go.” The words came out of my mouth one by one.

“I already kicked him out but they swore they’ll be back and in order to keep him away from this place I need you to tell me what exactly happened so I can press charges against him.” my dad said still furious.

“Jack can’t you see she’s in pain she needs some time to recover.” My mom said leaning forward to scoop me in her arms.

I buried my face in her lap and surprisingly I drifted off to sleep.   The next time I woke up I was in my room.

“Hey honey how are you feeling.” My mom crouched over me to ask, I could see she was really worried.

“I’m ok I think.” My voice came out as a hoarse whisper.

“What happened out there honey, why would Mr. Cruz attack you?” She asked baffled.

I sighed, I couldn’t tell her the truth she wouldn’t understand, “He thinks I know something about the alien that landed in our backyard but I don’t.” I said, lying to her made me feel horrible but I had to do it to protect Rogue, speaking of Rogue I wondered where the hell he had disappeared off to.

“Why would he think you know anything about the alien?” My mom continued to question me.

“I don’t know maybe because I take too many walks in the woods and he thinks I’m hiding something.” I explained. “But I don’t know anything.” I added.

“I believe you honey…..try to get some sleep while we sort this whole thing out ok.”

“Ok.” I said and she leaned forward kissed my forehead, after she was gone I laid there thinking about Rogue again, Steven couldn’t possibly have found him because he had almost strangled me to death trying to get answers and he wouldn’t have done that in the first place if he knew where Rogue was.

“I need to pee.” I said out loud and threw the covers away from my body, immediately I did that I saw my laptop, the same one I had given to Rogue a couple of hours ago at the bottom of my bed, I frowned and picked it up.

He must have been in my room while I was asleep and left it here, or did my mom or dad bring it here from the storage room, nevertheless I picked my laptop up, a white sheet of paper which had been folded fell out of laptop. I picked the piece of paper and it read.

Reese its rogue,

I had to leave because I’m running out of time, I would have said goodbye but you were asleep and I didn’t want to disturb you so I left, thank you for caring for me and maybe someday I’ll be able to pay you back.

He’s gone.

He left just like that, a dull ache settled in my chest. He had left me and he was never coming back and I probably wouldn’t see him again I realized. My life seemed pointless now that he had left.

My phone began to ring distracting me from any further thoughts of Rogue.

“Hello.”

“I’ll be watching you Reese.” A cold voice whispered through the phone.

“Steven?” I asked. It had to be him, the nerve of that bastard calling me to make threats after he had almost killed me.

“This is far from over.” He said and hanged up before I could call him an ass.

Steven wouldn’t back off ever, maybe it was a good thing Rogue had left at least he would be safe, but the thought of not seeing him hurt more than the pain my sister and my ex had put m through when I had caught them cheating.

Where was he I wondered?

To be continued……………

Where has Rogue disappeared off to, what mission is he trying to complete and what is Steven going to do next, will Reese ever see Rogue again? Find out in the next chapter. Please vote and comment.