I was nearly finished getting Amelia ready for bed, all I needed to do was make her a bottle and than she’d be down for the night. I carry her downstairs, passed ink who was halfway through his fizzy drinks, I walk into the kitchen going to the cupboard to find we had no more formula. Than it hit me, this could be our escape plan, if I send ink to the shop’s we’ll finally be alone in the house to escape.
I walk into the living room, where he’s throwing an empty can into his bag immediately opening a second one, that cannot be good for him.
“We’re out of formula” I say, while looking around the very messy living room, Anthony isn’t gonna be too pleased.
“Well you’re gonna have to wait until Anthony gets back” he burps, once again turning his attention back to the tv, I don’t know if this guy has ever been around kids but it doesn’t work like that.
“She can’t wait, she needs a bottle now, you’re gonna have to go to the shop and buy her some” I correct him, looking at him with pointed eyes, he sighs getting up out of his seat dropping crumbs all over the carpet.
“No we’re going, Anthony doesn’t want you to be left alone, so get Amelia ready to leave” he grumbles stretching, clicking noises coming from his body, well that might still work, while he’s in the shop we could run from the car.
I nod getting Amelia ready to leave while Ink runs to the bathroom, probably due to all the drinks he drank.
In no time we were on the road heading towards the shops, last time ink drove me around was the night we got kidnapped. I’m only realising now, that he isn’t a very good driver, he was swerving all over the shop.
The ride was silent, I was going over multiple plans and what I’m meant to do when I leave the car. The silence is interrupted by the sound of his phone ringing, he goes to pick it up sending the car over to the opposite side to the road for a second.
“Maybe I should hold the phone while you drive” I suggest, holding tightly onto the car door, he shakes his hand at me answering the phone.
“Why do you sound like you’re in a car?” Anthony’s voice comes through the phone questioning him, why does he always have to get in the way of my escape plans?!
“Because I’m in a car” ink simply replies, staring down at the phone for a second petrifying me, he turns the wheel sharply when he looks up.
“Where’s the girls?” Anthony asks sounding quite panicked, he probably knows if I was left in the house I’d run, which was correct I was planning on that.
“Here, Amelia ran out of that baby stuff so I’m heading to the shop to get some” ink explains, taking both hands off the wheel scrolling through his phone “I’ll have no idea what to buy so I took a-” he tries to explain, but I cut him off screaming.
“Ink!” I scream as a lorry comes barrelling towards us, ink drops the phone grabbing the wheel screaming, he manages to avoid the lorry but sends the car smashing through the railings and down a huge hill full of trees.
I was powerless, all I could do was scream as he somehow avoids the incoming trees, right ahead of us though was a huge rock face. He slams on the brakes but it doesn’t do much, he swerved the car around so the rock was on his side, where we smashed into the side of it. Thankfully, the car didn’t flip over, I sit there shocked for a second, the thing snapping me out was Amelia hysterically crying.
I push my door open jumping out running to her door, I pull her door open to see her crying in her car seat, but she didn’t look hurt. I unclip her from her seat holding her in my arms, I start bouncing her up and down looking through my door to check on ink. He sat there shocked, both hands still on the steering wheel just staring ahead.
“Ink are you okay?” I ask him, moving closer to the car, he just nods finally removing his hands from the wheel, unclipping his seatbelt.
Amelia continued to cry as he climbs out the car from my door, he looks up at my face fear in his eyes.
“Anthony’s gonna kill” he stutters once he was fully out the car, I tell him he’ll know it’s a accident, but he shakes his head “no Freya you don’t understand, I put you two in danger, he’s actually going to kill me” he exclaims, throwing his hands in the air but placing them on his head, I mean he always attacks him for just simple things, what is he gonna do?
“Then leave” I simple reply looking at him, he looks at me like I was crazy shaking his head still pacing up and down “you said he’s gonna kill you so leave, he’s probably tracking us right now, by the time he gets here you’ll be long gone” I explain to him, this might actually help me escape and I feel bad for the guy, Anthony is gonna hurt him.
“But what about you two?” He asks pointing to Amelia and me, which proved he was actually considering leaving, i thought it was gonna take more persuading, but obviously not.
“We’ll be fine he won’t hurt us, quickly go before he gets here” I shout towards him, he nods walking over wrapping me in a hug.
“I’ll do what I can to get you out of here, thank you” he whispers, before taking off running into the woods, in seconds he was gone.
It left me alone with a Amelia, where it starts to get quite cold, I go into the car pulling her blanket out wrapping it around her little body. I need to figure out what to do, did someone see and they’re coming down the hill to help? That lorry must have saw what happened, maybe the guy called the police, wait is this our chance to leave? A million things were flying all over my head, until I hear my name being called, I move from the car slightly to see Anthony carefully running down the hill. I don’t know how he did it but he managed to find us, he continues to shout my name not seeing me yet. I move from where I was standing, his eyes immediately dart to me, his face fills with relief as he runs even faster over to us.
“Are you okay?” He asks, placing his hand on my cheek than doing the same to Amelia, who had stopped crying, I just nod where he wraps me in a tight hug, he was physically shaking.
“Where’s ink?” He asks releasing me from the hug going over to the car, he was probably expecting to see ink sat in the car.
“He’s not here, he went…. to get help” I quickly think of an excuse, I can’t tell him that I told ink to leave, he looks over at me than his eyes start to get angry.
“He left you two like this?” He asks, basically shouting looking back towards the car, he went to speak again but it begins to rain causing us to get even colder.
“My car is right at the top of the hill, ink can work out a way to move his car” he angrily says, placing his hand on my back guiding me up the hill, but I have to stop my foot hurt.
“Take Amelia up, I don’t want her to catch a cold” I tell him, whilst handing him Amelia but he shakes his head putting my arm around his shoulders helping me walk up the hill.
When we near the top he tells me to wait while he straps Amelia in, I have to sit on the floor my foot hurting. I think I twisted it when I jumped out the car to help Amelia, I was too focused on ink and being stranded that I didn’t think about it. A few minutes later, he runs back towards me helping me off the floor, instead of walking he picks me up and starts carrying me over to the car, I didn’t grumble though, my foot hurt so bad.
He places me in the passenger seat of the car, making sure I was comfortable, before running to his side, he jumps in immediately driving us away from the broken railing before anyone shows up.