I'm not calling you a liar...
It was dark and she knew she should’ve agreed to let Martin pick her up. But, noo, she had to be nice and sensible and a good cousin. Ugh.
Then again, Martin did have a flight ridiculously early tomorrow-No, today actually.. And he’d been someone’s man with a van all weekend. Not to mention Douglas, and whatever they got up to.
What she really should’ve done was stay home. Who cares if she had the social lie of a dead snail.
No one, that’s who.
Suddenly, a noise shook her out of her little reverie and Charlie actually jumped before starting to walk faster.
She wasn’t the biggest of heroes (not exactly Gryffindor material) and the fact that she now knew all the monsters in the books, games, series and movies she liked were real..Didn’t really help.
Looking around she realized she’d wandered off from the semi-crowded sreet she was in earlier and had traded it for a shady looking alley. Great. And now, she could hear it wasn’t as abandoned as she’d thought.
Maybe..maybe it’s a stray cat. She thought hopefully. They have those here right? Of course they did, she distinctly remembers seeing a stray cat in an episode of Inspector Spacetime.
”H-hello?”
Wow. Solid move, Charlie. It wasn’t like you’ve seen a gazillion horror movies start like this.
Surprisingly, or not, depending on how you look at it, no one answered and Charlie let out a breath she hadn’t realized holding.
So, she picked up her pace and practically ran from the back way she was in. Only to have the exit being blocked by three-no four large figures.
She stopped dead in her tracks and tried to control her breathing, praying to Gandalf (oddly) that she hadn’t noticed her. Hovering about unsure whether to make a run for it or hide behind a near by dumpster she was quickly scared into doing the latter as one of the figures raised their voice.
”We know you’re out here you know!”Was what Charlie could make out and she crept closer to the wall, more out of the way, with every word.
Until she bumped into something…squishy.. A hand over her mouth was the only thing that kept her from being heard as it muffled her screaming and Charlie felt tears stinging in her eyes as she craned her neck to see what-or who, was next to her.