Its been a few days since I left Isaiah with Iris' parents. I have called almost everyday, but nothing is the same. We moved from the first foreclosed house that we were at and now we are at an abandoned ware house. Its kind of a nice place we all have our own space and "Guy" has taken it upon himself to bring in a camera for us so we can keep an eye on who is outside the building.
Iris' dad has been kind enough to send us money every chance he gets. So we have been trying to get little things to sleep on and all that for now. And we have been showering at gas stations and getting meals from there as well, I mean when we have time to eat.
I don't have a chance to talk to Isaiah so I'm trying to figure out how we are going to escape the people that are trying to kill us.
"Vanessa what are you doing?" Mrs. Villarreal asks.
"I'm just trying to come up with a plan on how to take these guys down. Its just getting harder and harder knowing that Isaiah isn't with me. I just want to be able to hold him and have him with me."
"And that's what will happen. I promise. But for now we need to take our time, if we rush it we will mess up and someone could get hurt and we don't want that." She says while raising her eyebrow at me.
"I know, I know. I just want my family reunited."
"And I hope that I am included in this family." "Guy" says. "Guy" has been around more with us because someone put out that he helped us escape and now he is with us, on the run. But he is trying so hard to help come up with a plan.
"I have some good news." He says.
"Ok let me just get everyone all together so we could all talk." I say.
"Alright then." I gather everyone and bring them to the middle of the ware house.
"Ok so I have some good news. I just talked to one of my contacts in another government facility that is basically in charge of the base that destroyed your town. And according to him no one new anything about what they were working on and they definitely didn't know about them trying to kill you all. They want to help, my contact got me in touch with his boss and I explained the situation and they are going to help us in bringing the base down and avenging the town." "Guy" says.
"So that's it? Just like that? It can't be that easy. I mean how is a government facility going to just believe us small towners over some of their own?" I ask freaked, I mean it can't be that easy.
"I used to work for this facility Vanessa they know how I operate. And when they heard that there is a hit out on me for helping fugitives escape they had to know the whole story. Of course the base wouldn't let out the whole story, so when I called the Facility to let them know the whole story, they put 2 and 2 together and they are willing to help." He says.
"Ok now what do we need to do? Clearly we can't have you wondering around getting the stuff we need anymore because you too have a target on your back." Mr. Sanchez states.
In the middle of all that the phone rings.
"Whos calling? It can't be the kids. They know we are the ones who call them." I say while looking at the phone.
"I don't know answer it." Mrs. Sanchez says.
"Hello." I say in a shaky voice.
"Hi yes I'm looking for 'Guy'. " The voice on the other end says.
"Umm ok. But who is this?" I ask.
"Oh I'm so sorry where are my manners, my name is Chris. You must be Vanessa 'Guy' said you had a lovely voice. I'm working with him to help bring the base down. Is there anyway to talk to him? It's kind of important." Chris asks.
"Um yeah one moment. Its for you." I say while I hand the phone to "Guy".
"Hello? Chris how's everything going? Any news? Wait what??? Are you sure? FUCK! Ok yeah. We will do that. Should we head to you? Ok. We'll see you soon."
"What did he say?" I ask.
"I fucked up. They have been tracking us. Apparently when I first came to the Base they put a tracker in me. I just didn't know about it. Now Chris just told me where in my body it is. I need you all to help Vanessa take it out."
"Wait why me? I don't know how to do all that. Mrs. Villarreal is the nurse, why can't she do it?" I'm panicking, I don't know how to do that shit.
"I trust all of you but Vanessa I trust you the most. Please we have to get it out and we have to move from here right after. They could be on their way as we speak. Please Vanessa." He says to me with his eyes piercing right through my soul.
"Fine! Mrs. Villarreal you are going to have to talk me through it."
"Of course lets get to work. 'Guy' where is the tracker at?" She asks.
"Near my collar bone." Mrs. Villarreal looks at me and gives me this look that makes me even more nervous.
"You got this love. I trust you." I smile while I heat up the knife.
"Alright Vanessa you are going to press the knife hard but not to deep in we don't want to hit an artery. The cut is going to be long 'Guy' because we don't know exactly where the tracker is."
"I guess I should let you guys know my real name now huh? My name is Alejandro." He says in a shaky voice.
"Nice to meet you Alejandro. Now Vanessa are you ready?" I just nod my head and start to make the cut. Alejandro grunts and is squirming.
"HOLD HIM DOWN! HELP US! HE CAN'T MOVE! VANESSA NEEDS HIM COMPLETLEY STILL!" Mrs. Villarreal shouts.
"I'm sorry love I-I-I- I'm really t-t-t-t-trying." Alejandro says in a shaky voice. I look at him and rub his head with the hand that isn't busy and say, "You are going to be fine. I know it hurts, but the pain will go away. You have to stay still so I can do this fast. The more you move the longer this will take and we don't have that kind of time." I know I sound like I'm in full on mom mode but it worked he calmed down.
I make the cut and then I had to dig around to see if I could find the tracker.
"I found it. It's really in there, hold on I GOT IT!" I say as I pull it out.
"Damn that really hurt." Alejandro says.
"Alright now its out what do we do?" Mr. Sanchez asks.
"We destroy it, that's what we do." Mrs. Sanchez says.
"No we can't destroy it." I say. " We need to use it to our advantage up until now they think we still don't know about the tracker. Right?" They all nod their heads. "Well lets leave it here in the warehouse while we leave. Think about it. They will think that we are still here like sitting ducks." I say.
"You are right. Lets do it. But we got to go now. Chris told me that he can get us into an actual safe house until I can talk to his boss and they will help us from there." Alejandro says.
"Good. Cause I could use a shower." I say chuckling, when there is a loud pounding on the door.