Don’t Cry Baby

She looks so peaceful when she sleeps. I almost don't notice that she's handcuffed to the bed so she doesn't leave me. Her hair is disheveled and has some blood in a few parts. The bruise is slowly forming on her right cheek. I did that, I hurt her again. I didn't mean to , she just makes it so hard sometimes. The voices wouldn't stop and she wouldn't stop.

I sit at the edge of the bed cleaning my colt 45. I don't like having guns around her. I haven't liked being around guns since I left work but, something tells me I'll need this. I walk towards the small tv in this trash motel room. I turn it on and the first thing that pops up is a missing persons headline. I turn the tv up so I can hear what they're saying.

16 year old girl missing from her home, authorities ask that if anyone sees either of these people they should call 911 immediately. She is believed to have been taken by her boyfriend. A 21 year old man named Tyler Phoenix, believed to have assaulted 16 year old Damien Edson ; leaving him almost dead in an abandoned warehouse 30 minutes from Ashley Walters home.

I shut the tv off not wanting to hear anything further.

Don't let anyone take her.

Do what ever you have to do.

"Just shut up!" Ashley stirs in her sleep and I rub my hand over my face. They showed our pictures, meaning people everywhere know exactly what we look like. I get up off the bed, I make sure Ashley is still secured to the bed before grabbing the keys to her moms car and heading over to the nearest store. Hopefully a hat and sunglasses hides my identity enough for me to grab what I need.

and myself. This is probably the most convenient store I've ever been to. I grin silently to myself, if Ashley were here she would have giggled. I walk towards the counter with all the confidence I can muster and put my items down. The

need to ditch this car I'm sure they mentioned it on the news. I drive back to the hotel and set the things I bought on the bathroom sink. I check on Ashley once more, she is

once more to ditch her moms car. I drive as far from the

this properly. Fire, I need to set this thing on fire. I look throughout the car trying to find something I can use. I check the back and find a small amount of gasoline. Enough to set this on fire I hope. I poor it over the hood and inside the car, I take the lighter out of my pocket and rip a piece of my shirt off. I light the shirt and throw it inside the car. It doesn't light as well as I was hoping but eventually I can see the orange flicks of light swallowing up the drivers seat and travelling throughout the car. I run up the hill to the top of the bridge looking out over the

by the time anyone notices this it'll be nothing but black Ash. I smile at my

out. Being used to not sleeping has its perks. Once inside , Ashley is still asleep, I get to work on my hair, being that I have dark thick black hair I had to get bleach. Bleaching my hair was a fucking process. Once it was blonde I dyed

like a new person. I did my eyebrows too just to be safe. That was even harder then my whole damn head, how woman do this I do not know. I

She jolts awake and stares

"What."

have to fix your hair." I unlock Ashley's handcuffs and pull her into the bathroom. I sit her on the edge of the bathtub and get to work on

cut so much off, it took me years to grow it out that long."

bed so I can make a call. I walk outside the motel and stand in front of the door. There's someone I need to call, he'll

I'll need double of