When I wake up, I'm laying alone in the uncomfortable hotel bed.

I groan and rub my eyes as I stretch my legs out.

Jared peeks around the corner, his hair that's begun growing out slightly hanging down in his face, his eyes lighting up when he sees I'm awake.

"Morning, Alex." He says as he walks over and holds his hands out to help me get out of bed.

He pulls me into a sitting up position, gives me a quick kiss, and I wrap my arms around his neck as he straightens himself out so he's standing up straight.

"I was thinking, let's go to a café and get breakfast." Jared offers as he waddles us to the kitchen where he's brewing coffee.

My eyes quickly light up and I start bouncing up and down like a kid after he sets me on the counter.
"I've been craving a blueberry muffin for ages." I say excitedly.

Jared laughs at my childish behavior and pulls the creamer out of the refrigerator, knowing I like to douse my coffee in chocolate coffee creamer.

After he mixes the creamer into my coffee, I grab it and immediately take a sip of it, licking the bit off of my upper lip.

"Thank you," I say happily, my eyes closing as he leans slightly down to kiss me, his soft lips lightly brushing mine before he locks his lips with mine.

After he pulls back, slightly smirking before he takes his boring, disgusting, plain old black coffee, brings the rim of the cup up to his lips and takes a sip from it.

I crinkle my nose in disgust, imagining the bitter taste.
"I don't understand why you don't put any creamer in that." I mutter as I take a sip from my coffee.

"Because I don't like my coffee to taste like hot chocolate," he says with a slight chuckle.

I scrunch my eyebrows and narrow my eyes at him slightly.
As much as it does taste like hot chocolate, it still gives me that morning boost to keep me awake through the day.

"Oh well," I mutter as I put my cup down on the counter beside me.
"It still wakes me up," I say, grinning after I say it.

He shrugs a bit before my phone starts ringing, making us both jump, and causing me to widen my eyes.

Jared almost immediately grabs my phone and turns it over, sighing in relief when he sees who it is.

He slides the button and puts the phone up to his ear.
"Hey, Phil. Wha-"

I hear muffled, almost panicked speaking coming through the other end of the line, Jared's eyes widening a bit.

"What?"

"Jared? What's going on?" I ask, my heart beginning to pound in my chest.

"Hold on, Phil," he says before putting the phone in speaker phone.

"Jared?" I hear Phil's voice ask almost immediately, a door slamming soon after.

"I'm here, tell Alex what you told me," he says before shoving my phone into my hands.

"Okay, so uhh," he mutters and breathes heavily.
"Jason just remembered that share your location thing," he says quickly.
"And, he said that you sent it to him about a year ago. You know, the send it indefinitely or whatever. Turn it off," he says.

"Right ahead of you," I say as I shut off the share my location thingy.

"Okay, now you need to get out of there. Seriously," he says, causing me to begin to chew on my bottom lip anxiously.

"Why?" I ask softly.

"He's headed towards the hotel you're at," he says, that sense of urgency in his voice beginning to grow stronger.
"And, he plans on killing Jared in attempts to win you over."

My eyes widen as my grip on my phone loosens.

"Alex," he says before pausing for a moment.
"He has a gun."

I hang up almost immediately and sprint to the room, where Jared's just barely finishing up his packing.

"We have to go," I say as I throw my clothes into my bag.

"I know, Phil told me that he's heading here." He says as he puts on his vans.

"Did he tell you the part about the gun?" I ask, looking over at him, arching an eyebrow at the same time.

"The gun?" He asks, his eyes widening and his eyebrows furrowing.

I take a deep breath and look at him as I pull on my shirt, which dishevels my hair which very badly needs a new haircut.
"Jason is on his way here." I mutter, looking down slightly before looking back up at him, looking straight into his eyes as I open my mouth and say,
"He has a gun. And he's planning on killing you so he can have me to himself."

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Heyyyyy guys, I'm back! (Hello to the probably two people who stayed to wait for this update)
I apologize for this short, shitty chapter taking so long to come out :( I've had so much going on in life, from working full time, (literally 5 days a week, all 8 hour shifts) to my family breaking apart- which is something I'd rather not get too into.

I'll start trying to update more :)
Also, if you haven't yet, go read my book, "Abducted" if you haven't yet.
I'm probably gonna restart it bc I rushed a couple major parts in the story, partly bc I was trying to write quickly (which was a vvv bad idea holy wow).

Anyways, love you guys! x