To ere is human they said, made it look like there was redemption for every mistake made. I wish I had known better, How did they find me?
It wasn't always like this, I grew up in a good neighborhood with God fearing parents. I was a good child, the ideal child. I never got into trouble, always had good grades and I had friends my parents were proud of. Then they died in a freak for accident. I was old enough to live on my own but I never went back to church, it reminded me of them and I blamed God for what happened to them. It wasn't long before I started hanging out with the wrong crowd, drinking and smoking whenever I could.
Life was easy, simple, I didn't have to care for anybody, not even the ones I called "friends". We took things to the next level, joined a cult and started robbing small stores. The police paid little to no attention to us. We went well for a while until one of us decided to get greedy and made us rob a bank. We got out safe but had every authority looking for us. Life became hard, had to sleep with one eye open. We didn't even trust ourselves anymore.
I got tired of that life on the run. It wasn't what I envisioned even with my parents gone. I had enough. One morning I sneaked out and made a call out to the authorities to meet me somewhere secret so I could rat out my "friends" and in return, they would grant me safety from them and from other authorities. I don't know how but word got out I snitched. My life was in danger. I was moved to a secure location, "witness protection" they called it.
I moved out of there 5 years ago when they thought it was safe and started a whole new life, had a wife and two beautiful angels to call daughters. I never knew they'd find me.
Outside my door stands two people from my former cult group, it sent shock wave in-between my bones. I called the police but they don't get here for another five minutes. I knew my past would catch up to me but I didn't think it would be this close. I know my fate if I open that door but how long do I keep running? How long before they find me again? what do I tell my wife, my kids? I see them walking towards the door, this is it, my fate. They want me, not my family. We go by a code, or we did, they won't touch my family if I give myself in.
door opens