The world Helen knew seemed to be changing daily, she could not understand how the things she’d heard about could actually be happening. She’d refused to listen to news reports one moment, and the next, couldn’t help herself, and try as she might she was finding it hard to call anyone on her phone.  The news was getting worse by the day, and she was so worried about Rob. He had not been in touch with her for three days, and the last time they’d spoken on the phone he’d said some very strange things that frightened her. She really thought he would have been here by now even if they did have a huge quarrel, besides he was the one doing all the shouting.<br/><br/>In three days she had not really ventured out, she felt very alone and at that moment, very alone and home sick. People still carried on with their lives, while others, like Rob looked…. She did not even want to think about what was forming in her mind, she had to get out of her house…. Now….Today.<br/><br/>She wanted to find him. Fear gripped her as she again sat down on her arm chair her head in her hands, tears welled up in her eyes making them feel like they bulged, she wiped them way.What was happening , he loved her didn’t he? Not wanting to know the answer made her feel like a coward. “I need you Robby… please….” she muttered.<br/>She thought of her mum and family the tears coming again. She tried her phone again but got nothing, again. “Oh god where is he?”<br/><br/>She wanted to throw her mobile phone against the wall the frustration taking control of her, she wanted to scream, to smash everything in sight, but what was the point? She walked to the window and looked out - her mind was made up she would go and look for him - the fear of him rejecting her made her stomach turned to knots, she'd not eaten and felt light headed as she walked in a daze towards the door, even that was a struggle. The voice in her head told her not be silly, to stay where she was, he would come when he was ready, but she pushed those thoughts away and moved step by step towards the door. Once outside she did not look at anyone directly - not making eye contact made her feel better somehow, people were acting differently lately or was she just imagining it? She really didn’t know.<br/><br/>At her car, at first, she couldn’t  put her finger on what was wrong, looking around all seemed well. For a moment she watched Mrs Carpenter watering her plants, then it came to her all of sudden, the something odd. She lived not far from the huge Dallas airport and suddenly realised she could no longer hear the noise of air traffic, she looked up just to confirm the empty skies. She was trying to keep her mind on her need to get to Rob’s place -  overtaking her dislike of driving, she was not the best of drivers, but moved steadily in the direction of his place near Fort Worth.<br/><br/>The light traffic made driving today tolerable, looking forward of the cab ahead of her; she could see a fairly clear road. “Brilliant.”<br/>She spoke aloud to ease her tensions, but it didn't really help so she turned the radio on  moving through the stations, she still hated the constant bombardment of adverts and negative news stories, an hour or two in Rob’s arms though would make all this bullshit go away.<br/><br/>The small scream filled her ears, an instant of thought registering a new feeling, something she had never felt before, behind closed eyes the brightest of light caused a reflex action, her hands went up to shield her face, then a silence was interrupted by violent shaking, and Helen forced herself to react with all the will power she could summon, she opened her eyes and held onto the steering wheel of<em> her </em>car, the world still moving past her at speed, finally coming to a halt as she realised she had stepped on her brakes.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>