I don't want a real relationship but I don't want a fictional one

Chapter seventeen: Gerald

[Heroine, don't forget you need to finish the game.] 

In the middle of the night, my phone is ringing. I thought it was the alarm. I press the button Call. 

"Hello? Am I speaking to?" 

I hear a voice. 

"Hello?" 

I look at my phone. 

[Gerald] 

"Gerald?" I rub my eyes. 

"I'm sorry to call you at this time. You don't mind coming down to the station." 

"um...yeah, sure."

"I'll pick you up since transportation won't be running. Where do you live?" 

I gave him the address.

"I'll be there in a hour." 

I look at the time on my phone.

[3:15am]

The sun hasn't even come up yet. I start work at 8 am.

I force myself to get up and quietly get my clothes.

I haven't seen Gerald since he met me in the hospital.

Hopefully, that attacker is jail or something.

He probably wants me to identify the suspect.

I had to wake up Saya that I was leaving her apartment to head down the station.

She immediately woke up hearing the word "Police station."

"What did you do!?" She said.

"Don't worry, it's nothing. I have an old friend who wants to talk to me about suspect."

"wait, hold on. why?"

I try not to tell her about what happen to me. I don't want to make it a big deal.

"I'll be back an hour or two. I'm leaving."

"keys are on the table," she points on the small table she has beside her bed. 

"I'll be back," I take her keys. 

I left her room, unlock her door and locking her door. 

I left out of the building waiting in the cold. 

There were hardly people outside. I saw people exercising in the park. They didn't have a coat.

I didn't eat any breakfast. I don't eat at this time. 

A black car pull in front of me. I couldn't see the driver since the window are covered. Once, It was rolled down. 

It's Gerald. 

He looks so tired than I was. He try to put a smile even though he failed at it giving a morning greeting. 

I smile back to him, "Morning." 

I enter his car in the passenger seat.

His car had the heater on. I feel so warm. 

"Sorry for taking you at this time, we might have found him from the description you gave me." 

"oh...."