Trust Fall (Deadweight series: Book 1)

What are you talking about?

Two days into being left alone, Reena had the same routine of watching base, hiding in the tent, not trusting anyone but Tequila, Moonlight, and Phil, and finally not getting much sleep.

The one time she did, she hadn't noticed Rambo, Ronnie, and Rambo's two friends enter the watch tower. She was completely out of it. When they found her, Rambo's laughter woke her up. She sat up and tried to crawl against the back of the tent but he grabbed her foot and dragged her out.

No, no, no!

Her breathing grew erratic as she saw the face of the person that tried to kill her again. She couldn't think straight and when Rambo got her to her feet in the corner bottom of the three story watch tower she could barely stay conscious. This could've been because she had realized that another person she wanted to trust so desperately had turned against her.

Ronnie had the same, disgusted, hateful, and angry look with her just like Rambo did. Just like his friends did. She hadn't done anything to them but for some reason they all agreed to hate her.

"Where ya been, Reena?" Rambo asked, keeping her in the corner. "We missed ya!"

"I... I've just been... looting a lot outside of base. Haven't had the time to... to stay and babysit the base." She said in a shaking voice as she looked over at her radio from the corner of her eyes and started to move her hand to her pistol.

Ronnie noticed this but instead of telling Rambo, he grabbed her hand and threw a hard right hook at her, laying her on the ground but conscious. This seemed to snap her out of it though. She sat up and looked at them, growing angrier and angrier.

"I don't know what your problem is with me, Rambo!" She screamed as she stood up. "I don't know why ANY of you hate me!" Reena yelled as she pushed Ronnie away from her considering her hadn't let her arm go after he punched her.

"Careful there, girly." One of Rambo's taller friends said in a condescending tone.

Reena scoffed, adrenaline running through her veins. "Or what? He's already tried to kill me. You gonna try and finish the job that he couldn't?" She spat her blood at his feet.

Rambo grabbed her hair but she kicked him in the crotch and was going to bolt for the door but saw the other friend of Rambo lock it. She darted upstairs and all the way to the top. Ronnie waited downstairs. Rambo and his friends came to the top.

"What're you talking about, Reena?" Rambo said as he got close to her, cornering her at the railing of the watchtower. "I never tried to kill you."

"Oh bullshit!" She screamed not noticing his friends making an effort to get on either side of her.

Rambo got closer to her. "You really wanna go down this road?" He said as he cracked his knuckles.

She got off the railing of the watch tower and walked a couple steps towards him, being toe to toe with him. Her face hurt bit she wasn't going to back down. Not again. "You're just some pussy hiding behind his guns and shaking in his fucking boots. You are tormented by the thought of me and Lyra in your boys club."

Rambo took a deep infuriated breath, his blood now boiling. He took his arm back and socked her in the chest, she fell back on the watchtower railing. The breath left her lungs but she didn't give up. Her resolve grew sturdier as she grinned.

"I'm... right." Reena gasped, catching her breath. "Aren't I?" She started to peel herself off the railing as she lunged at him, managing to scratch his eye and give him a nasty claw mark just as his friends grabbed her arms and held her in place.

Rambo gave her an upper hook, chipping her front tooth, cutting her tongue. She spit the blood in his face and kicked him in the leg. "You little..." Rambo growled angrily.

"Fuck you!" She screamed.

Rambo gave his friends the signal to move. He grabbed Reena's arms and tightly held them at her sides, backing her against the railing and dangling her over the edge. "You're done, Reena." Rambo hissed as he let her go.

She went over the edge, despite trying to fight him, and landed on her stomach. Everything went black.