A Christmas Wish Come True (part ll)

Chapter Twenty

A/N: chapter twenty already guys! :)  You do not know how excited I am to have written this much.  This story is like,  so amazing.  I love writing this story with all the characters and parts,  I just know it'll be hard when I'm forced to let it end.  I hope you guys have been enjoying it.  Tell me your thoughts,  I don't mind   just,  please no hate,  that's all I ask.  But,  let's get in with the story! :) 

Amelia's POV:

Two. More.  Days. The man had whispered yesterday.  So,  now,  I only have one.  But,  since i joined,  does that mean i have to worry about it?

"Turn left."  I whisper to Maria.  Maria turns left,  holding my hand tightly with her right since she's only using one hand to drive. Amy and Owen fell asleep in the back since they haven't slept yet since last night. 

I should tell Maria.  I thought.  Maybe it'll help her somehow...

"No!"  A voice screams in my head,  making my face go green and my insides churn.

"Stop the car."  I whisper to Maria,  dropping my phone and putting my hand over my mouth. 

Maria's eyes widen and she stops on the side of the highway,  perfect timing for me to jump out of the car and vomit. 

Maria gets out of the car.  She starts rubbing my back soothingly and grabs my hair.  She gently ties it in a ponytail as she rubs my back soothingly again.  "How about me and you stop real quick and get something to eat,  because it looks like that's why you got sick,  since now you're just dry heaving." 

I nod slightly as I retch the last time.  I shakily get to my feet.  Maria helps me get into the car and helps me lean my seat back.  She grabs a blanket from the back,  going back over to me.  She drapes the blanket over me since I was shivering.  Her final touch,  she takes off her hoodie and puts it on me, kissing me on the forehead softly and shutting the door. 

She gets into the driver's seat offering her hand for me to hold.  Without hesation,  I take it and hold her hand tightly. 

She drives us to a nearby breakfast fast food place.  She gets me some pancakes with some orange juice and syrup with sausage while she gets  the same. 

"Okay,  now at least keep nibbling on that."  She says as we start driving again.  "Now,  where do we need to go next?"

I tell her exactly where we need to go and she drives there,  taking a bite of pancake that I fed to her.  After she took it I giggled because I thought it was funny since she tries to get rid of some syrup on the side of her mouth with her tounge. 

"Here."  I say,  wiping the spot with a napkin and kissing her cheek.  Maria smiles as she keeps driving. 

We eat quietly for most of it.  I want to tell her so bad but as soon as I tried to tell Maria that voice would scream in my head and I almost threw up again every time.  This happened until I finally gave up with tears stinging my eyes. 

Maria just holds my hand tighter.  "My love,  don't worry about it.  It's okay,  just relax,  I'll find out soon.  I love you." 

"I love you too."  I whisper,  a tear trickling down my cheek silently as I stare out at the sun setting. 

After about an hour Maria yelps,  going faster than before. 

I look over and my eyes widen.  I see Josh's car trying to flee. 

I sit up.  I stare as Maria drives faster,  trying to corner Josh,  but it seems like he has learned to memorize this place. 

Maria turns a right,  then Josh dissapears.  I scream as Maria slams on the breaks,  Maria almost slamming the car into a brick wall.  We're stuck,  we hit a dead end.  Maria starts to back up the car but as she does that,  Josh's car comes into the alleyway,  making no escape route for us. 

"We're trapped."  I whisper,  shaking. 

Maria gets out of the car taking out her gun.  I quickly go behind the seat and take Amy's gun and get out too.  Raising the gun praying that it's loaded. 

Josh gets out of his car with a few of his friends.  They're all holding guns,  and instead of pointing at me,  they're all pointing at Maria. 

I gulp in fear.  I can't let Maria get hurt.  I just can't. 

"Drop your gun."  The voice in my head tells me.  I'm forced to oblige.  I drop the gun with trembling hands. 

Maria looks at me with wild eyes.  Her face goes pale and she looks back at Josh. 

"Drop your gun!"  Maria shouts at all of them.  None even move. 

We're stuck.  I thought.  We're all done for. 

"Well,  this is just fun."  Josh says with a malicious grin.  "I am going to beat you,  Maria,  and I'm going to run away again.  Just the same as I did  before.  But,  this time,  somethings gonna be different.  Instead of stabbing you and letting you recover,  I'm gonna kill you."  he laughs evily, then turns.  He goes to look at me.  "Oh,   hello.  I thought I killed you."

"Wh-what do you mean?"  I ask,  horror-stuck. 

"Oh"  he starts.  "Remember when you got "sick"  and you died because of the treatments? Well, I poisoned it." 

I stare at him in disbelief.  "H-how?" 

"It was quite easy."  He says.  "You all are quite dumb anyway."  His friends laugh.  "So,  I've been killing over hundreds of people because I've been poisoning them." 

Maria screams in rage.  She charges. 

I scream as I hear the trigger get pulled.  I quickly run torwards Maria shaking.  If someone's dying,  it's not gonna be Maria.  She has so much to live for,  I don't.

So I run and block the bullet from going into Maria's chest and instead, going into mine.