The Red Doves

Chapter XVI

Alan picked Arlen up. As he started to walk away with him, Isaiah and Taylor, who were laying on the ground, grabbed both of Suziky's legs. Surprised, Suziky screamed. Alan turned around and, when he saw Suziky falling, started to run away with Arlen so his two lovers couldn't catch up on them. Suziky fell on the ground and the boys stood back up, not even a single look behind them.
At the same moment, the young woman grabbed the bottom of their jeans and pulled them as strong as possible. The two boys, who didn't expect that, fell once again on the ground.

- Stay down, please! then screamed Suziky. I just want talk to you!

- And why would we listen? said Taylor. You literally kidnapped our boyfriend in front of us!

- I know but let me explain! continued Suziky before being cut by Isaiah.

- If you stay down and pull all your weapons out, we'll listen.

- Isaac! shouted Taylor.

- Fine, if you insist.

Suziky stayed down, as asked, and raised her hands to show she didn't have any weapons left. The two lovers looked at each other and looked back at Suziky.

- Ok, we'll listen, said one of them.

- Me and Alan never wanted this. Alan was kidnapped as well from a gang 2 months ago at least.

- Why would we care? asked Taylor.

- Tay-Tay, said Isaiah.

- What?!

- Anyways, as I said, Alan was kidnapped too, repeated Suziky. The gang who got him forced him to do bad things like that.

- Are you from this gang? asked Isaiah.

- Yes, I got in a month ago.

Isaiah was now looking at Taylor again. This one was staring at Suziky with hate and anger. As for her, she kept telling them what happened : the day Alan tried to steal her, the night where she went to see their boss, the symbol on the bottom of her stomach and all the things they had to do from that moment.
When Suziky was finish with her story, Isaiah was looking at her with some sadness while Taylor's face didn't change a bit. Instead, he stood back up, taking Suziky and Isaiah in surprise, and went above the girl. From there, he grabbed both of her arms and blocked them on her back. Then, he applied his legs on them so she couldn't move them. Suziky was fighting back, but each move of hers were making it worse. Isaiah faced him confused.

- Taylor, why are you doing this? he asked him in panic.

- I'm taking revenge on the partner of this kidnapper! They need to pay!

- But Taylor, she didn't mean that for us!

- Please, Taylor, I can try to get Arlen out! added Suziky, not even trying to fight back anymore.

- How could I trust you after what you told us, huh?! the angry boy shouted.

- Please, love, let her go, begged Isaiah.

- Taylor, I'm really sor-

Taylor grabbed Suziky's hair and knocked her head on the ground as she was trying to apologize. Isaiah screamed of fear and her of pain. Her forehead was now hurting a lot and she even felt the fresh blood rolling down to her cheeks. Taylor was about to hit again but Isaiah held him. He moved his hands away from her hair and tried to pull him off Suziky's back.
But Taylor didn't want to leave so he pushed Isaiah just enough to make him fall on the ground. Since he was surprised of his lover's move, Isaiah stayed there, some tears now coming to him. Taylor then kept hitting Suziky's head to the dirty floor while screaming his hate and his anger.
The young woman was seeing the scene of her mother doing the same in loop in her head. From these images, Suziky screamed and made a move to destabilize her assailant. Taylor swayed and Suziky pushed him away from her before standing back up. It made Taylor even more mad and he ran to her. Suziky tried to block him but he caught her by surprise by grabbing both her arms instead of her throat to slam her on the wall of the alley.
The pain was running on the back of the girl and Taylor punched her in the face, breaking her nose in a big crack.

- Taylor, stop, for god of sake! screamed Isaiah who was now on his feet.

For an answer, Taylor punched Suziky again and again. Her cheeks were bright red. Her lips, nose and forehead were bleeding a lot and her tears were falling. Suziky was seeing blurry and started losing her breath. As Isaiah was trying to stop Taylor, this one went for another punch. Suziky bent down and, when Taylor brought back his fist to him, stood back up and hit his forehead with hers.
Suziky yelled and Taylor staggered back, bumping into Isaiah who fell for the fifth time at least. Taylor passed his hand on his forehead to move the sweat away and ran back to Suziky, not giving her a single break. He tried to punch her but she dodged and grabbed his shoulders. With the strength she had left, she hit his stomach as hard as possible with her knee. Taylor let a scream out and fell on his knees. Isaiah went to him and held him in his arms.

- I'm sorry for what happened, said Suziky in a breath. Now that you know the truth, I'll be going, she finished.

She walked away from them with difficulty, swiping the blood from her lips and nose away. She picked up the knife she left on the ground some time ago – the one Alan passed to her at the very beginning of the fight – and continued her way where the car was waiting. Suddenly, hands held her right arm and pulled her back. Taylor was looking at her, even more mad then before and was holding her arm so tight that she dropped her weapon once again.
Instead of falling to the ground, the knife landed in Taylor's hands. Isaiah, who was unconscious some meters away, couldn't help her now.

- Did you knocked your own partner out just to be sure you'd be able kill me? asked Suziky, confused.

- Sometimes, we need to sacrifice what we love to attempt our goals, he answered.

- This attitude could bring you into becoming a murderer soon enough, said Suziky with a serious look.

- I will never become someone like you! Taylor shouted before aiming the knife above her head.

Suziky lifted her right arm to grab the armed hand of Taylor. She squeezed his wrist to make him drop the knife and caught it. She let his hand go and turned around to walk away.

- You won't let you go so easy on me! screamed Taylor.

Before he could grab her again, the young woman turned back to him and stabbed him in the stomach with the knife she was holding.