Alone |✔

Breath

                    I was so relieved to see him, my nerves finally can calm down. I stared at him, his hands were handcuffed. I wanted to help him so badly, I moved my eyes down to his shoulder, he was hurt, looked like a wound made by a knife.

I was about to run to him but I was being held back by a guard, they put cloth across Carlo's mouth so he can't talk. I was struggling against the guards. Kicking and hitting but nothing worked. Jonathan stood in front of me, hands behind his back ''Alexandra calm down... We are not going to hurt you''

I looked at him with disgust ''I do not believe you''

He smiled at me sparing a glance at Carlo ''Your friend here didn't tell us anything, so the only thing we can do is get the information out of you and your friends''

I heard Carlo struggling against the guards. I sighed ''We are not telling you anything ''

He was starting to get mad ''Tell me '' He took out a gun and pointed it at Carlo '' Or I'm gonna shoot him''

I looked into Carlo's eyes. He didn't look scared of dying, he was scared for us.

I sighed and looked back at Jonathan who was smirking, I wanna wiped that smirk off of him, even if I have to kill him ''We came from a city like 300 miles and we came upon here''

He nodded ''You survived them?''

I was genuinely confused ''Who?''

He looked down at me ''The cloaks''

I shivered hearing their name ''Yeah. We did''

He told something to the guards in a language I didn't understand. The guards suddenly took off my handcuffs, the moment he took them off, I ran to Carlo and hugged him so hard, I didn't want to lose him again. He couldn't hug me back, he buried his head in my neck ''I'm sorry Alexa... I'm so sorry''

I whispered in his ear ''It's okay... It's okay''

Someone tapped on my shoulder and I turned around, standing in front of Carlo. It was Jonathan ''I have some things to discuss with you... While we do that your friends will go to a cell''

I stood in front of Carlo not thinking of leaving them ''No. I will only talk to you if all of them can come or I'm not talking to you at all''

He sighed ''Fine'' The guards took off their handcuffs ''Follow me''

I took Carlo's hand looking up at him ''Are you okay? Did they hurt you? I shouldn't have let you leave. I-''

He interrupted me caressing my hand with his thumb ''Alexa... I'm okay... And I would have left either you agreed or not''

I sighed looking down while following them. I looked at our other friends. Samuel was nervous and looking around like in some kind of zoo. Christina was looking at the guards and around for anything useful. I'm just worried about Cathrine and Adrian. Hopefully, they are okay.

I gripped Carlo's hand tighter once we entered some office. It had only a modern white desk with a computer on it, a couch and some chairs, a big window with a view of the dessert. 

Carlo whispered in my ear ''I don't have a good feeling about this. Let's get out of here and fast the moment we can''

I nodded ''Yeah. I agree''

We sat down next to each other on the white couch, Jonathan sat by his desk, the guards standing by the doors and by the large window which was from the ceiling to the floor. 

Jonathan cleared his throat ''Where do I start?''

I heard Samuel say ''Maybe from the beginning''

Samuel pissed him off ''If I was you I would watch my mouth''

He scoffed but didn't say anything.

Jonathan was about to say but I interrupted him ''Wait... We never told you our names. How do you know?''

He smiled at me ''We have been watching you''

Then it hit me. Those robot things, they were watching us.

A couple of seconds passed in silence when Jonathan started again ''Anyways... What I want to discuss with you is what will we do with you next?''

Carlo shrugged ''I don't know. Maybe let us go''

Jonathan chuckled writing something down ''Maybe. Or maybe I can keep you here in a cell forever''

He and the guards were the only ones laughing.

I cleared my throat ''What do you want from us?''

They stopped laughing ''I want you to tell me how you survived in that city''

I was about to say when Carlo interrupted me ''Why do you wanna know?''

Jonathan was starting to get angry ''None of your business''

Carlo chuckled sitting up ''Then its none of your business how we survived''

Jonathan was fuming now ''Take them to the room. NOW''

We pissed him off. We got up and Christina muttered ''What do we do now?''

Samuel shrugged ''Just follow them''

I was still holding hands with Carlo. Every time he caressed my hand with his thumb I shivered. It felt right and wrong.

They walked us to the room ''Get in''

I walked in first with Carlo next and then Samuel and Christine. The moment we walked in, they locked the doors. Samuel banged on the doors, but they didn't let us out.

Samuel mumbled ''Definitely not Aliens''

I looked around the room, it was a bedroom with a big bed and wardrobe with couch and table, a lot of plants and a big window with a balcony.

I turned towards Carlo and looked at his left shoulder, it wasn't bleeding but it didn't look good. I took his hand and took him to the bathroom. 

I closed the doors and told him to stand by the counter. I took a towel and put it under the water. I stood in front of him ''Uhm... Take off your shirt''

He looked down at me smirking but did as I said.

I widened my eyes at his abs but quickly got myself together. I started cleaning the wound and he would wince from time to time.

I could feel him looking at me ''Stop staring at me''

He chuckled. I looked up at him ''What's so funny?''

He smiled looking at me ''Nothing''

I looked at him and mumbled ''Suspicious''