Walk the Line For You

Walk the Line Part 6

"What about these?" I ask Kensley inside a convenience store the next day. We're a few hours from the border. We stopped to get gas and to stock up on food.

"Those are cute, get them," she says as she brushes her hand along my ass on her way up to the cash register to pay. I take the sunglasses off and follow her.

My stride stops instantly when I hear a voice from my right side. My heart stops and my stomach flips upside down when I turn to see my father standing here. Kensley's unaware. "Dad," I breathe.

Kensley turns to face me, but she notices my rigid stance, then she follows my line of sight. I'm frozen. Her hand slides into mine and she harshly pulls me away out of the store. "Ellie, move!" I stumble over my feet, so she picks me up and throws me over her shoulder and sprints outside toward her car. Her feet stop quick; I don't know why. I can't see what's in front of her. "Fuck."

"Kens, what?" I squirm, she sets me down. I turn and take in a lungful of air. Cops everywhere, all pointing their weapons at us. No! This can't happen! She's mine! No one is getting in our way of living a happy life together. I start to feel desperate as I frantically search in my mind of what I can do to help us get out of here alive. Kensley seems to have shut down; so much for my big bad soldier who would do whatever it took to keep me safe. But wait, it isn't me who needs saving and protecting, it's her. She's the one who killed all those guys and kind of kidnapped me. She needs me. I reach in the back of her pants and pull out her gun, pointing it at the police officers.

"Ellie!" Kensley barks at me and tries to grab for the gun but I turn the gun on her. She throws her hands up and steps back from me.

"Drop your weapon or we will shoot!" one of the officer's shouts.

I aim the gun back on them. "No! You will not! You will let her go or I will shoot one of you." I know I'm going to jail after that; threatening a police officer with a gun. Not cool. I had to do it, though. I keep my eyes trained on the cops with Kens' gun aimed at them as I speak to Kensley. "Walk to your car and start it."

Kensley makes no effort to move, she still has her hands held up.

"Kensley, listen to me!" I yell at her.

A couple of the cops shift and aim their guns at Kensley.

"Stop it!" I scream to the top of my lungs. The tension is palpable, and I know we aren't getting out of this with ease or at all. I'm starting to feel desperate now. It's only me and her gun against what feels like the rest of the world. "Please don't hurt her." I'm now crying and shaking. Everything was perfect just a few hours ago.

"Ellie," I hear my father's voice from behind. "You don't have to do this. It's her they want, not you."

"I don't care! I love her, I need her," I sob as I keep the gun forward. I look to my right over at Kensley. She mouths the words "I love you" to me and smiles. Then everything changes on a dime. Kensley lunges at me taking me down to the ground just as a shot is fired. I can't tell if I fired the gun or if someone else shot at us. We hit the ground with most of her weight slamming me down, hard. I grunt loudly with instant pain searing around the back of my head. Everything's blurry and my hearing is muffled, but I can tell there's commotion going on. Kensley's dead weight on top of me, I can't move. I'm still holding the gun that's wedged between my stomach and hers.

My hearing clears up and I can hear someone shouting, "Don't move! Throw your weapon away!"

I want to comply, but my hand is stuck between the both of us. Something wet and warm is covering my hand and soaking through my shirt. I realize it's blood. I then realize that Kensley is shot, but how?

Oh my God, I shot her. It was her gun that went off when she tackled me. I turn my head and stare into those beautiful, pale, green eyes of hers that no longer hold any life in them. My whole body starts to tremble and I'm blinded by the ocean of tears bursting through. "No, no, no, no, no," I repeat through my choked sobs. "What did I do?" Suddenly, a cop is advancing on us, he's going to take her away and throw me in jail, I know it. What to do, what to do?

At the last second, Kensley's voice filters through my dizzy head, "We're in this together, no matter how scary it could get. I love you, Ellie."

I kiss her still warm lips and look into her lifeless, yet, beautiful eyes one last time. "I love you. I'm on my way, wait for me, baby." I drag my bloodied hand up between us while my foreshadowing words slice through my memory. I'd rather die with you than live without you. I point the barrel of the gun under my chin. The last thing I hear is my father shouting my name. I close my eyes and—

THE END