Running From Truth

Numero Nueve~ Aliath

HAPPY EASTER MY LOVELIES! So sorry I haven't replied or been updating lately been SUPA busy.... I'll be on tomorrow sending my love but for now I gotta get ma beauty sleep!
Love you all xx

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"Come on!" Xavier screams at the sky and kicks the wall repeatedly. Iris stands up and runs over to him, calming him down. Charles's in my lap smiling up at me and making those adorable cute baby noises. I smile at him and tickle his sides. My heart aches... I lost all of my family, my children, my brother and the guy I love.

Who knows if they're alive? Who knows if they're not being tortured? Who knows if they ended up like Hale? Poor Hale, I hope it was quick.

"As soon as we're out of this I promise you a funeral, you were my first love. I doubt I can ever forget you. Hale, you left your mark on the world." I say gazing up into the stars.

"I promise." A tear slips.
Then, the most remarkable thing happens... I perceive a glittering glance of a shooting star.

"Hale, I'll always love you." I smile as his presence passes. I'll make myself believe that that shooting star was him saying that he's happy, that he's forgiving, that he's happy. He's happy, that's all I need.

"Hey beautiful." Ben smiles at me.

'Traitor.' The voice sense shivers up my spine. It's absurd but it is possible.

"Hey." I say back.

"He's happy don't worry." He sits down beside Charles and he puts an arm over my shoulder.

"I know, but I feel so guilty. So scared. I feel like I deserve this." I say holding Charles closer to my body. I pat his back gently wishing him to sleep.

"No one deserves this. Those who deserve the best, will get the best." He says patting his grey beard.

"Hey, stop acting like Santa." I giggle gently. He laughs.

"Yes miss."

"I thought it was all over, you know?" I look down, more guilt creeping in.

Ben hesitated, before shakily saying, "Yeah."

I eyed him suspiciously. Hesitation? His voice shaking?

Once again, 'Traitor' popped into my mind. I sit there for a while, thinking over events with Ben and signs of him being a traitor.

All of a sudden someone cussed really loud, a loud clang followed that and my head snapped towards the noise.

Max closed her eyes and leant against the wall.

"Max?" I spoke and walked over to comfort her.

"My phone is dead." She flatly said.

"Were you trying to contact Fang?" I asked.

Max nodded. "We need a plan. We need to get back with the others."

"We do." Xavier piped up and that's when I noticed everyone was crowded around us.

"Most of us lost our phones." Alex said.

"I have my phone..." Azar begins never finishing his sentence. My body freezes, everyone becomes stiff. Gun shots and the blood curdling scream that belongs to them.

"Move over to the bins." I say through gritted teeth.

"What? We should run!" Max says a bit to loudly.

"Maximum! Please shut up."

"She's right though. We have to go, leave here. Find out where we are, find a way to our family." Alex says.

"What do you think I am? Stupid? I know that we need to find them! We don't know where we are! We don't know who we're dealing with! Heck, we don't even know if we're alive or not!" I shout.
Another gunshot.
The scream.

"An Aliath." I breathe.

"A what?" Iris asks confused.

"An Aliath."

"What is that?"

"A death scream. The scream of murder." I say.

The thing is, Aliath is a new word. A word that came to me, literally just then. It was as if someone forced the word into my brain. It must be important, that's the only reason why I would say it.

"Myra. We need, to go." Alex says through gritted teeth.

"Shut up Alex, she's thinking." Xavier says sternly, Alex looks at him with bulging eyes.

"Don't speak to me like that." He seethes.

"Don't speak to him like that!" Iris yells at Alex.

"How about we all shut up so we decrease the chance of getting murdered in a place where no one would find our bodies!" Ben says interrupting everyone.

"Ben's right." Max agrees, "we need to get out of here as soon as possible. Taking one step at a time."

"Fine." Xavier says.
"Fine." Alex says.
"Whatever." Iris rolls her eyes.

"So. What's first?" I ask everyone, they look at me.

"We were kinda hoping you had a plan. You know, like always?" Iris cringes. I laugh, frustrated by the fact that I'm always relied on. I have the most experience, yes but still... It's like being pregnant, I don't want to loose them, but I wish it would just be born and stop the whole drama.

"Okay, first things first. Get away from whoever that is." Ben says pointing at the sound over there.

"Let's just head towards the beach that's over there." Xavier says pointing West.

"How do you know there's a beach there?" Alex asks him.

"Because, I saw it while we were trying to find out where we are."

"And?"

"I think we're in America." He says, his face looking like it was going to explode if he hadn't of said it any quicker.

"What why?" Azar speaks up, for the first time in forever. I force myself to stop singing along to the frozen song.
(A/N I know we all do it).

"Well you know how people say that LA is tough and stuff?" Xavier says. We shake our heads staring blindly at him.

"Well anyway I just have a feeling we're in America, or Brazil." He puffs out his chest proud of his himself. I shake me head.

"We're in Australia."

"We're in America." Xavier argues.

"Explain the Aussie accents then." Iris joins in. I laugh as Xavier face turns into an expression of 'brain torture'.

"Oh no, his brain is thinking." Max says.

"For the first time in forever." I begin singing along to the song. Ben shakes his head.
Another gunshot reminds us that we have to move.

Or else we'll be the ones releasing an Aliath.