The Squad ( Teenagers Only)

Chapter 2

I began by slowly taking the knife out of his hip, he didn't cry the whole time, just kept grunting and wincing. I pick up his T-shirt and try to mop up most of the blood, pressing harder and harder making sure not to lose anymore. Now it's time for the needle and thread.
" This is going to hurt," I say trying not to exchange any eye contact, I can't be distracted right now I have to be focused, for his sake. I take the needle in my shaky hand and try to run the string through the eye. I take a deep breath and start sewing his skin. I can hear his short breath through the curtain of my hair. I accidentally bump my elbow on the side of the car and scratch him across his wound. He grabs my small shoulder and wrenches his back in pain."I'm so sorry," I say, quickly putting the needle down next to me and taking his face in my hands. I just freeze there realizing what I just did, am doing. He looks at me with understanding eyes. I take my hands off his face, pick up the needle with the string through it, and start sewing as though nothing had happened, although I could feel his eyes on me. When I finish I get up and stretch out my tiny body, turning this way and that. "Ok," I say,"All done," He starts to get up even though I can still see the pain in his face "Here let me help," I say trying to urge my small hand to fit around his upper arm. Once he's standing up straight our eyes lock together, his eyes a mix of icy and dark blues as he stares into my golden, brown ones. "I just remembered I forgot to ask you what your name is?" He stares back with an surprised expression.
" It's Lucas," he says smiling,so that's his name, there was a long pause, " and your name is.........?"
"Oh, right it's Katrina," I reply, he nods his head with a small smile that takes my breath away. Just then something registers in my mind, "How did that hap-?" Suddenly two mean looking guys with matching red dragon tattoos leap from the forest cutting me off, mid sentence. One of the mean looking men, who had jet black hair and was much bigger than the other, glared at Lucas and the other, who had short curly blond hair and was shorter than the other man but was still much taller than me, glared at me. I stared at them wide eyed, my face frozen as my neck urged me to look at Lucas. Once my neck was turned all the way around I could see that he was glaring back at the men. I didn't know what to do, should I grab Lucas and run, no, I would be to slow to outrun the men.
"Thought you could get away did you?" the taller man with the jet black hair says, his voice gruff. His eyes traveled from Lucas' face to his hip, and stopped at the spot where the pocket knife had been impaled in him. Then it came to me, they were the ones who had stabbed him. I honestly didn't know why, but one thing was for sure, they were here to finish the job.
Out of the corner of my eye I could see Lucas start to get up and he quickly stumbled over to me. With his giant shadow looming over me he grabbed my upper arm and pulled me behind him.
"You don't scare me,"he said and squeezed my arm harder. It eventually started to hurt and I winced without making a sound. The men started towards us. Lucas turned to me quickly and pushed me out of the way of the charging men. He turned back towards them and punched the short one in the face and kicked the tall one between the legs, they both let out short loud groans. Lucas was hunched over and panting. I got up from the ground and ran over to him. "Are you ok?" I ask.
"I'm fine," he says still hunched over, I let him stay like that for a moment before I heard one of the men get up. I turned around to see the taller one coming towards me, I couldn't move I just stood there and started to panic. Just then I saw the evil grin on his face, he looked me up and down and I realized what he was about to do. Just then something inside me snapped, I wasn't about to let him take advantage of me like that. It suddenly became clear what I had to do, I charged at him with my small figure and slid under him between his legs so I ended up behind him. I stood up and saw that his back was still to me so I took the opportunity to jump up, wrap my arms around the front of his neck so I could climb up his back. I wrapped my legs around his waist and tightened my arms around his neck. He thrashed around with his arms trying to pry me off his back. I could hear him start to choke and when I felt him go unconscious I jumped off his back and ran to Lucas who was still bent over but then I realized that he was looking up at me.
"How.........did you.......do that?" He breathed heavily
"My dads a cop and he made me take self defense classes when I was around eight years old, but I think the real question is are you ok?" He stands up straight, grabs my hand and pulls me towards my silver Cadillac ignoring my question. Lucas opens the passenger door and waits for me to climb in. He bends down to help me get buckled even though I could tell he knew I could do it myself. I mean I didn't dislike it, but I saw him swallow when his knuckles grazed my B-cup breasts. I felt his chilled skin through my bloody sweater and I jump, he looks up startled.
" Sorry," He says guiltily, I noticed that his complection got much paler. Then he clears his throat. "Didn't mean to make you jump like that," He mumbles nervously, I just look up at him. Then he breaks our stare and closes the door. He walks around to the other side of the car, opens the door, and slides in. He takes the key and inserts it into the ignition. I couldn't help but notice that his hands were covered in crescent shaped scars, as if he has been through much worse situations. My mind starts to think about how only moments ago I could feel them through my sweater. I didn't get long to think about it because out of the corner of my eye I spotted one of the men pry themselves off the ground. Lucas stomped his foot on the gas and we flew down the rocky road till we couldn't see the men any longer.