Taking Risks

T W O : UNNERVED

AVERY'S P.O.V.

After detention, I went to the school's parking lot to see Sally crying in front of Mark. "I don't believe you! Chandler loves me and so do I!" She protested. Mark, Chelsea, Jenny and Alex laughed even more. "What the heck is happening?!" I heard Chandler's voice behind me. "I just got here.." I said as I pointed my finger up. He looks mad. Wait... Is he in love with Sally or some shit? Oh fuck. I never thought Chandler will fall for a jolly girl. He steps in the middle of our gang and Sally's and he blocked us against her. Sally hugged Chandler as if he's a human teddy bear. I can tell that he couldn't breathe properly anymore. I rolled my eyes on her public display of affection towards him. Jealously took a knock on my door right at this moment.

"Sally..." Chandler looks in her eyes. Sally is leaning in for a kiss but then Chandler interwines both of his hands with hers then says "Everything that happened between us isn't true. I don't love you. All of it was fake. And I am soo happy to be free at last!" Chandler raises his hands high up in the air and everybody cheered on for him except for Sally and her girlfriends. She cried even more.

My bad mood is now turning into a green light of happiness. I never expected this thing to happen..

Chandler grabbed Mark and Alex's cash and screamed 'I fucking won' for a thousand time. Chandler throws his car keys at me and I continued to walk towards his porsche and started the engine then drove it to the front of the hideous cry baby. "Get In" I called to him. He looks so happy on winning the bet. I felt a little sorry for Sally. "Let's get out of here" Chandler signals me to go but something stops me. My coinscience worked for once and I didn't even know why I stood up out of the car, walked towards Sally and handed my handkerchief to her. Everyone went silent.

Sally is one of the people who made my life miserable in Middle School. She never said sorry or anything to me. But this is the least I can do for her in this moment. Chandler calls out for me. But before I went back to his car, Sally stopped me and said 'Thank You' for the first time in history. I nodded at her and took the shot gun seat on Chandler's car.

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"Such a heroic thing you did there" Chandler praises me. "You're a dick" I spit out. He laughed at me and handed me a cigarette. I light it up using my lighter and shared the cigar with Chandler. We are driving towards nowhere and I didn't even bother asking him where we're about to go to. I trust him more than my own life.

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As the night creeps in, we are going into the woods. Full of trees and two cars would only fit to the asphalt road. It's eery. But at the same time, calming. It's beautiful. We still drove top down because the air is fresh in here rather than the city.

After 20 to 30 minutes of driving. We are now in front of a large log cabin. People are going in and out of the cabin as we parked up in front. I went out of the car and followed Chandler in. I was being mobbed by a lot of people. They kept on telling me that 'Chandler is been talking about you a lot'. "You never told me that a lot of people knew me now" I told him. "....Surprise?" he laughs.

He was talking to a few friends as I made my way towards the kitchen to get a drink for myself. I badly needed this now. I don't know why but I felt like I need to. I was on different parts of the log cabin dancing with strangers and talking about my life and just plain gossip. I found new friends to be with but I hardly even remembered their names.

I was feeling dizzy and out of place so I let myself into the bathroom to see what I look like. I puked in the toilet and washed my face in the faucet. "....Fuck..." I looked at myself. My eyes are red from being tired, I smell like alcohol and smoke or maybe, the scent of weeds coming from the other table a while ago. I don't do drugs even if I wanted to try it. Chandler never let me tried those.. but I guess I would one day. Speaking of Chandler, I never saw him for the last 3 hours in here... I saw him by the bonfire at around 10 pm and that was the last of it. I'm starting to worry.. I went outside to clear my thoughts and presumably to look for his car outside. Thank heavens it's still there.

My curiousity fills me as I walk towards the forest whilst calling out his name. "Chandler!" I screamed. I looked back, the sight of the party wasn't there anymore. I continued to walk in this cold ass environment just to find Chandler here somewhere.

"Fuck!" I shouted as I fell flat onto the ground. 'What the hell?!' I thought as I picked up the thing that triggered me to fall. It was Chandler's beloved hip flask.

For the first time again, I decided to cry with the thought of not seeing Chandler for the rest of my life. I'm angry at my self because I could've saved him from this.... I was stumbling in the woods. Emptying his hip flask but still finding him at the same time as I was crying. "Chandler!..."

I heard a rustling sound behind me but decided to don't look back. I was crying hard when somebody pressed a cloth onto my mouth. All I can remember is the smell of the sweet scent of the cloth before I drifted away..

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I woke up in an unfamiliar place... The heavy scent of tabacco fills my lungs as I breathe the air. I tugged on my hands. Sure enough I was tied down on the pole beside me. What on earth did I get myself into?... There was a guy looking at me when I looked up. "Let's go" he says as he frees my hands from the pole but still grabbed both of my hands while walking. We walked to a big door and my eyes gre big when I saw someone locked up in the chair begging the other guy to spare his life. My life will end here and I don't want that to happen.

I looked everywhere to look for things that could help me free from this guy. I tried to reach the crane near the door but his grip on me would move if I do so. Fuck, fuck, fuck! I'm gonna be dead anytime soon.

The other guy stands in front of the guy who held both of my hands. "Matt, Is she the girl?" Matt nodded at him. "Take your hands off of her. We are in need of her help" I started to panic in my head. Matt hands me a hand gun and the other tells me to shoot the person in front of me. "Please....Please...." He stammered. I looked beside the gun and the safety notch was down. What am I going to do....?... I looked up at him and fixed my body's position. "Don't! I'm begging you...." The big guy stands beside me and locked the firearm straight to the side of my head. The pressure of the gun fucking hurts. "Its either you shoot him, or I will shoot you" My heart is pounding.

I took a deep breath.. Aimed the gun toward the guy's head while slowly pulling the trigger to me. When the trigger is on it's peak, I decided to shoot the guy's feet instead. He let's out a shout and I faced the big guy beside me and then aimed the gun towards him. "Drop it!" I screamed at him. The guy laughed at me as Matt placed a knife right above my ear, beside my right eye. I can feel a warm drop of tear flowing on my right eye as the knife brushed on the side of my face. I know that I was in defeat.

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That was it for the second chapter! This is better than the first if you ask me hihi :) I was supposed to add more stuff into this chapter but I felt like it would be better if it would end there. So there. haha :)

- Ellie

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