Why we were chosen.

Chapter 36

Lauren's POV

"I fucking can't anymore." I continued to cry into Dinah's shoulder as I felt my chest hurting and my eyes stinging. It's been three days since that horrible day. "I'm just so tired of all this shit!"

"I found Camila's phone!" Zendaya called out from the hospital bed she was laying on. "It was just turned on!"

"Send me the details! I'm going after that asshole." Dinah quickly tightened her hold before releasing me and giving me a small smile. I wiped away my tears before turning to face Zendaya.

"I'm going too." I announced. "Where's it at?" 

I watched as she narrowed her eyes at her laptop screen. "That's weird." She mumbled. "Ow, hold up." She slowly moved her arm in a circular motion. "It's starting to hurt again." She brought up her other hand to rub around the area that was bandaged. I frowned seeing her in pain again. She had taken pain killers for her arm, but she would still get random aches from her wound. Luckily she was only hit on her shoulder, but it definitely still hurt her. I felt tears weld up even more remembering that moment.

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I watched in horror as Camila was in the arms of the Kyle. Zendaya was ahead of us since she was faster. We kept running towards him until we saw him bring up his left hand. My eyes widened at what was aimed towards us.

"Get down!" I heard Olivia yell right behind me. I felt somebody pull my shirt, bringing me to the floor at the sound of three loud gunshots. I quickly turned to see who had pulled me down. It was Normani.

"We need to hide!" She motioned for us to run for cover. 

"But Camila!" I shook my head. I quickly tried to get up so that I could continue running towards Camila, but Normani gripped my arm and tried to pull me towards the closest cars. I quickly scanned the parking lot. Luckily the others were able to get behind cars since they were still behind. I watched as Zendaya stood up from her position on the ground and tried to charge towards Camila and Kyle again. There was nowhere to hide. This side of the parking lot was empty.

"We have to go!" I yanked my arm out of Normani's grip and ran towards my girlfriend. I could see her trying to fight him off, but one, two more shots were heard, one from Kyle, and one behind me. That's when I saw Zendaya fall to the floor. I stood frozen. We were only about five car spaces from Camila. My eyes widened before I heard deep voices behind me.

"Lauren! Get down!" I recognized the voice of Dwayne. I shook my head before lunging towards Zendaya. I kept my head low, knowing that Dwayne was the one who had fired behind me. He'll stop Kyle. He'll save Camila and Sofia. I crawled so that I was blocking Zendaya from Kyle's view.

"Asshole got me." She whined while holding her shoulder. I quickly tried to apply pressure to her wound before looking back towards the direction my girlfriend was in.

"Let her go!" Dwayne yelled out while holding his firearm towards them. I watched in horror as Kyle held the gun up again, only this time Camila was able to slip out. My girlfriend then landed a blow to Kyle's jaw before she shoved him, making him aimlessly shoot at the sky. By this time, I could hear Dwayne's heavy footsteps right behind me.

"Save her!" I yelled out to Dwayne while trying to comfort Zendaya, who was crying out in pain. I looked back up and met eyes with Camila before Kyle raised his weapon and hit her with the weapon. "No!" I yelled out, I wanted to get up and run towards Camila, but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Especially not now, now that Kyle had my girlfriend hanging from his arm.

"Come any closer and I'll kill her!" He yelled out to Dwayne, who had just reached Zendaya and I. Kyle held the gun towards Camila's head.

"No! Please don't!" I cried out as he made his way to the drivers side of the car, Camila still in his arms.