Survive - Zalfie (BOOK 1)

20. The plan

Chapter 20 - The plan

It was now getting darker which meant that according to the plan I should get on and tell my story to Tanya and William. But I had no idea if I should go on with it or not. Thomas wasn't going to help Jim and Megan. I hadn't gotten the chance to tell them yet.

I decided to go for it though. Megan had positioned herself tactically next to William, at the side where his gun was in his pocket.

"Why are you heading to London?" I asked the two of them carefully. I thought this was a good way of getting to my story. Jim and Thomas, to my surprise, both stood up to walk to the back packs.

"We have some family there," answered William vaguely. Megan made a gesture to tell me that I had to keep talking.

"I think my brother and my boyfriend Alfie are there," I told them. Behind William and Tanya I could see that Thomas and Jim were having a discussion. Thomas was probably convincing Jim to not steal their food.

"I miss them so much," I continued. I tried to get their full attention. Tanya seemed to be listening carefully as I talked about Alfie and how much I missed him, but William looked a bit distracted. I could see Megan's hand reach out to William's pocket and my heart skipped a beat as William now stood up. He would see Jim and Thomas, I thought. So I acted quickly and started to fake cry.

I sobbed and cried, letting out some hiccups to make it seem more real. This made William look at me and walk over to me. He kneeled down beside me and patted my back telling me it'd all be okay. Now Megan shot forward to grab the gun, I gasped as William turned around quickly and Megan fell to the ground, no gun in her hand.

I stopped fake crying and looked shocked at this scene. William took out his gun. "So you were going to betray us?" he asked no one in particular. He then spotted Jim and Thomas at the back packs. He made the click between all this events easily. "And you little bitch tried to distract us, didn't you?" William threatened me. I cowered back a little as he came closer to me. He was furious. Megan had in the mean while stood up and made another signal. I think she meant that I still had her knife.

Thomas and Jim had realised that something went wrong but William saw them. He ordered me and Megan to stand in front of him. He pointed his gun at us. Terrified I took Megan's hand for support. I noticed that she was trembling as well.

"Don't!" I heard Thomas scream behind me and then I heard a shot. I shut my eyes waiting for me or Megan to collapse to the ground but neither of us did. I turned around and saw Jim and Thomas both on the ground. But who got shot? I wanted to make my way to them but William stopped me.

"No, no sweetheart, you will watch your dear doctor friend die from this distance," he smiled. "Or I shoot you as well." My heart stopped. He had shot Thomas but he was still alive. Jim was probably trying to save his life. At least, that's what I hoped.

"Will no," a little voice said behind us. I turned and saw Tanya who had now stood up. She walked over to us and tried to calm William down but it was useless. Tanya and William were having a fight. Tanya didn't want anyone to die but her brother did. He was furious. He even aimed the gun at Tanya. This was my chance, I thought. Nobody was watching me and I'm standing really close to William. Without hesitation I took out my knife and tried to stab him in the back, but he had some good reflexes and stopped me by grabbing my hand. I was so dead.

Thank god that Megan was still here as well. She saw this as her chance and stabbed him in his legs. William fell to the ground in pain, letting go of me and the gun. Megan eagerly took it and ran to Jim and Thomas, leaving William there to bleed to dead.

Poor Tanya collapsed on her brother's body. She was crying terribly. "Please save him," she cried. "Please." But instead of helping the girl I didn't hesitate and planted my knife right in William's heart. I was furious at him for shooting Thomas. At least if Thomas died, I would've had my revenge. Tanya cried out and clanged on to her dying brother. He coughed up loads of blood and looked me straight in the eyes. What had I done? His eyes went blank and Tanya broke down on the dead body. I took my knife back and ran towards Thomas and Jim, praying he would still be alive.

I gasped as I saw that Thomas' left shoulder was covered with blood. Jim had tied his shirt around the shot shoulder, to attempt to stop the bleeding but it didn't look like it was helping.

Megan was trying to talk to Thomas, who was a doctor, to know what they could do to help but he was dying. I broke into tears. This could not be happening. We couldn't lose Thomas. I couldn't lose Thomas. He was my friend, maybe even more than that. He didn't even want this in the first place.

"What do we do?" Jim asked. He had put his jumper back on and looked desperate.

Suddenly somebody shoved me aside and I hit Jim. "Move over," Tanya said and she knelt down next to Thomas. She was starting to remove Jim's shirt from Thomas' shoulder which made him grunt in pain. I've never seen somebody in that much pain before I didn't really know how to handle this.

"What do you think you're doing?" Megan asked Tanya suspicious.

"Saving your friend's life," she answered coldly. She put her backpack beside her and took out a forceps. Why on earth would somebody take this with them?

"Get the bullet out later, moron!" Megan yelled. "He's bleeding to death!" I let out a slight sob at that comment. But Tanya looked very confident and went with the forceps into the bleeding wound. Thomas started to writhe. Jim acted fast and jumped towards Thomas to keep him still. Thomas screamed out in pain. I couldn't deal with this. I turned my back towards the scene and my eyes widened at once. William's body was shaking violently and he was making shrieking noises. He was turning. How was that even possible? He wasn't bitten.

"Guys..." I whispered but nobody heard me. I turned back to grab Megan's arm. I pointed towards William. Megan just nodded and started to slowly make her way to the turning boy.

I couldn't take any of this anymore. I sat myself down and tried to breathe normally. What had I done? If I hadn't distracted them Thomas wouldn't be shot, I wouldn't have to kill a person and everything would've been alright. Tears started flowing down my cheeks. I felt so incredibly guilty.

Thomas' screams were still filling my ears and they were now mixed with shrieking noises from a turning William. How did we take this so far?

A/N: Soo... Any thoughts? Let me know in the comments! Thank you for reading! Love you all xx
p.s. Look at Jim and Zoe in the picture, they're cuties