CHAPTER NINE

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CHAPTER NINE: CAT AND MOUSE

"isn't the idea to run away from the grounders?"

A COUPLE HOURS PAST SUNSET AND THE TRAIL           ran dry

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A COUPLE HOURS PAST SUNSET AND THE TRAIL
ran dry. Finn shook his head, sighing as he looked at Bellamy. "I got nothing. We lost the trail."

"Keep looking." Bellamy insisted.

"Wandering around aimlessly isn't the way to find your sister." Finn fired back, shaking his head. "We should backtrack-"

Bellamy shook his head. "I'm not going back."

"Bellamy, Finn's right." Waverly said reluctantly. She didn't want to agree with Finn on anything. Unfortunately, he was right. "We should go back to find the trail."

Bellamy shook his head, his voice hard. "I said I'm not going back!"

"Hey," Roma called over to them, realising their group had gotten smaller. "Where's John?"

John Mbege was now not amongst them.

Jasmine looked around in confusion. "I just saw him."

"Spread out," Bellamy said. "He couldn't have gotten that far."

His body then fell from the trees, thumping lifelessly to the ground. Jasmine stumbled back; his body having landed right in front of her. Her eyes on his neck, seeing the blood that soaked into his clothes from the slash across his throat.

Finn looked up. "They use the trees."

Waverly nodded, "they speared Jasper from the trees."

Briggs shook his head. "We shouldn't have crossed the boundary."

"Now can we go back?" Roma asked.

"There." Jasper called, pointing in one direction to where he saw a figure in the ones. "Right there."

Sam nodded in another direction. "There's another."

Hazel looked around. "They're surrounding us."

"We should run." Finn suggested.

In this, Bellamy agreed.

In only a few minutes of running, the group slowed. Their breaths thick, their legs sore, and the Grounders were close. Waverly heaved out, pushing harder despite how hot her body grew, the sweat slicking down her arms as she pushed herself to keep going. The others seemed to be in the same position, none daring to look back in worry of what waited for them.

"I can't run much longer!" Jasper heaved out, slowing.

"I'm not stopping for him!" Diggs exclaimed, ahead of Jasper.

"Well I am." Waverly said, turning back for her friend. She could care less about the Grounders. If surviving meant losing a friend, she'd rather die. Jasper had been taken by the Grounders already, she wasn't planning on leaving him to face that again.

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