The Barron's

chapter 3 : Bullets, C4, and Guns. Oh My!

Chapter 3 : Bullets, C4, and Guns. Oh my!

     I'm in a sea of darkness. I try to open my eyes but my brain won't corporate. I hear voices that sound faint. Then they get easier to hear but I still can't tell if I'm awake or dreaming.

     I feel something cold touch my forehead and it starts to sting. I finally get the strength to open my eyes but only enough to be looking through little slits. I look around to see I'm in a room. It's very plain with only a desk, a sink, a window and a bed which I'm on. I see a door in the corner that must be the closet and another that's open leading to a hallway.

     "Ashley! She's awake!," I hear a man's voice say a little quieter than a yell. I try to look over at him but can't because he walked over to the door and looked out. He has black hair from what I can see and is wearing jeans, and a black and white plaid t-shirt.

     I hear footsteps and he turns to walk back in the room. He has brown eyes and a thin mustache. He looks to be around twenty six or so and is very good looking. Then a girl walks in with short dirty blonde hair and light blue eyes. She looks about the same age as the boy, and is also pretty.

     They come to the bed beside me and the girl grabs something off the desk.

     "Your cuts bleeding again," she says to me and puts, what feels like a rag to my forehead. It's wet and makes my cut start to sting like earlier. I sit there not wanting to move when I realize Caroline's not here, my eyes widening once I realize.

     "Where's... Where's Caroline?," I ask hopeful to get an answer, my head hurting like crazy.
     "Don't worry. She's in the other room sleeping. She's fine," the boy says, but I'm not convinced.

     The girl puts down the rag on the desk and opens a box that I'm guessing was on the floor. She sets more clean rags on the desk and some pills. She pulls out a small flashlight and comes over to me.

     "Just look strait at the wall okay?," she says something for the first time since walking in.

     I do what she says and look at the wall. She lifts one of my eyelids and shines the flashlight in it. She does this with my other eye and puts the flashlight back in the box.

     "Hey, I'm ganna go check on the other girl," the boy says braking the silence.
     "Okay," the girl answers as he walks out of the room.

     She grabs another rag and walks over to the sink and runs it under the water. She then comes back over to me and starts up with my cut again.

     "What's your name? And the boy?," I ask.
     "Ashley. And the boys name is Tyler," she says, making me just realize that she was the girl that ' Tyler ' called to.
     "Can you tell me your name?."
     "Kate," I answer. "Just Kate."
     "Well, just Kate," she says. "I think your ganna need stiches."

     I give her a look saying, ' I don't trust you ' and she gives me an answer that I would have never guessed; "Relax. I'm an x-spy. I've done it before. In fact, Tyler's a x-spy to."

     I give her a confused face and she wipes my cut with a dry rag and starts to explain.

     "We got assigned a mission to come here and capture an x-operative. His name was George Bounter. We came here right as the bombs started raining down. We survived but George was killed after a gang found his. His gang won since he was a guns dealer, but he was shot by one of his own gang members. We never figured out why," she finishes after filling a cup with water. "Here. Take this," she says putting one of the pills in my hand.

     I recognize it. Pain killer. I put it in my mouth with out hesitation and make it go down with the water. I give her back the cup and she puts it down and grabs a needle and what looks like wire for the stiches.