Delectum

Chapter 19

Lorei Lei POV

i reach the bloodied body of Leighton, tears streaming down my face, i grip onto his body shaking him, shouting his name. i look up at Jameson, he had gotten lose from the red coat holding him and was trying to pick Leighton up, i help him hold up the lifeless body off Leighton, my hands shaking, he wasn't dead he had a pulse, but he will bleed out pretty soon, i feel Maddie's hand grab hold of mine and pulls me towards Lexi waiting at the bikes, and Jameson just a way ahead.

Maddie POV

we were running as fast as we could, the voices and sound of the red cloaks following us closely, we were a couple of meters away when i heard a bang, the bang of a gun. I notice Lorie turn and jump shielding my vision from the shooter and the bullet, it went by so quickly, bang and the next minuet Lorie is laying at my feet her body slowly turning red with her crimson blood and her breath coming slow and ragged. 

i kneel down next to her, tears forming at the sight of her dyeing self, her face paling and her eyes growing dull, i feel Jameson next to me tae her from my arms, i hear he shakily ask him too look after Leighton for her, i run ahead to Lexi, her face almost as pale as mine, Leighton draped over the front of her bike.

"is she going to die?" she chokes out.

"i don't know" i reply quietly.

the red coats seemed to have disappeared, pleased with there handy work.

rage boiled inside Lexis eyes "WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR OWN DAUGHTER!" she screams out into the heavens.

Me and Jameson are sitting beside Leighton's, hoping he will be ok,  i hear an awkward groan come from the bed i look to Jameson for guidance but he's asleep, i look over at Leighton, his face pale, and bandaged up, "Lore lei?" he croaks out towards me,

"do you want some water?" I quickly add not wanting to talk about that situation.

he sat up in the bed making the weird machines beep loader and faster, "Maddie were is she!" he looks at me his voice cracking and tears on the brims of his eyes.

i look away unable to look at him, i gulp trying to control myself for him "Leighton... Lorei is...she's dead" my voice cracking and tears.

"NO SHE'S NOT...don't lie to me Maddie she's not dead, she cant be i saw her she was with Lexi. LEXI did THIS?" he tried to get up out of bed, big gulps and sobs raking over him,

"no,no Leighton it was my fault she took a bullet for me, if i hadn't being so careless!" i speak through my tear, shaking m head.

"she's really gone" he whispers quietly, i nod and pull him into a hug, we sit there on his bed hugging for Lorei lei; our fallen princess.

i suddenly feel a sticky wet liquid soak into my shoulder, i pull Leighton off of me his face pale and bandage soaked through, "Somebody HELP! we need help in here!" i feel Jameson's hand on my shoulder,

"what happened!" his voice laced with worry.

"i think i did it i killed him with a broken heart" i hug him my head pressing into his shoulder.

"you told him!" Jameson barks pulling me off him "Maddie the new and stress of it is going to raise his heart beat, hes bleeding out" Jameson shouts.

a nurse runs into the room and shrieks at the sight and calls the people outside to get a defibrillator and a respiratory machine, they get the equipment just as his line goes flat, i choke out a sob and try and push my face into Jameson but he just pushes me off.

"shocking, go, bump"  Leighton body  arches and falls back onto the bed,

"shocking again, go, bump" Leighton's body arched again, his line staying flat,

they continued for another couple of minutes till there voices repeated the words in my mind.

"death 4:56 am" i run out of the room the feeling off suffocation killing me slowly but surely.

i killed them all its my fault, i killed Lorie with my lack of concentration and i killed Leighton with my stupidity.

Jameson POV

he was dead, my brother, he's gone,  my best friend. He left me here all alone to deal with dad.

she's dead, my brothers princess, my friend, he lost his princess for mine to live.

i sat in silence looking at him laying still, and remember how Lorei asked me in her last moments too look after him, he failed.