Lost Memories

Chapter 15 - Kennedy

Kennedy's POV

I was gasping for air and fell to the floor. What had I done? I had just killed a man. I looked over and saw his blood seeping from the stab wound and onto the floor around him. The crimson puddle looked like a dark burgundy colour in the barely-there light. His torch had clattered to the floor noisily beside him when he fell. The muscles that we contracted around it in his hand now relaxed and lifeless, just like the rest of him. His uniform was ruffled from his crash landing to the floor and there was a gun still sat in his other loose hand. On top of his mountain of a chest, the knife stuck out proudly, as if to taunt me and say 'you did this'.

Onix was up and rushed over to the body, searching for a pulse at the guards neck. He withdrew his hand slowly, giving me the indication that he was. Then Onix made his way over to me and wrapped his arms around me, stroking my arm softly and whisper in my ear. I couldn't make sense of what he was saying, it just went in one ear and streamed out the other, as I continued to stare at the body. I barely felt another set of arms wrap around me and the heat of their body engulf me, as I continued to try and regain my thoughts. My body refused to do anything, I couldn't move, I could barely breath, let alone form a complete sentence.

"What's wrong with her?" I heard a female voice cry.

"I think she's in shock, just let her gather her thoughts. It must be hard for her to process what just happened." Someone else said, calmly.

"Kennedy, it's okay, there's no need to panic, you did what you had to do. You saved us." The female voice said. At that I blinked a couple of times and let in a deep breath, drawing my eyes away from the corpse, to look at the origin of the voice. Annie.

I wrapped my arms around her and began choking out sobs. Burying my face in her shoulder, I gripped onto her as if she was my only lifeline. I couldn't hold back the tears as they dripped painfully down my face. All she had to do was be there, I couldn't help but just clasp on harder.

"Shh, Kennedy it's alright! It's okay." Onix said, stroking my arm.

"I killed him! He had a life and I ended it!" I shouted at him. My body was shaking so much, it felt like I had been left out in a storm to freeze, but yet, I couldn't feel the cold, only the side affects of it.

"It was him or you! And you chose you! Not only that, but you told us. We could've been killed, we had all relaxed, thinking that they had gone, but you knew it wasn't over. You kept us alive." Onix reassured me, looking me straight in the eye. 

"Onix is right Kenn-" Sade started.

"Of course I'm right! I'm always right!" Onix interrupted, making Sade glare at him.

"As I was saying, you had a split second decision to make, you had to do it." He smiled at me softly. I forced a smile before laying on the stone floor, with my head on Annie's lap. I took a deep breath in and out, trying to calm my heart rate and ignore the fact that there was still a dead body bleeding out on the floor on the other side of the cave.

"Onix, help me get this out of here," Sade said. Onix got up, dusted himself off, then helped Sade drag the body out of the cave.

"It's going to be okay, Kenny, you will be fine." Annie whispered to me.

"Kenny? Seriously? That's my new nickname? Why couldn't it have been something cool like Badass or Legend?" I complained, making a pouty face, trying to reassure her I was alright.

"Oh, please! You could never live up to those titles! They're reserved for people like me, who are the best at everything." She teased, smiling down at me. We sat in silence for a moment, only to hear the splash of the boys dumping the guard's body in the river. Shortly after, they were back in the cave and we settled down again to sleep, in the same positions as we were earlier; with me resting against Onix's shoulder and Annie resting against Sade's.