Lost In Paradise(EDITING)

23. War Room pt 2

Khalil

"Y'all need to get out of here now!" After hearing the eruption of gun fire downstairs, I knew I needed to get Stacy and Paradise away from here. I just can't believe all of this is happening right now.

"Where the fuck we gon go Khalil?! They probably got this whole place surrounded!" Stacy said as she started panicking as Paradise tried to console her. She was right, they probably had the place surrounded.

"Fuck man!" I was beyond frustrated. I honestly didn't know what to do. We're trapped.

"Stacy hide in the closet. Use this when you have to. Paradise you gotta come with us." Jheri said as he tossed his spare gun to Stacy.

"Why can't I stay with Stacy? I don't know how to use a gun."

"Its you that they're after. If you stay, you'll only lead them to Stacy. Chances are they don't even know she's here. If they see you, they won't even think about coming up here. Listen i know I've fucked up the trust between all of us but, you have to trust me on this." I looked over at Paradise who had an unsure look on her face. After a moment, she agreed to it, grabbed my spare gun, and was right behind us as we made our way downstairs.

Paradise

My heart felt like it was going to burst out of my chest as we stood behind a wall that was close to the staircase. We could hear the gunfire and people screaming. This was not how I imagine I'd be spending the New Year doing. I just hope and pray that everyone makes it out alive. I can't afford to lose someone close to me again. I'm trying so hard to over depression and so far, I've been doing pretty good. Losing another loved one will be a major setback.

"We have to be smart about this. We can't just go out there shooting or we'll all be dead so Jheri you stay up here and shoot from the staircase, me and Paradise will get them downstairs."

"Are you fucking serious?! We'll get killed either way! Why don't we just stay here until they stop shooting and will get whoever is left?!" I tried to reason. Khalil's plan was a good way for all of us to get shot.

"Paradise its basically a war going on down there. I'm sorry to say this but, someone is going to die. That's just the reality of it." My heart sunk when he said. I turned to Jheri as he looked away.

"H-how could you think like that ?! You can't think like that?" I started crying because I didn't want this to happen. I just want everything to be good. I want to go back to the days when I was actually happy and didn't have a care in the world. I wish all of this would just go away.

"I'm sorry babe but, its life. We don't even have nothing to do with this, its our parents. We were put in this fucked up situation because of them. We just have to stick together and pray the Good Man upstairs is watching over us"

Things got quiet. The gun fire stopped. We all looked at each other before walking towards the top of the staircase. The sight I saw was something I wish I've never seen.

They were bodies everywhere. Some of them were Josh's men while the others were from the Cartel I'm assuming. The fact that I was just greeting those men just an hour ago and now they're dead really messed with me.

"Come on we gotta find where everyone else is." Me and Jheri followed behind Khalil with our guns drawn. I had no idea how to even shoot a gun and I hope I never have to learn.

More dead bodies could be seen around the mansion. The smell of blood was making me stomach churn but, I tried to keep my composure.

We made towards the back of the mansion where voices could be heard. Khalil and Jheri cocked their guns back and pointed towards the door where the voices were coming from .