The next morning after the police had spoken with Matt I opened my eyes only to experience a shock! My room had literally been tipped upside down. My clothes drawers were hanging open, my clothes scattering the floor. My desk drawers had been ripped out and lay on the floor, the contents dispersed everywhere!
I gasped! What had happened in here. I threw the covers off myself angrily. Before storming out to the hallway. The paintings on the wall hung crooked and some smashed on the floor.
How could I sleep through something like this?
I continued to walk through the hallway, checking the rooms as I passed, they were all left destroyed, things scattered on the floor. When I got to the kitchen I saw Matt, franticly speaking to someone on his phone!
"John, John! I have been raided, they took my family!" Matt says, urgency and a scared tone to his voice.
I hear a muffled reply before Matt says a few last things and puts down the phone.
"Matt??" I say.
He turns around quickly and a gun is whipped up to my forehead.
"WOAH! Its me its me!" I cry!
"Oh, phew!" He replies, lowering the gun back to his side.
"Whats going on Matt??" I say "Where is everyone else? What happened here?"
"They took Mum, Dad and Sammy! They were looking for the drugs..."
I stare at him gobsmacked! "Are you serious Matt! You've gotten the rest of our family kidnapped because you had to take the drugs!!!!!!" I say ecstatically!
"Mandie, Mandie calm down, calm..."
"NO! I will not calm down! You are the reason this happened!!!!!" As I spoke a window smashed towards the end of the house. Matt immediately stood in front of me and pointed his gun down the hallway. I stood confused, scared, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!
A man all dressed in black stumbles into the hallway. Gun shots fire. Matt turns. "Mandie, follow me! Ok?? Do as I say and follow me!"
"Ok, Ok," I reply quietly.
Matt starts running towards the door, he opens it and runs out. Gun shots fire again. "Quick Mandie!" He says running left towards the car.
He opens the drivers door and jumps in, turning on the ignition, the car starts up as I run towards the passenger door. A single gunshot sounds. Then a sudden immense amount of pain sparks up from my shoulder all the way down my arm and across my chest. The door suddenly opens and Matt drags me in.
The pain floods my body, every inch of me hurts. I squeeze my eyes shut, trying to make the pain less excruciating then it already is. To my surprise it doesn't help at all and I feel the car lurch into motion. More gunshots fire, hitting the bonet of the car. I yelp in agony as the car jerks slightly with every shot. Matt looks over momentarily, concern in his eyes before with one hand on the wheel ripping off his T-shirt. He then grips it with his teeth and rips a strip off. He hands it to me.
"Quick! Wrap it around your arm!" He says urgently, taking the wheel with both hands again.
I take the fabric and tie it tightly around my arm. The pain increases as I tie it tightly. I wince in pain but finish the knot. Matt glimpses over and nods.
"Good," He says "that will stop the bleeding and prevent you from loosing to much blood," He says calmly.
"Matt! I think now would be a very good time to tell me what is going on before I lose it!" I scream at him.
"Not now Mandie, we are not out of the firing range yet!"
After around 20 minutes of silence and high speed driving we reach a main road, Matt pulls onto it and relief fills the car.
"So..." Matt says "We have made it away from those people but they are not finished, we will be running for a while Mandie?!"
I nod, not truly understanding whats all going on. "Matt? Does this have something to do with the illegal drug trade??" I question.
"Yes, you see when the people that ran the drug trade found out I was a surviver, and that I had taken their drugs, you can assume they weren't happy... The people shooting at us, they are from the place. They turned our house upside down to try and find the drugs. And well they kidnapped our family, well, to hold for ransom until the drugs are delivered in exchange!"
I stare at my feet, shock taking over my body. My arm was still throbbing with pain and all this information was to much to cope with. I reached into my pyjama pocket and luckily enough my phone was there. Since the alcohol incident I had bought a new phone. I slid it out of my pocket and turned it on.
Matt looks over towards me. "What are you doing?" He says.
"I need to call someone," I reply.
When my phone turns on I immediately swipe right to the emergency call. I dial 911, it rings twice before being answered.
"Emergency services, how may I help you?" A kind female voice says.
"Um... Im in a car... With my brother... An..d..." I start. Matt reaches over and grabs the phone out of my hand, taking it in his own and pressing it to his ear.
"Sorry ma'am, false alarm!" He says cheerily into the phone before hanging up and glaring at me.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING??!" He says sharply!
"Calling the police! What did it look like?" I reply angrily.
"No Mandie no! The police are after us too! We can't trust them, we are on our own now!" He says frustration in his voice.
"After US?? US?" I say, starting to laugh. "I have NOTHING to do with this!!! This is YOUR fault YOUR wrong doing! And I shouldn't have to pay for this!" I shout.
"Mandie, Mandie stop, look I know ok, I'm sorry for dragging you into this..." Matt says, trying to make me calm down.
"Dragging me into this?? Really Matt!! You have gotten me shot, my family kidnapped, my house... destroyed!!! You have ruined my life and yet here I am sitting in your car, with a bullet in my shoulder and being chased by some crazy drug people and you say you're SORRY?? YOU'RE SORRY??!?" I say shouting at him again.
He looks back to the road, "Ok, I know, ok I stuffed up but I didn't know they would come after my family... Not to this extent anyway!" He says cooly.
I stare at him, the anger inside of me bubbling, yet no words were coming out of my mouth, I have nothing to say to him, I am too upset by what he has done...
So instead of replying I curl up towards the door of the passenger seat and stare out the window. Watching the old houses and the countryside roll on by...
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