Now You See Me... Now You Don't... ✔(Editing)

Chapter 8| There For Me

I woke up in the middle of the night, and suddenly, I felt wide-awake. I looked around the dark room, my eyes slowly adjusting to the dark as I panicked. Where was I? Last night's event's started coming back to me, registering in my brain, and I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

I had a stomachache and felt like a drink of water, for some reason, so I got out of bed and went downstairs, yet again facing conflict with the stairs.

Why does it take so long to climb you? I give the stairs a glare.

Ask the people who built me, the stairs replied.

Who are they? I want to go kill them for making me do extra exercise. I narrowed my eyes at the stairs once more.

I realized I was having a fantasy conversation with the stairs, so being the person I am, I said bye to the stairs and continued my way down.

I walked down into the dark kitchen, the cold floor stinging my feet like a slab of dry ice. My eyes adjusted to the dark after I couldn't find the switch for a while, and I suddenly felt scared.

I felt I was being watched, when suddenly, I felt something pass behind me.

" Who's there?" I shouted to no one in particular. No one answered. Hey, I shouted to ' no one' and 'no one' answered me! He actually—Focus, Kayla!

I turned around, whe n suddenly, I felt something huge and hard collide with the back of my head. I felt dizzy and I lost balance, falling to the floor. I caught a glimpse of a man with pitch black eyes, and then all went black.

I woke up with a start. I still felt lightheaded.

Wait, why am I tied to a chair?

Where am I?

All my thoughts were lost when I looked up to see a man with pitch black eyes, but not just the iris, oh no, no, no; I wouldn't have left my thoughts for that.

His whole eye...

His whole eye was black.

I was taken aback when he suddenly pointed a gun straight at my head. I froze. I was staring straight at the man and breathing deeply. He had serious expression on his face. " Why were you staying in the Fire's house?" he asked.

" Wait, how did you...?" I started, but I did not dare continue. I suddenly realized where I was, who I was with, and I led myself to a conclusion.

The Chasers had captured me.

" Why were you staying in the Supernatural's house?" He repeated in a more serious tone. He pressed the gun more firmly to my head and I found myself shuddering, but I did not dare speak. " If you don't speak up, you won't like what'll happen at all..." He said in an almost angry tone.

" You're not getting anything out of her." Someone said.

At that moment, my head snapped up so fast, I could've broken it. You may ask why.

It was Zack

And he, too, was pointing a gun.

But this time, it was at the man who was questioning me. I smiled at the sight of him. What are you doing here? I mouthed. He gave me a simple smirk and continued, " Drop the weapon, or I won't hesitate to shoot you." I looked at him, completely shocked.

" I'd like to see you try." the Chaser said. At that moment I heard a loud bang that shook me to the core, and the next thing I knew, the man was lying on the floor with blood coming out of his gut. My breath caught as Zack untied me. When I got up, I was shaking badly.

" What's wrong?" asked Zack, looking worried.

" You... Y-you..." I couldn't come to say what I aimed for.

"Calm down, its ok. That was just a tranquilizer dart, sort of like what you'd use on an animal. It was loaded with a flash freeze force. It'll keep him out for a few minutes, then he'll be fine" Zack said reassuringly. I let out a sigh of relief; I'm only sixteen, and I hadn't seen anything as violent as that before.

" Speaking of which, we really need to go, we only have five minutes 'till he wakes up." He said as he put his hand on my shoulder to make sure I was ok.

"Oh... Ok." I said quietly. We slowly walked towards the window, and I realized that the man on the floor was starting to stir. Zack went through the window and onto the roof, then held out his hand to help me. I grabbed it and he pulled me onto the roof, when we both froze. The man's eyes were starting to open.

Suddenly, Zack grabbed my arm and pulled me towards the balcony next to us. " Who's there?" I heard the man's voice shout. Zack put his finger on his lips to let me know that I shouldn't talk. We could hear the man panting as we walked along the roof to the balcony. Zack jumped onto it, and I followed, when Zack said, " Hey, you ok?" I nodded. " Good." He continued, " Ok, so first off, we can't stay at my house anymore because the Chasers will have us in their grip. We need to stay somewhere else. Second off, I'll show you how to get down. Watch..." He jumped over the balcony's fence and put his foot on a small ledge that was completely unsupported. I took a deep breath and mentally wished him luck. He then jumped down onto the ledge over the doorway, and jumped forward onto the ground. Then he quietly gestured for me to follow.

As I walked onto the first ledge, I was scared. I hated heights. I took a deep breath and jumped to the next ledge.

" You're almost there." Zack said. I felt an immense heat under my feet, and yelped as Zack's eyes widened. I look behind me to see a sadistic smile on the very sadistic looking Chaser.

With a flick of his wrist, Zack lit the man on fire as the Chaser yelled, but soon stilled. I shut my eyes tight, taking in that I just saw a death before my very eyes. I had to keep going.

I jumped down onto the ground and looked around. All I could see was a Porsche car parked behind the garden.

" Is that your car?" I asked.

" Yup, Lara is in the car. I packed all our things, we need to leave today." Zack quickly said.

" Wait..." he said quickly. He walked behind me and I looked back. " Stand still..." he said. " I felt his fingers parting my hair. "Oh... you've got a really bad bruise... Did you get hit with anything?" He asked.

" Well, I do remember getting hit with something big and hard when that man knocked me out..." I replied.

" Wait. They knocked you out?" Zack said in a worried voice.

" Yeah..." I said slowly.

Zack took a breath in and said, " Ok... give me a second."

He placed his palm on my swollen head, and I felt gim place pressure on it as I winced.

" Trust me," He whispers. " It helps."

When we reached the car, Zack told me to sit in the front seat. He sat opposite of me and we got going.

"Where are we going?" asked Lara.

" Chris and Vanessa." Zack said shortly.

" I can't wait for you to meet them." He said to me.

I can't believe how lucky I am that Zack was there for me.

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