Michael's POV
My clothes caught on the brambles that I was hiding behind and I crouched low to the ground. I balanced myself on the balls of my feet, getting ready to run if I needed to. I tried to catch my breath. focusing on taking slow and steady breaths through my nose and out through my mouth to try and calm myself down, but it wasn't working.
Grace was dead.
Grace, the girl that I had known since we were eight, was dead.
Grace was shot right in front of my eyes, and died in my arms.
Luke should have been there... a voice in my mind said, making tears start to sting my eyes. I could see that she wanted that as well. As she started to take her last breaths, the frantic moving of her eyes told me that she was looking for him, wanting him to be there, wanting him to be the one holding her as she died, rather than me...
"God Dammit." I whispered, feeling myself break out into a cold sweat.
I looked behind me, trying to find Calum.
He had been running behind me for a short while, but now, as I crouched behind this makeshift hiding space, I couldn't find him anywhere.
"Calum?" I called out in a loud whisper. I dared not to be any louder, due to the fear that they may find me.
Maybe they had already found Calum.
No... I couldn't afford to think like that.
But then, I heard a gunshot go off in the distance and my heart jumped into my chest as I scrambled off the ground and started to run again.
My feet slowed down again after my body started to tire and I pressed up against a tree, feeling down my trouser pocket and finding the gun. I opened the cylinder of the gun and saw there were four bullets left in it. I breathed in a few deep breaths, before putting the gun back in my pocket and breaking into another run.
The gunshots kept coming closer and closer and I kept running and running until I ended up back at the house. I threw myself behind a tree when I saw three guys, with shotguns, patrolling the front of the house.
"Fuck." I breathed out, banging my head against the bark of the tree.
I couldn't go back. Those bastards were hunting me down, and if I turned back now they would catch me and kill me.
I needed to get into the house.
Also, there would be a very good chance that Phoebe could still be in that house.
I took the gun out of my pocket, thinking about what I could do. I didn't want to waste my bullets since there was so little of them, but I was running out of time as I could now hear the voices of then men that were chasing us, a few metres away from me. I aimed the gun wildly and pulled the trigger, the bullet hitting a tree that was close to the men, who were guarding the front entrance of the house.
The impact of firing the gun had sent a sharp pain up my shoulders and down my back, but I couldn't think of that as I ran out from behind the tree. I ran around the side of the house and down the back of the house. I didn't want to go through the front door as I'm sure there would be more armed guys on the other side.
I slowed down my pace slightly as I saw a door. I ran up and tried it, and to my surprise, it was unlocked. I opened the door, quickly going inside and I saw it was lit up by flickering fluorescent lights.
I was slightly taken aback when I saw it was a garage.
This could be a way out of here.
I thought to myself and I started to look for my car. My heart leaped into my throat when I saw my car sitting amongst the rest but that happy feeling disappeared when I saw the tires were slashed.
I felt so defeated that my legs gave out and I collapsed onto my knees. I punched the metal framework of the car and rested my forehead against the cool surface, feeling tears of anger and complete desperation fill my eyes and started to pour down my cheeks.
I'm a complete and utter failure.
How am I supposed to save Phoebe?
She could be dead for all I know. I was supposed to protect Grace and Daisy and look what has happened. Grace is dead and Daisy is running for her life from some psychopaths.
It hit me like a tonne of bricks... we were never getting out of here.
A/N
Hi guys! This is a shorter update but I'm hoping to upload another chapter tonight and if not tonight, then tomorrow!
