Weightless

chapter twenty five

Serenity's POV

Everyone fell silent, looking at each other with wide eyes. My heart stopped beating, I'm sure of it. I don't think anyone was breathing when they expected to see who was hurt.

A wail was let out, a body dropping to the floor.

"Lucas!" Korina exclaimed, her eyes wide in panic. "Oh my God, Daniel what have you done?!" She was furious as she looked at him.

Lucas was keeled over. Daniel looked too shocked for words.

Justin stood up, separating himself from Daniel. "Where are you hurt?"

"My fucking leg!" He shouted. "Fuck."

"It was—it was an accident," Daniel still looked in shock even as he spoke.

"See where carelessness can get you?" Justin asked him sharply. He gave him a pointed look. "Call Celia."

Daniel's look faltered a little. "You know I can't do that."

"What the fuck do you mean you can't do that? Our friend is on the floor who you just fucking shot!" Avery roared.

I had never seen him so angry before. Usually, he wouldn't have spoken to him like that. He was always the levelheaded one and the one to make sure that everyone else was being respectful of Daniel's authority.

"It was an accident," Daniel stated again.

Blue rolled her eyes. "I'll call Celia." She pulled her phone out of her pocket and stepped out of the room.

"If you're not going to be any help here, you can leave," Justin told him coldly.

Daniel looked at the situation, Lucas keeled over as Korina cried. He then moved his eyes to Jada, her eyes wide as she, too, took in the situation.

"And if you leave, don't bother coming back," Justin added.

I nibbled on my bottom lip, feeling anxiety building up inside of me.

Daniel shut his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I'm not leaving."

Justin looked at him for a little while longer before walking over to Lucas.

Blue came back in. "She'll be here any minute now."

We all nodded as they tried to tend to Lucas' wound. I couldn't help but think about how close Korina and Lucas were sitting and how that could've been Korina. Why did Daniel have to pull out the gun? What was he trying to prove? His authority? If he would've accidentally killed someone, what would he have done?

Avery and Justin picked up Lucas, ignoring his screams of pain and took him to the same room where they took Justin the day we had the encounter with Cole and Carter. They laid him on the bed as Korina continued to sob, yet try to calm him down at the same time.

"Stop crying, baby," he managed to say through the pain. He squeezed his eyes shut, letting out another noise in discomfort.

Korina nodded, but continued to cry and held onto his hand tightly.

Blue came into the room with Celia on her side.

"Alright everyone out of the room!" She demanded. "Except Justin and Avery, I need you guys to hold him down."

"Hold me?!" Lucas asked in panic.

"You have a bullet in your leg, correct?"

"Yes—Get it out!"

"And aren't you deathly afraid of needles?" She asked, taking the things that she would be using out of a brief case.

His eyes widened. "You're not poking me with a needle," he hissed through clenched teeth.