Gang || #Wattys2016

Chapter 21

**Skylar**

I'm happy to be out of that place, but trying to find a way back? That's insane! My plan is follow the stream and hope that they will find me using the tracker. They refused to feed me! She said that if I suddenly had all of the nutrients I need then it would be suspicious. Well I think it would be suspicious if my tracker suddenly fell off the map and I showed back up with a gold bracelet.

I was following the stream when I heard someone walking behind me. I stopped and so did they. I kept going thinking it was my imagination and it started again. I stopped again, I looked around and saw no one. When I was about to continue on my path someone with a black hood popped from behind a tree and started sprinting at me.

I screamed and ran. I started yelling for help knowing it was helpless. I was running around trees trying to either tire them out or lose them. Soon I lost the stream altogether and found myself very lost. I couldn't see them anywhere. I spun in circles frantically waiting for them to pop from behind a tree.

I started walking in a promising direction, but before I could get four steps, I was swiped off my feet. My scream was muffled by a cloth. I struggled, all I could see was the trees before everything went dark.

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I wake up in my room. My actual room. I mean my room at the gang house. I'm happy to be back here instead of the woods but I'd still rather be home. With my mom and brother. I miss them so much.

Which is why I need to press this stupid button on this stupid braclet. I just want this all to be over with. I just have to make sure everyone is here.

I run downstairs to find the twins making food and four of the guys watching tv. I walk over to an open spot on the couch. Asking how I got here is pointless, I know it was one of the guys.

"Where's Damon and Carmon?" I ask.

Derek looks at me suspiciously but doesn't ask questions.

"They're in Derek's room."

"Oh," was all I said. I look at the tv trying to act normal. I flonder with the braclet. I know I want to press the button. It just doesn't feel right.

But I do, I had I press the button. This is our chance at a normal life, I'm not going to risk it again.

Derek shoots out of his spot and points his gun at me.

"Who gave you that." he commanded scowling at the braclet.

I shot up putting my hands up, "I don't know, I swear, I'm so sorry."

"Did they call themselves secret agents?" he asks.

"Yes, are they not?" I ask. Was I fooled? How could I fall for something so stupid.

"No they are an organized group of assassins. We have to leave now!" He ran and yelled up the stairs. He ran to the kitchen and gathered the twins.

Everyone was in the livingroom when one of the windows shattered from a bullet. It was all chaos from where. Arms getting grabbed and people being dragged. Everything happened so fast. Bullet after bullet, scream after scream, command after command. Everything felt like slow motion.

We ran through the dining room, then the kitchen, we ran downstairs and locked the doors behind us. The guys locked us in the laundry room and told us to block the window.

It was silent for a minute or two with the sound of distant gunfire. Rylie silently sobbed.

"Carmon, what can we use to block the window," I asked.

Carmon moved her folding table against the walk below the window.

"Help me lift this recliner," she said, pointing the chair I forgot was in here. We all walked over and lifted the chair. We pushed and adjusted it just right to cover the window. I unplugged the fridge and put it on top of the recliner for extra protection.

"Everyone, crawl under the table," I told them finding my own spot under the table.

"Wait, I need to tell you guys something," Cassidy said. She hadn't really said anything since we've been in here. She is panting and sweating.

"Are you alright?" I ask.

"I got shot," she said showing us her shoulder. There was blood everywhere. It stained her light pink shirt like Kool-aid.

I ran to her and ripped her shirt, more blood seeped out and she winced. I take off my shirt and try to put a lot of pressure on it. She screams out, tears slipping out of her eyes. Right now would be a great time for the guys to come back but I knew they wouldn't be back anytime soon.

I'm not an expert but I'd say she has less then an hour. She hit one of her main arteries as far as I can tell with all of the blood.

I bang on the door yelling, telling them she was shot. I wait only a minute. Until try to I kick the door down. I don't know how we will ever make it in time. The nearest hospital is who knows how far away.

I run back to Cassidy and tell her she needs to stay with us or she won't make it.

"Rylie, this is your chance to save her, you have to keep her awake. Do whatever it takes," I run back to the door and ask Carmon to help me kick it down.

After a few minutes I hear nothing but distant gunshots, Rylie's crys and the wood of the door cracking at the hinges. It all happened at once. Rylie sobbing to us Cassidy was gone. The guys coming in quickly. Then everything stopped. All at once. Everything was black, and everything went quite. Everything felt so peaceful for the first time in what felt like forever. I feel myself falling, arms catch me and wrap around my bare back.