ALEX'S POV!!!! (who got bunches of Halloween candy yesterday???)
I wake up and realize I've slept too long. Rumi isn't here, she is probably outside crying or something because of what I did last night. I don't really care though because they deserved it. Loving or even liking someone can get you killed in this society. I used to disagree with that but recently with the notes and things I'm starting to agree with it. I think that being friends with Rumi could get me killed.
I get up and go look into her room. She isn't there which proves she is probably out crying. No way would she go see Sean after how much I screamed at them last night. I'm pretty sure I scared her horribly bad last night. I feel horrible doing this but I go over to her bag.
I dump out the contents and search through the things. There is a big pile of notes all banded together with a spare strip of material. I untie the material and shuffle through the white pieces of paper. Each on is addressed to Rumi and dates back to even before the ransack. I rip the first one open.
Dear Rumi,
Give it to me.
You don't know me, I barely know you. All I want is what you have. Give it to me or I won't be nice. I know you know you have it. GIVE IT TO ME!
-S
What the heck? How could she not tell me she was getting these notes? This is horrible! I throw the note to the side and open the next one. It's message is nearly the same except it depicts my death unless Rumi gives the unknown note leaver whatever they want that she has.
I don't understand this! We have practically nothing! What could the supposed 'S' want from us, or really Rumi? On a different note why didn't Rumi tell me about the notes? A loud crashing comes from the door. It must be Rumi, she's back. Frantically, I push the letters back into her bag and throw it against the wall so that she doesn't know I was looking at it.
I go towards the empty bed frame and see what I can do to fix it.
"ALEXIS! ALEX! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry, I should've listened to you. I'm so sorry." She cries out busting into the room. Her face is red and blotchy with tears.
"What?" I ask confused "Never mind that. Why didn't you tell me that you were getting notes from some mysterious creepo depicting things that are horrible about me and you?"
"What notes? I got one a while back but I assume you did too! I only got one though." She says her face tells me she is confused
I pick up the envelopes and shove them in her face. "SEE! You have tons of notes and you didn't tell me about them. They were in your bag."
"You searched my bag?" She yells at me
"Not the point!" I deflect and go back to the letters "What if I read the most recent one, jog your memory a bit?"
"What? I haven't read them why can't you trust me?" She says, her voice sounds so broken and upset with me but I don't even care. I'm so furious at her for not telling me about these death threats that could have killed me and even her.
"I can trust you when you don't lie to my FACE!" I scream at her causing her to cry even harder.
"Whatever Alex! What's wrong with you?" She screams at me grabbing at her hair
"You, right now, you are wrong with me. Now with that letter. It reads as follows: Dearest Rumi, you try so hard. I know, I know, for betrayal of you brethren his hard. As of right now you are being screamed at aren't you? Yes. I know that because I can tell. I planned this. I planned all of this. Now your beloved friend Alex is reading the fact that I am planning to kill you. I know both of you have moved in next to the pony tail. Good luck, I hope you burn quickly. From 'S'. " I read off of the note.
"What?" Rumi says
"What the-" I get cut off as a searing piercing scream hits my ears. "Get down!" I scream lunging at Rumi and dragging her to the ground. A flaming arrow hits the wall behind where I was standing and lights the foundation of the house just as kindle to a dried leave fire.
Smoke swirls around my head and pierces my lungs. I cough and gag and try to catch my breath. I look over and see that Rumi is cowering in the corner. The worthless bed frame has collapsed on top of her. She pushes away and motions for me to follow her. We go out of the room but Rumi crawls onto a rotten board and her foot gets caught.
She struggles with it but I get my knife and hack at the wood until it lets her now bloody foot go. She screams as she keeps crawling since her bloody foot must hurt terribly.
We finally get out of the house and Sean is at the edge, watching.
"Holy mother! What happened to your house? Rumi are you okay?" He asks taking her into his arms.
"We are fine thank you." I say pushing my charred black hair out of my eyes. I haven't cut it in a while and it is getting longer than I like it. My hand touches my thick white scar and I cringe.
"I didn't ask you-" He gets cut off by Rumi.
I look at her and her eyes are blood shot. She is crouched on the ground and grabbing her hair as if she has a horrible head ache. "You're going to fight or you're going to lose you numb skull! Is that all you've got? Give me more! MORE!" She says, her voice strong like a man's then her voice changes to some sort of deep creepy possession thing "It's coming for you, It's coming for him. Those who live will face the facts, life isn't worth it-" The creepy voice gets cut off in the middle of it's sentence and Rumi screams in horrible pain.
The whirring in the background that I hadn't been paying much attention to stops. Sean blushes a crimson red and murmurs something about his A.C. turning off.
"Rumi?" I say sadly "Sorry I didn't trust you, but now, we need to leave more than ever." I say and grab her arm, pulling her up. She props up against me and Sean helps support her weight. We walk into the woods, her staggering, and me sighing.
We reach a nice clearing and Sean and I prop Rumi against a tree. She quickly falls asleep and leans against the tree. Sean rips off a piece of his shirt causing me to turn away in disgust at the sight of his abdomen. He wraps the cloth around her bleeding ankle and lays beside her, stroking her hair, and telling her everything will be alright.
Like the loner I am I curl up beside a tree and take my knife out of my bag, which I snagged from the fire. I place the weapon next to my hand, as a precaution during the night. Someone is out to get us, that means we are going to have a heck of a day.
A/N:
What do you think?
Who is out to kill them huh?
I don't know
S
HEHE tell us what you think!
-Jesica
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