Hidden world

Chapter 25

ALEX POV (hmmm this chapter gets a little crazy)

Camen floors the pedal, sending up zooming into the forest. I have no clue how he knows how to drive this thing, I guess he knows more than I do though. I can hear the shouts of Union officers gaining on us.

"Cam't this thing go faster?" I shout grabbing for the security fo the arm rest.

"No!" Camen cries as he tries to direct the automobile between the knarly trees.

A loud pop fills my eardrums as we spiral out of control. Rumi's helpless scream makes my head fill with fear. My forehead flies forward and smacks the dashboard. I jerk it back up just to smack into the glass of the window, shattering it with my cranium. I hear another scream and realize it is Camen.

"Get out! Get out! Get out!" He screams at us. My limbs want to move, they really do, but they wont.

Finally I escape the grip of my subconcious and jam open the door.  We all start running, sprinting really, trying desperately to get away from our progressors. My breathing becomes heavy as I start to pant. How long have we been running? I ask myself. I look to my left and see Rumi red faced but pressing on. I then look to my right and see that Camen is beside me, running at about the same pace. Sean brings up the back of the group. I'm sure he can run faster than that but I'm also sure he is there to protect Rumi.

Gun shots fire through the air and I can hear them whistling. Quickly I spin around, something in my instincts make my back arch just in time for a bullet to just barely pass me. It embeds in a tree. I gasp at the fact my life could have been taken in the blink of an eye. My heart starts to putter like a butterfly's wings.

I hear the whizzing of bullets again and I am on alert, my adrenaline pumping hot and fast through my veigns.   My bones go rigid when I hear the scream. It is one that could only belong to a man. I wip my head around just as Rumi cries out in surprise. Sean is down on the ground, his thigh has been shot and he is bleeding out.

I race over to him and shout orders "Sean grab his feet, Rumi support his right shoulder, I'll support left." I yell and we all get into positions

"I'm so sorry Sean!" Rumi cries out as teawrs roll down her cheeks.

"GO!" I shout and everyone lifts him from the ground. We go as fast as we can to find somewhere to be safe.

Camen shouts about finding some sort of cave that we can hide in. We bring the wounded Sean to the dark place inside of a giant rock.  Camen props him up against a large boulder and presses his hands against the wound.

"He's losing to much!" Camen yells for the world to hear.

"Lord please no!" Rumi cries.

I look over and see that Rumi is shaking with fear. Her face has turned pale white and she is scraping her fingers over her arms. I tell her to stop so she puts her hand in her hair. A large chunk of hair falls into her hand and she screams out in intense fear.

"Shh," I hush her "It's okay, you're just going to make things worse."

"Okay," She sobs

I crouch down beside Sean and Camen looks at me with a sheet white face.

"What?" I ask and he doesn't respond "WHAT? Camen answer me!"

"I am going to press down up here," He says placing his hands above the gun shot. "You need to get the bullet out." 

A shiver runs down my back as I try to stomach this. I choke out a reply that sounds somewhat like "okay"

Camen calls Rumi to take away Sean's attention from the pain. I get my fingers ready and count to three. "ONE! TWO! THREE!"

On the dreaded number three I plunge my fingers into the wound. It's squishy and I can feel the blood surging over my fingers. "Oh my gosh!" I cry out trying to find the bullet. I can't find anything and I begin to panic. Sean screams so loud it is heart breaking.

"Wait!" I cry in happiness "I think I found it."

I pull out what my fingers grasped and see a rounded bullet about the size of the first crease in my pointer finger. I drop the thing on to the ground and crawl over to the cave wall. I vomit, well at least I try to, I actually end up just dry heaving.

Sean leans forward and coughs. He doesn't realize it but he actually coughs blood, and it lands all over Rumi. She screams in disgust and slides away from him. The coughing up blood isn't a good sign, I can't help but wonder if he will last.

"We need to go get food, Alex come with me," He pauses "Please?"

"Yes, yes, yes." I say quickly getting to my feet, I am so ready to get out of this horrid cave.

"They will be searching the area so I will go hunt and you pick the berries from the plants outside of the cave. I am also going to find some medicinal plants." He explains, grabbing my bloody hand and leading me out of the cave. He pulls me down a little farther to a light stream.

"I'm sorry you had to do that." He apologizes and dips my hand in the cool water. When he brings it out he gives my knuckles a light kiss and then sends me on my way.

Lovestruck I pick some berries and then go on to the cave. When I duck into the cave I see Rumi leaning over Sean, that doesn't really surprise me, what surprises me is that Rumi is kissing him.

"HOLY CRAP!" I scream and then gag upon reflex of seeing the disgusting sight.

"Alex!" Rumi shouts in surprise, wiping her mouth.

I get into action. I march over to sean and grab the collar of his shirt. No longer does it matter that he is injured. I drag him out into the woods and yell at him.

"Just because you are injured doesn't give you the right to plant one on-" He cuts me off mid sentence

"She- she kiss-kissed me." he says struggling to utter the words.

I gasp in surprise and drag him back to the cave. Rumi runs up to me uttering a thousand apologies that mean nothing to me. They mean, nothing.

"Alex how could you? He has a leg shot and you dragged him into the forrest where he could have gotten twigs and leaves and branches embedded in it!" She yells at me. It doesn't have any effect though because I am planning what to say to her. I tune out and then only start listening once she has finished her rambling.

"You have no right to yell at me, girl. I leave you alone and well you know what, it feels like I keep repeating the same speech to you!" I yell at her. When I look her in the eyes I see that she is crying but I don't care that I am the reason.

I am so mad. I march back into the cave and leave her at the front of the opening, crying.

A/N:

Thanks all my readers! What did you think?

love you all

Jesica