The Soldier

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

  Leslie and I stand back to back, unsure to move or to do anything at all. I decide to take the latter. Slowly, I hold my hands up making sure that Jon knows I'm unarmed. If he does anything, at least there may be time for Leslie to get away. Though... I know Jon nor Lindy will do anything. To hurt the president's daughter; that results in being stoned to death, and if you survive, then you get death by firing squad. But if he's smart enough, he will have his gang throw both me and Leslie off the cliff. That way he has no witnesses. There's no chance whether may find our bodies, or not.

"Look at her, not looking so brave now, does she?" Lindy spits. She twists her blonde and black hair into a twist, then brings a knife from her pocket. "I wonder what she looks like cut up into pieces."

Everyone in the whole group laughs, all of their eyes burning bright with malice. Leslie and I try to back up closer to each other, but there is no other place to go. We're dead. If Jon let's these people at us, there will be nothing left of Leslie and I, but the chilling, sinister, ghosts of us.

Jon holds up his hand, silencing them all, like their voices just suddenly just disappeared. "No one will be doing anything. I just want to teach Castor girl, here a lesson." My old friend smiles at me, not friendliness in it. As if he has lost his mind.

Before I can stop her, Leslie yells, "Don't! Leave her alone."

I curse, and turn to scowl at her. Now, not only will Jon be focused on me, but he will also be focused on her. Whatever he plans to do to me, he may do much more damage to her for speaking out against him.

Jon laughs a hollow laugh, his hands running against her pale face. I pray to the Fates that she does not spit in his face, I can tell she's forcing herself not to do it; her body's tense. There's no doubt he may be tempted to kill us both. "Oh, and why not?" he starts out.

A new voice speaks: "Because, if you touch those two, you're going Home."

A chill has passed over us all. Now I can see, not where, but who Leslie was staring at. Officer Aura has his piercing eyes on all of us. "Don't even try to make any excuses. I saw it all." he spits, glowering at Jon and his friends. His look is scarier than when he was drunk, and choked me. My stomach drops.

"Stop, turn around, and head back off the trail. If any of you go against my orders again, you'll get a much worse punishment than going Home." Then he pulling Jon out the way, keeping an eye on him and his gang, run up the hill, frightened of this tall officer that stands over Leslie and I.

And the thing that makes me feel sick: Jon turns around. "I'm sorry, June. I just want to be friends again." When he turns back around, I want to scream. Jon Hitman has shown his dark side to the whole entire world. It all explains that he's not going to stop, even if Officer Aura caught him in the open. The next time, Jon Hitman is going to kill me for sure.