Highway Infinity

Five - Roads

Elliot's POV

The corner was silent. Everyone in the broken-windowed room was as well. I tried to breathe with patience, as I'd never been so afraid in my life. I was sweaty and messy all around. Juno was sitting down on the floor next to me, and so was Kit. We were so hurt, but Kit had it worse. Her girlfriend was just murdered, and now, our friend Chris. Were these murders possibly connected? They couldn't be, but at the same time, they could. If you really think about it, Luci was Nikita's girlfriend, and Chris was her friend. I didn't like seeing my friends suffer. Were they targeting us? Or were they targeting Nikita as an individual? Nothing was clear. We just had to wait and see what would happen.

In the midst of the silence, I suddenly heard loud footsteps. It sounded like someone was running towards the room from the outside. All of us slowly stood up and readied ourselves.

The door was bashed open and we flinched.

It was Ken. His face was covered in blood, but he had no cuts.

"What the fuck happened to you?!" I shouted while walking toward him. I took off my polo, leaving only my muscle shirt to wear on my skin. I used my polo to scrub the blood off his face. The blood wasn't dry, so it was new.

He was panting. "He, he killed him! I, I was there and he was"

Ken was panicking and stuttering. He was struggling to find his words. I signaled at Michelle to get him water.

She handed the bottle to him. He gulped it like no other, and when he was done, I held it.

"Just breathe. Calm down and tell us." I said, trying to ease him. He seemed petrified. "I....I left the motel and walked to the nearest mart. There I stayed for a few minutes, just thinking about things. It took me a while to get back, and when I was checking my keys in, someone came behind the lobby man and cut through him...it was horrible. I ran off again, but this time I stayed on the same grounds in case there were more people. I hid in the storage room downstairs for minutes and then made a run for your room," Ken pointed his brows at me to signify that he came to my room.

We sat down next to everybody else. "I tried to get back into my room but it was locked too! I thought Kit was angry at me for the accident so I ran here. And here you all are."

He took a deep breath and sighed. I patted his shoulder.

"And then, there he is." He pointed at Chris. "When I barged in the room is wasn't as scared as I am now. My brother..dead."

He burst into tears. We all sobbed at the loss of our friend. The night was a disaster. We were emotionally destroyed.

We couldn't be like this forever though.

After having one emotional group hug, I approached an idea. "We can't stay here and wait. We have to go somewhere safer than this place."

Michelle nodded her head. "Yeah we should. Do we just...leave?"

"We should. And we're gonna drive the fuck out of here with that Benz of yours." Kit added. "We're not gonna take our things? I left my luggage at my room." Juno replied.

"Fuck the luggage. We'll be back here with the police, that's when you can get your things." Kit fired back. Juno stayed quiet.

We all agreed on what we should do, so we quietly left the room.

We passed several rooms, all with bloody handprints on them. They all could have been Juno's, Ken's, or Kit's.  They were all blood stained and outside the rooms.

We eventually reached the lobby, and the sight was gut twisting.

What Ken described is less gruesome than what was actually there.