The Ruds

Chapter 4

It was about a month later and HiJack and I were already starting to act normal again. It was a late February night and Mason, Me and Dylan were at MT's. I decide to work there and, so I worked there every weekend, Wednesdays and Thursdays. It was almost midnight, so we decided to go home. "Marty, I'm going, see you tomorrow." I walked out the door with Mason and Dylan. "See you Faith, by guys." He yelled when we left. "You sound really good." Mason told me.

When we got back Mason went in a little before Me and Dylan, when we got in there we saw Mason yelling at Cash. "You told me you wouldn't drink anymore!" "You can't tell me what to do, I'm your older brother!" Cash yelled back. Mason pulled the drink out of Cash's hand and Cash pulled out his switch and cut Mason across the face. Mason stumbled a little and Cash grabbed the drink. Cash was going to cut him again, but I stepped in and then Mason ran out the door. "Take it easy!" I half yelled, blocking Cash's next swing. "Calm down," I quieted down. "Now hand me the drink." I told him, I reached for it. He jerked it away and very slowly set it on the table, then when I didn't expect it he pushed me into the wall and put the blade to my throat. It took me a second to calm down enough to talk. "Cash, this isn't you." I said. He dropped the blade and it landed by my feet, then he went and sat on the couch. "Taysha left," He told us. "What?" I asked. "Taysha went to go live with her grandma in Utah." He explained. We were all quiet, "You didn't..." Navvy started, Cash just shook his head. "Wasn't me." He sighed.

I turned around and went to go find Mason. It didn't take me long to catch up to him, I am a pretty fast runner. "Mason!" I yelled "Stop!" He didn't stop he just kept going. I ran faster and tackled him to the ground sending both of us stumbling. "Are you OK?" I asked when I got my air back. "I'm fine," He coughed. "Why would he do that?" He immediately asked. "Taysha left, went to go live in Utah." I explained to him, in less word. "It still gives him no reason to pull a blade on me like that. "Haven't you ever loved someone, but then realized they might not love you or just don't love you in the same way?" I tried to clarify. He just looked up at me and our eyes met. "Oh, I didn't know you felt that way." I said, kinda surprised. "I... I don't know what to say." I said. He looked behind me, Dylan was coming up behind us.

"Hold on" He gasped for air. "Man y'all run fast." He said. "Mason you all right?" He asked once he could breathe normal. "Yea, I'm fine." We got up off the ground and started to walk to the field where I had been jumped a month before. We walked over to the swamp area of the field where the water was surprisingly deep.

I was walking in front of them and then I didn't hear them walking anymore. I turned around and saw two Mods holding their arms and cloths in their mouths. It took me a second to get what was going on and by then there was a Mod on me too. I have been really jumpy since that one night I got jumped. "Oh look it is the little Rud girl again." It was Brock. I couldn't think of what to do so I pushed him backward which made him fall in the swamp and he pulled me down with him. We were fighting to get to the top and keep the other one down.

"Faith!" Mason and Dylan said in unison. Dylan was trying to get free to help but the Mods wouldn't let him every time he struggled they would punch him until he was out cold. They just put him on the ground knowing he would be out for a while. Mason was trying to escape to with more luck. He got one of his hands free and grabbed the blade in his pocket. He took it out and started cutting them, most of them left except two. The two that stayed caught him again and flipped him so he was looking at the pond, just as Faith and Brock came out of the water.

It felt like I was under the water forever, I felt a sharp pain in my hand when I realized that he had a blade. I grabbed his hand trying to keep the blade away from me. We moved around and eventually I could touch the bottom and so could he so for a little while we were above the water. We came up fighting for the blade and trying to push the other back down.