The Love Triangle

Chapter 8

CHAPTER 8

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"I'm scared." I hear Claire whimper. She's always been afraid of the dark.

"Sssshhh!" I shush her, we must not be heard.

I hear her sigh. How did this happen? All of a sudden we were sailing to the dock and now Claire and I are hiding in a closet! I hear a soft bang.

"Ow!" I hear Claire shout-whisper.

"What happened?!" I whispered nervously.

"Don't worry, I just hit my head on the shelf."

I groan, "Don't scare me like that!"

Suddenly footsteps could be heard pounding slowly toward the door. As the large boots march closer, my heart rate increases.

Whoever it is stops just outside, now they're a foot away...

A gruff voice speaks. "I know you're in there."

*********An Hour Earlier***********

"Do we have a plan?" I ask Joseph as we get closer to the boat dock.

This seems to catch him off guard. "Oh, um.. I guess not." He replies with furrowed eyebrows. "Just follow my lead." He says to all of us.

We nod nervously and tip toe toward the pier. As my eyes adjust more to the darkness I'm shocked at what I see. There are a couple bodies scattered on the ground. I don't know if they're dead or just unconscious, but I don't recognize their faces very well in the dark.

Booths are knocked down and the whole place is empty. All the lights are out and it's completely silent. No one is to be seen, not even the bad guys who caused this. Judging by how everybody is freaked out by the mention of their name tells me they're dangerous. But what else was so bad that they got put in prison?

My heart thumps hard as we follow Joseph behind a large wooden sign. It's too quiet.. did they leave or something? We crouch down and take this all in. This is actually happening.. The question is, what's going to happen next?

I look up and see Joseph and Claire, where's Lucas? I look around in confusion. He was right behind me!

"Where did Lucas go?" Joseph notices he's gone also.

I start to get more nervous. How is that even possible!? I already feel like I'm going to explode!

I peek my head over the wooden board just in time to hear a gunshot. I see someone running away and Lucas falling to the ground. I gasp and my body becomes frozen. I ignore that and rush over to Lucas' side.

He cringes and holds his shoulder.

"Lucas! Did you get shot? Is it in your shoulder?" I ask frantically. Claire runs over and kneels down beside him also.

He nods with his eyes squinted closed. Blood comes through the cracks of his fingers where he's holding his upper arm. I quickly tear off a piece of my dress and tie it tightly around the shot. At least it's just a flesh wound.

Claire and I help him up, "We need to get you to a hospital!" I tell him. But how silly it was of me to think that all the bad guys were gone.

Because suddenly Joseph yells to us. "Claire, Evelyn! Run!"

I snap my head up to see that Joseph was in the middle of battle with some masked dude. He was dressed in all black and fought like a ninja.

He must not have seen that Lucas got shot..

I mean come on! You can't send a wounded guy into a fight!

But he can send himself into one... And that's exactly what he did.

"Go, Evelyn." Lucas mumbles to me. "You guys have to run." He pushes Claire and I away from him and walks boldly and confidently to help Joseph.

I start to protest but he argues back. He says that its just a shoulder shot and he'll be okay. I don't believe that.

Claire and I stand unmoving, we can't just leave them!

"Just run!" Joseph and Lucas turn around and scream at the same time.

I notice more people dressed in black running this direction. Claire and I realize some of them are charging at us! We don't know how to punch people!

We start to run the other way, my phone in hand. I dial 911, but there's no signal. I curse under my breathe.

Claire tries her cell, thank goodness it worked! We inform the police of the horrible situation and our location. We lose the group chasing us, or so we thought.

We cautiously creep around the abandoned booths in silence.

"You know." Claire's voice clashes into the quiet. "If we don't make it through this, I just want you to know that you're a great friend and I'm so glad I met you." She tells me. "And also.. I was the one that spilled chocolate on your favorite top last week." She confesses.

I was wondering about that! I laugh softly. Claire always knows how to lighten up the mood a little bit.

"That's okay." I respond. "And you're a great friend too." We smile at each other, what a cheesy moment.

I think we both know that someone can jump out at us at any second. That makes these living seconds precious. Claire clutches my hands tightly.

We search for a hiding spot that anyone would go to if they didn't want to be found: a closet.

We lock the door and try to shuffle quietly passed the broom sticks and cleaning supplies. Careful not to knock anything over, we arrive at the very back.

Everything's going to be okay... Everything's going to be okay...

You sure about that?

I roll my eyes at the stupid voice in my head.

I put my hand on my active heart. Deep breaths Ev. Deep breaths.

**20 minutes later(back to the present)

"I know you're in there."

I hear Claire gasp in shock and fear. But nothing comes out of my throat. For a second I just sit there, not knowing what to do. My body feels frozen.

That's it, I'm going to die. Claire's going to die! Lucas is going to die! Joseph is going to die!

Snap out of it will ya!

Right, no time to panic! I grab a broom stick and hand Claire a mop. There's an incredibly loud pounding on the small, weak door. Large splinters of wood start to break away from it.

I give Claire a determined look, hopefully we'll live through this. But I know we're both absolutely terrified to the point where we actually have the dignity to run and cry home to our mothers.

Instead, we hold up our brooms in defense, ready for whatever comes crashing through the door.

I totally stand corrected.

Three giant, buff men come crashing in.

We're screwed.

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There you go my lovelies :)

Sorry if it's a little short, but it's what I'm giving ya!

Hope you enjoyed!

Fish fingers and custard.. (only "fantastic" people will get this phrase)

*L J F*