Not Romeo and Juliet

chapter 9 : the lies

"you know, I have faced a lot of things. Spies, killers, traps and all sort of dangerous things. I am a cool person. And it's the low speed of the internet that is going to get me killed." Lilac said from her side of prison.

"thank you for not leaving me, Lilac. You could have just left and you didn't." I say sincerely.

She looks at me, surprised. "leaving you was never an option, Juliet. Specially not when I was starting to like you." That causes me to smile. Then:

"what are they going to do to us?" my voice fills with fear.

"Torture us to see what we know. Who we sent the files to. Who we work for and when they're done they will kill us."

She doesn't sound scared. It's just like she is stating a simple fact.

An idea pops into my head. "what if we're already dead?

"I'd prefer us being alive, thank you."

"no. what will they do with our bodies?"

"probably throw them to trash. Why?"

I reach to the secret pocket in my bra. (before you judge, after being a secret agent, I just wanted to do something secret too.) and take out two pills and show them to her.

"I brought them in case of emergencies. They slow our heartbeat so it cant be found and it will put us to deep sleep." I leave out the part that I brought the pills for her. In case she bothered me during the flights. (this was why Blake was scared of me. I have a unique way of getting rid of the unwanted.)

She nods. "fine. But we have to stay here for a while. It will be more convincing for us to die after we've gone through a little torture right? They will probably think that we were infected."

Remember the little torture?

That made me want to kill myself about a thousand times. After 2 full days of agony and being whipped and burned and cut by knives, we finally took the pills.

And after it 5 hours of peaceful silence.

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The first thing I see is a glen with lily a few meters away from me. I crawl to her to see if she has any heartbeat.

She bolts awake the second I touch her.

We made it out of that hellhole. We are alive.

We are alive!!!

That was my heart and brain cheering. What can I say? They like being alive.

And apparently so did lilac. Since she was running and screaming in the field with her shirt off .

After a closer look I found out that it was because of a tick on her back.

Come to think of it she didn't sound that happy at all.

Given the situation I did the most logical thing.

I burst out laughing.

"stop, drop and roll." I shout after her.

Since she trusted me and with me being a doctor she thought that I had to help her, she actually listened.

And she started screaming again cause now there were more ticks on her back.

"sorry that was for fire." I say while wiping away a tear. Being mean feels good.

We found the gasoline to take out the ticks with it and after that we called Elias to tell him that we're ok and also to send a plane to fetch us.

"by the way I never congratulated you." Lilac says after we are comfortably sat in the plane.

"for what?" I ask, taking a sip from my water.

"you know the competition. Didn't Ash tell you?"

"didn't Ash tell me what?"

"the real reason he took you in his group. I mean since he didn't fire you till now he won't fire you after and I am so happy. You are the only one who I can bear to talk to easily."

"what was the competition exactly about?"

"you know, to get into the competition you had to have a group of four. After he got you in he was able to get into the rankings. You're group was the best. I was worried he would kick you out after cause I heard him say so before he took you in but -"

But I didn't hear what she said next because my heart's breaking sound was so loud it didn't leave anything else a place.

Everything starts to make sense. Lizzy and Jase showing up in Nancy's was no coincidence. The way Ash freaking thanked me started to make sense.

'leave it to time to decide what happens between us.' That was what Ash said the night before the mission. Let it decide if I want to keep you around my little pet. I complete the sentence in my head.

Hatred fills me.

Hatred to myself.

Because I became the girl I swore I never would: the pathetic girl who actually waits for the guy to choose.

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that's the thing about pain.

it demands to be felt.

-John green. the fault in our stars.

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Ash's little secret is out. the next part will be coming soon and is a part of the book. letters part. tag your mean yet awsome best friend. feel free to share and vote and follow when you are at it. we need more readers.

love always.

-Ani