Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Chapter 5

After escaping near death, we decided to stop in 7-Eleven. We bought some snacks and drinks then stayed inside the car, a few minutes later I saw blood coming out from my shoulder and left leg.

"Shit Ray. Your bleeding." Cody removed the clothing that was covering my shoulder. "This is not good, bullet hit you."

"You think we should go to the hospital?" I said in pain. I didn't notice the pain maybe because of all the action that was going on.

"You don't need to." Vanessa said. "I know how to treat open wounds, especially when it's a bullet." She eyes Tyler.

"What?" Tyler asks her. "Oh yeah, bullets hehehe."

"Hold still Ray."

"AHH!" I shouted with pain, it's really painful. "AHHH!"

"Nearly there!"

"She's got it!"

Shit. That's really painful you know? At least she could have done it softly. Good thing is it's out.

I saw the bullet, looks like an M9 bullet, and my shoulder was bleeding really hard. Now they examined my left leg. It was another open wound but no bullet. It looks like a sharp object sliced my skin. Maybe it was the vents, there were some really sharp objects there. The vents are bent and made a sharp edge.

"The left leg is fine, no bullet just another open wound." Vanessa grabs a bandage. "We just need to put bandages."

"By the way." Tyler eyes Cody and me. "What are your full names anyway?"

"I'm Ray Joley." I said

"I'm Cody Evans. How about you guys?"

"I'm Vanessa Cambridge." She says while treating my wounds. "He's Andrew Patrick, but I call him Tyler."

"Do you have parents?" Tyler asks. "I just want to know what is the feeling of having parents."

"I.. Actually don't have parents. Saw both of them in front of me executed. Shot at the heads." I said nearly crying.

"I have parents but they don't care about me. They're abroad. Going to some crazy country to study something that's going to help the world." Cody eats some Pringles. He seems he doesn't care also about his parents.

"Let's stay somewhere that we can sleep. Even though it's already 5 am already." I yawned.

We saw a hotel that looks nice enough, of course Cody paid all of it, I mean that bitch is rich. As soon as we entered the room Vanessa lied down on the bed. Tyler turned on the TV to watch the news. Cody was on his phone. Since everybody is busy, I decided to take a bath.

The warm and cold option of the shower is the best thing ever invented. It was really cold outside and the shower's water is so warm. After taking a bath I went outside all fresh from the bath. The first thing I noticed different is that no one moved from their spots before I took a bath. Tyler was still watching news, Vanessa on the bed and Cody still on his phone sitting down.

"We have found the hideout of the infamous Rolando's." The news reporter said while pointing to the abandoned warehouse. "There are only a few suspects found while the others were seen running away from the scene."

"Several police officers are dead. Most are injured from the gunfight. We will report back to you from Chicago."

"Jason escaped." Cody said while still on his phone.

"How do you know?" Tyler asks.

"I have planted a camera on Ray while she was watching Jason kill his father." I eye him suspiciously. Cody is really weird sometimes. "I added an option to detach and land on a person, in this case, Jason. He is heading to an airport not far from the warehouse. The flight he is taking is going to California."

"What are we gonna do?" Vanessa gets up the bed. "Should we follow him right now or later?" After she asked that, they all eyed on me.

"What?" I asked them. "So I'm gonna come up with a plan?"

"Yes." They all say at the same time.

"Hmm." I was walking around the room. It's actually really big. "Let's just go later and get that bitch. We have to end the line right then and there."

"Maybe we should fix the car just so that it won't get suspicious." Tyler added while changing channels.

So we decided to sleep so we can have enough energy for later because my body is literally crying already, well crying blood. My wound on the shoulder is still bleeding but not as plenty as a while ago.

--------8 hours later--------

"Wake up!" Tyler says to me. "Vanessa is gone for 3 hours now! She went down to the pharmacy to get some healing supplies."

"Where's Cody?" I sat down and looked around but Cody wasn't here in the room. The TV is on but it was not a channel.

"I'm here." The TV said. "I'm transmitting what I'm seeing to the TV. I think it's better if you come with me. Come with me, make sure to lock the door! It's really expensive to pay just to stay for a couple of hours."

We packed up all of the weapons and knives and geared up to join Cody. According to my watch that Cody gave me during our mission in the abandoned warehouse, he is a few miles away from the hotel.

It took a few minutes but we eventually found Cody inside a 7-Eleven. 7-Eleven is EVERYWHERE, most likely it has covered every corner of every nation with 7-Eleven.

"About time you made it." He says while we entered. "Took you long enough."

"It was far from the hotel so of course it will take us time to walk here you dumb fuck." I adjusted my watch. "Any clue where she is?"

"I do have. In fact we will be going to him right now." He grins. "She's kidnapped by Jason."