Taken by a Maniac

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"Marti."

"Marti."

I felt my body being shaken and my name called out. Snapping awake and looking around, Jackson had his hand on my shoulder, "Come on Marti, you've been napping long enough."

I groaned slightly, "Jackson, can I just sleep and you do the package delivery yourself?" I asked jokingly, half awake. I glanced at the clock, it was 4AM.

"Sorry princess, you know we both have business with Alec tonight so we both have to drop off the package to David," he said, "besides we're getting paid a lot for this package remember? Barely any work tonight," I nodded in agreement, then grabbed the package from under my bed and handed it to Jackson. I got up to begin to get dressed when I heard Jackson sigh.

"What's up?" I asked while digging through my closet for some dark clothes.

"You ever think we'll be able to do something other than this for money?" he asked while playing with the edges of the package.

"Yeah of course, one day we will," I bit my lip, "but right now business is good and the police have no leads on us, and it's good money for now until we get to do something else."

I wanted badly to tell him he's not the only one having second thoughts about doing this kind of stuff. But it pays so well, it's so easy for us to do with our preppy school. And it'll help pay for college and whatever Jackson decides to do in the end, he says he wants it to be a surprise to even him.

"I guess so," he said as I was checking my gun. I walked over and put on my boots. "Let's go," he said patting my back. I got up and followed him out the window, into the dark woods.

I looked around at all the leaves and trees swaying with the soft wind. When I looked behind us, to take in the scenery, I could've sworn there was someone staring at us. "So what do you think of Alison Carter in our class?" Jackson asked, snapping me away from thoughts like that.

"She's alright," I shrugged and muttered, "I'm not all that into girls though, remember?"

"Ohhhh yeahhhh you're mostly gay but will make exceptions for some girls," he chuckled.

"Ergh fuck you," I growled, I picked up some leave and threw them at him which caused him to laugh and run back, he lifted me up quickly. "Hey hey!" I tried to stay as quiet as possible.

He put me down, "don't say "fuck you" to me ever." He clicked his tongue.

I blushed slightly. Gosh he's so cute sometimes... We continued walking and making quiet jokes for another 20 minutes while walking to our destination. The night air was crisp and felt amazing. I know we will see the sun come up in about two hours.

I looked behind us and swore I saw someone standing behind us near the trees. I shrugged it off again as we got to David's house and knocked on the door.

I don't need to think of something that scary, not now, not ever.

He opened the door and grabbed the package and tossed it on his couch. He shook Jackson's hand, then shook mine.

"Pleasure doing business with you boys," he grunted out, the reek of cheap beer on his breathe, I looked down at my hand and only saw half of what he owed, I looked at Jackson's hand too which was empty, then we looked at each other, then back at David. He laughed nervously, putting his hands up, and smiled, his rotted teeth made me cringe slightly. "I'll give you guys the rest tomorrow, promise."