Here We Go | Book One || COMPLETED

Waiting For Answers

Oceans POV

I sat in the diner waiting for an hour. The sun had already began to set, dipping into the lake. Steam from my coffee floated to my nose. I was waiting for Talon, waiting for answers. If everything has gone wrong, why isn't he telling me? I have set up 4 other meetings like this, all end the same, I sit here for 3 hours. He never shows up, and I'll send yet another text saying we'll meet again.

I keep fooling myself, he obviously doesn't want to talk to me, and explain this deal he has made with his dad. I want to know I need to know. He is my fiancee now and we avoid each other. School has ended and another year closer to my wedding, Junior year. I know I've pushed it back in my mind, I don't want to think about it, any of it. My wedding, or how I'm not sure if I love him enough to marry him, start a life. Maybe I'm scared that I'll end up like my mother, she got married at 18 and had 2 kids by 20. I have been told that if I don't marry Talon then the two gangs will be thrusted into a full blown war, my family will die. Mazes my have money and fire power, but Fires have training and more connections. Most of their recruits are required to take the free police course. They have more numbers, and more spirit.

I love Talon but I'm not in love with him. I push that thought to the back of my mind when the chime of the door echos through the empty restaurant. It's just another man stopping in for coffee. I nurse the mug in my hand and stare out the window. Freshly fallen rain, makes puddles in the parking lot. Days like this make me happy. I love the smell of rain before it falls. I love watching the rain, and I love rain.

The door chimes again, but it's Noah... my heart leaps, and thumps. I might have a heart attack. He puts on a apron, and walks over to me. "Hi so you need anything else?" He smiles, my throat goes dry, and I shake my head. He fills my cup back up, and go back to day dreaming. It finally hits me, I'm still not over Noah! Maybe because it was so sudden like a surprise I wasn't ready for. I didn't and couldn't say anything, what was I supposed to do say hey Noah your probably the love of my life? No! I internally yell at myself for being so stupid. I see a car speed out of the parking lot.

Talons POV

I sit quietly in my car, watching the diner. Ocean is sitting there with her coffee same as the last 3 times. She wants answers and I have them I'm afraid of the questions. I don't want to tell her that I will inherit the gang, and that's the only reason my dad said yes to Scarlets deal, because that means its under the Frey name, and not Jennings. My stupid decisions have made her life hell. I know deep in my heart that she wanted a normal life just like me, and I couldn't give it to her. I can't give it to her, someone will... I curse at my thoughts. No one deserves her like I do. Stop stop stop! She is getting more coffee now. I want to go in there and tell her that I tried. My emotions cloud my thought and I race out of the parking lot. My heart was pumping and sweat rested on my eyebrow.

I can't push the image of her out of my mind. I pull over on the highway. A car pulls behind me, I don't recognize the vehicle. A boy about my age got out, he was wearing a ball cap. I rolled down my window. "Can I help you?" I ask, he pulls a gun from his jacket. The gimmer in his eyes. I hold my breath, as a bullet enters my chest.

Blaring blue lights blink, as I drift in and out of consciousness. "Patient is responsive!" I hear a paramedic shout. They work relentlessly.

Oceans POV

I adjust my bag on my shoulder as I walk out of the restaurant. My phone buzzes, and a picture of Talon pops up. I ignore it, if he wants to talk to me he can do it in person. My phone buzzes again. I end call. A third time bothers me, I pick it up.

"Hello!?" An unfamiliar voice says. "Hi, I'm calling because a boy named Talon Frey, and been in an accident, and he is being assisted to the county hospital" I freeze in the parking lot. "Hello? Hello!, just go to the hospital he is going there now" the man hangs up. I want to move but my body stands stiff, like my brain can't communicate with my legs to run to my car. I finally move to my car, and drive to the hospital. I skid to a stop at Talons room. He is hooked up to different machines, his heart is steady and silence fills the room. I pull a chair up to the bed and hold his hand. A subtle knock echos through the room, a doctor enters.

"Hello, you must be.... Ocean, Mr. Frey. He has been shot, nearly got his heart, must of missed it by a few inches." The doctor flipped through a clipboard.

"Will he be ok?" I ask.

"Talon... is in a coma, his body can't-" I zone out the doctor and focused on Talon. How long do Comas last. The room is silent once again.

"Hello Ocean" I start to shake, my mind is fuzzing, I slowly turn to see Frankie, in a baseball cap. "Come on let's go for a ride." He points a gun at me, he pulls me to his chest, and presses the gun to my back as we walk out of the hospital. I step into the musty truck, an older man lays limp in the back. "Happy to see me?" I don't say anything I stare at the dash board. "I said are you happy to see me?" He growls, soon he hits me. I slowly nod my head. "Good girl" the engine starts. We pull off the main road onto a bumpy one. A shack in a clearing comes into view. "Ok Baby Doll, get out" he points the gun and pushes me into the tiny house. A fire was burning and a matress laid in the corner.

"Please Francis don't- don't hurt me" he twitches and pushes me down, I scramble to get back up. He pushes me down onto the mattress. I swear I'd rather be shot.

I wake up and my clothes are strewn around the room. My hands and feet are bond together, all I'm wearing is my under garments. He must of put them back on. He rocks in a chair in the corner. "Honey? Your awake now we can get started. He pulls a red hot metal out of the fire. A brander in the shape of a heart. He presses the brander to my breast. I scream in pain. He holds it longer. "There a reminder, of our love, truer than true." He kisses me. The shack is really hot, sweat drips from my body. "Nobody is coming for you" he say placing the poker back into the fire. He pushes my hair out of my face. He steps out to get a smoke. I try to get out of the bonds. They are tight, and I can't see, there is no light other than the fireplace. He comes back in.

"You hungry?" He asks. He pulls soup out of a bag. "Eat honey" he gesture me to eat,

"Maybe I could feed myself?" I ask.

"You want to leave?!" He slams the food down onto the floor. "We are meant to be together Ocean, that's why I shot him, he was in the way!" He said gripping my arms.

"You shot him?" I asked, I should of known. I could feel my feet growing very sweaty, I knew I could slip away.

"I- I need another cigarette" he said. I pulled my feet out of the bonds, and grabed the poker and slowly opened the door. I hit him, and ran. My legs carried me farther than I thought, to the road. My hands were still bound. I ran down the highway. My tan bra and underwear, were dirty, I kept running, running until my vison begins to blur.

A van slowly pulled up behind me. A woman sat in the front seat I hopped in, and kept my head down. I see Frankie running behind the van. I scream for her to gun it. We pull into a supermarket. We left Frankie a while back. The lady looked familiar, her short beach blonde hair shimmered, and she tossed a old boys T-shirt and jogging pants , and we drive to her house. I stagger out of the car and into the house. I sit on the couch.

"Ocean, mom why is she here?" I hear Noah. The couch sinks at his weight.

"I have to call the police" I hear her run to the phone. "Hello I have a girl at my house I think something bad happened, come quickly!" She rushed to me with a glass of water. "Drink something..." I couldn't stop shaking. He had tried to kill me before, but I didn't ever think that he would be able to get this far. I had come to know a new kind of fear, one that I hadn't really known before, the feeling that I was the....

Victim

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Yolo! Aliens! Frankie is back and more crazy than ever. Will Ocean survive his next attempt to kill her... third time is the charm? Let me know! Love you guys!
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