Jared, I murdered your uncle

Chapter 8

Maria’s P. O. V.:

We all silently walked up the old dirty building. It smelt so bad, but blood stains were there, which kind of helped us get to where we were. I hoped Jared was safe. We finally got to the top, but hid behind a wall, where we could hear their conversations.

“Jared William Hudson, you are so innocent, I would’ve let you live… but I have no choice, all I need is excess to your dad’s account, tell me that or you’ll die.” He said. This Bruce guy, whoever he was, he was also British, I noted and kept it to myself personally.

Henry walked over to him, we all stood there, and heard gunshots as both of Bruce’s men fell unconsciously to the floor with a thud.

“Aah. Henry Davies… I didn’t expect BSA to work here as well you know.” The guy bitterly laughed and pointed a gun at Jared.

“Go away, or your friend is no more.” He said sternly.

“Make me.” Henry stood there. The man smirked and raised the gun at Jared. Henry’s eyes widened and he jumped in front of Jared, and got shot twice in his torso. Jared got shot on his shoulder which made me wince, both of them fell down with a thud. Samantha got her gun ready, but before she could make a move, she got shot right in her stomach.  Bruce ran away. Zach, Lance, Lesley, PJ and I stood there.

“Call 911!” Lance yelled as he went to Henry, Zach and PJ approached Samantha, I walked to Jared, sat down and touched his blood. It was warm. Tears came strolling down. Endlessly, salty bitter tears came down. I felt a hand on my shoulder. PJ sat next to me.

“They’re coming. The ambulance is coming.” He said putting an arm around me. I nodded. I saw Jared’s hand move a bit, it was under mine. I jumped and he smiled a bit. The ambulance came and the stretchers were there. I felt unconscious, and that’s when it went black.

I woke up when I felt someone was playing with my hair. I saw that was PJ and this was a familiar room. I looked at my side and saw PJ sitting looking at his phone, when he saw me, he pulled his hand out and got back to his phone. I smirked at him. On the right James had his eye closed and was resting on the hard of the bed. James saw my movement and smiled.

“Yay Ree! You’re awake! What happened to you?” He asked like a child, his obnoxious husky voice coming out. But before I could answer, he gave me a hug. I looked at PJ wondering what had really happened and tried to recall myself. Once it came back to me, I jerked up PJ and James suddenly jumped off.

“What happened?”

“J-Jared! H-he was shot! A-and Henry and Sa-Samantha.” I said trailing off and looking for my phone, it was on my nightstand. I pushed James off and grabbed it, gladly I had Lance’s number, so I called him.

“Hello? Maria? How are you?” He asked. I rolled my eyes. Three friends off his were shot and he was worried about me.

“Forget me! How are Jared, Henry and Samantha?” I asked pulling on my shoes. PJ and James sat there staring at me.

“Uhm…  Jared has a mild concussion… Samantha is recovering, she is awake. But Henry…”

“What happened to Henry?”

“Doctors say his heart may have stopped if he was shot at it, but luckily it was his torso… But if his heart stops, nothing more than death is expected.” I gaped. Lance had sadness in his voice, I got that he was sobbing.

“I’m coming.”

“Sure…”

PJ looked up at me. “Well?”

“Henry… He’s not safe yet… Samantha and Jared are fine… You’ll come with me?” I asked PJ. James had no idea what this was about.

Jared’s POV:

I got up, but regretted it, my arm was throbbing because it was shot… My head hurt badly, I looked at my side and saw Lesley sleeping, his head on this bed.

I nudged him a bit with my index finger, which was also the only one which wasn’t that numb. Due to what Bruce and his men did to me, my body was limb and my every part hurt. Even my toe nails.

Lesley looked up with sleepy eyes. But grinned when he saw I was awake. He bit that finger of mine and waved.

‘How ya doing Hudson?” He asked trying to get his hair proper, pointing the whole mop of straight brown hair into the right side.

“Every part of me hurts.” I said. But then I remembered something.

“HENRY! SAMANTHA! WHERE ARE THEY? ARE THEY ALRIGHT?” I freaked out because Henry was shot twice, and that was really brave. I craved his bravery. I was suddenly worried, I tried to jump out but Lesley pulled me down.

“Samantha’s fine. She’s awake, she has Zach, Lance, Maria and PJ.” He said with a sad smile. What did he mean? What was wrong with Henry? Was he dead? I’ll never forgive myself if that has happened.

“Henry?” I asked. He looked down. “Dammit Lesley is Henry alive?” I asked a bit too loud.

“Of course he is. But… He is still unconscious, his heart stopped too… for 5 seconds, but now they say he needs all the medical attention he can get to recover.” He says. Suddenly the door opened, revealing Maria, Lance, Zach and PJ.

Maria was wearing blue tights with a black baseball shirt. Her hair was a mess, but a beautiful mess. She walked to me and smiled.

“How are you?” I missed that voice so much. I just adored her green while she just gaped. I didn’t know what the reason for the gaping though was, I had a bruise blue and green face, and I wondered what my hair were like. The last image I remembered being carried to the ambulance, but before that Maria had my hand in hers, and she was crying probably shocked from all the violence that she had just witnessed, or she was worried about me being hurt… That would have felt nice.

Somebody cleared his or her throat. It was PJ, he looked at me, then at Maria with a blank face.

“It’s like you’ve never seen each other.” Zach spoke. I glared at him as he winked. PJ laughed at that. Lance and Lesley started talking about some baseball game, and the four boys decided to leave me and Maria alone.

It wasn’t awkward like I thought it would be.