Jared, I murdered your uncle

Chapter 11

Maria’s POV:

My life is a complete jumbled up mess. The constant visits to the hospitals are frequent since last month. Every now and then Henry would ask us to stay safe and try to keep indoors and keep all doors locked, incase anything happened. Although I had between 3- 4 classes in a day I would only fill the assignments of one, yes, that is Biology. I thought Bruce had finally let go of Jared and all of us but boy was I wrong for thinking like that.

After my geography lesson, I went out to my same old Mini Cooper, PJ had paid for the repairing I didn’t want him to, but like he always was, he’d just shrug it off like it’s no big deal. Apart from that, Carter was sad. Because of Kayla’s death at the accident she kept blaming herself. She wouldn’t talk to her brother in law (Kayla’s husband) and felt bad for losing her sister; she had completely lost it when she thought of two toddler twin daughters of Kayla. Now Carter still refuses to move on. She has left for a while with James to get her mind off things other than that; she and James had confessed their love for each other and were keen on getting engaged. I was enthralled, obviously, my best friend was going to get married next year, though she wasn’t happy because of Kayla, but she was her step sister, but a sister is a sister.

Anyways, I walked and sat in my car when a knock on my window made me jump, but I saw a gun there and was left frozen.

“Please don’t hurt me.” I whined.

“If you promise you won’t try anything clever, I promise I won’t hurt you.” I nodded and he put his gun down when he started the car.

“How did you get in the college premises with this weapon anyway, your basically an intruder.” I pointed at the gun; something about this guy told me he wasn’t really a first class criminal. And I wasn’t scared. How cool, Maria Fernandez.

“It’s called Bruce Hudson’s crimes.” He said sighing a bit confusingly. I nodded, I expected that though, he did threaten Lesley about kidnapping.

“Wait, you aren’t scared? Bruce can do anything, kill anyone, even you.” He says nervously. This made me laugh. This guy, a fat lumpy guy, a red face, blonde stubble and bald head, green clothes, he looked kind of cute.

“He can. I can’t deny, but you know, you aren’t scary at all.” I smiled, he laughed a little.

“Can I say something?” He asked cheekily.

“Sure.”

“I don’t wanted to do kidnap, but it seemed cool.” He says, I laughed out loud, was this guy for real? Here he was working for Bruce Hudson, just because he thought this stuff was cool, little did he know he’d be screwed for life if Police found out he is working for a criminal master mind. I shook my head in disbelief and explained to him.

“I’m dropping you at Master Bruce’s place and I’ll hide, I don’t want to go for jail all these years of my life, I have kids and a loving wife.” He says pouting.

I patted his shoulder he looked up, a cute cheeky face. He was short too. Aww, he was just too cute to be a criminal. I bit my lip thinking of a way.

“Oh by the way, I’m Maria.” I say, holding my hand out.

“Oh I know that I had your picture too, but I thought you had short hair. And I’m Johnny.” He says smiling from ear to ear. He shook my hand and drove off to some weird damp musky street. I checked my surroundings. It was disgusting.

“Disgusting place, listen is it your signature style of you criminals to stay in creepy weird, disgusting places like this?” He thought for a second and shrugged. He was slowing down when I saw two men, one was a bit familiar. Oh dammit! It was that goon whom PJ fought with in front of the mall. He looked just the same. Chills went up and down my spine, but Johnny backed the car. I looked at him, wasn’t Bruce going to kill him if he wouldn’t take me to him? Anyways, was I the only one kidnapped?

Jared’s P. O. V.:

I was dragged into this building. Lesley, Zach, Lance, PJ and Henry were altogether. Sam was with a girl, possibly a girl that Bruce was using during this period of crimes. The girl threw Sam inside a room, next door, we were thrown in. Bruce’s men are stronger this time, probably strong enough to choke us to death, but now that we were together, we could do something. All that was worrying me right now was Maria; I wondered if they got her too, or were they just forgetting her, I hoped that she was safe.