The Purge: 5SOS

HOUR 2

"Yeah. Hi excuse me Mrs. Under Cover Spy, THIS ISNT A GAME!" Tobi said.

"Would you keep it down? I don't want to be killed tonight!" Michael hissed.

"He's right. Wouldn't want anyone to get hurt right?" An unknown voice said. I could hear the click of a gun and held my breath.

"We're all gonna die!" Natalie whispered hopelessly. I promised that we would all get out alive.

But now I'm not so sure.

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Calum's POV

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I automatically felt Shannon grab my hand and climb behind me. I squeezed her hand to try and reassure her she was safe but I hate lying to her.

"Who are you?" Michael demanded.

"Why should I tell you? I'm trying to survive. How do I know you're not gonna kill me too? Plus I'm the one who's holding the gun to your head." She answered.

"True, but you're not gonna shoot." Shannon states. The girl looks baffled but quickly recovers.

"You don't know what I can and can't do. You can't predict anything." The girl spits out.

"Yeah but it looks to me that you don't know how to hold it let alone shoot it." Shannon fired back. A sheen of sweat starts to break out on her forehead.

"Haven't you ever heard the saying don't bring a knife to a gun fight?" The girl grumbles gesturing the gun towards my knife.

"Still. I bet you don't have any bullets in there either. It's just for show." Shannon continues. The girls sighs and shot at the ground. The gun just clicks. Shannon was right.

"Look. I'm just trying to survive ok? I don't have anyone I can trust and since you're in a group, that made me think that you trust each other enough not to kill one another." The girl states.

"Well, we could use another person in our group...safety in numbers. Right?" Hannah says carefully.

"Are you serious? We're going to let some random stranger join our group because she gave us a pity story. How about no." Tobi complains.

"Ok look little miss jack ass. I could get you all somewhere safe and with weapons. So either I can help you guys or let you guys get killed." The girl growls. Everyone contemplates the choice. I, for one, think it's worth a chance.

"I say she's part of the group already." Michael voted. The girl let a tiny sigh of relief out.

"I agree with Michael." Natalie voted.

"Ditto." Shannon said.

"I say no. She could be leading us to a trap." Tobi said.

"Well I trust her." Luke stated.

"Really? Trust in a complete stranger? You're really stupid if we want to survive." Tobi stated.

"I say she stays. Majority rules. She's staying." Hannah says.

"We don't even know her name!" Tobi complained. Probably a last effort at keeping her from joining the group.

"My name is Caighly." She said.

"Well Caighly, welcome to the group." Luke said. Caighly smiled and shook hands with Luke.

"We better get going. We've been out on the street for a while and who knows who might be coming. Come on. Let's go." Caighly beckoned. We all followed her down many street I didn't know the name of and we finally made it to a huge office building.

"This is the P&G building. My mom worked there before the place had a shooting." Caighly sighed.

"When was the shooting?" I asked. I felt bad for asking and regretted it immediately.

"Roughly 45 minutes ago." Caighly answered.

"Oh. I'm sorry." Hannah whispered.

"Yeah? Well sorry isn't going to bring back my mom." Caighly replied. After that we all fell silent as we enter the building with caution.

"And you're sure no one's here?" Natalie asks.

"I'm sure." Caighly responds. We were about to walk up to the front doors when she stopped. She gets behind a car quickly and curses.

"What? What did you see?" I ask as I quickly get behind the car with her. Everyone else follows the action.

"There are two guys at the door. I've seen them before. They're the ones that started the shooting." She whispered.

"How are we going to get in now?" Hannah whimpered.

"Give me your gun." Shannon demanded. Caighly looked confused and handed the gun to Shannon.

"Where are your bullets?" She asked. Caighly reached into her left pocket and pulled out six bullets. Shannon took them and started to load the gun putting in one bullet at a time. After she finished loading she turned off the safety and cocked the gun. She took aim and waited a second.

BANG

The sound rang through my ears and hurt my head along with everyone else's. I look from behind the car and see that one of them is dead and the guy next to him has his gun up looking for anything moving to shoot at. Shannon cocks the gun again and takes a steady aim and waits again.

BANG

She shot at the other guy and he dropped dead. Shannon turned to safety back on and handed the gun back to Caighly.

"Never unload that gun. Not even if you feel so safe and secure. You keep that gun loaded and ready." Shannon advised. Caighly nodded wordlessly and we got out from behind the car and jogged to the P&G building. At the front door, Natalie pushed it open slightly then stepped into the lobby. It was a wreck. There were papers everywhere along with the occasional dead person. Great.

"We need to get to a safe room. This way." Caighly commanded. She walked into a hallway and kept going. It seemed like forever until we stopped at one of the doors. She opened it and let us step inside first. There guns and bullets everywhere along with blankets and pillows and canned food.

"You expect us to eat this shit?" Toby scoffed. Natalie glared.

"It's either that or starve until this is over." Natalie growled. She looked extremely stressed and we all know that when she's stressed, she's vicious.

"I think we're all tired. So why don't we take a nap so we can think straight later." Hannah suggested. The room was silent in agreement except for Toby who grumbled. Caighly handed out pillows and blankets while she herself went to the one where she had out already.

"Sweet dreams everyone." I mumbled. I heard a scoff and before I fell asleep, I thought about how different we would be.