True love waits

Chapter 44: The end is now

Snapping his head up in the direction of the gun shots Noah quickly looks back to the woman who helped raise him. "What was that?!"

A sly smirk slowly forms across Ms. Alessandro's face, she didn't answer him, but her smile said it all. She didn't hurt me, obviously, but Noah didn't know that, she was definitely going to use that to torture him.

Tears slowly begin to built in Noah's eyes that he refused to let drop, in his head the black mambas caught up to me and killed me on his mother's order. Which only made Noah hold onto Sarah's gun just a little bit tighter aiming it at his mother's head.

Suddenly the sound of leaves crunched behind him, causing Noah to quickly aim his gun elsewhere, Ms. Alessandro quickly laughs causing Noah to think the sound was just a ploy to get his back towards her, so she could shoot him down. Noah quickly turns his gun back to his mom.

Laughing sinisterly Ms. Alessandro says. "You're so easily distracted."

The sound grew closer and closer until it was all you heard. Finally the sound stops but Noah doesn't look back, even when he heard my voice. Watching the look of pure rage in Noah's eyes I get in between him and his mom with my hands raised in the air "Noah- don't, don't be like her!"

"But she was going to have him hurt you, she was going to have him kill you!" Noah says with a look of determination in his eyes as he clinched his jaw.

Flipping my hands revealing that there wasn't a thing out of place, I said. "But she didn't- Noah put the gun down!"

In the mist of his silence Jacob took the moment to bounce his eyes around the small place, when he suddenly noticed someone was missing- Sarah."Where's Sarah?" Jacob questioned.

With his eyes and gun still on his mother Noah asked. "She didn't tell you?"

"Tell me what?"

"Don't listen to him!" Ms. Alessandro shouts.

"She shot her, she shot your sister down like a dog and left her to die." Noah explains.

Jacob draws his gun and points it in the direction of Ms. Alessandro. Throwing up her hands with her slick manipulative tongue Ms. Alessandro says. "Jacob listen to me..."

"You shot my sister why should I?"

You could tell Ms. Alessandro was trying to pretend she wasn't afraid of the fact that she had not one but two guns pointed at her, but she wasn't fooling anyone, I could see the fear hidden deep in her eyes that and I could see her hands trembling."Let me explain IIII...."

Cutting Ms. Alessandro off Jacob orders."Drop your gun!"

"What- no I'm not dropping my gun!"

"Okay- you can keep it, but Noah and I will have to shoot you." Jacob replies with a closed smile.

"Now choose, keep your gun and die -or put your gun down and I hear you out." Jacob continues.

Not saying a word, the big bad Ms. Alessandro huffed and puffed as she tossed her gun to the ground.

"Kick it."

For a moment everything was quiet, Noah and his mom quickly made eye contact almost like they were having a conversation with their eyes."It wasn't me who shot her, it was Noah, why else do you think he has her gun?"

Jacob quickly points the gun at Noah, my heart just about sunk. "That doesn't make any sense, she's trying to play you like she always do Jacob." Noah explained.

"No I'm not, if what I said isn't true then explain how you got her gun." Ms. Alessandro says crossing her arms.

Jacob cocks his gun you could see the fear rise on Noah's faces as he fought for the right words to use, knowing whatever he said will either be the reason he dies or the reason he lives.

"Shoot him Jacob, just like he shot Sarah..."

"Go on, do it for Sarah."

"Jacob please." Noah begs.

"Why should you show him any mercy, when he didn't show Sarah any?"

"She begged and pleaded for him to let her live, but he didn't care, all he cared about was saving his precious Scarlett." Ms. Alessandro continued.

"Jacob, when you brought me here you checked me right?"

"Yeah."

"Did I have a gun?"

"No."

"So how did I shoot her?"

Jacobs gun quickly shot back to Ms. Alessandro. "You should go, I'll take care of her." Jacob says. To say Jacob was angry wouldn't have given how he felt justice, it just wasn't a strong enough word, it was more so pure rage. You could see the rage all over Jacobs face, that he refused to hide, he was pissed and he didnt care who knew it.

Glancing over at us as he shook the gun at us and says. "Go on now, get out of here!"

I don't know about Noah, but I didn't trust Jacob especially with a gun, he could easily shoot us as soon as our backs are turned. I mean he literally spent most of his adult life hunting down and killing people who look like me, so, his new-found hatred for Ms. Alessandro couldn't be stronger than his hatred for anything colored, I didn't trust him, I couldn't, everything in my body screamed don't trust him, don't turn your back to him. Because when we do it'll all be over.

Glancing over to Noah I watched as his face softened, you could tell he was both physically and emotionally tired, he just wanted all of this to be over, so he tosses the gun to the ground carelessly and says.

"Let's go."

And that was it, we walked away and didn't look back, even when we heard the sounds of gun shots echoing off the trees. We just kept walking with our eyes fixed on what was ahead of us.