The Girl Who Killed

Chapter Thirty

This had to be cheating.

Nada had Kale and Ashton right outside of the view of the cameras. No golf cart. Easily, she took one of the boys at a time and pushed them into their stalls. Ashton first. Then she waited outside, and making Kale breathe heavily with her, they ran into the barn minutes later, her shoving him into his stall. 

"House." Ashton murmured quietly. 

"Road. Pond." Kale murmered, too. 

Nada nodded and ran out, straight for the house that still had no lights on. She burst in through the door. "KYLE! KYLE!" She screamed.

"Nada? Nada!" His voice came from the bathroom. The only door that locked from the outside. 

She ran over, her hair braid bouncing off her back. She tried the door knob. Locked. Of course. "Kyle, you better be away from the door." She said. With that, the black haired beast took two steps back, and with all her might, ran and kicked the door. "Owwww." She groaned. There was a hole in it. She started kicking it more and more.A whole that she could crawl through formed. 

"Kyle?" 

"I'm okay. I'm just tired." 

"Did she drug you?" 

"Yeah. She did. Come on, cut me loose and let's blow this joint." 

She crawled through and pulled out her pocket knife. Sawing at his wrists, then his ankles, she let him crawl out first. Following him, she let out a curse as the broken wood cut through her jeans and scratched her leg. 

They ran back to the barn and she threw him into his stall. "Nada!" He stopped her. "I love you." 

"I love you, too, but this isn't the time, really. I have fifteen minutes and three people to save." 

"Save Jeff. Kitty and Zoe helped Sabine plan this. Worry about Kitty before Zoe, too." Ashton stated. 

"Shut the Hell up and let me do what my plan is, Ashton." Nada snapped. With that, she ran out to find Jeff. Tied to a tree by the stables.... 

--

 It was really dark. There were people screaming. Nada was going to fail. Zoe knew that. At least two people would die- her and Kitty. Most likely her, knowing Ashton would tell Nada that she was a backstabber and helped plan this, while Kitty was the innocent one. 

And she was.

Zoe shivered as a breeze whispered lightly through the trees. She wished there was some way to know if Nada was anywhere near her. Kitty was on the pond, tied to an air mattress, bound to float there. 

At least with this breeze she'd have a chance to get closer to shore. But her mouth was taped. Pretty bad. And Sabine had made sure that being tied up was painful.

Zoe let out a soft sigh as she tried for the hundredth time to untie herself, which proved, as the last hundred times, unsuccessful. She could feel blood on her wrists from the bonds. She could smell it, too, and she had always hated the smell of blood- ever since her brother was stabbed. 

"NADA!" She screamed, hearing someone in the woods. "Please, help!" 

"I'm not Nada. But I'm sure you wish I was." 

The voice was right. It wasn't Nada. It was the silky smooth voice of a FREAKING KILLER! Sabine stepped out of the shadows and into the light of the moon. Her blonde curls were still perfect and her make up was unsmudged. 

"I really thank you for your patience and helping me with this, Zoe. But now you have another job."

 "Sabine, you might as well just kill me now." 

"You aren't going to die, Zoe. She's figured it out. She has another five minutes and she's saved everyone but you. She won't let you die. I know she won't. But here's the catch: When she finds you, you can't stutter. Don't run. Stand here. And I'll take care of her." 

"Why do you want to kill her?" Zoe was really confused now. Didn't she want to spare Nada? 

"You don't get it, do you?" She sighed and rolled her eyes. "You are too stupid to fathom my genius plan, Zoe. So stop." 

"Why? Why should I? I'm going to die anyway." 

"I have to kill her to kill the others, stupid! If I want to kill the boys, I have to kill her, too. I never go back on my word. And my word was this game." Sabine's smile turned essentially more creepy. Her eyes were scarier, too. There was definitely a sign of crazy there that Zoe had never seen before. 

--

Five minutes. Nada had five minutes and had saved everyone but Zoe. She couldn't catch her breath, though, and didn't think she'd make it to Zoe and back to the barn. 

"Don't leave." Kyle stated flatly. 

"She has to." Kitty sighed. "It's one of the unspoken rules." 

"What the heck is with all these unspoken rules?" Nada demanded breathlessly. She wished she had an inhaler, but unfortunately, she didn't actually have asthma. So there was no inhaler to grab. 

"Well, there's the one about Zoe, where you have to save her and me both or you save neither, then there's the one about light. There's also one about Kyle and Kale, then there's one about the golf cart."

"Also on the time limit." Ashton chided in. "She's actually cheating and makes up more rules as you go along so she can win." 

"And she will, since you don't have time to save Zoe." Kitty sighed. "It was nice knowing you guys." 

"No, you'll be okay, Kit. I'll be sure of it." Nada weezed. "I've always hated Zoe, anyway. She used to bully me." 

"I know you aren't really thinking like that," Mallory said from the corner of her stall. 

Nada knew her mom was right. She really felt bad about not saving Zoe, but look, she had three minutes left and she couldn't breathe, let alone run! Sabine won in the end. 

No, she didn't. She only said to save five people. Nada had saved six. 

There was a tsk from the dark corner of the barn. "The idiot won. Give her a round of applause, everyone." Sabine's voice came from the corner. "Yet, you don't feel like you did, do you, Nada?" Sabine's smirk was noticeable and made several people in the barn want to hit her- including Casey, who was just a horse. 

"You don't know anything, Sabine." Nada snapped, her breath miraculously back. 

"Everyone, into the house. Zoe, help me." 

Zoe came out of the dark and grabbed Nada. "Sorry about this, kiddo, but I'm going to stay alive.