TAKEN ✔

Chapter 11

Amy's POV:

"What do you mean 'become new members of your gang?'" I asked, putting the dagger back on the table.

"Here we fight for our lives, Kyle bought most of us to train into assassins. So if you two want to live, I would suggest you pay attention." She sighed and gave me back the dagger.

"And you don't want to go home to your family?" Lilac asked.

"If we do, he will just kill them. You don't understand, he has people everywhere. It won't be hard for him to kill a few people." She starts talking about how to throw knives the correct way, but I don't listen. The thought of never seeing my family again brings tears to my eyes, which I quickly wipe away. For the next hour we practised throwing all sorts of knives at targets, which I proved to be surprisingly good at. Lilac, however, wasn't so good at it. She kept missing the target and hitting the wall, or the knife wouldn't stay on the target.

"Ok, I'll see you guys tomorrow. You need to head into the room over there for your next lesson," she said, pointing towards the right.

"Wait, what's your name?" I asked as she started walking away.

She stopped walking and stared down at the floor. "Kyle will explain later."

For the rest of the day, we learnt different things like how to load a gun and martial arts. By the time it was dinner, I was exhausted. Me and Lilac walked into the kitchen to find Kyle eating a burger. As we walked in, he turned to face us.

"Ah, your here," he said with a smile.

"Where else would we be? The cinema?" Lilac spat out. His jaw tightened and he walked over to her.

"I can still kill you," he said. When Lilac didn't respond, he sat back down, gesturing for us to do the same. We reluctantly did so, and he started telling us the about his gang.

"So, as you probably know you are going to be working for my gang. At the end of training, you all get given a code name. For example, there is Dagger, Night, Fire and Shadow. Your name will depend on your strongest skill-" He was cut off suddenly by Lilac.

"So what? Your nickname is bastard?" She said with a grin. He just ignored her.

"If you try to escape, you get punished. If you betray the gang, you die. If you succeed in escaping, your family dies. If you in any way disobey me, you get punished. Understand?" We nodded, and he continued explaining things like games and missions.

"Every month, or for special occasions, we have games, but I'll tell you about that later. Missions, however, is when someone pays us to kill someone. You won't be doing any killing yet though." He nodded at someone by the cooker, who brought out two burgers. "I'll let you two enjoy your dinner," Kyle said, and walked out of the room. As soon as he did, Lilac started laughing.

"Why are you laughing?" I asked in confusion.

"Sorry, it's just, they take this shit so seriously. Like his 'I can still kill you' and the code names-" she stopped by another burst of laughter, and grabbed the sides of her stomach in agony. I went back to eating my burger, and was surprised when she suddenly stopped laughing. I looked up at her and followed her gaze to the doorway where Kyle stood, his eyes narrowed in anger. He walked over to Lilac, grabbed her hair and dragged her out of the room, her screams slowly fading away.

"LILAC!" I jumped up from my seat and ran down the long hallway to where Kyle was trying to pull her down some stairs. "Please, she didn't mean it," I panted, my legs not used to the exercise from the time with Kevin.

"Go to your room," he growled in my face.

"She didn't mean it, didn't you Lilac." I said.

"She needs to be taught a lesson," Kyle hissed, his hand holding onto her hair so hard that his knuckles turned white, and dragged her down the stairs. I tried to follow, but someone was pulling me in the opposite direction. The last thing I remember was the pain that hit my head as I tried to run after Lilac.