Let's Go Before Trouble Comes

Chapter 15

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful, now we are all sitting in the living room. Cliff, Arrow, Ash and I are sitting on the couch. Arrow is on the right, I’m in the middle, Cliff is on the left and Ash is laying across all of us, her feet in Cliffs lap and her head in Arrows. We are watching Fast and the Furious. Ash, of course, picked it out. She’s all about driving fast and shit like that.

Ash is already asleep, she is normally the first one asleep. “She always chooses the movie but never finishes it,” Spear laughs, all the other girls joining with her. The boys just kinda rolled their eyes. We all love Ash. She’s the youngest in the group, and the cutest little thing ever, how can you not love her. I slowly followed Ash, dozing off.

I wake up to Ash yelling at me. “Forge! Forge! Get up!”

“What the hell do you want??” I groan back at her. I'm tired, and really don't want to talk right now.

“Your dad’s here,” she says softly.

“Okay, where is he?” I wasn’t afraid, I was gonna kill him for showing up again, especially at night. Motherfucker.

“The kitchen,” Ash whispers. I get up and walk into the kitchen. There he stood, a knife clutched in his hand. He had it pressed to someone’s neck, who is that? Then it hit me, it was Liv.

“Let her go!” I scream.

“Only if you-” Dad stops talking for a second.

“Only if I fucking what!” I yell, throwing my hands in the air, fed up with it.

“Only if you kill everyone one else here.” he says as he points behind me. There stood the gang, and... Mom? But how?

“I can’t do that," I say, letting my arms now dance beside me.

“Alright then,” Dad says as he knife pierces skin. Liv's skin.

“No!” I yell.

“Then do it,” Dad says, throwing me a knife.

“Guys? I’m sorry,” I said looking at them, but not in the eye. I walk up to Ash and Arrow. Arrow was being held back by Luke. “Ash, I love you my crazy sister,” I say, tears rolling down my face.

“I love you too, my insane older brother,” she whispers, tears rolling down her face. She wrapps her arms around me, hugging me. I hug her back, then raise the knife in my hands. I literally stabbed her in the back. She fell to the floor, blood covering her chest. Arrow screams and yells and fights against Luke. I walked up to him.

“I’m sorry man,” I say stabbing him.

I hear a quiet, "She trusted you, man," then nothing. I then walk up to each one of them, stabbing them each in the same place. Then my mom walks up to me. I stabb her in her heart. She stares at me as she slowly bleeds to death.

“It’s okay honey, I understand.” She said, then nothing.

“Okay, I did it,” I say, crying.

“Yeah, and now you're going to die alone!” Dad yells. He slices Liv's neck open, and tosses her body to the floor.

“No!” I yell, jumping to check her pulse.

“You shouldn’t have done it,” she says. Then nothing. I cry a river of tears, before lifting up the knife, and doing something I've imagined a million and one times. I can't live without them, I won't.

“Forge! Forge, stop! Let go! Arrow!” I hear Ash scream. I open my eyes, she was standing in front of me, trying to get the knife I had in my hands. There was blood running down my arm.

“What? What’s wrong?” Arrow yells, running in the kitchen. I’m hallucinating.

“He’s trying to kill himself,” Ash cries.

“Forge, stop,” Arrow prompts, grabbing the knife. I aimlessly tried to grip nothing, my hand moving of it's own accord. “What were you thinking?”

“It’s not real, it’s not real, it’s not real,” I mutter, shaking my head. I’m going crazy, I just killed them, how are they talking to me? I much be hallucinating.

“Raven! Get in here!” Arrow yells.

Published: 5/13/19