Don't Waste Time

chapter four

Hiding in the shadows was a figure waiting for his time when she would finish her sentence. Like a hungry animal, he waited for the perfect moment to pounce. Quickly after hearing the last words slip from her pink lips, he gripped his hand's above her mouth. Lillith's eyes grew in horror, taken by surprise she was pulled back into the dark. She didn't hesitate to kick and punch, though nothing fazed him. She could see her friends continue walking down the halls, their body's slowly getting smaller as they continued without her and without notice. The stranger took a turn or two and Lilith lost all sight of her friends. She took no time to bite into his hand, though that didn't work either. She was pulled into a room and roughly pushed to the floor with a thud. Her knees hit the floor as she lifted her head. There, it seemed time has slowed. The light from the halls, the only thing illuminating the room she was in, was closing. She sat on the cold floor watching the door slowly close as she was filled with dread. The door shut and was locked. Her heartbeat quickens and she searched around her bag she had around her shoulder desperately trying to find the weapon she kept just in case. Through no matter how desperately her hands rummaged around her bag, she couldn't find it. She quickly stood, the pain still lingering in her knees. By the slightest bit, she could make out a silowet blocking the door, the only way out. She felt eyes watching her, watching her every move and this made her very uneasy.

"Elias, do you mind turning the lights on?" A feminine voice spoke

As soon that was said the lights turned on and illuminated the room. Lilith was blinded for a split second and by instinct, she used her hand to cover the light. Once her eyes adjusted, she saw the end of a knife pointed at the tip of her nose. Lilith's eyes widened from fear as she could feel the sweat form on her forehead slowly trickle down her soft skin.

"Show us your mark." An emotionless male teen said

He was the one pointing the weapon towards her, not wanting to get hurt, she followed his command.

Slowly she pulled down the sleeve of her sweater and showed him.

"Yeah, this is the one." He said towards his friends

Lilith felt something inside her that wanted to question all this, though she knew it would be best to keep shut and observe, or she could get hurt.

"Didn't you see another one?" A messy brown-haired male said

"I did but she was with them, and I can only take one person at a time." He said

"We're not kidnapping them! Couldn't you simply ask them to talk?" A long black-haired girl said get upset.

The white-haired boy simply shrugged with little to no care in what the black-haired female had to say.

This started a war, the female began to yell at the empty-eyed boy while he didn't have care. The boy with brown hair seemed frightened by there arguing and stayed silent.

"Who are you guys!" Lilith said interrupting their argument.

"Oh, I'm May," The female said politely "that emo kid is Lawrance and the shy boy is Elias."

To Lillith, it almost seemed May introduced herself nicely while the two boys got a hint of venom with there's. Looking at each of them she noticed the two males, the brown-haired boy bumped into her yesterday. He was the same strange boy that lifted her sleeve to see her mark.

Lillith wanted answers to the questions she was about to say, though never got the chance. The words got stuck in her throat and she couldn't make a sound.

May grabbed her own wrist and showed Lillith. It was a circle, with an X inside as well as three lines and circles on each side, it was exactly the same as Lillith's. Both markings were completely identical to one another, not a single line out of place, it was strange.

Lillith had known she shared the same marking as Katsu, and never knew why, but as well as May? Could this have been a coincidence?

Soon after a couple of seconds, the two other boys showed their wrists, they as well had the exact same marking.

Lilith didn't know how to feel. This was strange. What did having the same markings mean?

"And you kidnapped me why?" She asked

"We didn't plan on kidnapping you. Lawrence over here was feeling like kidnapping you instead of asking." May said obviously her anger towards the one named Lawrence

"Oi! You told me to take her by force!" Lawrance yelled back

"When did I say that!"May yelled

"Enough!" Elise said

Everyone became silent

"I didn't use my inside voice," Elise said quickly covering his mouth "I'm sorry but I think she has questions."

"Explain why you brought me here. I get we all share the same marking but why?" She asked

"Well to be honest," May said scratching the back of her neck feeling very nervous at the question.

"She doesn't know," Lawrance said finishing the sentence May couldn't. "So basically, we 'kidnapped' you for no reason."

"People don't just share the same marking for no reason, there has to be a reason...right?" May said trying to defend her argument without real evidence.

The room fell silent. May felt a pain in her heart knowing no one believed what she said. Before anyone could speak another word, there was a knock at the door.

When the noise from the door came into earshot with the three teens, they quickly went to work for such situations as this. Lillith couldn't understand what's happening for everyone was running silently around the room. The team of three scurried around the room. May at the door, Lawrence at the back and Elise crouched in front of Lillith.

"Shhhh," Elise told her with his finger pressed agents his lips.

Everyone stayed silent. There was another knock at the door, but no one answered. Soon enough there was a loud knock, almost like banging against the door. It continued with more force every second. Lilith wasn't sure what was happening but she knew...

Whoever was outside, wanted in.