I stood frozen, not with fear but with apprehension. The tension in the air was so tangible, I could almost feel it gnawing on my skin. I hated the fact that I was blindfolded. I couldn’t see a thing. The paranoid part of my brain started to think that I was actually going blind.
I gritted my teeth and curled my toes. Now would be a good time to bolt, if only my hands and feet weren’t bound together with rope so tightly it cut off the circulation and made my fingertips numb. Also, if I could see where the hell I was going.
All in all, I didn’t really have any options. My back was pressed against a wall and I could safely say that I was completely trapped.
The barrel of the gun was ice cold against my temple. I could feel the excitement radiating from him as he stood next to me with his fingers on the trigger, the safety off.
Just a little pull.
Just a little pull and my skull would be blasted into a million pathetic pieces.
I waited for the imminent to happen, counting the seconds which would probably the last of my life. Wow, what a way to die.
Great, just wonderful. Exactly how I imagined my death to be.
I got up to twenty three seconds and finally lost it. It wasn’t so hard to pull a damn trigger, was it? So why was he taking so long?
I stopped counting and sighed. “Why don’t you just kill me and get it over with?”
I felt him stiffen. The barrel of the gun pushed deeper into my temple.
“You think it’s really that easy for me to kill you?” He rasped, and I thought I heard a hint of uncertainty in his voice. But that was probably my imagination talking. Probably? Nah, it was obviously my imagination talking. Kevin was as heartless as it gets, and heartless people were never uncertain to kill. Or were they? I supposed I wouldn’t really know, since I wasn’t heartless. At least, not that heartless.
I shrugged, miraculously managing to do it even with the bound up position I was in. “Well, if it isn’t, you sure try to make it look like it is.”
This time, he sighed.
“Evie, I really cared about you.” He said softly.
Oh Kevin, you never was good at lying. I laughed inwardly.
“Oh, yes you did. I can totally see that. No wait, I can’t. You blindfolded me. But maybe if you took it off, I could.” My voice dripped with sarcasm.
“I said cared. Past tense. I don’t care anymore.” He tried to say it as carelessly as he could, but I knew him better. Or maybe I didn’t. Oh, who was I kidding? I didn’t know him at all.
“Oh that’s good then. It would make this situation somewhat less confusing.” I smirked.
I wondered if this was a good time to give him tips on how he should carry out my funeral after he killed me. I had always wanted my death to be very kickass, with rock music blasting instead of sad slow boo-hoo songs, and people dressing up in super hero costumes instead of the standard boring black. But then I didn’t think Kevin would be too happy to receive my input on the matter.
The barrel of the gun was still there, still as capable of destroying me as it was when Kevin first propped it there. But here I was, scoffing and smirking at the face of death, and I wasn’t scared. I was hurt, yes. I felt betrayed, like hell. But I wasn’t scared and the fact that I wasn’t scared was actually starting to scare me.
“I never thought it would come down to this.” Kevin said grimly.
“It didn’t have to, and you know it.” I snapped back.
“I couldn’t just let you live after I found out the truth about you.” He actually had the nerve to sound defensive, that bastard. As if I deserved to die just because he thought I was a death threat to everyone around me.
Which, mind you, I was so not.
“Is the truth really so scary? Do you honestly think I deserve the punishment of death?” I asked, dead serious.
“Yes, Evie. I think you do.”
Wow. Okay then. Time to die. Woop-de-doo.
The finality in his voice when he said the words chilled me to the bone. What kind of a cold, heartless creature was he?
“You know what, Kevin? I’m just trying to figure out why I ever thought I was in love with you.”
He scoffed. “You never were, princess. Monsters like you aren’t really capable of love.”
And with that, a gunshot blasted, someone let out a bloodcurdling scream, and then, everything went silent.
