story of another us 》michael clifford

Chapter 11: Fight Night

Michael stares at the board for a few moments, before feeling a movement behind him. He turns around and immediately collided his fists into the person's face, which revealed to be Kean. Kean drops fire extinguisher as he grabs his nose in pain. "You've been a pain in the ass for a year now, Michael." Kean hisses.

"Feeling's mutual." Michael says, lunging again for Kean. Despite his injury, Kean was able to foretell as he parries his punch, grabbing him by the collar and throws Michael to the side. Michael laughs bitterly, as he stands up, "Not bad." 

Michael composes himself as he taunts Kean, "That all you got?" 

"I've got so much more in store for all of you tonight." Kean smirks.

As soon as Michael left, Ashton waited for approximately ten seconds to request for back up as he came face-to-face with Lucian. Lucian stops making out with Eleanor as he scowls at Ashton. "Didn't realize they were accommodating rats tonight." Lucian spoke. "Hey! You're Amara's friend. Ashton, right? I'm Ele-"

"Shut up!" Lucian yanks her back, grabbing her by the hair. Eleanor winces in pain. "Lucian, let her go. She's not part of this." Ashton says, trying not to let any more people get hurt. "Oh, spare me the morality, Irwin. You know, I liked you better when you were in my gang. I made you strong. I thought you how to ground yourself not to the gang, family or people. I thought you to ground yourself with anger. I made you who you are." Lucian spat, his bragging about creating Ashton's character made Ashton furious.

"And look where that got me. You ruined me!" Ashton yells. The room was silent, before Ashton pulls out a gun from his jacket and points it directly at Lucian, "And now, I'll ruin you." 

But before Ashton could pull the trigger, Lucian throws Eleanor at him, and runs. Ashton and Eleanor both falls to the ground as Ashton groans and stands up, helping Eleanor in the process. He turns to her, "Go, get everyone out of here!" Eleanor nods and runs off.

Ashton follows Lucian into the dark hallway, the moonlight was the only source of light, passing through the window. "Stop hiding Lucian, let's end this." Ashton spoke through the silence. "Hands up, Irwin." A voice spoke behind him. He slowly turns around to see Lucian had taken another hostage, this time a gun pointed at the person's skull.

"End this? But I'm having so much fun." Lucian whines, an arm wrapped around the person's neck. "I can't have you hurt anyone anymore." Ashton says. Ashton locks his gaze on Lucian, "Join my gang." Lucian speaks. "What?"

"You heard me. Join me, and it ends right here. We'll skip town, start somewhere else." Lucian proposes. Ashton tries to read him, if he was joking or actually serious. "You mean something else. If there's anything else I've learned from you, there's always Plan B, Plan C, Plan D and the rest of the damn letters, you have a plan for everything." Ashton refuses, his gun to his side, ready to shoot anytime.

"Perhaps I thought you a little too well." Lucian responds. "This, I haven't thought you." Lucian begins to pull the trigger,  Ashton immediately ran for him. But Lucian changes direction, his gun shoots directly at Ashton. Ashton barely avoided the bullet, resulting him to get shot in the arm. Ashton winces in pain, as he falls down, grabbing his forearm, blood spreading through his clothing and hands. 

"Send Clifford a message for me,  will ya? Deliver this body to him." As Lucian was about to pull it again, a figure jumps on his head, knocking him out of his grip of the hostage and losing grip of the gun. "GET OFF OF ME!" Lucian tried hit the person above him.

"Hurry Calum!" Luke yells, holding on to Lucian's face, covering his eyes. "Ashton, let's go!" Calum  appears by your side as he lifts puts your uninjured shoulder on his, and drags you away from the scene. "...Lucian." Ashton murmurs as Calum drags him into his car.

"Don't worry about him." Calum sets him down on the backseat. "Lucian's going to kill Luke." Ashton mutters, his vision  blurring due to loss of blood. "Loving the attitude, buddy. Luke will be just fine." Calum says, shutting the door. "At least I hope  so." Calum mutters under his breath as they drive to the hospital.

"Should've finished you for good the last time we saw each other!" Lucian groans, attempting to get Luke off of his shoulders. "That's your mistake." Luke clasps his legs tighter around Lucian's neck, risking his balance. "Won't make that mistake again." Lucian bumps himself harshly through the window, making him and Luke fall down onto the cemented lot. Luke groans in pain, luckily, his head hit the grass, not the cement or his head would be cracked right now. 

Luke props himself by his shoulders as he opens his eyes. "Fun time's over." Lucian pointed the gun at him. Luke's eyes don't remove from Lucian's as he knocked him down on his ankles. He immediately stands up, grabbing the gun. "I'll be taking this." Luke inspects the gun, "An SVI Tiki-T. Nice, good to know you're still spending your money right." 

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"Clifford, where are you?" Kean's taunting voice rings through the house. "I don't got all night to play games." The sharp stinging knife scratches the wall. Michael hides by the storage space down in the kitchen, just a few steps and they were out of here. Still supporting Amara by his shoulders, he peaked through the keyhole, if Kean was anywhere near them. 

There were two ways they could get out of here, and both involves immediate speed and the other incredible stealth. He was about to execute his plan before Amara writhes in his  grip, he pressed a hand on her mouth before she could react. Her eyes widen with the current situation,  they were stuck in a small space and she could hear Kean's  taunting.

It took Amara a few seconds to realize what was going on, and her breathing calms down. "I'm going to try something, I need you to run as fast as you can  once you hear Kean come to me, alright?" Michael whispers to her. Amara's mind was racing a million thoughts a minute, her head injury was not making it easy for her to focus. "Do you trust me?" Michael's piercing green eyes illuminates through the small light. Amara just nods as Michael opens the door slightly, enough space for him to go through. 

Amara watches his movement, Michael slowly opens the kitchen door, and runs out, slamming the door loudly. Kean trudges down the stairs, cursing under his breath as he follows Michael. Amara took this as cue and runs out of the house through the front door. She spots Michael's sleek black car by the driveway. Without hesitation, she runs towards it, and finds a rock to smash the driver's window with it. 

She looks away as she throws the rock, glass shattering. She unlocks the door and immediately pries off the panel under the steering wheel. With her hands still shaking, she tries to connect the two wires, muttering, "Please, please, please work." 

The engine revs to life as she shuts the door and drives around Kean's house. She panics as a figure jumped out of the shadows and accidentally gets his by the car. "Ohmygod!" Amara exclaims, eyes wide as a deer. "Amara, move." Michael appears by her side, opening the car door. Amara immediately moves into the passenger seat. 

Michael instantly puts the car in reverse to get back on the road and shifts it back to drive and drives off. Amara looks back at the scene where Kean was just starting to stand up, watching the car drive off into the night. 

She slumps back in her seat, finally catching her breath. 

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i'm just really putting Luke's legs to good use