Black Combat Boots

Chapter Fifteen

"Dylan, wake up." I don't move.

"Maybe we should tell her tomorrow?" I can tell its Luke.

"It can't wait until tomorrow." It's Victor.

"Then just wake her up." Luke offers, suddenly I'm pushed off my bed.

"I was awake you know!" I snap.

"Then why didn't you get up?" Luke asks.

"I don't know. But what do you need to tell me?" I demand.

"This is going to take a lot of explaining, so please save your questions until the end. Also don't interrupt me." Victor states looking at the boys and I. In the room is Jeff, Sam and Luke.

"Well lets start from the beginning." Victor jumps in to the story.

"Your parents, I knew them well. Unfortunately, I knew them because they were in the same gang I was in. They had tried to leave the gang, but you can't do that. If you do try, they will kill you. The car accident you and your parents were in, the other driver had gotten out safely. Because it was all planned. A plan to kill your parents. They threw themselves in front of you, not to only protect you from the accident, but from the gang.

"But while they were alive, you had been dating James. Now before you think it was all a setup. No it wasn't. You two found each other on your own, so your parents worked on it themselves. They got James to train you. So that if the gang found out about you, you could fight them.

"But James had tried to leave the gang too. The gang we joined, they did like car accidents. An easy way to make it seem as though it was just that. An accident. He also threw himself in front of you.

"But then the gang found out about you. We had to get Sally out of it, so we told you she died. You then came to live in our protection.

"But it seems as though the gang has found you once again. It took them longer than we originally thought. They had thought we sent you away. So they searched the US, and Canada, trying to find you.

"The reason they found you was because they got an anonymous tip. The anonymous tip was where you went to school, worked and lived. We found the note, and got it tested. The anonymous tip was from Jay." Victor pauses to see my reaction.

"No. No. No no no no!" I yell. "My parents and James were not in a gang! They were good people. And Jay? Jay would never do that to me. You're lying!!" I yell. Tears form in my eyes, but I quickly blink them away.

"Dylan, I'm going to let Luke tell some of the story. We'll walk out, Sam, Jeff and I, then come back after he's done his side." Victor, Jeff and Sam walk out.

"He's not lying was he?" I ask in a mumble.

"I'm sorry." Luke looks at me with great pity.

"Stop. Don't ever pity me. My parents and boyfriend may be dead. But don't think you can fix it with pity. I hate pity and sympathy. So just tell me your side." I snap.

"I'm Zach." Is all he says.

My head turns so quickly to his direction, I almost get whiplash.

"What?" I whisper.

"I'm Zach. I robbed the shoe store twice, that you know of, and kidnapped you twice. I kidnapped you the first time because you just were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But the second was because I needed answers from Victor. Answers on all of this. The gang and such. I had only just been invited to the party." He sighs.

"At the cabin, you finally warmed up, then the next day you were cold again. Why?"

"Because I felt something I shouldn't have."

"And what was that?"

"Isn't obvious? I know I started to tell you when I was drunk in the park."

I suddenly remember him starting a sentence, about shouldn't have had feelings for me, something like that.

"You never finished your sentence."

"I have feelings for you."

I freeze, "Y-You do?"

"Yeah."

My face breaks out into a humongous grin. "Wonderful!"

Lu-Zach's face turns grim.

"Uh-oh." I say.

"It can't. We can't." He shakes his head.

"Why not?"

"Because, Victor will tell you."

Zach walks out and gets Victor.

They all walk in.

"Dylan, the gang is after you. And this time they want blood." Victor states.

"And that means that we can't?" I ask Zach.

"It means that you're not safe." Victor fills me in.

"But you said it yourself, James trained me to be the best that's probably out there."

"I said that James trained you. That's why Sam wrestled you. He can pin anyone, and get out of any pin, besides you. You'll be put into tests more frequently. But we'll never tell you when. So Dylan, be ready. Also you will be under constant watch." Victor, Sam and Jeff get up and leave.

"Zach?" He turns, as he was about to walk out. "Stay?"

"Of course."

I curl into a ball on my bed, and he wraps his arms around me, in a protective cage.

"It'll work itself out." He mumbles into my ear.

I slowly fall asleep.

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Authors Note

Hey

Got some background info on pretty much everyone.

By the way

Only Sam, Jeff, Victor and Zach/Luke are in the gang. Plus her dead parents and ex.

Anywho

Byeeee

-A<3