THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD

CHAPTER EIGHT

And that was all it took to set Bonnie off. She booked it towards the door and ran faster than either James or Morgan had ever seen anyone run. Morgan knew what she was after, the gun. So she let her get ahead while Morgan encouraged James to follow her outside. She wanted to get the bottom of things.

"James it's okay I took the bullets out." But that wasn't what James was worried about, he had recieved a bullet in the mail and he wanted to tell Morgan everything but now there wasn't time. Bonnie was headed straight for the car.

So he followed Morgan outside while the rest of the customers watched them leave in bewilderment. They had raised their voices during the argument and James assumed that most of them had heard most of their conversation.

None of them cared though as the carried on in the direction of the car. James could see Bonnie searching through her bag and began to notice the nervous tingle emanating from him spinal chord. His nervous system indicated that danger was near as his sixth sense went off- silently, but it was all the same to James.

He could feel that Bonnie was up to no good and he was glad that Morgan was there to make sure Bonnie didn't get away with a single thing.

"Tell me why you targeted us." Morgan was practically shouting at Bonnie at this point, and Bonnie just continued to ignore her as she fumbled with something in her bag.

It was at that point that Bonnie cut Morgan off before she could tell again, shoving a gun into her face faster than James could say "season two".

"Back off, I ask the questions here." Morgan and James both put their hands up and Morgan laughed on the inside as she watched her plan unfold perfectly.

She pointed the gun towards James now and shouted-

"Where's Alyssa!?" Now things had begun to make more sense for Morgan. The letters A and J clearly represented the two of them. Morgan wondered who this Alyssa girl was and why Bonnie wanted them dead so badly. Perhaps it had to do with the stories James had told her.

That was her best bet so she just went along with her theory as she watched Bonnie try to question James. Of course Morgan had already told James that she'd taken Bonnie's bullets so they both knew that they were in no real danger.

It was because of this that James didn't give Bonnie any solid answers or real information that she could use against them. She wasn't going to walk away from this situation a winner and the two of them wanted to make sure of that.

"You two deserve to be punished for what you did." Bonnie began to cry as she shook the gun at James.

"And she's gonna go down with both of you for ruining my plan." She shook the gun at Morgan now as she spoke, but Morgan remained unfazed.

"Where's Alysaa, James? Tell me where she is!" She screamed and shoved James angrily but not too hard.

James continued to dodge Bonnie's questions about Alyssa's whereabouts when she demanded that he bring her here and Morgan decided to take matters into her own hands when Bonnie shoved James again, harder this time.

She knew that the gun was empty so she decided to make an advance on Bonnie.

Morgan jumped forward and went for the gun, trying to knock it out of Bonnie's hands. As she did this, Bonnie jumped and pulled the trigger. A deafening 'BANG' rang through the air as she did, and both Morgan and James were left in shock as they stared at the gun that now lay five feet away from them as Morgan had successfully knocked it out of Bonnie's hands.

There were bullets in the gun, this was real now. Morgan's fight or flight response went off as her adrenaline kicked in and she realized she needed to go for the gun a split second too late.

Bonnie lurched forwards and both Morgan and James went after her in a mad dash for the gun.

It was then that they all realized simultaneously that they could hear police sirens in the distance. James swiveled his head in the direction of the diner and squinted his eyes to see every single customer from the diner pressed against the glass.

Most of them were either recording the whole ordeal or watching intently. One of them however had a phone up to his ear and James assumed that he was the one that had contacted the police.

Morgan and Bonnie fought for the gun during the few seconds that James had become distracted by the sounds of the police sirens and the numerous eyes watching from the sidelines.

It was then that James' attention was brought back towards both Morgan and Bonnie when her heard the second gunshot go off. He quickly pivoted his body back around to face the two as he watched Morgan stagger away from Bonnie, whom had a wild look in her eyes unlike anything James had ever seen.

Bonnie turned back towards James as he ran to help Morgan and she spoke as he helped her lie down so that he could cover the hole that was seeping dangerously large amounts of blood.

"You're lucky someone decided to call the police, and I'd kill you if I didn't need to know where Alyssa was. But mark my words, I'll be back for both of you when you're least expecting it, and her too if her body decides to survive this." And with that Bonnie was gone as the police sirens approached, growing nearer and as nearer as the seconds passed.

James looked down and looked upon Morgan's beautiful and now bloody face.

"It hurts James- It hurts." Morgan cried openly as she spoke through her gasps of pain.

Blood began to dribble from the corners of her mouth and James instantly knew that meant, internal bleeding that she might not survive. Just as he was falling in love- and now she was being taken away from him.

He took her in her her arms and hugged her gently so as not to make things worse for the poor girl. He began to stroke her hair as he whispered to her and waited for the police to arrive.

"Shhh, I know love, I know."