UNCHAINED!

nineteen

THINGS WERE SPIRALING out of control. Hayden parked the car on Maisy's demand, as Brandon and Maisy shoved Hayden, Kenzie, and Johnny out of the car and into an unfamiliar park. 

"You two fucking murdered Lilia?" Hayden asked with disbelief, trying to calm himself after looking at the steel black pistol in Maisy's hand. 

"Please Maisy, don't do anything to us... I can't die... please." Johnny pled, covering his face with his hands. 

"I wasn't going to do anything until Kenzie revealed that you guys know. Are you three fucking stalking us or something?" Maisy smirked, placing her hands on her hips. 

"Mais I swear, if you let us go, we won't say shit. Please just... don't." Kenzie said. 

"I believed you time after time when you said you were truly done trying to rebel against me," Maisy said, sliding the gun over Kenzie's shoulders, making her shiver in fear. "Yet, you lied. So how do you expect me to trust you on this?" Maisy asked.

"Maisy. Our lives are at risk. We won't tell. Brandon, do something!" Hayden said shaking. 

"Come on Maisy, you've been friends with Kenzie and Hayden forever. Brandon, you two. Why the hell would you kill them? Why the hell would you kill at all?" Johnny cried, tears falling out of his eyes. 

"Lilia was a threat to us." Maisy said. "She had all she needed to stop being friends with us. She even had some dirt on you Hayden, so you should be thanking us." 

"Thanking you? For fucking killing an innocent girl?" Hayden yelled.

"Hayden stop!" Kenzie tried yelling over him. "Just be calm." She whispered. 

"Move." Maisy pointed to a tree on the side of park. Engraved in the tree were two letters, LB. With horror, Kenzie traced the letters and understood.

"You killed Lilia here, didn't you?" Kenzie whispered. Maisy nodded.

"And now you're going to kill us?" Hayden asked whimpering. 

"I really didn't think it would come to this, bud." Brandon choked, patting Hayden on the back. "Sorry." 

"Hey on the bright side Kenzie, at least you'll be with your sister. Although, she'll probably hates you after you killed her," Maisy laughed. Kenzie's heart sunk. An anger arised within her. 

"Can you shut the fuck up, Maisy?" Kenzie yelled. "You don't know shit. You've been blackmailing me for more than three years and this is how it ends? This is how I die?"  Johnny, wiping tears from next to her, pulled Kenzie into a hug, which she gracefully accepted. 

"I'm so sorry... If I never came to Maisy's house..." Johnny started. 

"No. This would've happened regardless John." Kenzie said, stroking his face. "You know I love you, right?" she said, staring at him with hopeful eyes.

"I love you more. And I'm so sorry it took so long for me to realize it," Johnny whispered back. 

"Well I love you both too..." Hayden said half-joking, yet half-fearful for a gun was being pointed at all three of them. 

"Just fucking shoot them already dumbass!" Maisy shrieked to Brandon, throwing him the gun. 

Brandon placed his fingers on the gun, shaking. At this moment, Kenzie realized. Brandon was nervous, because Brandon never killed anyone. Lilia was all Maisy's doing, Brandon was just dragged into Maisy's endless schemes. 

"Brandon, if you shoot us, its you going to jail when you get caught. Not Maisy, you. She'd turn you in for anything if it meant saving her own ass." Kenzie said, her last effort to save her life, as well as Johnny and Hayden's.

"I... I can't..." Brandon said, dropping the gun and falling to the floor. 

"Oh for fucks sake, I have to do everything." Maisy rolled her eyes, quickly retrieving the gun from the floor. 

She pointed the gun directly at Kenzie, aiming for the shoot. 

Three.

Two.

One. 

Bang. 

One dead.