Oh Brother

Something stupid

After the school day was over I couldn't seem to find my brothers, and having no phone; I was screwed.

I made my way through the halls flooded with students charging for the door. Whilst I kept an eye looking for Ethan or Grayson, I instead found a face I did not want to see. Brandon.

I started shoving past people, I could hear him call my name which meant he must have saw me too. I heard my name again, but I kept going.

As I had finally made it out of the building I started on my path to walk home. I didn't make it very far before I could hear my name being called again. I prepared myself to turn around and see Brandon, I would then proceed to yell at him and go back to ignoring him.
But my plan had been made for nothing, as when i turned around it was not who I was expecting. Instead of Brandon, it was Matt.

"I don't have much more time, but... can I please... come over to your house? I need somewhere to hide for a while." Matt panted, he had been running towards me when I turned around.

Whatever he was running from most likely went by the name Lucas.

"Okay, lets go. But you have to explain what happened on the way." I say, as I pick up my walk into a jog.

He grabs my arm and pulls me forward, telling me I need to run not jog.

"Lucas... and his friends.... have a car.... so we need... to get to your house.... faster."

This makes me turn my run into a sprint.

We both stayed verbally silent as we continued to sprint down the path. Only heavy footsteps from our running, and puffing could be heard.

As we turned a sharp corner, we only had 3 more streets to go down and we would be at my house. It wasn't close, but it wasn't far. We had outrun them until now, so I was hopeful for the best.

I let out a laugh of relief. We were nearly to safety.

Then it hit me, all the meals I had missed. I felt horrible, sick, tired and weak. I felt out of control.

"Matt, h-here." I said weakly, as I searched through my bag for my set of house keys. I pulled them out by the keychain attached to the key and fumbled it around in my hands.

"Just take my key and run home... to my place, if E-Ethan or Grayson are home j-just make up a l-lie." I pant.

"Why are you stopping? Bailey, you're gonna get us killed!" Matt says confused.

"I can't run anymore! I think- I feel like I'm gonna faint." I yell, trying to push the keys into his hand.

A look of pure horror washed over Matts face. It became clear as I heard the dreadful sound of a car slowly pulling up next to the path.

I look over to see the black truck, a window on the passenger side rolls down, to reveal Lucas.

"Gotcha." He laughs with a smirk.

"Get in the car losers." He smirked, as he hops out of the truck, grabs the back of Matt's neck, opens the car door and pushes him in.

"What are you waiting for Billy? Get in the car." He sneers.

I weigh out my options. I was too tired to try and run. So following Matt I climbed up into the car.

The second I sat down, I thought I was dying. Lucas and his friends were talking, but I couldn't hear what they were actually saying.

"Jesus Christ. You look like shit!" Lucas said loud enough that snapper me out of it.

He was looking at me through the rear view mirror.