A Bloody Melody (Discontinued)

Chapter Twenty Five

A Bloody Melody

Chapter Twenty Five

Everything slowed. Time stopped. The world ended. Or it felt like it should have. I tried to look away, but she was just there, on the ground, below Collin. Dead. Jenna’s screams pierced through the air, the only sound making their way into my head. I couldn’t stop staring.

Blood pooled around her head. Her lovely brown hair was matted with it. Her face was a permenant mask of terror her eyes still wide open in shock. She was just led there. Not moving. Dead. She had been alive, seconds before and now she was dead. I couldn’t stop staring.

Ashley was dead and it was because of me.

“No, no, let me go!” Jenna screamed, tears flowing freely down her face. “Ashley! Ashley, look at me. Honey, look at me.”

She didn’t look at her.

This just made her cry harder. I still couldn’t look away. She looked so scared. She was still so young, only twenty two. Barely four years older than me and I had gotten her killed. I recalled the whimper she let out before her brain spattered on the cobblestone and promptly threw up everything that I had eaten. Ever.

As I was dry heaving I realised that there was a sound that didn’t belong in this scene. Someone was laughing. I looked up to Collin, the inhuman thing that had just killed an innocent person, for fun. “Well, that was pleasant, wasn’t it?”

I nearly choked.

“Not to worry, we’re nearly done here. Just one last thing and you’re all free to go. I won’t bother you again as long as you leave me along. Clear?”

No one spoke.

“Good, right Calum, I said I have a nice surprise for you.” He stepped over Ashley’s dead body, walking towards a very still Calum. “You see, you know me and your mother had a little disagreement? Well you see, she was trying to… leave something and I couldn’t have that so, well I’ve given you a little task, much like the one Lainey just had to go through.”

Calum looked at him, blank stare and all.

“The labs in which your mother work in are set to explode in,” he looked at his watch, “let’s say ten minutes. You can go and get her now, though I doubt you’ll make it. There’s a car you can use outside, if you save her then she gets to live and she can… leave, if not, well then she’s taken care of. Get to it.”

Collin clapped and the man holding Calum let go. He fell to the ground, not moving.

“I’m not joking, unless you want to let your mother die.”

It was sudden. One minute he was on the ground, the next Collin was, clutching his jaw. Calum stood over him for one torturous second and then took off running towards the exit. He disappeared from sight and the sound of a car engine starting up filled the night’s sky moments later.

Collin laughed as he stood up. “Got a heck of a right hook that one has. Anywho, now that that’s all taken care of, I shall take my leave. It was a please meeting you all tonight. I hope you all learned your lesson.”  He waggled his finger. “No rebellion.”

He clapped his hands again and the men that were holding us all up let go. I fell to the floor, unable the support myself. The image of Ashley was burned into my brain. She didn’t scream. She just died. She died with fear in her heart. The men left. Collin left and we were alone.

Jenna had crawled over to Ashley’s body and was cradling her in her lap, wailing to the skies, rocking back and forth. I had caused that. That was my fault.