Don't Believe What You See

Chapter Thirty One

Hunter slipped the money in an envelope and wrote in big letters "DREW" on the front.
"Wait!" Peter said after Hunter wrote on the envelope, "Why can't we just deliver it to Drake ourselves? He knows he know he lied to us, so it can't do any harm."
"That's true," the girls and Hunter said.
"But what if he doesn't let them go? Or doesn't tell us where they are if we do that?"
"Wouldn't it be easier for him if we give it to him directly though? So he can just get in his car and drive?" Hunter just nodded and decided it couldn't hurt. The two girls and Hunter stepped out of the fort and headed to the car with Peter on their heels. But little did they know that Peter was twirling a gun in between his fingers behind his back.
***
When they arrived at Drakes house, they turned and looked at each other before stepping on Drake's porch. Peter rang the doorbell and like all the other times, Drake answered the door. After seeing who was outside, Drake tried shutting the door, but Hunter and Peter stopped the door before it could close.
"What do you guys want again?" Drake asked.
"Look, Drake, we have your money, just let them go," Hunter said raising the envelope up and setting it on the table.
"Fine," Drake said taking the money and dropping the act of this not being him.
"Now where are they?" Peter asked.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Drake said before trying to run out the door. Hunter grabbed him by the shoulders and threw him on the ground.
"You said you'd tell us!" He screamed.
"Their dead! Okay? I killed them!" All their hearts sunk to their stomachs at Drake's words.
"You're lying," Peter said.
"Am I?" Drake struggled under Hunter for his phone, only to reach it and show them a picture of Delilah and Pilar, passed out from blood loss, tied to their chairs.
"I killed them after the video was made. Pilar said she loved you Peter. And Delilah said she thanked you, for treating her like she's normal." Peter and Hunter were in full out tears. How would Drake know about Hunter thinking she's normal if she didn't tell him Peter pulled out the gun and rested it on Drakes forehead out of anger. Hunter stood up and backed away from Peter.
"How could you? They didn't do anything wrong!" Drake didn't say anything, instead, he stood up and walked towards Peter.
"You're not going to shoot me. You can't go to jail, you won't survive. You're too weak." Peter stepped forward rested his finger on the trigger.
"Don't test me." Peter was just about to shoot him, when he realized Drake was right. He couldn't go to jail. He wouldn't survive. He is too weak. But he also wants revenge for what he did to Pilar, but not like this. Peter dropped the gun to his side and Drake backed up to the doorway.
"Oh," Drake turned his attention to Hunter, "and I never meant to leave you. But I couldn't help that I was better than you at everything. I'm so sorry it had to end this way, little brother." Hunter scowled at the memory of the two of them running around in the backyard, playing Ghost in the Graveyard or tag. They were so happy being little kids, until Drake took being big too far. Drake left, left the house, left his life, and left Hunter when Drake was a freshman. The only way Hunter saw him was at school, and Hunter tried convincing him to come back, but it was no use. Eventually, Drake changed his last name, and Hunter finally excepted that Drake was no longer the brother he once knew.
Drake turned away from Hunter and walked out the door. Hunter wanted to run after him, but he was glued to the floor.
Peter was just the empty shell of his former self, staring at the ground.
Drake turned around one more time to take a bow before walking out into the street.
And being hit by a car.
Peter ran to look out the door after hearing the sound of the body against metal. A black car with tinted windows was parked in front of the house with the body of Drake laying in front of it in a pool of his own blood. The window the the driver side rolled down to reveal Daniel in a sombrero.
"I told you I was a good guy!" He shouted while smiling and the strings shook back and forth on his sombrero.
"And by the way," he called again, "the girls are down the street, the old barn over there. In the basement," and with that, Daniel drove the opposite way the kids started running.
After running for ten minutes, the found the abandoned barn and Hunter and Peter were the first to run downstairs.
***
"Delilah, give it up! The lock is not going to budge!" Pilar called.
"Fine!" Delilah threw the lock against the metal bars and sat back in her cage.
"We're going to die in here," Pilar said. Delilah just shook her head. Both of the girls wanted to cry, they wanted to crawl up into the fetal position and crying until they were dehydrated, well, more dehydrated then they already were, but they refused. They refused to break in this situation.
They refused to let him win.
"Delilah!" Delilah heard.
"Pilar!" Pilar heard. Both the girls heads' shot up at the sound of the ones they love.
"Hunter!"
"Peter!"
Hunter and Peter busted through the door with York and Lola on their heals. Hunter grabbed the baseball bat with dried blood on the end and broke both locks. Pilar and Delilah didn't hesitate to crawl out and jump into the boys arms. Both boys spun them around while shedding tears of joys.
"You found me," Delilah said to Hunter.
"Now we're even." Pilar would say the same thing to Peter, but they were too busy sharing a passionate kiss.