Third Person's POV
The helicopter has gained in on them. Suddenly, Cyrus felt the urge to turn on the radio to make sure what he was fearing was not happening. It was a mistake on his part because the forsaken contraption was broadcasting the latest news in action. Right on time.
"BREAKING NEWS
CITY SWIMMING ATHLETE
AND BILLIONAIRE SON
CYRUS TEMPLETON
FOUND AT A FUNCTION
BY THE BEACH
WHICH
SUSPECT
KEIA STRATUSON
WHO IS REPORTED TO
HAVE ATTEMPTED
TO MURDER
THE YOUNG BUSINESS HEIR
TWO AND A HALF MONTHS AGO.
POLICE AND PRESS HAD CORNERED
THE DUO UNTIL THEY SPED OFF
IN WHAT HAS BECOME A CAR CHASE.
THE SUSPECT IS
SAID TO HAVE THREATENED
THE VICTIM TO SILENCE.
THE SUSPECT IS THE SAME GIRL
WHO WAS FOUND BY MR. TEMPLETON
TWO MONTHS AGO
LEFT FOR THE DEAD IN THE FOREST.
SOURCES SAY SHE
PURPOSELY LET HERSELF
STARVE IN THE WOODS
AND THAT SHE IS
NOT MENTALLY STABLE.
AS IN THE MOMENT,
THE SUSPECT AND HER HOSTAGE ARE
DRIVING TOWARDS THE BRIDGE AND
IS ABOUT TO BE-"
Cyrus had turned off the radio. Both were stunned by this false interpretation of events. Although, Keia was more lost than her partner.
"Cyrus, what do they mean 'attempted to murder' you?"
" I wanted to confess about the threat Selena gave me but you didn't seem to know anything, " he said quickly.
"So you decided since because you weren't confronted there was no need to tell me that she thinks I tried to kill you?!" She exclaimed. "Why would she even come up with such an outrageous like anyway? And how could the press believe it."
" Listen, the day I went missing during lunch and I called you, she locked me in the bathroom. She was aimed to threaten to tell my dad I was dating you- which I wasn't at the time-"
"Because you're embarrassed to be with me." She deadpaned. He disagreed.
"Because he wouldn't have liked that. " he continued speaking quickly, ignoring the faces Keia was giving him.
"And then I stupidly blurted out that I would never date her again and it was her fault I got stabbed that night." Keia turned to him for a second with disbelief and fear. She felt her heart sink into her stomach as she could discern what happened next.
"She asked who stabbed you and you couldn't lie to her. She picked you off piece by piece until she got the clue it was me," Keia said for him.
"But then she threatened to call the cops on you and she forced her awful long fake fingernail into my raw stab wound to force me to say on tape that you stabbed me. She must have used the bullshit story she laid as foundation when she claimed you were her deranged ex best friend on the news."
Keia breathed in and out before she snapped at Cyrus .
"And your ass is only f****** telling me this s*** f****** NOW!!" She yelled. "What the hell happened to telling me the truth? " The hurt, fear and anxiety was clear as day in her voice. Her voice started cracking as tears started down her face slowly in pure emotional pain.
"You let her just do her worst? Did it ever occur how I should have played a part in this seeing as I'm the main character in this problem. Now-now, I am being called a criminal," she said more to herself than to Cyrus.
"You let them make me a goddamn insane criminal!"
" It was either we were happy or I was with that psycho of an ex-girlfriend while you were already six feet under! What was I supposed to do?! " he was yelling too, getting the feeling she was blaming him for this.
"You were supposed to tell me, idiot! Because that's what good people do! Maybe.."
" Maybe what?! Maybe I wanted this to happen? Maybe I never liked you in the first place? Oh, I know, maybe I'm just the spitting image of MY ABUSIVE MONSTER FATHER! "
She looked at him. Her face pink with hurt and fear, stress and anger. All the appropriate emotions for this situation. But somehow she dug up a new emotion she hadn't used in a very long time. Her brave and remorseful emotion.
"No, Cyrus. I wasn't going to say any of that. You're not like your dad. I know I'm angry but we have to do something. We can't drive forever. I'm just so scared I-I-I don't know what to do. T-t-there's no escape. We have to pull over," she said. She was slowly finding it harder and harder to breathe.
"But we can't let them arrest you!" He said. He was just as stressed.
" I did stab you, " she said. "S-s-so I-I-I should pay for it."
Tears started falling faster. She gripped the steering wheel so tightly, her knuckles were white. She had to take in large gulp of air at a time.
"But you didn't do it in purpose. You can't!"
Keia turned her head to face him and said something her grandmother always told her.
"Cyrus...We have to stop...we have to let God take the wheel. He-he will hopefully steer us right." She stared him in the eye as she said this and he did the same even though he found it difficult to do. She put her hand in his and squeezed it hard.
But she forgot the road. She forgot about the chase. She forgot about the bridge and the pillar she was headed for. Until Cyrus saw it in the corner of his eye.
"WATCH OUT!!!"
But it was too late...
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I'm genuinely sorry for once. This chapter and the next are going to challenge every bit of your 'Don't cry' reflexes. This is a break from the flappy happy ending teen fict books that torture me. I, as you may have guessed, am not an okay child. I have a lot of wise feelings and it makes me feel better to hurt people with them. So I'm so sorry that if you are reading this, you are one of my victims.
It's difficult to just tell anyone why I'm not okay because most people don't wanna know. That's how I relate to Keia. But please feel free to leave angry messages about how I'm about to break your beautiful people hearts. But do not hate on the story, hate on me.
Because I am something that can change. The plot of this drama, is not.
From the girl who wishes she could dance 💃
-Mallie 😢
P.S. I really am warning you not to read the next chapter.
P.P.S Well, as an author, I will find your hatemail hilarious actually. Maybe because I know what's going to happen and you all are frustrated. I do love to be evil sometimes. 😛
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