My African Nerd

26. He Is Gone!

Mia Brown

"Guys, I feel weird, like something is..." And before I finished my sentence a man with a gun showed up from nowhere. "Nobody move! I said noone move!" His German accent very rich. When he turned to face me, I nearly passed out. What was he doing?

I didn't believe what was happening. Out of all people our most trusted employee was pointing a gun at us. David immediately stood infront of me defensively, shielding me. Elsa was shaking uncontrollably. And Brie was wrapping her arms around Elsa in their sitting position. He looked crazy, differemt from his humble self.

"Mr. May, what are you doing?" I asked trying to understand. He just laughed. An ugly scary laughter.

"Give me the drive boy or your girlfriend's parents, your uncle and her father die!" He just said starring at David. We all gasped at the same time. What did he mean?

"There is no way you can reach our parents!" I said back, no so confidently. Again he laughed at me.

"You naïve bitch, I have been working under your roof for years. I know the ins and outs. I know their schedule. Twenty five years I have been waiting and seeing all your suffering is worth it." He yelled in the most evil voice I have ever heard.

"You're lying!" I shouted back in disbelief. He tossed a phone my way. David caught it and dropped it when we saw what was happening. A video of our parents tied and being beaten. Tears escaped my eye and although my parents and I were not on good terms, i still loved them.

"I will give you what you want, just let them go!" David demanded, masking his fear perfectly from someone who doesn't know him like I do. I could easily see behind his mask. What did he what? I looked at David who mouthed 'it's okey, i'll fix this'.

"You know I cannot do that young Peterson. The best I can do is make all your deaths quick." Mr. May spoke like it was the most common sentence in the world. David clemched his jaw and walked towards him. I held his arm afraid to let him go, he kissed my forehead reassuringly and if I knew what was going to happen, I wouldn't have let him go. With his hands raised, he took out a blue fleshdrive and held it between his fingers above his head like he was showing a dog a bone

"Is this what you want? Go get it!" He threw the drive and pounced onto Mr. May. They wrestled for the gun amd a few rouge shot were fired in the air.

"RUN!" David yelled at us while wrestling Mr. May but my legs were frozen. I couldn't leave him. Brie took charge. She dragged Elsa and then me to the forest but I kept fighting. They held me and pushed me but I could still see David. He finally won the match and stood up pointing the gun at Mr. May on the ground. Then as I relaxed, A shot was fired from across the file hit David on the hand that held the gun. Another hit him in the chest and he stuggered backward, another one on the chest and the third then the fourth. I cried histerically as I was him stuggered until he was on the edge of the cliff. Anna appeared from the forest and her gun was pointed at David. Mr. May had a proud smile on his face and David had pain on his. I wanted to go to him but Brie muffled my cries with her hand and Elsa held me down. This hurt. It hurt so so much. David was barely standing and without hesitation, Anna fired the fifth shot into his chest and his body dropped from the vertical cliff into the lake. She was going to pay for that I sweared. Tires floowed down my face and my heart felt like it had been ripped out and stomped on. I felt incomplete. I could not describe the pain I felt. I felt numb and everything around me disappeared. I could not hear anything. I saw what happened but it felt like a bad dream.

I didn't even see the army of men now arriving at the scene.
"Find them!" Anna commanded and the men spread out. I didn't notice when Brie and Elsa carried me and ran. All I remember is the sun setting like everything was normal. I was angry at the world. We were in the middle of nowhere and we prepared a fire. We couldn't stay long because the smoke would show them our location. Death felt like a better fate at the moment. I just watched the only person who has truly loved me for who I am die. Elsa and Brie was sitting across from me and comforting each other. I couldn't help but wonder what David would say when am sad, how his touch would feel on my shoulders, how his arms would wrap around me tightly to make me feel safe. He was my life and I was not ready to lose him. The last 24hours, I hurt him. I told him I would leave him if I have to, I didn't tell him that I love him.