Love, loathe, betrayal - a gang story

Chapter 48

I start from the other end of the room and rushed to the door pelting it in attempt to get it open. I fall to the floor in a heap "ow." I need to keep going a bruised shoulder is the least of my worries. I kept pushing the door with all my might and then suddenly I hear the front door to the caravan open. "Is someone there?" I ask. "Florence? I've been looking for you everywhere, why are you in there?" The voice asks. "Clay help me, Will locked me in to stop me from going after him, please let me out" I beg starting to choke on my breath. I hear him shuffling around looking for a key. After a few moments I hear the key into the lock on the door swings open. "Thank you so much" I say wrapping my arms around him "how are you still here I thought the others just left," "me and a few others are on back up we turn up a few minutes later and stay hidden so it looks like that's all who turned up. It's basically a surprise attack, now quick let's go." He says grabbing my hand and guiding me out the door. "After not seeing you with Will I assumed he hadn't let you go but I didn't think you'd give up that easily." Clay says on the way to his truck. "I begged but he was just trying to protect me and I get that but I'm not a little girl anymore!" We hop in his truck icy guns, smoke bombs, ropes, gasoline the whole lot. I get a nervous feeling wash over me. I need to be strong. "Are you sure you want to do this?" He asks I nod "I'm sure" looking stern I keep my vison ahead and he starts the car ignition.

"So the plan is Will and his car gets there first and just watched, looks for familiarity's, routine I'm guards etc. It's a fairly small compound so by the time Dannys car gets there they will start moving in. I think he's planning on picking them off one by one until he gets to Walter. By this time me and the other car will get there incase anymore turn up and to keep visibility low. We do this trying to loose as little people as possible." Clay explains as we drive to the gate. "Now please promise me if you find yourself in trouble you do whatever you need to get out and run as far and fast as possible, don't worry about me or the others okay?" He makes me agree but I'll still go whatever I have to ensure Walter dies tonight.

Suddenly, The truck screeches to a stop and Leila appears in the headlights. "What are you doing?" I say as she clambers in the back seat. "I'm coming with you, I can't stay here and do nothing I might get caught, I'll stay out of the way but need to come." She explains out of breath from running. I look at Clayton "one you wouldn't get caught staying where you were Because hardly anyone is here and the people who are will be focused on gardener please come to if you came to stay in the car!" Clay hisses and Layla puts her hands up "okay, okay I promise I just didn't want to be alone" she says sinking back into the seat. "I'm gonna get clarted for this one" Clay whines hitting his head against the steering wheel before lifting it up again and continue to drive.

We drive to Walters compound in anxious silence with me fiddling with my fingers. I have fingerless gloves on so I'm picking at my nail varnish with anxiety. We pull up a street away from the Forrest you go through to get to his compound. I gulp as I get out the car and look at the dense forest looming over us. Clay puts his hand on my back "you ready?" I nod and he gets the gear in a duffel bag and slings it over his shoulder. Layla stays in the car as we walk into the forest, we have to be careful as we can hardly see our feet because of the lack of torches or well be seen. We hold hands until we see the flood lights illuminating the devils lair. I see a few of the Luxes gang members still wandering around the compound, guns raised, a few bodies scattered around with members of the Soutas dotted around. "We stay here until we get further instructions." Clay whispers. I feel intimidated by everyone else's weapons compared to my large pistol. "Now don't do anything stupid I could get in a lot of trouble for bringing you here especially after Wills hard attempts at keeping you behind!" I nod "okay." I say keeping my eyes on the compound.

After about 30 minutes of our gang working their way inside the building avoiding the guards. all except the lookout crew are outside and all going well so far. We edge ourselves closer to the building, closing in on them. All is quiet until someone sets off an alarm inside and I hear gunfire and shouting. "What's going on?" I say in panic "something must be wrong, we need to wait here until we get a signal" he reply's as calm as he could. I wait barely a minute when I speak again "it's gone quiet we should go, something could've gone really wrong." "Not yet, they could be on top of things. The others are still staying put" he says gesturing to the others dotted around. I hear more gunfire  and I can't sit still any longer. "We need to do something" I rise to my feet but Clay grabs my hand "you can't do this," "excuse me?" "Alone, you can't do this alone come on follow my lead" Clay says holding my hand walking closer very slowly.

Before we can get much closer the doors to the compound fly open and some of the luxes members with a few of the Soutas running after them. I see Will with his gun to someone's head I breathe a sigh of relief that means he's okay. I count each member, "it's 6 of us and 8 of them. Some of us should go down there" I whisper. I see Walter with his hands in the air in submission. Lucas has a rifle to his chest. Danny and Antonio both have guns on them too. It's like a vicious circle. I hit clay gently "what are we going to do?" "Nothing Flo, this is the plan we intervene when we have too!" He snaps and I just go quiet. "I'm sorry but please I don't want you getting hurt." He smiles taking his eyes off the scene and looking at me "it's okay" he rubs my arm lovingly but both our eyes dart back to the compound when we hear a gunshot. It was real shooting the air to get the Luxes atension. We are only in slightly better position than them but it could change. "That's the signal Wills going to do it, so we need to throw a smoke grenade, pull that and throw it towards them okay?" I do as he says to the smoke bomb and on the count of three we throw the smoke bombs in the middle and we hear gun shots, we move closer and so do the other groups of lookouts.

After about 5 minutes the smoke clears and a few more of the Luxes gang members are lying lifeless on the floor. I wish things could be different and tears start to fill my eyes but I know I need to be strong. I hear Walter pleasing but Wills not having it. There is now more of us than them left standing- literally.