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DO NOT READ this chapter if you can't stand violence or pain, or are not allowed to read violence. This chapter contains NO bloody scenes.

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The Shooting.

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Max arrived at Jam Pony. She was, again, late for work, but she didn't care.

"Hello. It's so lovely of you to join us," Normal said sarcastically.

But Max didn't care, all she heard him saying was: Blah blah blah.

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As Max walked over to her locker she glanced at the television.

"This is a special live bulletin," said the lady on the news on channel KPJK. "We don't have the information yet, but were are looking at . . ."

"On your own time, Max! Bip bip bip," Normal yelled at her, when he caught her staring at the live coverage on the KPJK channel.

Max totally ignored Normal and continued watching the live bulletin.

". . . This is a live coverage, captured live by the police hover drones at the Superior Court Building," the lady on the news continued.

"Superior Court Building," Max, whispered to herself. "That's only a few blocks away from here."

She witnessed how a car got trapped between two other cars. There was no way out.

It was a chaotic scene, there was shooting from both cars. The trapped car tried to defend itself.

Then the doors of the trapped car opened. Max saw, on the TV screen, a man get out of the passenger seat. She recognized the man, even though he was wearing sunglasses. It was Peter, Eyes Only's bodyguard.

Peter opened the car's right door and helped Lauren to get out of the vehicle. She ran away and escaped from the shooting.

The police hover drone returned his focus back on the bodyguard that helped the woman escape the shooting scene.

On the TV screen, she saw Peter trying to defend himself in the rain of bullets, but he was shot by one of the masked men and lay lifelessly on the street.

The hover drone moved his focus from the lifeless body over to the trapped car, and captured how the driver got shot.

In the middle of the chaotic shooting, the last door of the trapped car opened.

Max immediately recognized the man who got out. It was Logan, the handsome bored rich boy that she was attracted too, even though Max didn't know it herself.

Logan helped the child, Sophie, to get out from the back seat. The child was obviously scared.

The man tried to protect the child from the raining bullets, by using himself as a human shield.

He got shot.

Max got shivers down her spine, when she saw Logan collapsing face down on top of the screaming child.

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"Did you see that one guy?" Sketchy prodded in to Max's arm and pointed to the TV screen.

"Shut UP!" She yelled at him. Max couldn't take this anymore; she had to be there.

Max grabbed her bike and left Jam Pony in a hurry. While cycling as fast as she could, she realized that she cared more about this pigheaded man, who thought he could save the world, than she thought.

"Damn spoiled rich boy," she mumbled under her breath.

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Outside superior court building, Logan still lay wounded on top of the child.

He was still conscious, but couldn't move because of the excruciating pain he felt in his body.

"Sophie . . . are you . . . are you all right?" He could barely speak but he heard the child panicking from underneath him.

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A masked man approached.

"Aarghhhh!" Logan screamed when he received a hard kick in his side. He heard his own ribs cracking.

Logan let out another piercing scream when he felt another kick. The force of this kick was strong enough to make Logan involuntarily roll over on his back and expose the child.

The masked man tried to grab the screaming kid, which was still in Logan's tight embrace. But Logan didn't release his grip from Sophie.

"Uh," Logan could barely scream when he received another hard kick.

He flinched in extreme pain, but still did his best to hold on tightly onto the innocent child.

But Logan's grip soon became too weak, and the masked man easily grabbed Sophie away from him.

The child screamed at the top of her lungs, she tried to kick the masked man, but that didn't protect her from being kidnapped.

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Meanwhile, Max was on her bike, cycling as fast as she could. She was only one block away.

"Please, let me get there in time." These words run through her head over and over.

"Ok Max," she told herself. "One more corner, and I am there. . ."

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