I opened my eyes to see Troy being pulled forcefully out of the van, he was yelling at one of the guys in the ski masks.
"Look just let her go…please" he begged the guy to reconsider their decision that they had previously made. It broke my heart to see Troy going through this, I knew that he blamed himself for it…but it wasn't his fault. I felt someone pull me up by me restrained wrists and drag me out of the van. I took in my surroundings, we were by a lake and there was a old looking house not far off with a wooded area behind it. If they were planning to kill us this was the place, in the middle of nowhere.
"You want us to let her go?" one of the guys in the masks asked while pointing his knife at me.
"Yes" Troy said keeping his hard stare at the guy holding me. The guy laughed menacingly and kicked me behind my knee cap as a result I fell to me knees on the hard ground, I closed my eyes tightly trying to block out the pain.
"QUIT!" Troy yelled trying to go after the guy behind me, but the guy that was holding Troy grabbed his arm and twisted behind his back.
"If you want your girl to live you need to shut your damn mouth!" the guy spat at Troy.
The guy that was holding me turned me around to face him, "Do you want me to take the gag out of your mouth?" he asked, I nodded my head vigorously. The gag was becoming really painful. "I will take it off but you better behave or it goes back in along with a beating…understood?" he guy asked looking me in the eyes, those eyes seem so familiar but I couldn't place them so I once again nodded my head. He turned me back around to where I was facing Troy, Troy was looking at me intently…I could tell through his eyes that he was trying to ask me if I was ok, I secretly nodded my head…being careful that the people in the masks wouldn't catch me. The gag was taken from my mouth and put into the guy's pocket.
"Now…isn't that better?" he asked me smirking. All of a sudden I realized who it was…I would know that smirk anywhere.
"B-b-brad?" I asked quietly. The guy laughed and took his mask off.
"You always were the smart one" he said.
I turned around to face the other people, "Let me guess…Jeff and Greg." The other two guy's took off their masks to reveal that my accusations were correct. I turned back around to Brad and kicked him in the shin and he doubled over in pain.
"You asshole! This is a new low…even for you!" I screamed at him. I heard Troy holler in pain, I spun around to see that Jeff had the knife up against Troy's neck.
"Tsk tsk tsk Gabbi…we needn't lose our temper. Troy's life rests in your hands at the moment don't do something stupid." Jeff said.
"Fine…do whatever you want to me, just leave Troy out of it. I'm the traitor, not Troy" I said trying to somehow get Troy out of this situation unharmed. The situation that we are in was my fault, if I had remembered to change my belly button ring then Hayley wouldn't have seen it. If I had not let Hayley see the text message then when they called his name at the game she wouldn't have figured it out. If she wouldn't have figured it out the basketball team wouldn't know. This is my entire fault, so I am going to make sure I get Troy out of here no matter what it takes. After Brad got over the pain in his shin he came over to me and slapped me against the face so hard that the blow caused me to fall over. I closed my eyes begging my tears not to fall. I would not let them think they had power over me. Brad picked me up and made me face Troy with him behind me. Me and Troy were so close that if my hands hadn't been tied I could have touched him.
From behind me I felt Brad dig something out of his pocket, seconds later I felt cold steel against my temple. Troy's eyes widened I could tell he tried to say something, but nothing would come out. "Do you love Troy?" Brad asked me, I didn't know exactly what he had against my temple, but I sure had a clue.
"Yes" I whispered.
He shook me fiercely, "SPEAK UP!" Brad bellowed in my ear.
Tears were threatening to fall, "Yes" I said louder.
"Are you willing to die for him?" Brad asked digging the steel further into my temple.
I looked Troy in the eyes, I knew that I was in love with him and that he was the only one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I would do anything to keep him safe. I finally let the tears I had been holding in fall. I looked at Troy one last time before I gave Brad my answer.
"Yes" I said with as much composure that I could muster in my body, even though the tears that I had finally let loose were still cascading down my face and they didn't seem like they were going to let up anytime soon.
"I think that we should test this theory." Brad said.
"NO!" Troy screamed.
"Shut it Bolton!" Greg said while slapping him across the face.
"No, you can take me. It's me you really want, why murder two people when you can murder the one you want" Troy said to Brad.
"Troy SHUT UP!" I screamed at him.
"I'm not going to let him hurt you Brie" he said looking me in the eyes. His eyes were full of sorrow, he may have been tough on the outside, but on the inside he was breaking down.
I turned to Brad. "What do you want from me?" I asked.
"I think you know what I want" Braid said with a smirk making its way across his face.
"Fine if I do what you want, will you let Troy go?" I asked.
"Brie don't do this" Troy was pleading with me not to.
What Troy didn't know is that inside I was forming a plan to help him get away, if I took Brad away from the group and got him alone, I know that I could make Brad forget about Troy being around…All I have to do I work with the lust that Brad has for me.
"Troy I love you…just let me get you out of this. All of this is my fault." I said trying to reason with Troy.
Before Troy could say anything Brad was pulling me toward the old abandoned looking house, I turned to look back at Troy one last time. I mouthed the words "I love you" to him, that was the first time I have ever seen Troy cry, one lonely tear made it down his cheek. I was jerked forward to walk faster, I was trying to think of ways to get out of this. I couldn't act like I actually wanted him because he heard me confess my love for Troy…I had to think of something quick because time was running out as we came closer to the house. Brad pulled me towards the front door, he tried to get the door open but it wasn't opening. Brad pulled his leg up and kicked the door in and dragged me inside, he pulled me toward a room that didn't have any furniture in it except for a lonely table. He pushed me in the room and closed the door. He set the gun on a table towards the door and headed toward me.
"You know for me to do what you want me to do your going to have to untie my hands" I said with a shaky voice. Brad smiled and turned me around to untie my hands, when I felt the restraints fall to the floor I started rubbing my wrists because they were sore and bruised. Brad turned me around and started to try to take off my shirt.
"Brad, you can't just go in for the kill you have to warm them up" I said trying to buy myself more time to figure everything out. I could take Brad if I caught him off guard and if he was winded. I just know I don't have much time.
"Oh, you want me to warm you up, then come here" he said as he pulled me to him and kissed me, it was the most disgusting thing I have ever done in my entire life. It was hard to keep myself from gagging, but I'm doing this for Troy so I have to endure whatever he throws at me. Brad started for my shirt but I just couldn't take it anymore, I tried so hard but I just couldn't do endure going any further with Brad. I pushed Brad off of me.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Brad spat at me, he tried to grab me again but I slapped him across the face. "You bitch" he slapped me across the face really hard in the previous spot that he had hit me before, I knew if I made it out of here alive I would have a huge bruise.
"Why do you envy Troy, is it because he is better at basketball, or that he got the one thing you couldn't…me" I spat at him. He grabbed me by my throat and pinned me against the wall.
"I will have you, I can promise you that" I was clawing at his hands trying to get him to release my throat. I felt the blood rising to my face and I started to get warm. The corners of my vision were gradually closing in, I knew within a minute I would pass out if I didn't do something. I started kicking Brad furiously, I hit him in the crotch which caused him to double over in pain. I took the time that he had released me to catch my breath, which I was having a hard time doing. Brad rose from his knees and started to charge at me, I tried to run to the other side of the room but he grabbed my arm and jerked me towards him. I heard a pop and a tearing sound come from my shoulder, I screamed out in pain. He threw me against the wall. My head hit the wall so hard that it cut me above my right eye, it was getting hard to see because the blood was running into my eye. I tried to push myself off of the wall but when I tried pain shot up my arm and I screamed.
"Not so tough now are you Gabbi" he whispered harshly in my ear. I threw my head back and connected with his, his hold on me loosened for a second so I turned around and kicked him in the shin and punched him in the face with my good arm. I slowly back towards the door when something caught my eye. The gun. I forgot he set the gun down on the table when he entered the room I started to head over to the table when Brad pulled my leg out from under me and caused me to fall, I tried to brace myself so I wouldn't land on my right side…in the process I landed on my hand only to have my finger pushed to the side and break. I tried my hardest to ignore the pain. I kicked Brad in the face and scrambled up to the table and grabbed a hold of the gun in my right hand and pointed it towards Brad.
"It's over Brad…give it up" I was trembling so much that it was hard to keep the gun steady, I had my broken finger on the trigger. I knew that if I had to shoot that the pain would be unbearable.
"You can't shoot me Gabbi, you don't have the heart" Brad said while he was inching closer to me, I was stepping backwards until I hit the door. This was as far as I could go. I knew one of us had to die, but I still wasn't sure which one of us would make it out alive.
"I will shoot Brad" I said trying to sound confident, but I wasn't even sure I could do it myself.
"Come on Brie" he said before he lunged at me, I closed my eyes tight and pulled the trigger, the pain from my finger shot throughout my body, I screamed in pain. My eyes were still closed, I could tell that nothing had happened yet, Brad hasn't grabbed me so that must mean…I slowly opened my eyes to see Brad on the floor in a pool of blood. I was still shaking from fear. Oh my god…I just killed someone. I backed towards the door again until my back hit it, I turned around and opened the door and was about to head out of the front of the house. I can't let them know I'm alive. I stopped in my tracks and started looking around for another way out, I saw a side door that lead out towards the woods behind the house.
I made it to the woods without making a sound, I still hand the gun clutched tightly in my hand. I made my way around the house to see if I could get Troy in my view, I was walking through the wooded area I came to a slope that would get me closer to where I needed to be so I stepped over a branch, the soil on the other side was slippery and fell on my knees on a rock, I used what was left of my good arm to help me up, the blood was already soaking through my pajama pants. Every part of my body should hurt, but I couldn't feel anything I was numb all over. I walked around the side of the house and was walking behind them. I could see Troy on his knees with his head hung low. I slowly made my way towards Jeff and Greg. I had to choose which one I was going to use, Jeff was strong and was more of a leader than Greg was. If I had Jeff at my willing we had a better chance of surviving. I made a split second decision and decided to go with Jeff, I pulled the gun up and placed it to his back.
"If you move I swear I will shoot you" I hissed at him. Greg turned around and raised his gun at me and pulled Troy up off his knees, Troy looked at me with his eyes wide he looked relieved until he scanned over me and saw all the blood.
"Greg drop your gun or I'm gonna kill Jeff" I said loudly. I saw Greg look in the direction of Jeff and Jeff gave him a slight nod. Greg dropped the gun. "Kick it over to me" Greg kicked it over to me and I picked it up and threw it in the lake.
"Where is Brad?" Jeff asked me. I just dug the gun into his back more.
"Give me your cell" I said. Jeff started to reach into his pocket, "wait…I'll get it" I reached into his pocket and grabbed the cell phone. "Greg untie Troy" I said in a shaky voice. Greg untied Troy, I tossed Troy the cell phone. "Call 911" I said.
"I don't know where we're at." Troy said.
"Where are we Jeff?" I demanded.
"You think I am going to let you call the cops on us" Jeff spat at me.
"TELL ME WHERE WE ARE DAMNIT" I screamed at him, I was shaking.
"Lake Finnigan" he said.
I looked over at Troy while he started to dial the number and give them the information. I wanted to get in the sight of the cars when they came so I decided that we would move toward the pier. Troy hung up the phone and looked at me.
"Let's move to the pier so they can see us" I said toward Troy.
The sky was getting darker as we waited for the cops to show up. Troy made Jeff and Greg sit on the pier and he tied their hands behind their backs. Troy made his way over to me.
"Brie are you ok?" he asked me, he went to pull me into a hug but I backed away. He looked at me with a confused look on his face.
"Please…just don't touch me" I said in a whisper backing up even further, I stepped on a rotten piece of wood and started to lose my balance I flailed my arms around trying to get my balance back, Troy tried to reach out and grab me before I fell but I slipped through his hands. I threw the gun at him because if it got wet we wouldn't be able to use it. I fell into the ice cold water, I tried to swim back to the surface but the pain from using my arm and kicking with my legs was too much. I just let myself sink to the bottom. I did what I wanted to do and that was save Troy whether I lived or died in the process. The cold started to take over my body…
Flashback
"Brie, I want to take you somewhere" Troy said to me while trying to pull me off my bed.
"Troy we can't go anywhere…you know that. People could see us" I said reminding him of what was at stake.
"I promise that no one will see us, please?" he begged me and he used his pout that he knew I couldn't say no to.
"Fine, let's go" I said grabbing a jacket and we headed to his truck
"It might take us a while to get there so lay back and go to sleep, I will wake you when we get there" he said with a reassuring smile. I knew he was up to something, but I decided to let him have his fun.
-2 hours later-
"Brie…Brie…wake up we're here" Troy said to me shaking me lightly to wake me up.
"huh…what?" I said incoherently.
"We are here, come on" he grabbed me by the hand and helped me out of the truck.
"So why did we come here?" I asked.
"Turn around" he said. I turned around and saw the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen.
"This is so beautiful, but why here…we could do this at my house." I said, not that I wasn't grateful I was…just confused.
"The sunset here is amazing, there aren't any lights from the city to out shine the sunset, I wanted you to see this." He said caressing my face.
I got on my tip toes and kissed him. "Thank you" I said.
Troy let the tailgate of his truck down so we could sit and watch the sun set. After about 30 minutes of lying with each other Troy broke the silence.
"I actually brought you here for a reason Brie" Troy said turning towards me.
"What?" I asked truly interested.
"Brie, these last six months have been the best six months of my entire life, you make me so happy…I know that we go to different schools and that the rivalry makes us a secret, but I want everyone to know that you are mine…and I know that I can't do that, but this is my way of saying that you are the only one for me Brie…my soul mate. I love you so much..would you wear my class ring? Not like at school or anything but a-"
I kissed Troy to shut him up so I could get a word in. "I would love that" I smiled at him.
Troy reached in his pocket and put the ring on my left finger, "One day I will make that an engagement ring"
End Flashback
I was in a dark room with the far corner lit with a bright light. I started to walk towards the light, I looked back over my shoulder and saw Troy, he looked so distraught. I went to go walk back to him but it started to hurt, I felt so much better going to toward the light. I looked at Troy again, he was walking into the darkness. Should I go into the darkness with Troy or go to the light side to where I don't hurt. I decided to follow Troy, the pain was so horrible but I kept going into the darkness to be with Troy, the love of my life. (AN: this is in Brie's mind)
I opened my eyes under the water, I saw a figure coming toward me. They figure grabbed me by the waist and was pulling me toward the surface, when we broke the surface I gasped for air. I was incoherent to what was going on, I felt the person lay me on my back on the pier. My body started convulsing involuntarily I felt hands holding me down.
"Brie…Brie can you hear me?" I heard a muffled voice that sounded so familiar.
I wanted to answer so badly I tried to get my body under control, the feeling in my body was gradually coming back…the convulsions eventually went away. I opened my eyes to see Troy looking at me with horror written across his face. I started to look around, I could see the cop cars coming. Troy looked behind him and saw the cars, he looked at me and then to Jeff and Greg…I could tell he was debating on whether to leave me and make sure they didn't get away. Troy looked me in the eyes and I slowly nodded my head, Troy turned around and grabbed Jeff and Greg and led them over to the cops. As soon as the cops had them Troy ran back over to me, I could see Troy's lips moving but I couldn't hear anything. I started to slip into darkness again.
I awoke in a room of white. I looked to my right, I saw my mother in a chair reading a book. A nurse came in.
"Oh your awake" she said coming towards me, my mother's head shot up from her book…she looked so relieved.
"Well it seems all your vitals are good, but you broke your finger cracked your knee caps and dislocated you shoulder. I don't know how you functioned with so many injuries, you are one tough girl" and with that the nurse left. I turned to look at my mother and she had tears in her eyes, she hugged me tightly while she cried. I wanted to tell her to stop crying but I couldn't find my voice. My mother pulled her head up and looked at me.
"Are you ok baby?" my mother asked in a concerned voice.
Once again I tried to find my voice but I was unsuccessful so I just nodded my head. I looked to my left and saw a pad and paper. I wrote four letters with a very shaky hand and slid it over for my mother to read.
"Troy? You want me to get Troy?" she asked and I nodded. My mother left my room and within a minute Troy was walking through my door. He cautiously made his way over to me and sat on the edge of my bed, he looked at me. He reached for my hand and I let him take it, I broke down in tears and Troy pulled me into a hug and was rubbing my back soothingly and rocking me back and forth.
"It's ok Brie. It's over." He repeated over and over again not letting me go. It felt so good to be in Troy's arms again.
AN: Some people asked me if I was going to make this into a series, it was intentionally a two shot, but if I get enough request that asks I might make it a series. Thanks for reading. REVIEW!