Sean looked at Spinner who was bending on the floor in half groaning in pain and holding his left leg, saw he had no choice but to obey.

''Do you know believe me that I'm prepared to do anything to get revenge? Even if that means shooting somebody?!'' Rick yelled and went to Sean. As on cue one of the guys that were obviously his helpers approached to Sean, roughly turned him around and smacked him with full force on the face. Sean yelled in pain, holding a left side of his face and cowered on the floor crying silently. He didn't care that his friends were in the room and that they were used to watshing him act as a tough, bad boy.

Emma, Ellie and Jimmy turned around to see what was happening and upon seeing Sean on the floor began yelling and crying but they were too afraid to do anything else.

''Sean, man, what are you doing?! Please stop hurting them!'' Jimmy cried out but knew it was futile. ''Please, we'll do anything you want, just stop this!'' He tried reasoning with a shooter.

''Do you have a death wish, Brooks?'' Rick approached to Jimmy and pointed a gun right at his temple, eyes glaring with fury.

''Please, Rick, please put that gun away, I told you we'll do anything you want just don't hurt anybody else!'' Jimmy was suddenly all in tears, his whole body shaking with fear.

''Oh, Mr basketball star of the whole school surrended and started cooperating! Where were you when whole school threw food at me?! Ha?!'' Rick was obviously starting to lose it and it scared the shit out of everybody. Emma fell to her knees and started pleading with Rick: ''Please, tell us what you want and we'll do anything! Can we please go and help Spinner and Sean? To see if they're ok?''

''Shut up Mrs Perfect Goody two shoes! I don't want anything from you...yet!'' Rick just turned around to briefly look at her with a disgust. ''Luke, go and see if Spinner is ok.''

Boy immediately went to see Spinner who was still lying on the floor holding his left leg and silently groaning in pain. Luke tried to turn him over to have a better look at him but Spinner just cowered even more obviously in pain and not trusting anybody anymore. Kidnapper tried with more force and somehow managed to turn over the other boy. He checked him closely and turned to Rick :''He'll be all right, a bullet just passed very near to his leg and made a deep scar.''

''Pity that he didn't learn his lesson but there will be time for that. Let's go to the other part of our plan. Luke, make that phone call and tell him to come in half an hour.'' Then he turned to Emma ''Darling, I believe we have some unfinished business to do.'' He tried to smile but it looked creepy. As if on some unspoken order the third kidnapper went to Ellie, grabbed her hands and twisted them hard around her back making her kneel in the process.

''Rick, please, you're hurting me! What did I do to you!'' Ellie cried out in pain tears streaming down her face.

''You nothing. But your boyfriend did and now you're paying the price, you can thank him later.''Rick replied and continued approaching Emma. Sean looked at him from where he was standing and cursed him loudly but was stopped in the middle of the sentence by Luke approaching him and giving him one more hard slap on the face. Sean cried out but this time he didn't cower on the floor. He decided to act out as a man because he saw that Ellie and Emma really needed him.

''Cameron, shut the fuck up! You're only making it worse for yourself and your girlfriends! Luke, pick that son of a bitch from the floor and make him sit next to our Jimmy boy, I want him to witness this. Pete, move our Spinner closer and tie them up, hands behind their back and gag them. I don't want anybody to crash the party. ''

Luke roughly grabbed Sean by his wifebeater and literally dragged him where Jimmy was sitting. He turned him over to his stomach, brought his wrists together and tied them hard. Then he made him sit down and gagged him. Sean didn't say anything, too frightened to speak out because some of his friends were hurt and Rick threatened to do something to Emma and Ellie which he just couldn't bear. Defeat and broken spirit were evident in his eyes, he just looked at Luke with tears in his eyes while the other boy was putting a gag in his mouth and tieing the cloth behind his head. Sean looked over to Jimmy who went through the same process as him and a silent understanding was passed between them: This is serious. We must not let anybody else get hurt. Just do whatever Rick wants.

Spinner groaned and whined in pain while Pete was tieing him up but he was obviously feeling a bit better as he was able to sit down.

''Rick, what about this Ellie girl? Should we tie her up?'' Luke asked.

''No, you don't have to. What can a pathetic little cutter do to me?'' Rick replied laughingly looking at Ellie who returned a look full of hatred. She couldn't believe her ears that Rick would just like that let the cat out of the bag. Nevertheless, she couldn't reply anthing smart to him. It was true that she used to cut and everybody knew that. No point in hiding it. She just sat on the floor looking curiously at what would Rick do next. When he finally approached Emma he caressed her hair gently and leant to smell her neck.

Emma jumped high out of fear and started beating him with his fists ''What are you doing you freak?!''

A blow came out of nowhere and brought Emma to her knees. All the boys tried to shout but their voices were muffled by gags in their mouths and on top of everything Luke and Pete pointed a gun at them preventing them from doing anything really.

''Don't you ever call me a freak! You bitch! You seduced me and then discarded me as a rubbish! Bitch!'' Rick was yelling at the top of his lungs now obviously not caring who might hear him. ''You'll pay for that and your friends are going to watch it and won't be able to do anything about it! You'll be my bitch just like you deserve it!'' He was obviously in some kind of delirium and nobody really knew what was going to happen next. Boys turned their hands to Rick and Emma not believing their ears, eyes widened in shock. Once again they tried to say something but couldn't and it frustrated them beyond everything else. They couldn't help their friend.

Emma started pleading with Rick: ''Please, whatever you plan on doing, don't, please, I'll behave, I won't say anything to anybody, just let us go, please!'' Emma was now terrified and started talking really fast knowing something bad was about to happen.

''Shut up you bitch! You'll pay for everything!'' Rick yelled and a gun went off for the third time that day.

At first nobody knew what was going on as everything happened so fast. When they finally opened their eyes what they saw shocked them and it was something they wouldn't forget for the rest of their lives. Emma was lying against a wall with her eyes wide opened, her mouth in silent scream but there wasn't a sound coming from her mouth. She was dead. At first their brains couldn't process it, they just stared blankly at their friend not believing she was dead. They didn't want to believe.

''See what you made me do?! I shot her although I had other plans for her but you all had to beg and plead and talk even though I told you not to. Tell me what to do one more time and I swear I'll shoot. You probably should know by now that I'm not afraid to use my gun.''

Everybody just stared not able to do anything or to produce even a grunt from their mouth. Theye were all in a state of shock. Rick slowly approached to Sean and knelt down so he was at the same level with his face:

''Have something to say to me, Cameron? As you come to thiink of it this is your fault. If you hadn't spoken out of line there she'd still be alive.''

Sean raised his eyes to look at him and muffled something but the gag stopped real words.

''Luke, ungag this son of a bitch as I'd like to know what he has to say to me. Yes, I know, I'm too good to people.''

Luke immediately approached Sean and did like Rick asked him to.

''I only have two words to say to you'', Sea began not really knowing how he plucked up courage, ''Fuck you.''

Rick's expression turned into rage and he flipped his fingers to Luke and Pete who immediately knew what to do. They approached Jimmy, guns fully visible and each of them smacked him across the face making him fall on the ground. Then they swang their foot in unision and brought it hard against his ribs. Jimmy couldn't cry or grunt anymore, it hurt lke hell and he just passed out.