CHAPTER FOUR: LIARS AND BULLETS

Adam and Holly J

"He's fucking dead!" Adam screamed. His hands ran through his chestnut brown hair that was soaked with sweat.

"I get that, Adam," Holly J said over her shoulder. She ran her hands over the limp body of the security guard. There were hand prints on his neck to show proof that he'd been strangled.

She smiled when she came across what she'd been looking for. She gripped the handgun and yanked it from the holster. She held it out for Adam to take from her.

"Are you insane? Put that thing away!" Adam yelled, staying as far away from the gun as he could.

"Fine," she said, "you can use the stun gun."

Adam slowly took the stun gun from her and looked down at the older girl. "How can you be so calm in this situation, Holly J?"

She stood from her crouching position and gave him a smile. "I guess it just comes naturally for me to think before I act."

Adam frowned at the ginger haired girl when a loud sound interrupted their stare down. "Let's go," he said, motioning for her to follow him. She'd made sure to grab the security guard's flashlight, so now they're path was much easier to see.

Adam spun around the corner, his stun gun pointed out in front of him. Holly J rolled her eyes at the way he was playing cop while she basically made sure that her weapon was within reach.

A loud sound of breaking glass was heard farther down the hallway. Adam, being reckless again, took off running without another thought. But this time, Holly J had been prepared, so she was within two feet of him while he ran with his stun gun pointed down.

The sound of grunting and short breaths could be heard just around the corner. Adam pressed his back against the stone wall and turned to look at Holly J, who was now holding her gun with both hands.

"Are you ready?" he asked in a low voice.

She nodded, swallowing the lump in her throat. That nod had been one big fat lie told straight to Adam's face. Adam spun around with the stun gun pointed at thin air.

Well thin air all except for one helpless brother of his. Drew had been massacred. It looked as if something had literally eaten his whole stomach out and had left him there to die.

"I'm gonna be sick," Holly J announced, bending her back while covering her mouth with a hand.

But Adam didn't mind that there was blood splattering the basement walls. He didn't care that his brother's body stunk of the taking of death. He needed to touch him badly.

"Drew," he choked out. Holly J turned after failing to puke to look at Adam clutching to his brother for dear life. Clearly he didn't mind that Drew's blood was staining his sweater.

"I'm sorry, Drew. I'm so sorry," he sobbed, his shoulders shaking without effort. "You promised me, Drew!" he suddenly screamed in anger.

"You promised me that you'd be here forever. You promised that…that you'd be the best older brother in this world." Tears slid down Adam's face while he cradled his brother's lifeless body. "You lied!"

Holly J yanked Adam's body away, dragging it as he fought. "Let me go! Let go of me!" he screamed at her, still sobbing uncontrollably.

"Adam! Adam, look at me," she ordered, leaning over him while he sat on his knees. He stared right through her with hatred in his eyes.

She brought her hand back and slapped it right across his tear stained face. "Adam, we have to get out of here. We have to get back to Fiona and the others."

The mentioning of Fiona's name seemed to stir something inside of Adam. He suddenly grabbed her by her forearms and them while he stood before her.

He watched the older girl with sad eyes while he tried his best not to meet Drew's disgustingly ravaged body. "Adam," she began slowly, "don't look behind you."

Adam frowned and turned his head slightly to see a cloaked man throwing his arm back that currently gripped a large hatchet. His eyes grew wide, and Adam threw him and Holly J to the ground. He rolled with her in his arms and threw her off so that he could push himself up and off of the blood stained floor.

The figure turned and headed straight at him, but the man stopped midway and began shaking with rapid force. Seeing that Adam had stunned him, Holly J reached for her handgun.

Adam snatched it from her grip, turned, and shot at the man that had killed his older brother. But the bullet only met a cement wall. Adam furrowed his brows and looked over to see that the sound of breaking glass earlier had been a window being broken.

The killer had known they were down there with all of the commotion they were making. So he'd planned an escape route for when they found Drew. But when they got too close, he'd hid himself in the shadows and had watched the following actions take place. And now, he'd escaped with a new wound to take care of.

Adam stared out of the window when Holly J came back to her senses. "Thanks," she said, "for pushing me down. It kind of saved us."

He nodded and handed her the handgun, but she pushed it away. "You used it better than I could."

Fiona and Clare

Fiona jumped at the sound of the shooting, and Clare had almost screamed. Luckily Fiona had placed a hand over her mouth to stop her from doing it though.

But Fiona couldn't stop the hot tears welling in her eyes. What if that had been Holly J being shot? Or maybe even Adam? She shook the thoughts from her head and dialed his number, only to receive his voice message box.

She thought about calling Holly J, but she really didn't have the time. Clare watched her with expectant eyes when Fiona grabbed the key from the desk and said, "We need to go to the gym with the others. We'll be safer."

Clare nodded and followed the older girl, letting her lead her through the dark halls.

Eli, Fitz, and Bianca

They all jumped at the sound of the bullet leaving the gun. It had been echoed through the entire school without warning.

"Was that…?" Bianca asked.

"It looks like someone found a gun," Fitz said aloud, throwing down his sleeping bag in front of him.

Eli stayed silent while his face went pale. Had that been Adam? Or even worse, Clare? He shook the feelings from his thoughts and jumped up when they heard the doors rattling.

"What the fuck?" Bianca exclaimed, jumping up and ready for a fight.

Fitz joined her side with his own fists ready to meet this psycho's face.

"Guys, let us in!"

They all sighed in relief when they saw Clare's familiar face in the window. Eli wasted no time hurrying to unlock the door for her and Fiona.

Clare threw herself into Eli's arms as soon as the doors were opened. She cried silently out of relief of being able to hold him again.

"I thought that was you getting," Eli breathed in her ear.

"Don't be crazy," she responded, gripping his face in her hands. "I'm right here."

She brought her lips against his and enjoyed a tender moment with him. Both of them had been worried that they would never be able to enjoy the familiar taste of the other's lips ever again.

Bianca interrupted their lover's moment. "Well then if it wasn't any of us…who was it?"

Fiona swallowed a knot in her throat at the thoughts swarming in her head. Adam's lifeless body in the basement…or Holly J's. Either way, she was breaking apart from the inside.