4. Betrayed
Ian's POV
I wake with a jerk, but this time it's not because of the nightmare. Someone was knocking on the door. I feel the shaking kicks in at once.
"It's okay, Ian," Wanda says and takes my hand. "It's just Jeb."
"Oh, right," I say. Of course. It's just Jeb, no worries.
Wanda gets out of bed and walks over to the door and opens it. And surely enough, it is Jeb. I breathe out, relieved.
"Hi, Jeb. Thank you for coming. Our car ran out of gas, so we had to... Jeb?" Wanda says suspicious and looks at Jeb, who looks like he has just seen a ghost. I jump out of bed and grab my gun discretely.
"Jeb, are you all right?" I ask and walk slowly towards the man in the door. I'm not sure if he is still himself, so I reach out for the flashlight, but just then I hear someone scream.
"Wanda!" A familiar voice warns. I get chills all over my body as I hear how scared she sounds. Behind Jeb, someone drags Melanie along with a gun at her head.
No, no, no. Not again. I'm shaking so hard, and my heart is pounding like hell.
"Drop the gun, Ian. You don't want anyone to get hurt, do you?" One of the Seekers says. I flinch when I hear the Seeker saying my name.
"Where are the others?" Wanda shouts terrified. Someone is pointing a gun at her, too. No one answers her. Instead, Jeb drops dead on the floor as a bullet blast through his scull. Wanda screams.
"No!" Melanie cries and tries to run over to him, but the Seeker holds her back.
"All right! All right, I'll just lay it here, okay? See?" I say with a shaking voice and put the gun gently down on the floor. Everything feels so surreal to me. It doesn't feel real. The sight of Jeb's dead body doesn't even affect me. How can I be so cold?
A few seekers comes in and tackles me to the floor. Then I look up at Sunny who is standing aside, watching everything like she doesn't care. Then she smiles at me.
"Sunny?" I ask confused. She comes closer to me and bends down till she is a feet away from my face. I look at her in shock. I would never have guessed that Sunny was like this.
"You killed him," she whispers. "You killed my love. You killed you brother." These words hurt more to me than anything, because they are true. He wouldn't have been dead if it weren't for me. Now I've been caught again. I'll never learn.
"You betrayed us," I say with a cracking voice.
The seekers pull me up from the floor with my hands cuffed behind my back. I look over to the others. Wanda is being taken away by just one seeker. She can barely keep herself together. Her face is soaking with tears.
"Don't you dare hurt them!" I shout out and begin to wriggle back and forth. I know what is coming. We've killed a lot of their seekers. They wants to avenge us. They want to execute every single one of us. We killed their family, now they wants to kill ours.
