Hey yall sorry for the wait! but since i know you aren't reading this Ill get on with the story.
How the hell did they find me! In strolled Lily with Nicks arm around her, Charlie with Tess and Aaron with Nina. They walk in pretending to not notice us until lily could stand it no longer. She looked up, plastered a look of surprise on her face and gasped, "Max, Ryan what are you guys are here? I had no idea this was where your date was!"
I try to give her the death glare but from her mischievous smile I am not so sure she was scared. She, in fact, looked giddy at the fact that she got sit in on my first date. As the others look up too, they hid their guilty faces for later. My first guess was Lily dragged them here, but after I glared at each of them only Lily and Nick did not have guilty faces on.
Ryan is the first to say anything to our unexpected guests. "Oh I'm sure it was a mistake, so why don't you guys go find someplace else to hang out? We are on a date, and would like some alone time." Although his words were said respectively his tone was anything but. It was somewhere between a growl and an adult scolding a child.
"Oh come on there are always group dates, and besides we're hungry and this is the best place in town for food." Instead of yelling at Lily I began to think of ways to get back at her starting in P&E tomorrow. Come on Max spies have plans and backup plans- just because you have not started Convert Operations class yet does not mean you should not be practicing, I chided myself. The perfect plan was not difficult to think of, as it came within the next two minutes.
"Hey Ryan can I talk to you for a sec." I asked him.
"Yea, sure Max." He looked relieved that we were getting away from the others. Even though we are friends its nice to have time alone. We walk to the counter and sit on the high stools.
"So here's what I'm thinking…." And I describe my plan to him his face lights up.
"That's perfect Max!" So we get up pay for our food and leave the restaurant. As soon as the others see us at the door they scramble up because Lily is yelling at them to. But its too late we are running away, although the plan was simple enough it still worked perfectly. Ryan is the fastest runner out of our whole group with me behind. We took twists and turns, went down side roads and alleys and kept running. We finally stop running when we reached a park. You could faintly see the outline of the slides and swings. We strolled through the park just talking and enjoying each other's company while the solitude lasted, because Lily was going to find us eventually. Ryan started a game of twenty questions we were on question 7.
"So what's your least favorite ice cream flavor?" He was trying to ask the things that, even though we were best friends for our whole life, he didn't know.
"Strawberry." I say without hesitation, I mean who likes strawberry ice cream? Fruitiholics? "What's your favorite time of the day?"
"Evening." He says after a second or two.
"Same. I love watching the sunsets and the moon. Its like a peaceful time of the day were I feel alive." I explain. We had exited the park and were walking towards an alley. I could hear music playing in the background:
I'm gonna live my life, no matter what we party tonight.
I'm gonna li-li-live my life no, I know that we gon' be alright. We were in the alley and it looked pretty sketchy, but I didnt complain because Ryan was with me. He was holding my hand and I was smiling.
I'm gonna live my life, no matter what we party tonight.
I'm gonna li-li-live my life no, I know that we gon' be alright.
Wo-oh oh, wo-oh oh, I know that we gon' be alright.
Wo-oh oh, wo-oh oh, I know that we gon' be alright. Ryan backed me up into the side of the alley and looked at me. I was staring at his lips. He whispered in my ear, "I'm gonna do something alright?" I could just nod. He chuckled at my face and leaned in.
Yo, hell yea, dirty base. Ghetto girl, you drive me cray- And the rest of the song seemed to fade away as Ryan kissed me. It was crazy, he was so sweet and soft. His hands were wrapped around my waist and mine were around his neck, loosely. Which was why when he pulled back my hands pulled apart and his left my waist. I tried to reach out for him, but he wasn't there. And I finally realized the alley was silent no noise except for my breathing. I was going to sneak out of the alley when a hand reached out around my waist. Assuming it was Ryan I let him pull me close, when i felt a head coming toward my ear I didn't scream and run and shout, i just stood there waiting for his sweet voice. But i didn't get it, not at all.
"You know," a scratchy voice whispered in my. my body went rigid and could move. "They said you wouldn't be easy, but i don't think i've seen anyone so unfocused as you two." I started struggling and was about to scream when the voice talked again. "I wouldn't scream if i were you. You don't want your friend over there to get hurt." He spun me around and a light turned on. Ryan was standing in front of me with a knife to his throat. I tried to look around but the man holding me spun me around to face him. He was dressed in all black, typical night spy gear and a black ski mask. He looked to be around 6 foot 3 and had muscle bulging out of his sleeveless shirt. "Now you are going to come with us without struggling and your friend just might live. Or you can fight back and watch him die. Your pick but hurry up," he pulled out a long shinny knife from his belt," I'm not a patient man." I decided i was going to call the mystery man Dick.
I knew what i had to do but before i could answer Ryan screamed, " Max don't do this I can handle myself!" I looked over at him he was trying to move around with the knife at his throat and his captors firm grip. "In case it has slipped your notice Ryan, you have a knife at your throat." His eyes filled with panic as he saw what I was about to do. "Max-" I cut him off.
"Ryan, you can't protect me forever, somethings I have to deal with, without backup, understand?" i hoped he heard the double meaning in my words but his eyes didn't show any less panic. he shook his head. "Trust me," And finally he nodded.
"I'll do the first option if you please." And I'll even go peacefully until Ryan splits, I thought. Dick, who I assumed was the leader, smiled, "Perfect," he purred in my ear. I could not suppress a shiver from gracing my spine. He flipped me around so my back was to him and tied my wrists-tight.
"You know that hurts," i tried to tell him. "Exactly," he breathed. I was about to make another comment when a rag was placed over my noise and mouth. I instantly felt dizzy and me knees buckled. The only reason I was still standing was because of Dick. There goes my plan, I thought. I faintly heard Ryan screaming and looked for him. He was struggling harder and Moron holding him cut his arm. I was being picked up off the ground feeling as if I was floating on air. And when I decided the blackness eating away at my vision was too comforting; I was on the ground, breathing regular air in gulps. I shook my head trying to gather my thoughts and clear my vision. I looked around.
At some point Lily and everyone else had come to the rescue. Charlie was on the phone doing who knows what. Ryan, whose arm was still bleeding sluggishly was fighting back moron and another one of my would-be captors. Nick, Lily and Aaron were all fighting two as well. While Tess and Nina fought one each. I stumbled up to my feet and looked down Dick was unconscious. I ran over, as fast as my jello legs would allow, to Lily who was having trouble fighting two grown men double her size. I ran up behind one and threw myself on his back, as i was too weak to kick and punch. i put my hands over his throat and squeezed. He banged me back into the wall and my head started buzzing, but i held on. The black-clade man kept hitting me into the wall, each time less strength was behind the blow. Until after several more hits he fell to the ground passed out. I looked around and only one man was awake and he had his hands tied behind his back. So i assed me injures. I'm pretty sure I cracked a few ribs, my head was swimming so I either had a concussion or the gas from the rag was still in my system, a knife cut on my back the was still bleeding (When did I get that?) and many, many bruises.
I was about to walk over to my friends when i heard the tires. I was about to start panicking when the car turned the corner and recognized it as one of St. Mary's. With the adrenaline leaving my blood stream and the staff here to help, I realized what had happen. I was almost kidnapped. And the weight of that caught up with me along with my many injuries. I collapsed on the ground and passed out. I did not feel myself lifted up and placed in the van, nor did i notice I was close to death. I did not see the scared look on Ryan's face, or the regretful one on Nick's. All that mattered then was sleep. So i did not wake up when my parents and siblings came into the hospital room to see me, and I did not realize time was passing.
But the worst part was that i did not hear Nick come in the next night and whisper "I'm so sorry Max," before fleeing my room.
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