Clara

Friday, 6:41 PM

I shut my eyes tightly. Suddenly the pain went away. Am I dead?

"No. You're perfectly fine now get up," I heard a hoarse voice that sounded like Chris.

Did I say that out loud? I blinked my eyes open. And saw Chris standing above me his arms crossed.

"Yes, you did say that out loud. Now get up, I'm taking you home."

"Wait you can't take me home!" I said stubbornly while getting up.

"I can and I will," he grunted.

"So are you still going to kill me?" I slowly asked. He opened his mouth to answer, but then his phone rang.

"Hey…Clara's with me…Should I bring her with me? Well she's refusing to leave…I mean that she won't go home…You're telling me…Did Deveron's troops come? Did they get someone? Who? Oh perfect because we need to bring a mortal girl into this…Well I'll meet you…See ya…" He shoved his phone into his pocket.

He turned around swiftly, "Get in the car."

I looked towards the bright red Ford truck then back at Chris, "No. I'm not going home."

He clenched his fists, "Fine, then I'll just leave you here all alone." He strode to the car and slammed the door.

"Wait! You can't leave me here," I ran to the car grabbing the door handle and jumping into the passenger seat.

Chris snickered, "You know in the end you did exactly what I wanted you to. You got in the car."

I crossed my arms and grabbed my seatbelt. As soon as I had put it on Chris slammed his foot on the gas pedal.

"ARE! YOU! TRYING! TO! KILL! ME!!!" I screamed slamming into the seat.

We sped away from the mall and onto the highway. I clutched onto the seat praying that I wouldn't die.

I took deep breaths and screamed again as a bullet shot through the window and went straight past my face.

The car swerved flinging across the road and Chris screamed in pain. The glass shattered in Chris's window.

He screamed again the glass scaring his face. A man's face appeared in the window, but then the world seemed to suddenly started to race past.

I was trust forward into the airbag. I quickly got up and turned around seeing a group of men decked out in black were staring at the car as it raced away.

"Chris are you okay?" I turned my head seeing him, his blood dripping on the seat and steering wheel.

He gripped the wheel tighter and ignored my question. We raced past my neighborhood and deeper into the forest near the school.

Chris' car swerved to a stop and Chris quickly got out. I didn't dare to move.

The first voice I heard was Jane's, "Where's Clara!?!" She demanded.

"In the car," Chris gasped sounding terrible.

"Are you okay?" Sapphire's voice came.

"What happened?" I suddenly heard Jack's voice demand.

"His followers saw my truck…Guns, they almost hit the girl…" he was clearly getting worse.

I slowly opened the door. I peaked around the car and saw Chris lying in Sapphire's arms, his eyes closed.

He looked worse outside then he did in the car. He had terrible scars on his face and you could still see some of the glass coming out from his skin. There were a few scars on his arms, but the worst one was on his right arm where the bullet had missed me.

"Clara!" Jane pulled me into a hug and Alicia and Morgan soon joined. I slowly broke from the hug.

"Chris?" I said softly.

He opened his eyes, "Hmm?"

I felt tears coming to my eyes, "Will you be okay?" I dropped to my knees crawling next to him.

"Yeah," he rasped grabbing my hand resting his head back onto Sapphire's shoulder. I bit my lip.

"Everyone quiet," Jack suddenly hissed.

The brushes rustled, "Nobody move. You are all going to be good kids and report to Deveron with us."