High School Hostages

Chapter Twenty-One: Percy
Once I saw Annabeth being dragged through that door, my heart immediately sunk.

Eyes wide, I turned to Rachel and nudged her side.

'What are they going to do to Annabeth?' I whispered to her hurriedly. She turned to face me, and her eyes and mouth were also wide in horror.

'No, no, no, no,' she mouthed silently, her eyes starting to fill with tears. She was shaking her head in disbelief and her hands were shaking was she pulled them up to cover her mouth.

'Rachel, what's the matter?' I put my arms around her shoulders in an attempt to comfort her. She looked over to where they'd hoisted Annabeth up onto the table and had her sitting on a chair, and her tears started to flow over the brim of her eyelids and down her cheeks. She was about to open her mouth to answer, but was interrupted but a roar from one of the biker guys.

'CLAP!' the oldest of the biker men commanded, and the crowd started to clap slowly and sadly.

Rachel was starting to sob now, but no one seemed to pay attention: they had their own worries.

One of the other men, perhaps the son of the eldest one, jumped from the table he was standing on to the one across the aisle.

'I am Hughie,' he said gruffly. 'But you may call me "Master". Understood?' When nobody replied he became angrier.

'Understood?' he asked more firmly, demanding an answer. The rest of the students replied with an almost silent 'Yes, Master', bowing their heads in fear.

'Now, it seems Barbie over here-,' he gestured harshly to Annabeth while jumping back to the first table, '-was wandering around the school during a lockdown. Now that isn't safe, is it?'

A few more 'Yes, Master's were recited before he continued.

'You never know who might be in the school grounds,' he circled the chair which Annabeth was sitting in casually. Annabeth's eyes were bloodshot from crying and wide in fear. Hughie walked around her until he reached he left side, then faced the crowd again. 'I mean, what if there's someone dangerous, like, oh, I don't know-,' he put his mouth right up next to her ear before screaming deafeningly, '-ME!?'

Annabeth almost fell off her chair in surprise- or more like terror. Tears were flowing wildly out of her eyes, and I could hear a few muffled sobs from behind the tape.

I felt Rachel's shoulders moving up and down as she continued to cry and whisper, 'No, please, no.'

She sunk to her knees and I went down with her, not letting my arms lose contact with her shoulders.

'Rachel, you need to tell me what's wrong, now. I can only help if you tell me what's going on,' I whispered to her, ignoring the few pairs of eyes staring at us suspiciously.

Between sobs she managed, 'I'm... o-on their... side.'

'Who's side? What side?' I questioned quickly, wanting to find out what was making her so upset sooner rather than later.

'Their side,' she pointed timidly to the men on the table, who were ranting insanely while nobody listened.

'Don't be silly,' I reasoned, assuming she was pinning the blame for this whole thing on herself, like she usually did.

She hugged her knees as she knelt, resting her chin on them and sighing to calm herself down. Some of her red curls fell into her eyes and she brushed them behind her ears. She was no longer crying, but her eyes and cheeks were bright red. 'I led them in.'

'Accidently,' I added unknowingly. She shook her head softly.

'On purpose. But they said they wouldn't hurt anyone,' she turned to me, the look in her eyes begging me to see the good in this situation and how she was innocent.

Yet, she'd just admitted she was guilty.

I pulled my arms back from around her shoulders and let them hang by my sides limply, staring at her in disbelief. She sighed again, like she'd seen this moment coming but didn't want it to happen either way. Shifting her weight backwards, she landed on her butt and sat there sadly.

'They said they'd just take the money and go,' she whispered into her knees.

'Rachel, you know by doing this, you've put everyone person in this school's life at risk?'

She nodded, 'I knew.'

I shook my head in disbelief. She knew she was putting people in danger. This was so unlike the Rachel I knew; the Rachel who had once been my girlfriend. She'd never been hostile, rude or nasty to anyone in her life, she wouldn't hurt a fly. She wouldn't even dump or reject a guy she had nothing in common with.

I'd been the one to dump her.

But then she went and did... this.

'Why?' was all I had to say to her. I shrugged as I said this, my head still shaking.

'I... I honestly don't know.'

'I can't believe you,' I almost spat out the words. It didn't occur to me that at that point I was partly being a hypocrite; now I was the one being hostile and rude.

I stood up hastily, and by this time the guys had left the cafeteria and Annabeth was still sitting helplessly on the chair on top of the table. Almost all the eyes in the room turned to me. I felt a hand rest onto my shoulder, and turned around to find Jason, with his other arm around Piper, standing behind me.

'Just, don't, Perce,' he said quietly, as Piper looked at the ground uncomfortably.

It was then that I shoved past him and left the cafeteria in a storm.

And, in my blinding rage, I'd left Annabeth behind.

So, I haven't written in a while, and I really have no excuse.

I'm just really lazy.

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