Hey guys! I haven't written for so long that both Suspicion and Scandal are released already! But I wanted to continue this since many
people liked it and wanted me continue! Sorry for the LONG delay. Enjoy!
Here is the 21st chapter of My Own Version of Suspicion!
The gunshot hit one of the windows of the Art Cemetery because Sawyer was surprised by the scream.
I didn't even realize that I was the one who screamed. I didn't even realize that I have run all the way towards the Art Cemetery towards Josh. I
didn't even realize that I am now standing in front of Josh with a gun now pointed directly at me. Because none of it matters. All that matters is
Josh. And that I might loose him. Forever.
I looked up right then. I looked at Sawyer. He is wearing a grin that I have never seen with him before. His eyes are gleaming with the little light
from the window. He looks like a predator ready to kill its prey. A monster. A monster I never knew before.
I wanted to shout at him. To kick him. To scream at his face. To hurt him in any way possible but all that came out from me was a question that
carries everything that I feel.
"Who Are You?" I said it with so much venom in my voice that the wicked grin left Sawyer's face for a minute. His gun wavered. His expression
softened, and I saw the Sawyer that I had connected with. The Sawyer who saved me. Or was that a lie too?
He seemed taken aback by my question. But my question wasn't even literal. I was asking about the Sawyer I knew. The sensitive, good guy I
have met at St. Barths. And he knew it too.
Even Josh seemed to have snapped out of his initial shock.
"Reed, what do you think are you doing?" Josh hissed. He shoved me gently behind him so that he is now facing Sawyer.
Josh's action seemed to have put Sawyer back in his trance. The monster in him spoke and it gave me chills, just hearing him.
"So the goody girlfriend just can't leave you Hollis alone." He spat.
"I actually wanted to spare her today and just kill you but then she just can't get out of trouble. Can't she? So now she's involved too. And I'm not
stupid to leave witnesses." He continued.
Josh literally stiffened in front of me. He spread his arms as if it could protect me from the bullet of Sawyer's gun.
"Even willing to risk her life. The life I saved just because I wanted to kill her myself. For you to see. Just like my sister did because of you, Hollis.
Now you'll know how it feels to see someone you love die with you being helpless." Sawyer said with the same monstrous grin on his face.
His sister? What does his sister have to do with Josh?
Sawyer must be able to read minds because he answered mine.
"That's right, Reed. Lover Boy here broke up with my sister 2 years ago. She killed herself because of it." Sawyer said looking at me dead in the
eye. I looked back at him from behind Josh's wide shoulders.
Then I looked at Josh waiting for a confirmation that this was true. And by his looks, it is.
"You can't blame Josh if your sister wanted to take her life. Josh has a right to break up with whoever he wanted." I shouted at him because I was
so scared and confused.
Why has Josh never told me this?
My shout seemed to have angered him because he quickly punched Josh in the jaw and grabbed me by my left arm. I gasped because of how
strong he was.
"Josh! Are you okay?!" I yelped because blood was spurting out of Josh's nose as he tried to get up from the floor. He looked at me like he wanted
to ship me to another planet just to get me away from here. But he can't. He can't even go near me because I can now feel the tip of the gun right
at my throat.
"Take a step and she dies." I heard Sawyer say behind me. His mouth was by my ear that the effect of his words was even more tremendous.
I looked at Josh. He seemed to have been 10 years younger. He looks like a child waiting for guidance. He is looking at me and the look made me
want to cry. It is full of self-loathing, He's hating himself because of this. He's hating himself because a psycho guy has his gun pointed on my
throat.
I wanted to touch him. I wanted to kiss him and tell him that everything will be alright. That he shouldn't hate himself because I am the unlucky
one.
But I can't even tell him that because I'm not sure if anything will ever be alright.
Josh's voice snapped me back to reality.
"Sawyer, please, please, please. Just kill me. I'm the one you're mad at. Not Reed. Please not Reed. Do everything you want with me just don't hurt
her. Please Sawyer, I beg you." Josh kneeled right then. He is still looking at me even though he's talking to Sawyer. His green eyes were full of
anger, remorse, self pity, self hatred, but most of all was love. It was standing out like it wanted to be known by everyone.
How could I have been so stupid? How could I have ever doubted him?
Sawyer laughed like some villain in a superhero movie behind me. His laughed rumbled at his chest and I felt it in my whole body. And right then I
knew that I never hated anybody as much as I hate him right now. If only he isn't pointing a gun at me, I would kill him first.
"So you think I will let you live? No. I'll kill you also, but after her. You'll die with the guilt washing over you. Your begging wouldn't do anything.
Though, I personally enjoy seeing you like that." Sawyer said, still laughing.
I kicked him then. Just to prove a point. Though it didn't have that much effect since he's holding me too tightly that there's no space for leverage.
"You are a brave little thing aren't you?" Sawyer said, his mouth still on my ear.
"Too bad you chose Hollis, now you'll end up dead. Just like Jen." Sawyer continued.
I turned my head and spat at him and it hit him square in the face.
I smiled in satisfaction. What's the use of pleasing him? I better die showing him how much I hate him.
And Sawyer must have gotten my point if he punching me at the stomach with his free hand was any indication.
I fell down in pain but I can still feel the gun now pointing on my back.
"Reed! No!" I heard Josh shout as I fell down. I heard him scramble to his feet and I heard his footsteps getting nearer but then he was stopped
by Sawyer's cold voice.
"You move, she dies." Sawyer said. I felt Josh literally freeze on his spot. I glanced up and I saw him looking like a terrified child. I have never seen
Josh so scared before. And he's scared for me. I want to hug him. But I need to get rid of Sawyer first.
I spat blood, I spat it on his shoes and glanced up to look at him. The Sawyer I knew was gone. And I have no time feeling sorry for him. He'd
done enough and it's time to stop.
"You bastard, why don't you just kill yourself so that you can join your crazy sister who killed herself because of a boy?" I told him with every
ounce of my energy into it. I stared at him. His face registered so much anger that I thought that he would shoot me just then, but he didn't. He
just shot it in the air again.
"You think I can't kill you, Reed? Is that it? Well you saw that, I can really shoot you. And I will if you say another damn word. And don't you dare
insult my sister because you are not even comparable to how she was." Sawyer hissed, now pointing the gun directly at my heart. His face is
inches from mine and I can feel his ragged breath as he spoke.
I stared right back, refusing to give up. I glanced at Josh and he was looking at me with pleading eyes. He wants me to follow Sawyer, so that he
won't kill me. But I can't. I can never go down without a fight.
"Then shoot me. At least I will die because of a crazy person which is you unlike your sister who died because she was crazy and killed herself. It
actually makes sense that your siblings. Since you're both crazy. And at least I died fighting you, remember that." I said to him, practically spitting
every word.
And now I can see that he reached his limitation.
"You..little bitch." And with that he stood up and positioned the gun.
"No!" I heard Josh shout as Sawyer shot. But he sounded so far away.
Because my hearing was muffled by the gun shot.
And everything happened so fast.
Just as Sawyer shot, Josh grabbed him so the bullet went through another window.
But just as he grabbed Sawyer another gunshot pierced the already horrible night.
I saw Noelle and Ivy by the doors of the Art Cemetery and suddenly police officers and paramedics were dotting the area.
I looked around for Josh and Sawyer. But they weren't anywhere anymore. The police officers and the paramedics must have hauled them out.
I keep hearing people speaking to me asking how I was.
But I didn't understand anything.
Because I wasn't sure of what was happening anymore.
But there was one thing that I was sure of.
And it is that that last gunshot didn't go by the window.
It hit someone.
Only who? Josh or Sawyer?
There it was! I hope you liked it! I actually felt sorry for Sawyer! haha. Oh well. Tell me what you thought about it! Who do you think got
shot? Please review! Review!
P.S. The next chapter will be the last so review!