Water

A/N: OMG! Most dramatic chapter you may EVER read! Sorry it's kind of late at night, but even homeschooling takes a lot of the day, so I didn't get around to it till very late. Thanks for all my AMAZING reviews! This chapter is pretty epic, so I hope you like it! (Which it's very possible you won't, but you probably will!) Okay, on to the chapter because if I don't get started soon, it'll just be a longer wait!

Chapter 25

Sonny's POV

I have no idea what happened exactly. I was…was…I was doing something important and everything went black. Now my eyes are sealed shut and I'm in this unfamiliar room. I know I've never been here because it smells like cold pizza and tobacco. I was lying on some sort of bed with a really worn out mattress and I felt really dizzy. I thought for a second and everything began coming back to me. Melissa and I left the apartment…I called my mom…She told me my uncle was coming after me…and I couldn't handle the thought of my uncle when the rain was coming down that hard. So I passed out. Wait…so how did I get here? Oh my God! Where am I?

"AHHHHH!" I sat up instantly screaming, my eyes popping opened. I looked around and figured I must have been in a motel room. I had sat up to fast, so my head started hurting really badly, but I didn't care! Something was wrong; I just knew it!

I ignored my throbbing head and stood up, a little shaky at first, but I ignored the feeling that I was about to fall and walked to the door. I looked out the peep whole and saw him.

The man I hadn't seen in years. The man that ruined my chances of swimming for so long. The man who taught me the cold truth that not everyone in this world is good. The man who I genuinely hated; the only person I've ever been able to actually hate! The man that was biologically, but not spiritually, my uncle. He was there. Right outside the door puffing on a cigarette. I knew then that I had to get out.

I looked frantically around the room for a window, but couldn't find one anywhere! I even tried gently knocking my fist against the wall in hopes to find a soft or hallow spot that I could somehow break through, but there wasn't one anywhere. I then began searching for a knife or gun or something I could threaten him with, but to no prevail. I was officially screwed.

I looked out again and saw him throwing the cigarette bud on the ground, so I jumped back on the bed and pretended to be asleep as he walked into the room.

"Get up, Sonny!" he yelled and kicked me off the side of the bed. I landed flat on my back on the other side and groaned in pain. "What, you think you can fool me?"

I got up and faced him. "What do you want?" I asked.

"Revenge." He said simply.

I slightly gasped and backed up as he came around the bed.

"See, you ruined my life, so I'm going to end yours. Sounds fair to me; what about you? You knew how to swim! You did! I swear! But you wouldn't and so I got blamed for it! Heh. Your mom was such a bitch about it, too. You were fine, but she wouldn't let it go! She never fucking let anything go! When she married your dad, she didn't want me at the wedding! She hated me the moment she met me! Anything I did, she would make it seem bad, and your dad, of course, would always fucking take her side! And then the swimming thing…oh don't get me started! She always told me to not let you swim, but you're the one who asked! I just wanted to make you happy, so I did! And she go's and screws up EVERYTHING! Just like she always did!"

"STOP!" I yelled.

"NO!" he yelled back. "You wouldn't swim, so I rotted in jail for a while! And it was your entire fault for not swimming! You and your mom both; you've always been total bitches when it comes to anything I do! And now no one in the entire fucking family will even call me! All because I drink! If only they knew your mom! She drank like hell when you dad died! And that's why she never wanted you swimming in the first place!"

"What are you talking about?"

"After your dad, she never wanted anything to do with you being in water!" he yelled. The mention of my dad made tears start to well up in my eyes. My mom and I never brought him up, but here was my uncle throwing him around like crazy!

"What happened to my dad?" I said, now with tears slowly streaming down my cheeks. I was very young when he died; only 6. So I didn't know about the concept of death. When I got older, I never really asked anyone because the memory seemed so distant and painful.

He chuckled inwardly at the question. "She never told ya. He drowned one night at the lake. He was out fishing around midnight and the police figured something big must've pulled him in. We found his body the next morning in the bottom." He said with a distant look on his face. "Figures she never would'a told ya. She was always like that."

"Stop talking about her like that! I never even asked her how he died; it wasn't her fault!"

He slapped me. "Yeah, but that doesn't even matter! She's not the one I'm after. If you're gone, she'll go back to drinking for sure and the family'll forget me. And you'll finally be out'a my life!"

"I wasn't in your life for the past few years!"

"Oh but you were! Everything I did, everywhere I went, everyone I saw had to do with you! I got fired from my job and now I've gotta work for an even bigger bastard! I can't leave the state without a police escort; I ditched them in Utah, by the way. And I can't even go in public without someone recognizing me from the news as 'The Bastard Who Almost Drowned his Niece'! And it's all because of you! So with you out'a the picture" he chuckled a little and got the terribly twisted smile on his face, "I'll be free as I please."

I looked and saw his hand in his pocket as he pulled out a pistol.

By now I was completely backed against the wall and immobilized with terror. I was about to scream and his gun was now facing my chest when there was a knock on the door.

"*Clears throat* Who is it?" he asked.

"Room service." Came a woman's voice from outside.

He walked to the door and opened it just enough for his head to poke out. "Come back la-OWWW!" he yelled his leg flying off the ground and into his arm, where he began rubbing his shin and he stood on one foot.

Just then, Melissa came running into the room and grabbed my hand. My uncle came running towards us, but Melissa jumped over the bed, pulling me along behind her, and we began racing to the door. But we were stopped by my uncle just before we could get out. He slammed the door and aimed the gun to us, backing us back against the wall.

"Yeah, like a little girl's gonna come in and beat me that easily." He said. "Well, since I'm not completely heartless, I'll kill her first so she won't have to see big sis here die. And they said I was pure evil." He laughed, aiming the gun at Melissa, who didn't seem as scared as I thought she'd be. "Any last words?"

"Just one." Melissa said. "CHAD!" she screamed, and the door was kicked down.

My uncle turned around to block himself from being hit by the door, but dropped his gun in the process. I looked up to see Chad standing in the doorway and then back down to see Melissa, once again, kick his shin and cause him to jump up in surprise.

"Why you little!" he yelled, reaching for the gun, but I grabbed it first. I aimed it towards him and everyone stopped moving for a second.

"Sonny, Sonny, Sonny." He said with his twisted smile back on. "Like I would actually be afraid of you with a gun."

"Try me." I said

"It's funny, really." He started. "You're the last person I would expect to do something like that, and now you're really threatening my life with this? That's just sad. And to think the public labels you as the nicest girl in Hollywood. Oh how wrong they can be! And if they ever were to find out about this…"

"Don't listen, Sonny!" Melissa called. "He's just trying to trick you!" she said, but before I could respond in any way, my uncle's hand was in his other pocket and out with another gun before anything could happen.

I gasped and so did everyone else in the room; but my uncle just smiled deviously and said "see, I would do that."

But he was cut off by the sound of approaching sirens.

"By Sonny." He said and pulled the trigger. The bullet came straight towards me, but before Chad or Melissa could react, he turned the gun to himself and shot it straight through his chest and again through his head, just for good measure. He fell to the ground in a heap, immediately passed out.

Once he was down, it took a second for me to realize the pain in the shot, but when it came, it came on fast and hard. Very hard.

I grabbed the wound and screamed in pain, falling to my knees.

"Sonny!" Chad yelled, running over to me. "Melissa, go tell the paramedics where we are!" Chad instructed as Melissa flew out the door. "Sonny, it's going to be okay. I promise." He said with an arm on my waist to hold me up. But the rest of his words were a blur. The blaring sirens right outside seemed like miles in the distance and the screaming voices of the paramedics swarming into the room seemed like mere whispers among the daze that the room was now becoming.

Everything began to blur together as the men began taking me to an ambulance. It was the best I could do to keep breathing and not let my eyes close. I had to stay awake! I just had to! The pain in my shoulder grew and spread so that my entire left arm was throbbing. Then it spread so that my entire body began aching.

I felt the blood spilling out and the men trying to press a towel or something to it as the ambulance lurched forward. The pain had just become too much and I gave up. I shut my eyes and let the blackness take over…maybe forever.

A/N: Omg! Is she alive? Is she dead! Review and find out! I know that was the worst chapter ending in the history of chapter endings, but I had to end it there! I just couldn't stand to go any further with this one chapter. But since it's so terrible of an ending, I'm going to start the next chapter the MINUTE I post this one, so if I have at least 5 reviews by the time I finish typing chapter 26, than I'll go ahead and post it! So review!

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