Here's part 2! It's getting intense :)

Chapter 27.2: On the Side of a Mountain

Spencer's POV

Have you ever noticed how slow time goes when you're literally counting the seconds? It's excruciatingly painful. As if with each passing second another opportunity is missed. In my case it's an opportunity to help the only person who has ever really given a damn about me. Well, besides Taylor and Joe, that is.

We have been driving for a good ten minutes. Aiden got a head start on all of us. I think that's what Glen was trying to tell me. I mean it has to be considering that he's about fifteen feet behind us with everyone except for Kyla and Aiden in his car. I wonder how they all fit? Does it really matter right now! Jesus Spencer, get with it!

I know…I know. Stupid thoughts should have no place at a time like this. Taylor said that her and Joe saw Aiden and Kyla knock Ashley out and throw her in the back seat of the car. They tried to stop them but they drove off too fast. That's when they came back to get me and the car. Now it's a high speed chase with us in one car and Glen and everyone else in the other, trying to catch up to Aiden and Kyla who have a ten minute head start on all of us. I swear to god I'll fucking kill him if he hurts her.

Ever since we got in the car, Joe has been saying 'When I get my hands on that rat bastard, I'm gonna fucking strangle him!" over and over again. And he keeps looking back at me through the rearview mirror. I'm pretty sure that the blood has drained from my face so I think he's just making sure that I'm still alive or something. I should have known that something was going to happen.

Glen called me again when he realized that we were in front of him. He told us where they were headed and he said that Aiden had called him and said that he was taking care of one of the problems. I guess he just knew and his first thought was to tell me. How fucking nice of him! The only problem is that none of us knows what the hell Aiden and Kyla are doing this for. I mean everyone knows about the different plans, but you would think that they'd want to keep her around. Unless Ashley got so angry when they came up to her that she slipped and told them about our conversation. But then she would have seen them coming. So that doesn't make any sense. And now I'm headed to the one place that I hate more than anything. And I don't mean the cabin.

And where the fuck is Collin! I mean no one has seen or heard from him since Joe and Taylor took him out for a 'walk'. I know they didn't kill him, so where the fuck is he? I swear to God if he crosses me again I will hurt him.

"Spencer." Taylor says turning around. "You ok?"

I look at her with a raised eyebrow as Joe lightly smacks her arm. Is she serious? Of course I'm not ok!

"Sorry stupid question. It's just that…well you know we'll get there in time. Right?"

"Maybe." I say quietly.

"No Spencer!" Joe says firmly and I meet his eyes in the rearview. "There is no maybe. We will get there before that fucking dick does any more fucking damage." He says and I believe him.

I believe him because Joe is always true to his word and because he's currently going like 100 miles per hour up a winding road. I figure that at this speed we're either going to crash and die, or get there before they get a chance to really cause some damage.

I move my gaze back out the window and watch the world fly by us with each passing second. It's been 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 53 seconds since I last saw Ashley and it's killing me to think that I'm the reason she's in this whole mess. If I hadn't said anything to begin with then none of this would be happening. She wouldn't have run out and we would be back at my apartment, cuddled up on the couch watching a movie safe from the outside world for another night.

We turn onto a dirt road and about 100 yards down, the car skids as Joe fiercely presses the brake and the back fishtails out as Joe maintains control of the car and brings it to a stop. Glen skids to a stop about two feet away from the back end of Joe's car. We all jump out and Glen points to Aiden's car which is parked about fifty feet away. We take off running in the direction that Kyla and Aiden would have taken Ashley, and Joe and Taylor follow us. They've never been here before so they wouldn't really know where to go.

Me and Glen are leading the pack up the hill, through the wooded area on the side of the road. I'm running as fast as I can because I know that if we don't hurry, it's going to be too late. And I can't let that happen. I reach the top with Glen beside me and we both look around for any sign of Kyla, Aiden, or Ashley. After about thirty seconds Glen grabs my arm.

"Over there." He says.

"Let's go."

We take off running with everyone still behind us. Well everyone except Joe and Taylor. Now where the hell are they? I swear people need to stop fucking disappearing on me. It's really getting old.

We come to the clearing and Glen rushes over to Aiden and jumps on him to get him away from Ashley. I stop dead in my tracks as I look over at her lying on the ground. Chelsea and Madison run into me because I'm standing in the way. Aiden pushed Glen off of him and now they are in an all out brawl. It kind looks like one of those Ultimate Fighting Championship matches, where anything goes.

I run over to Ashley and immediately check for a pulse. She's still breathing so that's good. I start lightly tapping her face and calling out her name.

"Ashley?" I try softly. "Ashley please wake up, baby." I try again. Tears are beginning to form at the rims of my eyes, threatening to pour over.

"Ashley please wake up." I say as I lean down and give her a soft kiss on the lips, hoping that maybe this time it can be like it is in fairytales. But I have no such luck.

Clay comes over to me and Ashley and bends down.

"Come on, Spence. We gotta move her."

I nod my head and Clay helps me prop her up against a tree before he runs over to help Glen with Aiden.

"FUCK YOU, GLEN!" Aiden screams.

"I'M NOT GONNA LET YOU DO THIS AGAIN!" Glen yells back before he throws another punch to Aiden's jaw.

"YOU ARE JUST AS GUILTY AS I AM AND NOW YOU WANNA BE ALL HIGH AND MIGHTY! WELL FUCK YOU!" Aiden says, throwing a punch to Glen's abdomen that knocks the wind out of him momentarily.

"FUCK YOU!" Glen yells charging at him with full force knocking him down.

Out of nowhere Kyla comes out of hiding and hits Clay in the back of the head with a big fucking rock, knocking him to the ground. I can see the blood coming from where the rock hit. No…this can't happen again. I tell Chelsea and Madison to stay with Ashley and I make a bee line for Kyla. I jump her and the rock tumbles from her hand.

Now Glens fighting Aiden and I'm fighting Kyla. On what is basically the side of a fucking hill. How brilliant are we? Yeah…that's what I thought. Anyway, if a little bruising means saving Ashley's life then so be it.

"That little bitch needs to be eliminated, Glen! Don't you see! Everything is going to backfire if she is allowed to stay with Spencer!"

"You're fucking crazy Aiden! You know that! You sick fuck!" Glen says getting in another punch.

"Spencer give it up! You'll never get her back to the city in time!" Kyla says throwing a punch and hitting me in the eye.

"Fuck you Kyla! Don't you know that it takes more than knocking someone out with chemicals to kill them! You stupid fuck!" I say punching her again.

She charges at me and I hit my head off a rock on the ground. God that fucking hurt. I can't get up. My head is too heavy and I'm pretty sure that the ground just made a cracking noise. See brilliant idea to fight on the side of a mountain don't ya think? Oh shut up! Kyla comes over to me and stands over me with even a larger rock in her hands above her head. I can still hear Glen and Aiden fighting, but all I see right now is my sister with her way out. If she kills me all of this goes away. If she kills me, she doesn't have to face me. But is she capable of doing it?

And what about Ashley. I can't leave her. She needs me. I know she does. And she can't be here alone to face the truth of what happened to her best friend. I haven't even really showed her just how much I love her and want to be with her. I haven't been anything but a nuisance in her life and I want the chance to make it up to her. All of it.

I look up to Kyla and stare into her blackened eyes.

"Say you're prayers Spencer." She says through gritted teeth.

"So that's it. You're just going to kill me. Your own flesh and blood. And for that asshole!"

"Shut up, Spencer!"

"No. If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die saying what's on my fucking mind!"

"SHUT UP!" She yells.

"We're family Kyla. Above everything else, me and you are still family!"

And then I hear it. The gun shots echo through the mountain like a piercing scream that goes unheard. Kyla stumbles back and drops the rock. It takes a second for my eyes to adjust before I notice that Kyla's been shot. I'm able to slowly sit up and her eyes are wide eyed and staring straight at me. I look over to where Glen and Aiden were and I see Aiden lying on the ground as well, with blood pouring out of his shoulder. I look over to where Ashley, Madison, Chelsea and Clay are and I see Taylor and Joe standing in front of them with their 9 mm handguns still smoking at the barrel.

I notice that Ashley has woken up and she's groggy but she looks as scared as everyone else. Too bad Joe and Taylor don't like when people mess with them. I'm just glad that she's awake and alive though. I look at the scene in front of me and I can't believe it.

I try to stand up but fail miserably as I fall right back down to the ground.

"We need to get them to a hospital. Now!" Is the last thing I hear before my eyes close.

6 hours, 2 minutes, and 54 seconds is how long it took for my world to go black.