***CHapter Twenty-Three***

Steven brought down the knife onto her shoulder and stopping the cut just before her neck. She started screaming and as she dropped to the ground Steven started to run.

Daisy knocked on the door to the boys door. "What?" Auggie yelled and Daisy rolled her eyes as Auggie's wonderful greeting. "I'm comin' in so zip up, boys!" She called and walked in. "Whatcha want?" Scott asked. "Um, has any of you'll seen Steven or Kristin?" She asked nervously. "No. Why?" Auggie asked. "Peter and Sophie can't find them and they've been gone for awhile." She told them. Daisy didn't know to many of the problems between them, but when she saw Auggie and Scott jump up and mumbling under their breath she knew something was up. "What's wrong?" She asked. Ezra walked out of the bathroom. "Hey waz-what happened?" He asked when he saw the look on Scott and Auggie's faces. "Steven and Kristin are missing," They grumbled. "What?" Ezra cried. "Okay, can some one PLEASE tell me what's wrong?" Daisy demanded. "Steven doesn't exactly treat his sister nicely, to put it simply," Auggie told her.

Auggie, Ezra, and Scott all ran to Peter, who was about to go into the woods. "What happened?" Auggie demanded. Peter looked distraught and scared. "I don't know, Steven broke down, told me everything, told me he wanted to get back together with his sister, she was terrified and I calmed her down but went back to my office. I came back and we've looked all over the campus except the woods and either of them are here." He said, running his hand through his hair. "We'll split up and look in the woods," Auggie said. "Okay, if you find one of them, yell or come get me," Peter told them and they split up.

Auggie had been walking for 10 minutes and almost given up hope when he saw a small body by a log shaking and crying and bloody. His breath caught in his throat and he ran to it, hoping to God it wasn't Kristin. Of course, it was.

"PETER! PETER!" Auggie screamed. He was trembling as he made his way to the body. It was so cold that she was shaking uncontrollably since she didn't have a jacket. Auggie took off his jacket and ran over to her and picked up a little. There was a deep gash from her shoulder to her neck, although it wasn't as deep as some he had seen in the gang life. He picked her up, not caring whether or not he got blood on his clothes, and wrapped her in his jacket. Peter didn't hear him so Auggie continued to scream his name, afraid to leave Kristin, but he knew that he couldn't carry her threw the woods obstacle course. Her wound was still bleeding so he put her down gingerly and pulled off his shirt (Isn't that a sight we'd like to see???) and wrapped it around her wound and picked her back up so she wouldn't have to lay in the snow.

***Where Peter was***

Peter heard a faint yelling of his name and ran the direction where it was, not sure if it was Steven, Kristin, Ezra, Scott or Auggie. He reached the voice and saw Auggie holding a small body. "Oh God, no!" He muttered to himself and ran to Auggie, who had small tears forming in his eyes. "She's been stabbed, Peter-I-I- don't know if she's still breathing-she's lost a lot of blood." Auggie informed, struggling not to break down sobbing.