I stood in front of my mom's office, Bex at my shoulder. She played with her thumbs nervously, and I planned a whole escape route in my mind. My mother, , and even a couple pro spies. They wanted to know exactly what happened, every second. But if I told them the truth, they would kill Bex, literally.
Nobody knew what happened except for us and…Zach. But he wasn't a witness anymore. His name was just on the death list. "Come in" I heard the sharp order from . Hmm…Just like him. She hugged Macey and Liz silently saying goodbye. They didn't know why but hugged back anyway. We opened the door and I entered first, practically dragging Bex to her death.
"Sit." The pro stared at us, observing every inch. glared at us. And my mom actually looked…nervous. "Tell us what happened the first night this all happened." I sighed, "the Blacthorne boys came back and we had a fun reunion hanging out for a while. Zach and me went to a movie then came back when it was time for him to leave." I paused, I didn't want to tell them every detail. Especially that I was about to ask Zach to kiss me before the black car came. "Um…we went down an alley as a shortcut just a few yards away from where everyone was meeting. Then the black car came." I told my point-of-view, Bex told hers, and the story went on.
"And then the smoke filled the room and we fell unconscious." It was humiliating talking about how hopeless we were at the time. My mom seemed to be holding back tears and seemed relieved at the same time. Bex seemed oddly quiet at this time. I didn't know if she started rebelling against me then, or whenever it started. She still hadn't told me. But I knew our options were: 1) let Bex tell the truth and get killed. 2) Lie with the pros finding out later, then both of us dying. 3) Escape and the pros find us later, then admit and get killed. So basically it all ended up to death. But I liked the third option best.
So I looked at Bex, my special 'follow along with me look.' And she opened her eyes wide saying either, 'no! Don't do it! You'll get killed to' or 'Thankyou! But how?' so I turned to look out the window for moment, then pretended to see something. Fear jiggled inside me, what if they caught us? Well there wasn't an option then, so I screamed. My best blood-curtling scream I could do. And I felt stupid. I also felt a burning throat. When everyone looked that way, fast as lightning I pulled the lever to the secret passageway and we crawled inside. As I closed it, I heard angry yells, "what?!" "Get them!" And I smiled when I saw my mom was trying to hold back a grin. She was proud of me, and angry with me.
The secret passageway led outside, and we didn't even have time to close it before we heard guards scream, "Stop!" Wow word got out fast. I slammed it shut and we ran into the forest, not stopping. Nothing would stop us. We were about three miles away when we started to lose our breath. We slowed down a moment, knowing they must be right behind us. We heard faint voices behind us and knew they were only a mile away.
Bex and me searched frantically for a hiding place, then started running again. "Why did you do this? You wouldn't have gotten killed!" she panted. "For a friend." I didn't look at her, I was to focused on where we were going. And that's when I fell.
I had pushed against a tree for a second pushing myself forward. But the tree ended up being hollow. I fell in the trunk, letting out a little screech of surprise. Bex slowed down and helped me up. "Can we both fit in here?" the patting of feet got louder. "No time! Just get in!" we both squished our bodies in and pulled the bark in front of our bodies. We waited silently as people searched everywhere. Once they got close to where we were hiding, but then moved away. A few minutes later they started running to find us again. Bex and me stood squished in an awkward silence.
"So, why did you do that?" I asked. "Do what?" she acted so innocent it almost made me laugh, "why did you and Zach attack me?" she sighed. "We were blackmailed."
Wow. Kind of expected that.
"They said if…"she paused, "then they would kill everyone that was coming to save us. I was kind of startled at first, not knowing what to do, but Zach agreed for Me." she rubbed her arm. "What were you supposed to do?" we waited in another awkward silence. "Do you really want to know?" I nodded, even though half of me already knew what she was going to say. "They asked us to kill you." Then the tears came. I was too shocked to help, even though I knew it was coming. We stayed there for the rest of the night until we knew it was clear. We had a lot of time to talk in that time.
"What do you think is going to happen to Liz and Macey?" Bex asked. "I don't know, they'll probably be questioned, accused of helping us, jailed until they catch us." We shook with fear. "Anything really." "And what are we going to do?" she asked. We sat and thought. And only one thing came to mind. But it was stupid, pointless. But we could always try.
"We need to find Zach."