Chapter Ten

Can I Have Your Gun?

It has been nine long months. Only three more until Jenna can finally go home! It was about noon and I was out reading a book that Jenna had brought with her. "Will! Peter! Lana! Somebody! Help!" I heard Jenna cry as she ran passed me with Jack following with his gun.

"What did you do this time, Jenna?" I asked as she passed me again.

"She stole my rum!" Jack yelled firing his gun but missing. I could tell he was just trying to scare her, not kill her. But I wish he would.

"Why?"

"I don't know! Ask her!" He shouted.

"I was, but you answered instead," I said and looked at Jenna.

"I got bored, and I wanted to know what it tasted like!" she said as they circled me.

"Oh, you needed six bottles to have one taste?!?" Jack said shooting again.

"Ok, Jack. Carry on," I said giving him permission to kill her.

"Lana!" I heard Jenna shout as I left.

"Not my problem!" I replied back.

"What's wrong, love?" Jack asked coming into the rum seller.

I had been in here crying for a while now. "Peter is wrong! Jenna is wrong! I am wrong! Everybody and everything is wrong!" I screamed backing into the little dark corner.

"Would you like to talk about it?" he asked sitting on the floor next to me with his new bottle of rum. "I've got time."

"Can I borrow your gun, Jack?"

"Whoa now! Killing yourself is NOT the answer!"

Ok, then. Can I kill Jenna?" I asked hopefully.

"No! Now, tell me what happened," he said putting his arm on my shoulder.

"Fine. Ok, so when I woke up, I was going to watch the sunrise as usual. Well, when I got to there I saw Peter and Jenna kissing. How can he do this to me? He promised!!! Then I ran in here hoping no one would find me and I would die in a little corner like this one here. But, no, you had to ruin that! Now, if you could just leave, so I can go on dying, I would appreciate it very much. Good-bye." I said squishing farther into the corner.

"Ok, good-bye." Then he left, thankfully.

"Hey, have you seen Lana?" Peter asked seeing Jack come out of the rum seller.

"Why should I tell you, you cheater? You know, I am all for the cheating, but not when the girl chose to stay in the past with you, instead of going home to her family and friends!" Jack replied.

"What are you talking about?"

"Lana is in there crying her guts out because she saw you kissing her little sister!" Wow! Jack is standing up for me!

"That is what I needed to talk to her about! Jenna kissed me! She saw Lana coming and wanted to make her mad because she didn't help when you were trying to shoot her." Peter said defending himself.

"Uh…oh," Jack said looking for something.

"What?"

"I left my gun in there."

"So?"

"She was talking about killing people! Who knows what she might do!" He said running back with Peter close behind.