"Okay, where are you now?" Mr Spencer asked. I could hear the sound of keys rattling and a door slamming.
"We're kind of hiding in a log right now," I said.
Mr Spencer was silent for a moment.
"A log?" He said finally.
Shawn sighed. "Hastings has been chasing us all day. We got away from him in the warehouse but he shot me in the knee and we managed to make it into the woods again."
"He ran farther into the woods after we hid in the log," I said.
Mr Spencer took a breath. "Okay, don't panic. Stay put if you can. I'm going to drive to the station and have Lassiter or Juliet track your phone. Don't leave your hiding place. Gwen Hastings is a dangerous man and he will stop at nothing to kill you."
"Thanks Dad," Shawn whispered, then hung up.
Laying there in that log was one of the worst things I'd done in a long time. I tried not to think of the bugs that were crawling beneath us and all around us.
"We should wrap something around your knee to keep pressure on it," I said, turning back to Shawn.
Shawn began wiggling around until he managed to take his windbreaker off. "Use my coat, I'm too hot anyway."
My eyebrows went up. "Hot?" I said, reaching for his forhead. It wasn't too warm, but I suspected it might get there if Shawn didn't get that knee checked out soon.
Taking the coat, I reached across the tight space and began wrapping it around Shawn's knee, holding my breath so I wouldn't smell the blood. But the sight of the bullet hole with blood coming out made me feel a little queazy. I tied it as tightly and quickly as possible and turned my head away, gulping in air and trying to calm down.
"You okay, Buddy?" Shawn asked, patting my arm.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine."
Shawn's phone vibrated suddenly, and he hit the talk button. "Hello?"
"Shawn, it's dad. Listen, Lassiter got someone to track your phone and We 're gonna be on our way. I need you two to just hang in there and don't go anywhere."
"Okay," Shawn said. "Hurry."
"We're trying. How's your knee?"
I spoke up. "It looks kind of awful and the bullet's still in there. Shawn said he was hot, and that can't be a good sign."
"We're on our way, don't worry." Mr Spencer said, ending the call.
Now all we had to do was wait - and hope Hastings didn't come back looking for us.
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another cliff hanger! sorry about that lol I just wanted to put a little more of the story out :) more coming soon! :)