Thanks for the reviews means a lot. I'm really enjoying writing this. Longer chapter today. It goes back in time so you're going to have to wait to see what happens with Sam and Astrid and Caine. Hope you all enjoy! Review as usual.
Chapter 4:
ONE MONTH AND A WEEK EARLIER
Sam walked out the door of the houseboat. He had just waken up and was still groggy from waking up. His hair was messy and he had rings around his eyes showing that he hadn't gotten a good night' sleep since, well, since this whole the had begun.
"We could jump in.' Astrid said coming up behind him.
"Yeah we could. But I have to go. Edililo is waiting for me." Sam said, turning around and giving her a hug.
"Fine, I'll be here when you decide to come back" Astrid said, going back into the houseboat.
Sam smiled and walked off. The boat was docked so he basically just jumped off the side onto the marina. He was supposed to meet Edililo a little bit away from the lake. He walked for around two minutes on a dirt path before two boys both armed with a gun, jumped out of the bushes. Sam instinctively held up his hands and got ready to shoot his lasers at them.
"Put the guns down." Sam said not wanting to get shot.
The boy with black hair and a serious looking face shook his head. He aimed at Sam's chest and shot. The explosion was in slow motion for Sam. The trigger being pulled, the bullet whizzing towards its target. The explosion of pain as the bullet tore through his shirt and into his chest. He just had time to shoot one beam at the boy but it missed by a couple of inches. Sam fell to the floor, blood pouring out of his shirt. Too much blood pouring out of the hole in his chest.
The two boys then proceeded to each grab one of Sam's hands and pull him into a bush, they then ran off. Faces white as ghost immediately regretting what they had just done.
Astrid had just off the houseboat when she heard the gunshot. It came from the direction Sam has been heading only minutes earlier.
"Surly it couldn't be him. He can't have been shot.' Astrid said to herself, running in the direction of the shot, worried for her boyfriend.
She ran as fast as she could not stopping to breath until she saw the trail of blood and stopped. She was panting. The blood on the ground was still wet and warm meaning that it had only been there less then an hour or two. She followed the trail to a bush where it ended. She had look inside the bush and her worst nightmare had just become real. Her boyfriend was dead. Blood was pooling out around him. His chest wasn't rising and falling. His face was white and his shirt which had been white earlier was now a blood red colour. His eyes were closed.
Stumbling backwards Astrid began to panic. She had no idea what to do. Astrid the genius had no ideas. Her boyfriend was murdered. She was still walking backwards away from the bush when she heard a voice.
Then she did the first thing that popped into her head. Run. Get away from it all. Sam used be the only thing keeping her there. But he was dead now. She had killed her brother and this was her punishment. Her boyfriend was killed. So that was it. Astrid's turned and ran. Away from the lake. Away from safety. Away from everything. She was going to find out who did this. But first she had to clear her head.