Ch. 17
MAXON'S POV
as I'm walking out the door, despondent of the song America had just sung, I hear screams of horror.
I quickly spin around to see America fall unconsciously to the floor Of the stage.
"AMERICA!" I scream now worried as ever.
I quickly start running towards the stage trying to make my way through the tiny crowd of about 50, as all hell breaks lose.
When I take a quick glimpse around I see infact no one els is hurt, and now seems to be being targeted. I can't help but wonder if this attack was directed towards America.
"AMERICA!" I hear someone else scream, and I know it must be Josh.
"JOSH?" I scream into the tiny crowd trying to find the probably worried sick heir.
I see him as the crowd starts to clear out and people head for the stage.
"Maxon?" He asks confused as hell.
"Yes!" I say taking deep breaths not wanting to know what happened. "What happened?"
"I'm not sure" he answers as we quickly make our way across the room to the stage. "All I saw was her smile and some chick walk up behind her with a gun or something and knock her hard in the head"
"What?!' I scream!
"Yea, I know" he says sad also.
"D-did she shoot?" I ask scared to know the answer
"Did you hear a gun go off?" He asks getting a little annoyed by my dumb question, because no, I did not hear a gun go off.
"Well what did this chick look like?" I ask wondering why the room had to be so big?
"Well" he said as we make take the final steps toward the stage "she had brown hair, it was really pretty actually, and she was wearing a gown almost."
"Ok" I say encouraging him to go on. But he never does because we reach the stage and find America. She's in the same spot but on the ground and is in a position, where she's lying on her back with one arm laid down beside her, and the other draped over her torso.
"Oh my god" I say when I see her, and instantaneously jump up onto the stage.
When Im next to her I look at her beautiful face. Her face has a motionless expression, as where her lips are sealed tightly together, as if in pain. Her eyes are also closed tightly hiding away the blue diamond color they have.
I reach my hand down and touch her forehead. When my fingers meet it, I'm shocked to find her skin is ice cold.
"Is she going to be okay?' I ask the guy, I assume is a doctor next to me.
"From what I can see..." He says pausing for a long Time. "Yes. She'll just be unconscious for a few hours. But you never know. She did take a pretty hard blow to the head" he finishes.
I let out a sigh of relief, knowing she'll be ok, but instantly take it right back when he turns her head slightly, revealing a enormous bump.
"Holy shit" I hear Josh mumble.
"Princes aren't supposed to swear!" I hear Effie say from above us.
"Sorry" he mumbles back in reply. I chuckle to myself, there is a major tragedy (to me, of course) and all she says is something about his manners.
"Good Grief!" I hear her yell from behind us, " don't just leave her on the cold, hard ground! Get her up take her to the hospital!" She screams now concerned.
"Yes mam" someone I don't know says.
"And get some medicine in her! Make sure she's 100% ok! I wouldn't want to wake up with a headache she'll probably have!" She says ushering us to help get America to the hospital.
"Ok you get that arm!" And "you got her leg?" Is all I hear before the lights go out. Screams fill the room.
"What the?" I hear Josh yell "since when does the power go out?!"
"Since now" I hear a wicked laugh say.
"Oh no" I hear someone mumble. Suddenly I hear more screams and curses erupt the room as I hear loud bangs, thankfully not guns going off though.
I feel I cold hand touch my shoulder and the same voice whispers
"Such I shame' as I'm pushed from off the stage. I let out a stagger as I hit the ground and realize that's what happened to everyone else too.
"GOD DAMMIT!" I hear josh yell as he too hits the ground next to me.
"Josh?" I say looking around trying to see who the attacker was n the pitch black. "Did you see anything?" I ask l
"Nothing but a big shiny ring" he says.
A shiny ring? Brown hair? Ball gown? What kind of attacker was this?
Suddenly it hits me like a bullet. KRISS!
"Kriss!" I say looking around. "It's Kriss!" I say loud enough for josh to hear.
"Oh my god!" He says "we have to get her away from America!"
"Shit! Your right" I say attempting to stand up.
"Ahhhhhh" I hear a female voice scream.
I hear a loud 'thunk' and then hear
"OUCH YOU BITCH THIS IS MAHOGANY FLOORING"
Effie. She finally cracked. I chuckle knowing she'll be disappointed with her word choice later on.
That means America Is the only one left up there.
"No" I scream "leave her alone!" I stand up as doesJosh. We both run at the stage.
We stop cold when we hear a gun click.
"No! Don't!" Me and josh both say at the same time.
"Oh calm down!" She shouts. "I'm not shooting her-not yet that is" she finishes. Sending a shiver down my spine.
'But as for all of you I will, and don't think I won't" she hisses.
"Yea right" josh mutters and we slowly take steps closer as people try to find away to get the lights back on.
BANG!
"Ahhhh" I hear screams erupt the room.
"I told you I wasn't scared too" she growls. "Now get away before someone gets killed that you'll regret."
"Is anyone hurt?" I shout out to the room.
"I don't think so" a random voice says.
"Good, now if you don't mind I have places to be!" Kriss hisses one last time and then there's silence.
About a minute later I realize what is happening.
"NO CATCH HER!" I scream running towards the stage.
As soon as I reach the stage the lights flicker back on. I look to the one spit longing her unconscious body still lay there.
But when I look I see nothing but a white rose, with blood dripped into it.
"No" I whisper.
"NO" I scream now angry.
I then see there's also a note. I walk over cautiously and pick it up.
' Dear maxon
roses are white, well now red.
violets that were blue, now dead.
she's now Unconscious in our clutches.
well, Maxon now that she's gone...
i hope you know you were wrong all along.
we don't know what you saw in this Bitch.
she's nothing that illea needs.
now that she's ours you have no Choice.
you don't now were sHe is.
and you'll never find her from here
listen tO us, and maybe we'll see.
If we Can ever let her go free.
goodbye for now, prince of illea.
hopefully you learned,
not to mess with a rosE that still has thrones. '
What the hell does this mean? I wonder frantically.
I jump when I feel a touch on my shoulder.
"What's wrong?" I hear Josh ask.
"Here" I say and hand him the note.
He reads it quickly, before looking up at me.
"Why is the punctuation so weird?" He asks.
"What do you mean?" I ask back.
'Look" he says pointing to a word spelled 'rosE'
"Why is only the 'e' capitalized?" He asks
" I don't know" I say, surprised I didn't notice it "is it supposed to be some code?" I Ask.
"Oh! Maybe! Good idea." He says looking it over again "maybe all the capitalized letters?" He asks
"Yea try that.' I say
We sit down and he grabs a pen out of his coat pocket and starts writing on the back of it.
When he finishes he looks at me, sadness on his face.
"No?" I asks.
"No, ya it did revel a message" he says.
"Well what is it?" I ask curious and worried by his instant mood switch.
"It says" he pauses for a while before looking down at it once more, before looking to me and saying
"It says 'DUMB CHOICE' "
"What?!" I asks baffled.
I grab the note and look for myself, and sure enough it reads out 'dump choice'.
What dumb choice?
A/n
Sorry this chapter wasn't as long... But the next one is going to be super long. Like reallyyyyyyyyy long. Also pretty please no hate on this chapter or any! Thanks! *happy winky face* So ya! I hope you enjoyed. I don't know what else to say and I doubt any if you care cause you probably aren't reading this! Lol so ya
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DISCLAIMER:all rights go to Kiera Cass for writing and owning the selection trilogy and to Taylor Swift for the songs/quotes I use! Also to Veronica Roth I use a character of hers and some quotes. And also now to Suzanne Collins for some characters and quotes I use!