Chapter 11: Gasp
We ran into the woods. Ashley was so silent. We could barley hear her breath.
We
got to the other side of the island, which was just a rocky shore.
"Where do we go?" I asked.
"We should go back to the a HHamilton," Ashley suddenly said.
"Why? That'd be the first place he'd look," Derek replied.
"We need weapons. Kross threw away the gun, and a knife wouldn't really help, if only 1 of us has one," Ashley turned to me.
I nodded. "You're right. Let's go."
We got to the
Hamilton, and grabbed some weapons. "We should go wait at the
beach," Derek said. "So they can see us."
"What if Kross
is there, waiting for us?" I asked.
"He's outnumbered," Derek reminded me.
We ran outside, and looked around, to see if he was out there. It was just us.
We ran our way to the beach, and I was so happy.
"We
can make it!" I cried in joy. "We can live!"
Ashley
sighed. "I know. It's almost over."
When we got to the
beach, the first thing we noticed was blood…
"Who do you think it is?" Ashley breathed.
"Derek?" I turned, and gasped in surprise.
"Where is he?" Ashley asked, looking around.
Derek was nowhere in sight.
"DEREK?!" I screamed.
Nothing.
"Who's blood is that?" Ashley asked.
We took a couple closer steps…
…"Kikko!" we gasped.
There in the sand, Kikko's body lay. She had a bullet hole in her forehead.
"Oh,
my God!" Ashley screamed.
"We…we should keep looking for
Derek…." I trailed off. "He might be alive."
Ashley
started to cry. "I can't do this, Nicole. I just can't!"
"I know," I sighed. "I'm sorry…"
She shook her head.
"Let's go."
We went back up to the Hamilton. We figured
it'd be the first place to go.
"Ok,"
I nodded. "Let's start looking."
"How about we try the
basement first," Ashley said. "And work our way up."
Sure
enough, we went down the creaky steps, and with our flashlights,
looked around.
"There's a body!" Ashley gasped. We ran
toward it.
"Oh my GOD!" Ashley screamed, and turned away, walking to the stairs.
Kyle was shirtless, and besides hair, his body was covered with blood and water.
"Ashley,
Ashley," I repeated. "Let's go. Come on…"
"Kyle…"
she trailed off.
"I
know," I said. "I know."
We slowly walked back up the
stairs.
"Why would Kross do that to Kyle?" she asked, her
voice uneven.
"I
don't know," I sighed. "I honestly don't know…"
"What does Kyle's shirt have to do with anything?" she asked.
"Unless…"
"Unless what?"
I had it. "Come on. I know where Derek
is."
We ran out of the hotel, Ashley continuously asking
questions.
We ran back up to the bridge, and sure enough, a body was in the water. Just not Kyle's.
"Derek!" she gasped.
I nodded. "Kross switched them, maybe so we'd be looking, and miss the boat. But we have about 2 hours," I nodded.
We ran down to the water, and I ripped the tape off of Derek's mouth. "OW!" he laughed.
"Sorry,"
I sighed. "You ok?"
"Yeah, floating in the water is fun,"
he rolled his eyes, chuckling.
"What happened?" Ashley
asked.
"I
don't remember…I saw Kross, and then I was about to scream,
but…"
"Oh," I said.
A shot was fired at us, inches away from Ashley.
We all screamed and looked up, and sure enough, Kross was at the top of the hill.
"Come
on!" Derek yelled. "We need to get out of here!"
We
started running, through the water, and after about 10 minutes, we
found a little piece of land that was hidden under a small hill.
"We should be safe," Derek nodded.
"Ok,
good," I sighed in relief.
"We should wait here, and then
when there's like 20 more minutes, we can go to the beach and
wait," Ashley said.
"Ok,"
I said again. "Good idea."
"Kikko's dead," I told
Derek.
He
nodded. "I know it was pretty bad."
I agreed. "Yeah…but
wait…"
"Am I sitting on something?" Ashley wondered.
"It's so odd shaped…"
We moved around some loose grass,
and found Daisy's body.
"Oh no," I gasped.
"Ew!"
Ashley screamed. "We have to get out of here!"
"Why would
Kross hide the bodies?" I wondered.
"To make it harder to find, I guess," Derek shrugged.
"Let's go!" Ashley said.
"We have about an hour…" Derek said.
"The island's too dangerous, wherever we go," Ashley sighed.
"Unless…"
"Unless?" Derek and Ashley asked me.
I
was serious. "Unless we kill Kross."
"We don't have a
plan!" Ashley gasped.
Derek nodded. "Actually…yes we do."
