Okay, again most of you guessed who it was and others... were wrong. cx but after you find out who this person is (even though it's obvious) there's only two, maybe one, more people/person to come into it and then I can start actually putting more of the plot involvement in the story. Because I have a lot of ideas for different chapters. I have this one chapter with Rocky & Ratliff that is going to be HILARIOUS I can promise you that now! I already told my friend Livvy about it cx and also, I have sad chapters planned too but I won't spoil sad chapters

Anyway, enjoy!

Chapter 4

Ross, Rocky and Rydel were no longer screaming out of fright at the brown haired mystery boy anymore. They were screaming at the fright they were getting at Ross being unable to get the car back into his own control.

Rocky did his best to reach over from where he sat on the passenger side to see if he could grab hold of the steering wheel but he couldn't. He kept flying backwards as the car continued to do an endless 360 turn down the road, probably knocking a few things out of the way that didn't need to be. Rydel held onto the back of both Ross and Rocky's chair screaming for her life, thinking that the car was eventually going to give out and explode or tip over.

Her heart was literally in her chest.

"ROSS JUST SLAM THE FUCKING BREAKS DOWN!" Rocky shouted from the top of his lungs.

"WHAT BREAKS?!" Ross asked, trying to get control of the steering wheel.

"ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!"

"Okay, probably not the best time to joke about that..." Ross said, voice raised but casually. Immediately Ross slammed his foot down on the break where the truck skidded on it's wheels for a couple metres, coming dangerously close to another car on the road that was broken down and abandoned.

Luckily the car stopped inches away from the side of the broken down battered car.

Everyone who was in the car, including the mysterious stranger, all breathed heavily and began to calm down from that fright. Ross rested his elbows on the steering wheel and put his head into his hands to try calm himself, where as Rocky sat where he was staring straight ahead from the near-death experience. Rydel on the other hand...

Once she calmed down, she turned around and slapped the brown haired boy senseless in the head as well as torso "What the hell were you thinking scaring us like that?!" Rydel shouted at him.

The boy lifted his hands to defend himself from Rydel's slaps as she screamed at him like a mad woman before managing to catch her wrists in both his hands "Alright! Calm down!"

Rydel struggled in his grip, trying to get out of it but she couldn't. Rocky turned around, facing the boy. Though, he says boy... he looks older than him. Possibly the same age. "What the hell were you even doing in the back of there anyway?!" Rocky asked, still recovering from the fright.

"Well, I've been hid in the back of here for about... two weeks now," The boy said, looking like he had to think in his head for a moment for just how long he had actually been in the back of here. "There was a gigantic hole in the back of the garage door, but once I was in I blocked it so only I could get in and out and nobody and nothing could find me. I mean, I was peacefully asleep until I heard the garage door open so I hid in the blanket and once I heard you guys were going to Utah for something... I panicked and well... blondie here," he pointed to Ross "almost killed us."

Ross lifted his head from his hands "That was your fault! I was doing fine until you made an appearance!" Ross protested "NOW GET OUT!" Ross shouted, returning to putting his head into his hands.

As the boy went to obey what Ross said to him, Rydel leant over into the front of the car and pressed the button which locked all the doors to the car so nobody could get in or out. She then sat back down where she was, picking up the gun next to her and aiming it at the boy's head. "W-what are you doing?" The boy asked nervously.

"You know what we're up too..." Rydel said, causing her to get funny looks from Ross and Rocky "well... them..." she corrected herself "do you honestly think we're going to let you go?"

He shook his head, confused slightly "All I know is that you're going to Utah... I don't know what you're going to do there..." he said, suddenly becoming thoughtful "but now that I think about it... You guys are up to something aren't you? Am I right?" He asked.

Ross sighed "Good one Rydel."

"Hey!" Rydel shrieked, beginning to wave the gun around which made all three guys become nervous as she done so, each time it aimed towards them "it's not my fault he found a way into the garage! If I'd of known he was there, he'd have been gone a very long time ago! But now that he has his suspicions that you're both up to something," Rydel said, aiming the gun back at the boy "now we can't let him go."

Rocky sighed, reaching over and snatching the gun off Rydel "Okay, give me that before you take someone's eye out.." he put the gun into his backpack that was on the floor in front of him.

Rydel glared at Rocky "It's okay," she said, cracking her knuckles "I can just use my hands." She grinned, looking at the boy again.

"Okay! She scares me! Can someone let me out?" The boy asked, trying the door again.

Ross scoffed "Hell no. She's right, you know we're up to something," he said, sticking up for Rydel's side for this. "But... even if you did know it wouldn't make a difference anyway. You wouldn't know what happened because you wouldn't remember... that... and it would have happened way too fast for you to comprehend."

Rydel furrowed her brow "What do you mean?" She asked "You never told me this."

"You didn't ask."

Rydel glared at Ross, even though he couldn't see. "Look... whatever it is," the boy said, trying to ease his way into the conversation without making anybody burst in anger or snap as he saw that whatever the two at the front were doing seemed pretty tense for them to do "I'm sure it's... bad... but... does it give you hope?"

Ross turned his head slightly, giving him a weird look "What do you mean?"

"Like, hope that this will all stop happening... the apocalypse. That maybe it'd disappear for good and we can all return back to being normal?"

Ross froze for a moment, thinking before nodding "Yeah... a lot. And, it's going to work. No matter what option we have to pick."

"Options?" Rydel questioned "what options? This is all new, news to me." she wasn't scared that she was only just finding out new things about the two strangers she had ran off with, now obviously becoming a third, were revealing more things that she didn't know about. Things that she was going to find out one way or another.

The boy smiled with relief "Finally, I've been waiting for this for about half a year now," he said, causing the three to look at him funny "yes, I know this all started a year and a half ago. But, in the first year I actually found this fun for a while... but then I started to lose my friends and family... that wasn't fun. Now I'm on my own with nowhere to go or with no one to have so... here I am now. In a car full of strangers who seem to be giving me some kind of hope."

Rydel smiled "Then that settles it, you're staying with us," she leaned over in between Ross and Rocky's car seat and grabbed a gun that was resting on the dashboard and aimed it back at the boy "but not of your own free will. Your our hostage."

"He's not our hostage, Rydel." Rocky said, as if she was a kid and he was the father.

Rydel shrugged "Fine then," she said, pulling back the hammer "my hostage," she smiled, making him feel uncomfortable "Rydel. And you?" she asked.

"R-Ratliff..."

"Nice to meet you Ratliff," she turned her head and looked at Ross through the mirror "get the engine started again before Ratliff here finds himself with a bullet through his skull."

Ross shook his head in total disbelief at Rydel, starting the engine and mumbling something about her under his breath that she luckily didn't hear.

Okay, quick question... I wanna know what YOU ship in this story so far. Cause I'm trying to make you all ship something in this story and want them to be together even though the chances are slim of them getting together and I just wanna know if I'm succeeding on doing that or not. I won't say what two pairings, but just tell me and see if I'm correct and can continue on doing it. Even though I'll continue doing it anyway *inserts smirk emoji*

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