# CHAPTER 7

Emily don't know how to feel while looking at the Dracula who's skin was melting because of the sun light. She was sweating all over because of fear and when she glanced at Stacie, she has no describable face.

She looks-

How should we describe it?

Terrified?

But she's more like hurting as she looked at him.

"C-close the curtains!" Stacie shouted at last from being so terrified. Beca saw Jessica followed her instructions calmly and when she's done closing the window, she found a switch for the light and the room enlightened. Dracula was still on the floor and blisters started to appear on his skin. Both Stacie and Jessica squatted on the floor beside him and carefully help him to stand.

Wait.

Are they not afraid of him? He could possibly attacked them again and given that they are so close to him, he might harm them immediately.

"What the hell are you guys doing?" Emily asked skeptically. Her face still terrified from the previous attack of that man.

"He's suffering from a disorder called Porphyria." Stacie said. "It is because there's a problem in the production of heme in his blood. The blood on the stake was coming from his wound on his hand. All we can do now is help him."

They helped him to stand and get laid on his bed. The misunderstanding about him has been cleared.

He is just a man who got fangs and disorder.

As they went back to the campsite exactly the campers are fully awake while stretching their bodies. Tents were already gone on the field. They ran to their designated line.

Even the students slept on tents they still have designated bathrooms to bath with like Emily and Jessica did earlier.

Amy approached Emily. "Hey where did you go early in the morning?"

"I went with Beca and Jessica. We did some crazy stuffs to prove vampires aren't real." Emily said as she took off her jacket. Showing her black sleeveless croptop. She's wearing a grey sweatpants.

"Don't tell me you went to the Dracula's house?" Amy asked skeptically.

"I should tell you yes though." Emily said and started to jog in place. "Where are you last night?"

"Oh. Don't change the subject Em. What happened there?" Amy asked again as if avoiding Em's question.

"Well I've been attacked by the Dracula and-

"What?!" Amy shocked. "Did he bite you? Are you now a vampire?-

"No! I'm not."

"That's terrifying!"

"Yeah. It's just at first I was afraid-

"I was petrified! Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side!" Amy sang and hugged Emily who stopped from jogging.

"Amy. I swear I'm serious." Emily rolled her eyes. Amy pulled away awkwardly.

"I'm just kidding. I'm just really amaze that you step up from ghost into vampires-

"Vampires aren't real, okay? He's just having a skin disorder called Porphyria. We think, which Stacie said."

"That's very cool encounter! Anyway. You're with Stacie?" Amy whispered.

"And that's the most terrible thing happened this morning." Emily retorted and began to jog in place again. Amy did the same too.

"Oh. I see her often with Beca. Don't tell me she's also hooking up with her while Chloe's away?" Amy whispered again.

"What?" Emily looked at her in confusion. "What do you mean?"

"I constantly seeing Beca and Jean together though and every morning I saw Jean went outside from Beca's dorm. I think it's 4 am. And if Stacie's part of her option then Chloe's in trouble."

"What the fuck?"

"Yeah. What the fuck."

"Are you sure with that?"

"I'm pretty sure with that. I'm often looking at every Beca's movement. You know. Part of investigation coz I'm just suspecting her that she's really drugged."

"We need to clarify things before concluding theories."

"Her making decisions are far from previous Beca's actions.. She does want to be out of the red room but she still kept on doing the job which was odd."

"She's odd again." Emily looked at Beca's direction who's now talking to Jean and Stacie enthusiastically. Like Chloe's not staring at her.

Then suddenly the siren alarmed that still can hear all over the campsite. Telling them that everyone should be in the field now. After 2 minutes of alarming. The siren stopped. Exactly the others gathered into their lines.

Ashley was already on top of them again.

"Good morning Students. Our activity for today is per team again. Team A versus Team C and Team B versus Team D. The winner will receive a price but it will be announce inside your bus. The only rules of this game is.." Ashley paused. "You need to lose."

Everyone in the field starts to murmur.

"The game is called.. Triple P." She smirked and raised her hand. "Punch." Forming her hand into fist. "Palm." Opening her hand like a high five. "Peace." Then form her hand into v-sign. "21st century of Rock Paper Scissor. You need to have a straight line and right sequence. Each one of you will be given a stick. It's more like a small drum stick with color. Of course like your yesterday's color. You're team needs to lose and every time you lost, you will give the sticks you are holding to your opponents. So the winner needs to have no stick in hand and the team who holds everyone's stick will be the loser. And to confirm the winning Team. You need to hurry. You need to be as fast as you can when you play coz the first team who has no sticks in hand will be the winner. This game is just an energizer for the next game so let's do this!"

Some camouflage men gave everyone a colored sticks which indicates their team.

They formed a two lines with their opponents facing them.

TEAM A - C TEAM

TEAM B - D TEAM

"When the siren's alarm stopped, that's saying the game starts!" Ashley said before going down to the field.

Team A decided to move Chloe and Flo from the least because they think Chloe and Flo will win the game instead of losing it.

Team B did the same out of desperation to win when they heard the team A talking so they moved Beca and Stacie at the least.

Beca was constantly looking at Chloe but the redhead seems like she's not noticing her.

Few minutes later the siren alarmed. The moderator of the game was Ashley and 5 more marshals. 2 beside Ashley and 3 across them. The team's fiery look at each other screams seriousness and when the siren stopped, they immediately played.

It's just a matter of time when Team A almost win but when it's Chloe's turn, who's Team A's last player she won multiple times that made her Team whined at her.

"Seriously Chloe what are you doing?!" One of her team mates whined that made Ashley smirk.

"I don't know!" Chloe retorted as she played the game and she still won. "Shit. Wait." She stopped that made her opponents groaned. She's holding a lot of sticks right now.

"Hurry up redhead you're not the only player here!"

Chloe sighed before looking at her opponents. They are now only 5. "Fine."

"Go!"

She began to play and it's a tie and another tie.

"Hurry up!"

"I'M ON IT."

A tie.

"DUDE! STOP COPYING ME!"

Tie.

Another tie.

"WE LOST! WHOA!" Team B shouted and started to jump around.

Chloe glanced at Beca's spot and saw a blonde kissed Beca's lips. She looked at them for seconds. She felt her heart shattered into pieces. Hot liquid forming into her eyes as the two of them pulled away. Beca's face was surprised but Chloe just looked away when she heard her team mates grunts.

"What are you doing Chloe?!" One of her team mates yelled at her. Chloe just looked at her sternly that made them shivered.

"Could you shut up?" Flo infuriated as walk towards Chloe. "Chloe did her best to lose. Could you at least consider it?" She said and pulled Chloe beside her. "Don't mind them."

"We already have a winner and it's Team B. You'll receive your reward inside your bus later."

Their next activity is just Q&A so everyone was sitting on the ground per line and team.

—A—B—C—D—

They will going to play another activity but Chloe was zoning out. Flo noticed her behavior. Well, she also saw Beca and Jean did a while ago so she has an idea of what's happening to the redhead. She raised her hands while walking towards Ashley.

Ashley noticed Flo.

"What is it Flo?"

"Chloe needs some rest. Is there any medical team here?" Flo whispered as she put her both hands in her waist.

"Yes. Athena's Quarter. There's available medicines there. What happen?"

"Well, Beca is an asshole. What do you expect?"

Ashley hissed. "Then go. Take care of her for a while."

"Yeah. Thanks." Flo said and turned around to see the redhead sitting in the ground. She walked towards her and leaned to her so they are now same in height.

"Hey Chloe. Let's get outta here. You looked pale." Flo said calmly. Chloe looked up on her with her blank face. Flo offered her hand to her which Chloe accepted. Flo smiled on her and helped her to stand up.

They walked out of the field together. Eyes looking at them.

Beca looked at them worriedly and put her phone out of her jacket then texted Chloe.

Chloe: babe are you okay?

She was about to send it when someone spoke beside her.

"You're such an asshole." Emily said from meter away from her. She looked at her. She's not looking at Beca but it's now clear to her that she's cheating on Chloe.

Jean and Stacie wasn't on her side right now coz they're in front. And the both of them were in the least line.

"Did she.."

"I don't know. Just don't text her and never act too obvious. Flo's with her." Emily said and slowly glared at her. "You can push that blondie away if you really love the redhead. Stop acting like your mother."

"Don't you dare say that to my mom."

"Then stop the bullshit Beca." Emily said and raise her hand. "I need to pee!" Then she ran away. Leaving Beca dead-panned.

After an hours of playing they decided to have a lunch when it's past 1 but Beca still didn't see Chloe anywhere until the time of going home.

After they prepared their things was the exact time Ashley said was going back to Barden.

Even they won a game a while ago because of Stacie's brilliant mind but lost the second game when Team C picked up their pace with the help of Amy and Emily. Beca still decided to sneak out of their bus and went to Bus A where she saw Chloe sleeping beside Flo.

"What are you... fine." Flo sighed and stood up. Chloe was on the window side so Beca sat beside her. Flo went at the back seat and wore her earphones.

Chloe's sleeping while having an earphone. Beca decided to stare at her until the bus moved.

It was a long way travel when the bus suddenly stopped that made Chloe groaned. Beca widen her eyed as she saw Chloe's bright blue eyes. She's still mesmerizing Chloe's eyes even she's with her with so many months by now. Chloe looked outside the bus. There's a checkpoint and all the other buses have already passed the checkpoint and their bus was the only bus the left out.

"There's a checkpoint."

"I think so." Beca replied that made Chloe finally looked at her. The redhead thought she was Flo all this time. Beca smiled at her that she made her frown but she shrugged it off looked back, she didn't saw Flo at her seat. Beca was about to speak when the guys who blocked the road and talked to the drivers that they made stop in front of them and introduced themselves as a police.

"Sorry for the inconvenient but we need to check every vehicles that was passing this road. We caught hijackers and they were equipped with bombs. We caught them but they've got an accomplice that was holding a detonator of the bomb." The police said. The students of the bus panicked.

"Please be calm, we just need to check your phones." He said and began to collect their phones. Chloe stood up and went outside of the bus without even telling Beca.

She's wearing a grey tank top under her light red long cardigan, white shorts and chelsea boots. She stretched her arms wide as she yawned.

She saw the three hijackers were on the checkpoint and two cops were already there securing them. On the side was the bus who had been hijack by them. It's far from their bus. Chloe looked at them, they weren't handcuffs yet. They are also whispering to each other.

There's two van that also been stopped by the cops including their bus. There's also a guy who's wearing a black jacket riding his motorcycle.

"Do you think that motorcycle man is one of them?" Said by the woman behind her that made Chloe jumped off in surprise. "Sorry."

"What are you doing here? You must be on your bus right now." Chloe mumbled without looking at her.

"You don't want me here?" Beca made her look up on her but Chloe swat her hand.

"Don't use that tone on me Beca. You know what you did during the camp."

"What?" Beca asked innocently and startled as she remembered what happened. "I mean.. yeah. But I didn't kiss her back."

"We're not going anywhere and stop making me feel bad about kissing Peter back coz we both know that I'm drunk. AND YOU'RE NOT."

"But I'm telling the truth. I didn't kiss her back."

"You promised me to push her back if she did that again." Chloe hissed. Beca just looked down.

"I'm sorry."

"I need to get use of your sorries for now on." Chloe said and turned around as the cops went out of their bus and gave their phones back.

"It's confusing, they said that the accomplice was in the next three vehicles but it seems like there wasn't any accomplice here that was holding a detonator." The police said that made Beca looked at them for a while that made her frowned..

She looked around and began to observe. There's something odd.

One of the van has three passenger and they were from a vacation and base on the police report they were going home.

The other van contains a couple that was also going home too. The bus passengers where there's a bomb was already outside the bus and they were in the near waiting shed. They were really scared because of what's happening. It's good that they've been blocked by the checkpoint.

When the driver stopped, he was shot in the shoulders. Base on the police they were hearing a while ago, they noticed that there's something happening inside the upcoming bus in the bus stop that's why they wore denim jackets as civilian to ride the bus. Luckily, they were able to catch the hijackers' because of their plans. There were three of them and they don't have guns with them but they were able to seize them by their physical strength. For now, the injured on what happened are on the side and being applied of the first aids.

"The bomb squad and ambulance are now coming." Police said. "We need to wait for the bomb squad but we still need to see the person who's holding the detonator."

Beca kept on staring at him again, she's frowning all the way when she walked towards of the passengers of the hijack bus. Chloe frowned at her actions but didn't follow her. Why would she follow her?

Beca asked some passengers of the hijack bus and confirmed her suspicions. The place was not really crowded coz it's not a public high way. It was a road towards the mountain sides that's why there's so many vehicle that was passing. It is past 5 in afternoon and it's getting dark so Beca thinks that the other bus already went back to Barden while their bus is still here.

Beca discreetly walked towards the checkpoint. When she looked closely she noticed that the hijackers were in tied up and the two other police were there, guarding them.

Beca sweetly smiled at them and they smiled at her too but immediately turned into frown when Beca spoke. "You're not a police." She told the guys who introduced themselves as police. It's obvious to them that they got surprise. They looked around before answering Beca.

"What are you talking about? I'm a police." He said that made some of the people went near them.

Beca shook her head. "No. You're not a police. The three of you are not cops." The crowd began murmuring that saying they were maybe along with the hijackers. "You're not the cops but you weren't one of the hijackers. You're just one of the concern citizens that wanted to help. As a proof you weren't on your uniform and you don't have guns. You can't even show us your ID or memo pad that proves that you were all police. I asked the passengers but even one of them can't prove that you're really cops." Beca said that made them silent. They don't really seem like police officers. They didn't even stop them from going out of the bus. They should have keep them nside the bus for their safety. They were also not following the right police procedures.

Flo came out of the crowd while crossing her arms. "Yeah, you're not police officers. You don't even know how to disarm a bomb of simple designs."

"Yes, we're not police. We just helped. We assumed the police title to make everyone follow us." One of the guy said. Well, that's actually a good intention. There's so many hardheaded people like Beca that couldn't follow authority.

Everyone gasped when one of the hijackers pulled Beca's hair. He maybe untied himself using a small knife that is now on Beca's throat. He grabbed the brunette on her neck and slightly choked her by his arm. Everyone screamed in shocked.

"Let us go and I'll let this kid go! And if not our accomplice will going to make the bomb explode!" He threatened. Beca cringed at the word 'kid' and Flo looks calm while Chloe who was on Flo's back, panicking.

"You're supposed to do something Flo." Chloe furiously whispered at her.

"What? I'm not a magician. I can't move without her permission."

"WHAT?" Chloe asked in high pitch that made Flo covered her left ear. Flo was about to spoke when they heard Beca..

"There's no accomplice that will make the bomb explode, it's just the three of them. Don't let those guys go. His watch has the bomb's timer and there's less than 2 minutes left. And can you please step backward a little. I felt uncomfortable." Beca shouted calmly after observing the guy's arm which choking her that has a watch, which doesn't indicates with time but rather a countdown. The guy tightened his arm around her neck. Beca sighed in disgust. The guy was sweating hard and his sweaty arms moved on Beca's neck.

"I didn't know you're smart kid." Beca rolled her eyes. "If I'm just going to jail right now, I'd rather die from the explosion than to die behind bars!" Ge said and dragged Beca towards the bus which has a bomb.

Chloe was so worried that she wants to go inside the bus but Flo tugged on her cardigan that made her frown worse.

"I'm dying to see my girlfriend being hostage Flo so please. Help. Beca. Now." Chloe firmly said and looked at the bus.. "Why she's not doing anything?!"

"Kick him kiddo!" Shouted by one in the crowd.

"ELBOW HIM!"

"KICK HIM BELOW THE BELT!"

"FLO! What the hell! Do something! There's less than a minute left! I can't fucking move coz I'm wearing jeans for Jesus sake! I'm not yet getting married with Chloe so. Do. Something. Now!" Beca shouted that made Chloe widen her eyes and blushed as everyone gasped and looked at her. They can't see each other because the bus was dark because it's already night and their only source of light was coming from the poles, van and bus' head lights. Flo giggled before speaking.

"I already did. The bombs there are disarmed already so you two won't explode anymore." Flo simply said while giggling that made everyone gasped again and looked at Flo.

Well, if you still didn't know Flo. She's professional on detonating any kind of bombs. And what she did since she heard there's a bomb was looking for the bomb itself and began to disarm it.

They stopped from walking and he checked his watch. "She can't fool me kiddo. Who's she fooling with? Another kid?" He chuckled.

Beca smirked. "We're not ordinary kids, dickhead." She whispered and stepped on his foot as hard as she can that made him loosen his grip. Beca swat his arm and ran away from him. He raised his arm and pointed his knife to the brunette.

"You're not going anywhere! We're both going to explode!" He shouted. Beca just gave her a mocking 'o' and trying not to laugh.

"I already told you that it will not really going to explode! Look at your watch!" Flo shouted. Still crossing her arms over her chest.

His watch was on 00:00:00.

"Impossible!" He screamed. While he was shocked on what he saw on his watch, Beca grab the opportunity to twist his arm that made the guy dropped his knife. She seized him and some guys helped her.

Beca stood up when some guys are already holding the guy's body. While the brunette's cleaning her pants, she looked at Chloe's direction who's looking back on her now. So worried.

She then winked at her before forming a smile.