The Barrier

chapter 16

Chapter 16

As the engine came to a halt, the sudden anxiety in me deteriorated to a whole new extent. I never felt like this before, I have a strong feeling that something really nasty is going to happen.

"Up and get out, no one, I mean no one tries anything. Am I understood?" the man accompanying us said in a stern voice, I just nodded my head and the rest replied with a 'yes' or just grumbled incoherently.

Everyone got off the rear of the van and I gazed at the house in front of me which was surrounded by trees and the gates made the house-more like a mansion look freakier. My head was whizzing with negative thoughts like

'Crap I'm so going to get battered today' or,

'Nah, you probably just dug you own grave destiny by attempting to escape'.

I shake my head to get the thoughts of my mind ,which is making feel very nervous and my hands began to get sweaty, so I rubbed them on my jeans, anyone could see I was nervous just by taking a glance at my facial expression. It was one full of uneasiness.

"Hey, they won't do anything to you okay, I'll tell Lord Nicholas that it was my fault" Asher's sincere voice said from behind me while gazing at the gates in front of us.

Taylor just glared at Asher, Taylor came and hugged me from behind and said "that bastard won't do anything, I'll make sure to let the one who was responsible get the blame" he gave a sharp look at Asher while saying this, the others were just glancing back and forth, not knowing what on earth is going on. Asher returned the glare, I saw him give a slight irritated glance at the way Taylor was hugging me.Maybe it was my eyes ,or maybe not. Gah! I don't know.

Weird, I thought. What the hell is going on?

I unwrapped Taylor's arms from my body and faced him.

"No it's okay, I don't like it when others get hurt because of me, and I'll go up to Lord Nicholas and see what he wants "I had a feeling on what he wanted. It involved some heavy beating; I will probably wake up tomorrow. I mentally shivered nervously.

Both boys exclaimed "what!"

"Oi! Boys keep quiet and lets go" a strict voice warned us and once again, me and Taylor were held forcefully on the arm, while the other two men took care of the rest. I sighed inwardly, dreading for the moment to come. Asher glanced at me for a few seconds with furrowed eyebrows, and once again it looked like he was battling with his mind, he must have heard me sigh I thought.

I gulped as I was dragged through the rusty gates that seemed to look like it got two invisible beady eyes that are gawking at you. I kept my head low, so no one can see my fearful emotions; I hated people seeing me as weak.

I can't lie and say I wasn't scared, because right now, I am at the point of shitting my pants.

Well, not exactly.

As we trudged along the long corridor, leading to Lord Nicholas's office, each footstep taken was in synced with my heartbeat. When I'm nervous I tend to look down and be interested at random things

Like, right now, the marble floor looked utterly spotless!

We finally reached the destination I dread the most. Three heavy knocks.

The door gradually opened to reveal the last person I wanted to see.

Suddenly, my nervous features were clouded with anger.

"Well done kid," the man dragging me said to Devon.

Taylor and Ashers jaws both tensed and their fist were clenched.Immdiately Devon's face slightly paled. Good, it was his fault for snitching, though I will be intimidated at the two boys behind me, both angry.