Stay Away 3 (sequel to Stay Away 2) | #Wattys2015

Chapter 7

Connor has dark blonde hair, he's pretty good looking. He's three years older than me. He's kinda friendly most of the time. But, when he's angry he's fuckin' scary.

I saw him snap a guy's neck in one damn second.

Anyway, back to my story. To stop the Hawks leader from hurting my mom, I needed to pay him thousands of dollars.

The rest of my family is in hiding. They're all in Canada, my home country in a town where the Hawks wouldn't dare go to. If they leave New York, it gives us a chance to kill half of their members, since they travel in halves. Half of the gang go to wherever they need to go, half stay in New York.

They can't afford to lose members, considering we're a pretty big and dangerous gang. They need all the members they can get.

My job is being in my gang. We all get paid from the other half of the gang, who are drug dealers.

From the drug dealers, the gang makes a huge amount of money. We're practically rich.

But, Connor and I get paid the most, since we lead the gang.

We continue talking business, then I see.Melissa with her friend. There's another guy with Melissa's friend.

"Who's the hot brunette?"

I continue to stare at her, having myself in a trance.

I feel Connor nudge my side.

"Huh?," I say, turning to him.

"Looks like Bieber has a thing for the hot brunette," he teases.

"Her name's Melissa. And I don't really know her. We went to high school together, but we never talked. She was busy with school, and I wasn't even in school half the time because of the gang."

"Aren't you gonna talk to her?"

I scoff.

"Fuck no. A girl like that falling for a guy like me?! Then, besides. I already talked to her. Having a relationship right now doesn't seen like the best idea. I mean, half the guys in,this gang lost their girlfriends or wives."

Everyone in this gang are twenty five or below. Some are married, but have lost them due to the gang life. Some have lost girlfriends, due to the same thing.

Luckily, no one has kids. If they had kids, Connor and I wouldn't have let them in.

"Justin. Connor," I hear someone call.

We both turn and it's Logan, one of our best members.

He's young. Eighteen, good looking, he actually graduated school. But, he came into the gang. You know why?

Because Connor is his older brother. He wants to be with his brother.

"So, the Hawks are surrounding this place. Half of them are inside, half are outside."

"What the hell?! Where's our the rest of our gang?!," Connor asks, trying to not be too loud.

"They're here," he answers.

We look around and see all our gang members. I give them all a nod.

"We gotta get these people outta here."

"Connor, we don't have time. We just gotta pray no one gets hurt," I tell him.

He huffs out a breath.

I see Melissa come over and order a smoothie, just her.

She turns and gives me a smile, waiting for her smoothie.

I see a few of the Hawk members scatter around the food court. They take our their guns and a gunshot is fired at an innocent person.

My gang fires shots at the other gang, many shots killing them instantly.

Many more Hawk members flood in the mall.

Piercing screams fill the mall as people run for their precious lives.

I see Melissa run towards the door. I see one of the Hawk member's gun pointed in her direction.

I sprint towards Melissa, hoping to save her life.

I hear two gunshots and I look to the side and see Melissa's friends on the ground, blood rushing from their chests.

Melissa lets out a frightening cry and tries to run towards them, but I tackle her to the ground.

"Get off me!," she sobs.

"If you wanna live, come with me!"

"What?!," she says confused.

"Just c'mon!"

I help her up and the same member has his gun pointed towards us.

I grab Melissa and run, his bullet missing us.

I run into the parking lot and hold her tight, as we somehow continue to dodge bullets from half the Hawks gang.

Half of my gang comes from behind me, and shoots them, buying myself some time.

I throw her in the car and get into it, speeding away.

* End of flashback *

"Justin, watch the fuck out!," I hear a voice boom through my trance.

Before I can even evaluate and process what's going on, I hear a gunshot fired.

I don't feel any pain at all. My head turns in all kinds of directions.

I look down and see someone lying on the ground, bleeding out from his torso.

"Shit," I mumble.

I examine him a little closer with all the gunshots continuing to fire in the background.

My eyes widen when I realized who it is.

Connor.

Oh shit.

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