Not Me : 🎨 Yok's Tapestry 🔻this Is Not a Yok/Dan story🔻

Twenty Seven 🎨

(......... I looked at Sean and White and by unspoken agreement we all moved towards Gumpa .....)

Gumpa was closest to the bathroom, Sean and White on his right side. I was closest to the kitchen, on the other side of the room. Our odds were not looking good.

My mind raced with the possibilities of where he could have placed that explosive device. He'd only been to the bathroom, I reasoned..... But then ..... I didn't know where he'd been since he'd entered my home.

The thought angered me. This man, whom I had thought of as a friend and brother entered my home. .... uninvited, kidnapped my mother, kidnapped the person I love, killed Danai and why? For the money? Now he was threatening me, threatening to blow up my home, my business...... He meant to end my life, for the money?

I got angrier as these thoughts flashed through my mind. Angrier and bolder.... And reckless.... I advanced on him slowly..... He took a step back, waving his little cellphone around, " last warning Yok, I will press this button!" "Go ahead Gumpa, you'll get blown up along with us. You didn't come all this way just to get blown up did you?" He paused... I worried that I might have read the situation wrong.

While he was focused on me, Sean stepped a little closer. Gumpa laughed out loud suddenly...." You've learnt to use your head Yok, I've been trying to teach you all that for so long and yet.... You brought Danai into our midst. If anyone is responsible for this, it's you ... " He suddenly turned towards Sean, " Danai murdered your father and you let him slide, you're as bad as him," shaking his cellphone in my direction.

"You guys were supposed to be my ticket to the big leagues, taking down the ruthless and powerful Tawi, earning the gratitude of the people. I would've been lauded, a leader, a visionary, a thinker, me .... A great man... And you lot ruined it all...." "Instead you ended up in Tawi's pocket, nothing more than a minion.." " You give me too little credit my boy, Tawi and I were together from the start, each playing our roles to get what we wanted. How do you think he evaded the police for so long? Because of me, because I helped him."

I balled my fists to my side. Gumpa suddenly threw the phone at White. He struggled to catch it, afraid it might set off the device. Sean and I ran towards Gumpa, only to be stopped short again. This time he pulled a gun from his pocket.... Waving it between me and Sean... " I guess you caught on to my ruse... I didn't come here to get blown up, but I did come here to kill you......."

He pointed the gun at me... For the sake of my mother and my friends I need to end this. My last thought before storming Gumpa was of Finn and that I hoped he knew how much I loved him. I ran towards the gun, not trying to duck from his bullets or knock him down, but to attract his attention.... So White and Sean could take him down while he was focused on me....

I hoped for the best..... And screamed like a mad man, zeroing in on Gumpa. As if in slow motion I saw him raise the gun, I saw him aim, I saw his finger tensing around the trigger, I saw him pull it and I heard the shot..... I felt nothing, adrenaline propelling me forward.... I grabbed that gun ... And fell..... Everything went dark.... I saw Finn... "I love you always....."
                                    
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I woke up feeling groggy. I opened my eyes slowly, afraid of what I would find. The room was dark. I smelled anticeptic. With any luck this is a hospital room I thought, hell wouldn't smell of air freshener and anticeptic.... I turned my head to the side, "Mae ..." I managed to whisper. She couldn't hear me if course, but she looked in my direction. She immediately came closer.