Without You

Chapter 17

The bus driver stepped back onto the bus carrying a stick. No it wasn't like a regular stick this was a stick with leaves and branches coming off of it.

"I'm feeling generous today so I'll let you keep you pants on, for now." He tells me and I look on the ground. He makes me walk up the isle to the front. The team just stares at us wide eyed. The bus driver turns me to face the guys and then whips the branch down on my bare back. I flinch, and it looks like the whole bus did too.

He hits again.

And again.

And again.

I grip onto the seats with my finger nails to attempt to take away the pain. Who knew a stick would be this painful.

He hits me again.

Over and over.

"Shit." He says.

I turn slowly to look at him. I feel the blood rushing to the surface of my back, spilling out. The creep jumps into the drivers seat and turns on the bus and starts accelerating really fast.

Causing me to go flying down the isle. I jump into my seat with Nick. It's then when I realize the police are chasing us.

"Müller can you throw us the first aid kit?" Nick yells up to him. Lio Müller reaches forward and pulls it out passing it back to us. Nick takes out a long roll of gauze.

"Can you hold this here?" He asked.

He places the end of the gauze on my ribs and starts to wrap it around me very gently. I wince in pain whenever he gets to my back. He finally finished and took off his sweatshirt silently and made me put it on. Then he attempted to get the gag off but he couldn't, so Hunter had to do it.

I leaned back into the seat to relax and look out the window, until I remembered that we are flying down the highway and the police are chasing us.

"Guys put on those useless seat belts." I yelled to the team.

Everyone clicked on the seat belts that finally had a use. We suddenly swerved to the right and Hunter didn't have his seat belt on yet so he flew into the isle so I pulled him up into my seat. He took the spare belt in my seat and put it on. Then we swerved to the left and then the right and then the right again.

Then the bus suddenly slowed to a stop, in the middle of the road.

"Shit. Where's the little girl?" The bus driver said loudly. Hunter and Nick tried to hide me. "Shit. Forget the fucking girl I gotta get the hell outta here!" He yelled and took out the front door.

The police were circling the bus and I relaxed. I saw the police caught the creep and restrained him. Then they took him away and am officer got on the bus.

"Is anyone injured on this bus?" He asked.

Before anyone could answer I yelled, "No sir we are all okay." I got some questioning looks but they went with it.

"Okay we will get someone to drive this bus to your destination soon. The driver was arrested. He escaped from jail last month." He informed us.