When I'm With You (REWRITING)

CHAPTER 40

I look down at my phone, completely forgetting that I still had Dee on this line.

K - Dee?!

D - I'm still here. I'm hiding, don't worry about me. I'm sure they won't find me. I tried texting the other girls-

K - What do you mean by texting the other girls?! You guys were home together!

I side-eye Freddie and he was already staring back at me with suspicion. I chuck my keys at him and we both don't hesitate to jump into my car.

D - We split up!

K - What?! Why that fuck didn't you girls stay together?!

D - It would have been easy to find us if we were all together, Kaz! P-please just come home.

K - I'm coming. Just stay on the call with me-

D - Someone's coming, K-Kaz-

The line went silent for a couple of seconds, and it really made my blood boil. I couldn't do anything but wait until I got home, and it made me feel absolutely weak and pathetic.

K - Dee? You have to stay on the call with me-

The line beeps, letting me know that the line disconnected. I bring the phone from my ear and stare at the black screen showing my poor reflection.

"Kaz." Freddie was speeding down the highway, serving through cars and red lights with no care in the world. "What happened?!" He was stern about it this time.

"I-I think the girls might be in trouble."

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Before my car even stops in the driveway, I jump out, pulling my gun with me. Freddie was hot behind me with nothing but a dead face and a freshly shaved blade in his hand.

My heart stops when I notice that the front of my house no longer has a door. The entrance wildly inviting, scaring the shits out of both of us.

"Dee!" "Janyce!" We both call out to the girls we were desperate of seeing.

The house was awfully quiet, too quiet for my liking. It was starting to feel like déjà vu from entering the underground building.

The crushing of glass echoes through the rooms of the house as we step closer and close into my home. It was thrashed, and I was beginning to forget what it looked like before this happened.

I was speechless and the world around me moved at a painfully slow speed.

A loud shriek comes from the top of the stairs. "Freddie!"

Freddie was on his toes as soon as he heard Janyce's voice. My head snaps towards the distant cries from upstairs and I closely follow behind.

Janyce stood on the top of the stairs, trembling in her clothes, her arms crossed around herself, enough to make her feel like she was being hugged. Freddie wasted no time in crashing into her. His knife was immediately put away in his back pocket while he replaced her arms with his.

I stroll past them hoping for the same reunion with Dee. There was only one door which was broken into pieces, and nothing but a trial of blood invited me through.

"Landon, please. Stay with me. I'm here,"

My eyes converted to Layla who was rocking Landon's body side to side in a steady and safe pace. Anthea was pushing down a towel covered in red substance towards his lower abdomen and cursing too herself. Landon was hardly conscious, nothing but pale skin and being covered in blood.