Grayson's POV*
He looked pretty confident as he held the gun up in Madison's direction. "Dad stop!" Emily yelled at him. I glanced at her as my heart rate increased.
Things just escalated quickly.
"Don't tell me to stop. I'm the one who calls the shots" he snapped at her. He walked over to her and cocked his gun. He lifted up towards the front of Emily's head.
I took a step closer to her and her dad.
"I wouldn't." I say staring him dead in the eyes
He begins to laugh and takes a step closer to Emily the gun now touching her head.
"Oh yeah and why's that?" He says with a smirk on his face.
I swear I was ready to kill this guy, I wanted to knock that smug look off his face but I couldn't risk it, not with Emily's life on the line.
*Emilys POV*
"Grayson please!" I plead with him as I can see how intense things are getting.
"That's my girl" my dad says sending me a wink
I roll my eyes and look away.
"Listen you look like a smart young man, so why don't you do you and your friends a favor and get out of the way."
He says as he throws his head towards the door signaling Grayson to leave. I look up to Gray and he is already looking at me. I can see the pain in his eyes as he looks back to my dad.
"Never."
Everything from that point onwards was slow motion to me. I knew what was about to go down and there was nothing I could do. I felt so useless.
I see Grayson and Ethan launch towards my dad, I scrunch my eyes as a tear falls to my cheek.
Then it comes. The gunshot. My eyes open and I can see Ethan and Grayson pinning my dad to the ground, I take a sigh of relief as they aren't hurt and then I turn my attention to Maddie.
My face drops when I see her standing there motionless as if she had just seen a ghost.
"Maddie did you.."
"No no no no!!" She begins to cry as she gets on her knees.
I look to the ground and see her dad with his hands on his stomach and blood all over his shirt.
He must of taken the bullet.
"Go help Emily I'll keep him here" I can hear Ethan order Grayson as I turn away from Maddie and her dad.
Grayson runs over to me and begins to untie my legs and arms. Without giving me the chance to stand he lifts me off my feet and hugs me tightly.
"I'm sorry Emily, this is-."
"No stop. Don't be sorry." I say as I place my lips on his, not soon after we are interrupted by the sound of sirens from outside. I immediately run over to Maddison and her dad as I get down on my two knees.
"Hey, Hey hang in there Sir we're getting you out of here."
Maddie looks to me in defeat as she shakes her head.
"No.." I whisper as my voice gets raspy.
"Girls.." her dad manages to get out. I can hear the struggle in his voice.
"No dad don't." Maddison says keeping one hand on his and using the other to wipe her tears.
He takes our hands and looks us both deep in the eyes.
"I- I will never be able to live up to the pain that m- me and your father caused you girls and I- I will never be able to say I'm sorry enough but th- that's okay... because you girls, you don't need it. You have learned to grow yourselves and it has made you out to be the strong independent women that you are today..."
He pauses as he lets out a groan, obviously from the amount of pain that he must be in right now.
A tear slips from his eye as he continues.
"I guess I came to the conclusion that my baby girl was gone...and so I have nothing else to live for... What I did was unforgivable, I mean If I couldn't even forgive myself, it wouldn't be fair of me to expect you to."
He snaps out of conversation as he begins to cough aggressively. I look to the door and see paramedics and armed police entering the room.
I watch as at-least six or seven policemen run over to my dad who is still pinned by Ethan. As they remove him from the ground he looks towards Maddison's dad and then back to me. I could see the regret in his eyes as he walks past us and out of the room without breaking his stare.
"Hey over here!!" Grayson calls to the paramedics as they come running over.
"He's loosing too much blood we need to get him to the hospital immediately!" One of them orders as they lift him onto a stretcher making there way out of the building.
The four of us follow behind.
As we reach the ambulance Maddie gets in and me and the twins tell her we will meet her at the hospital.
The ambulance drives off and I take my hair into my hands as I begin to shake my head.
"This is all my fault."
Madison's POV*
1hr into my dads surgery and you could cut the tension with a knife.
Everyone is still shaken up and no one has spoke a word since we got here.
I lift my head from Ethan's shoulders and my eyes widen when I hear the piercing ring coming from one of the rooms.
"We need help in here he's not breathing!" One of the nurses calls out as she heads back into the room.
We all jump to our feet and begin practically sprinting down the hall to the room where all the chaos is. I feel my heart sink as we reach my dads room. I push past the group of nurses crowding the door and manage to get into the room.
"You aren't allowed to be in her ma'am" one of them tells me but I ignore her.
I watch as his body lifts from the pressure of the defibrillator as they try again.
I begin to uncontrollably cry as his heart flat lines and the stop trying.
I bring myself to walk up to his body and as I stand over him I see one of my tears drop to his head. I try to dry my tears as I take his hand.
"I forgive you.."
