"Well, you were still Russian..." I said aloud.
Kayleigh looked at me and looked at the blood stains up my shirt. She told me to go and change and she would dispose of the fallen. As i silently stalked up the stairs, i looked at myself in the mirror. There were splatters of blood all up my unshaven face, and blood in my small scraggly beard. My hair had grown out to the point it covered my face. It was time to clean myself up.
"Kayleigh, can you come and help me out with something?" I asked. I heard her climb the stairs and she entered and saw me covered in blood. She took my shirt and threw it at the door. She took a first aid kit from the side of the bath and took some stitches. She carefully threaded the needle and took an antiseptic wipe. I felt the sting as she wiped the blood and dirt from the gash on my face. She took the needle, as began to stitchmy face up. Each swipe of the needle was extreme stinging and it made my eyelid twitch. Never in my entire life had i felt so close to a single person than now. She handed me my razor and some scissors as i began to trim my beard. When it reached suitable length, I applied the shaving foam. Against the grain. After i had a baby face, kayleigh cut my hair to a shorter length.
"You look battle ready." She said, as she stroked the side of my face. I placed a single loving hand on her shoulder, and stroked towards her bruised face.
"You look angelic." I replied.
"The russian you killed, he was carrying a message in his pocket." Said Kayleigh, taking out a note.
The note read, in very unintelligible writing,
"The war is not over, and we have not yet lost,
However this means you have not lost too, so come and meet us in Nottingham, where talks of peace will occur in the building that you once called your home.
Signed-
ANTON."
"We will go then." I said. "We will risk it. Ava can gaurd our triplet, but Jaydan and Leilani will remain behind the frontline, if there is battle. Me, you, Emma, Micael, James, Amelia will all go out front, whiel the rest can take the back seat."
"What about me?" Asked a familiar voice. Mason walked towards us through the bathroom door. "I am sorry for being a douche, but I need your help, and it sounds like you need another pair of hands."
"You can join at the front. You're violent."
"Does anyone know where Elijah has gone?"
"He defected to the Russians." Said Kayleigh, "The day lorien died. Ava was devastated."
"Let's all go to Nottingham then, right now."
"Okay then."
"EVERYONE! WEAPONS READY IT'S TIME TO LEAVE AGAIN..."
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Kirkby In A Nutshell: A Rewritten And Improved Edition.
ActionA group of eight teenagers fight their way through a war to leave. Upon returning to their own towns, they see that things are not as they seem to be...
