✨assassins and parties✨

•Chapter 16•

Pushing the table away with blistering abruptness, we started zigzagging in order for the gunshots to miss us. Our food had fallen on the floor making a feculent mess. People were bellowing, feeling scared for their lives. Jake's men wouldn't back off. They were constantly shooting trying to hit one or even more of us. We were their target anyway. The shots would hit innocent human beings, who had done nothing wrong. I watched as people would fall down like dominoes and slowly die in agony and cold blood. The whole place was a massacre. The walls were splattered with blood and if someone came in they would come in contact with the bloody, covered in dead humans and guts floor. The staff of the stores were trying to call for security, but couldn't do so. Most of them were killed too. We started running, turning around corners and splitting up, running towards different directions. Mike and I hid behind a fast-food restaurant's counter, trying to catch our breaths. Our heartbeats and heavy breathing couldn't be discerned above the noise of the gunshots, but we still tried to silence them.
"FUCK" we heard. The voice was recognizable and distinguished easily. Jane. A gunshot had harshly grazed her upper arm, creating a deep cut, out of which blood was dripping. Mike turned his head to me.
"You have to shoot someone. Please" he pleaded me, desperation covering his irises. I was left speechless, I felt numb and couldn't move my limbs. I shook my head.
"I can't. I'm sorry" I whispered. Mike was just looking at me, no words leaving his chapped lips.
"Okay" he said and tried looking behind the counter. There were two men outside this restaurant looking for us. Mike signaled me to pull out my knife and aim the man's on the left eye. He then got up and shot the one on the right in the head, the bullet piercing right through his head. Headshot. I threw the knife on the other one, before he had the chance to shoot and it landed on his eye. Bingo. He started crying out in agony falling on his knees, his body spasming violently. We sat up, trying not to lose our balance and ran out of the broken glass doors of the now completely ruined and almost tore down diner. I looked at my left and saw Luke and Emily holding Jane's arm tightly and wrapping a piece of cloth around it, so as to stop the blood loss. Anna was shooting people, using Luke's gun and she was quite a pro at it, not gonna lie.
"Get out of my god damn way you homeless bastard" Matina suddenly said, shooting a man, who was standing in front of her boyfriend. Mary and Jennie were having a fun time, torturing three other men, who were yelling in pain, begging them to stop. Kwnna,Flora and Henry came towards us.
"Are they all dead?" Flora asked us. We honestly weren't sure of it. We walked around the mall, looking for Jake's men, but we could only see their pale corpses, looking like mannequins because of the amount of blood they had lost.
"We should leave" Emily said, placing Jane's unhurt arm around her shoulders and made their way out of the shopping center with a quick gait. We looked at each other and followed after her, entering our van and leaving. I felt extremely irritated and tried not to tell Luke off. I really did. But, the moment we arrived at Emily's house and entered it I lost my temper.
"Are you fucking shitting me? Why didn't you give any forethought to the possible outcome before you acted? This is all your fucking fault Luke. It's your own god damn fault because you're too selfish, judgmental and absentminded" I told him, feeling extremely pissed and wanting to get my anger off my chest. Luke looked as if he was offended.
"Oh so it's my fault that Maria is always taking things to heart?" he said. Is he fucking kidding me right now.
"You're constantly judging her. It's fucking irritating and annoying. Have you ever considered acting as a real friend to her? I don't think you have. She has feelings too and all you do is kill each one of them, with your hurtful words. You should either act like a friend or fuck the hell off. You're so self centered sometimes. We all love you as a friend, but what you did is unacceptable and outrageous. You better fix this whole situation, because the party is in three fucking days. Three days Luke. Do something about it" I said.
"But—" Luke tried to fire back, but I had enough. I slapped him.
"There are no buts. Fix this shit. We don't need you fucking this whole mission up. You'll either hurt your ego by apologizing or leave" I said and went up the stairs with heavy steps.
"What the fuck was that?" he turned his attention to the rest of us. The guys sighed.
"You fucked up. Big time" Mike said, following me. The rest expressed nothing but agreement.
"Even though you're my brother and I have promised you that, I'll always stand up for you, I must admit that you did fuck this up. It's all fun and games until your friend is pissed off and is leaving us to go hang out with the enemy, when the party is in three days. Wow. You really did make a huge mistake" Jane said, holding her injured arm. Emily was just looking at Luke. She really didn't want of hurt her boyfriend, so she preferred not to speak. She just stood up and accompanied Jane to her room, so that she could take care of her injuries.
"Where the fuck is Team F?" Alex questioned after a long moment of silence. Team F hadn't come back and they hadn't even gone to the same mall as we did.
"They visited the adults. They'll come back tomorrow" Kwnna said, reading the text Blake sent her. Henry was sneakily looking at her texting Blake. He stood up, huffing out angrily and went to his room, slamming his door.
"What the fuck" Flora said. Luke wasn't paying attention to anything happening around him. His mind was on Maria. He felt more than guilty.
"Alex, take me to Jake's place. Right now" he said and didn't even wait to receive a response from him. He just opened the door and went to the van. Alex just shrugged and nodded, going after Luke and starting up the van, taking Luke to Jake's place, for a sincere apology.

"What movie would you like to watch?" Jake asked Maria. She offered him a shrug of indifference. They had settled in his cozy house and were currently trying to pick a movie to watch. Maria was wearing one of his huge sweaters and cuddling one of his fluffy couch pillows. The house was honestly amazing. The walls were all painted with different shades of black and grey. An enormous TV was taking up three quarters of the living room's wall. In the middle of it was placed a glass coffee table, decorated with candles and a tray of sweets. The couches were black too. They were big and soft, convenient enough for someone to fall asleep in the span of seconds. The whole place was dark, the only source of light coming from the led lights, which were stuck on the house's walls, glowing red. Jake pressed play and the movie started. Fifty shades of gray. Of fucking course. Maria was feeling rather uncomfortable when one particular scene came on.
"Could we turn this off?" she asked Jake, turning her head to look at him, who was already staring at her. He smirked, devilishly.
"Why? Don't you like it?" he asked, trying to make the question sound rhetorical. He then placed one of his hands on Maria's thigh and started pulling on the sweater she was wearing with the other one. The said girl was struggling, attempting unsuccessfully to get away from him. Jake suddenly pinned her down on the couch, cupping both of her wrists with his right hand so tightly that, they would surely bruise.
"You know, it'll be fun seeing your friends die one by one" he said, seeming like he was daydreaming, making gun gestures. Maria's color had drained from her face. Why did she even follow him? She felt dumb and naive. She couldn't even move. It'd be vain to even try doing such thing. Jake was way stronger than her. He started pulling on her shorts, trying to take them off.
"You should have some fun with me. It'll make you forget about your stupid friends" he told her. Maria had started crying, a spray of diamonds across her cheeks disappearing into her hairline. She felt vulnerable and petrified. She would lose her virginity to a fucking sadistic and evil asshole, without even giving him her consent.
"Leave me alone!" she yelled, kicking him in the balls. Jake hissed and looked at her dangerously. He grabbed her face.
"Fucking whore. You'll stay still and take what I'll give you. Otherwise your brains will be blown out. Choose wisely" he said, pulling out his gun and placing it next to her head. Maria stilled, silently crying and mentally begging for someone to save her.

Luke had arrived to Jake's place. He had rang the doorbell numerous times, but no one answered the door.
"Are they not here?" he asked himself.
"Leave me alone!" he heard a female voice say. It was Maria. What the fuck was that bastard doing to her. Luke desperately searched for something to open the door. He found a bobby-pin and thanked God for it. Emily had taken it off her hair, because she wanted to see if she'd look better with her hair loosely hanging on her shoulders, when they were in the shopping mall. Luke placed the bobby-pin in the key hole and turned it twice and thrice. The door opened far ajar, revealing Maria crying and Jake trying to have sex with her. Luke pulled out his gun and aimed it to Jake. Jake on the other hand had no idea that, someone had opened his house's door. He was too absorbed in what he was trying to accomplish.
"Hey Jake" he heard and immediately turned around, seeing Luke holding a gun aiming it to his chest.
"Say bye bye to this world" were the last words he heard and then a bullet went through his chest, immediately killing him.
Luke ran up to them, picking up Maria and bringing her to the van.
"I'm so sorry. I'm a fucking asshole. I know that I'm too selfish and that my ego is way bigger than it has to be. I know that, my words are hurting you, but I never thought that I'd go this far. I never wanted to hurt you. Ever. We've been friends for a long time and I don't want this friendship to suffer anymore because of my dumb actions. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me" he said, sincerely. Maria softened. And then the unexpected happened. She hugged him tightly. "It's fine. We're fine" she said.
"AWW. BEST FRIENDS FOREVER" they heard Alex say. Luke had forgotten that, he hadn't left. They all laughed and drove back to Emily's house, preparing themselves mentally for the party that, would occur in three days.

To be continued...