Gravity.

Chapter 12

Dedicated todemi_chunglee

When my Mom nor I were wanted by police and my life could be categorized as 'normal', we use to love watching Lifetime movies. Although very predictable and sometimes cliché, we enjoyed them.

Now, it felt like I was in the middle of one.

There is something definately wrong with Summer.

Did something happen to her in jail that she was willing to turn in children in order to not go back there?

She handed the waiter boy aka her pet some rope to tie us up so we couldn't run.
He tied our hands behind our backs and none of us put up a fight. Not even Danny, who was too sick to do so so anyway.

Apparently, she was just going to wait for the police to get here. She had already called them before she got here.

Joy was the most frightened, she looked like she was about to cry.

We were so close.
Now, we were going back to prison.

How did Summer track us down anyway? Sure she obviously had the waiters help but something just wasn't adding up.

I look over to Danny to see he was already looking at me.

Neither of us said nothing.

It was looking like a little after 5 am now, the sun would rise soon and the police still haven't come.

Summer was pacing back and forth, the gun still in her hands. I heard her chanting softly, something along the lines of can't go back.
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The police still hadn't come,and to say Summer was getting agitated would be an understatement.

"Don't move" she says waving the gun in our faces.
We were tied up where the hell could we go?

She nods to waiter boy. "Gaurd them"
She walks off, maybe to make a call to find out why we hadn't been thrown in jail yet.

"All my fault" Danny whispers beside me.

I was about to say something when I see waiter boy get up and walk over to us. He stops in front of me and bends down.

"What are you doing?"

Wordlessly, he begins to untie me.
I look at him in disbelief.

"Why?" is all I could say.

"What do you mean?"he begins " I went to take a piss and you somehow got out of the ropes and freed the others" he then turns around.

I stand there honestly in shock.

"Look," he says when he realizes I wasn't moving, quite stupid of me really." That bitch, is crazy" he says twirling his index finger around his head for emphasis."she'll do anything, I mean anything, she's unpredictable so y'all better run,I didn't sign up for half this shit"

"You did once you agreed to help her"I wanted to say to him but instead I just begun freeing the others.

I had only freed Dannys feet when I heard a voice behind me.

"What do you think you're doing?!"

I look to see Summer pointing the gun at me.

"You!" She's now pointing at the waiter "you released her didn't you?!"

"N-"

He's cut off when she pulls the trigger.

I gasp and I hear Joy scream beside me.

I look at the waiters lifeless body with a bullet wound in its forehead.

He wasn't kidding,
She's..... She's... phychotic.

She then points the gun back at me and I hear crying behind me,Joy I think.

Her finger moves to the trigger and I close my eyes.

Click.

I open my eyes to see Summer looking down at the gun and pushing the trigger repeatedly.

Click. Click. Click.

Without a moment of hesitation, I lunge right at her.
Now, I wouldn't consider myself an experienced fighter, but I wasn't a wimp either.
I tackle her to the floor, sending the gun flying.
I'm on top, now she's on top, I send a knee to her stomach making her roll over. Now I'm on top again. She pulls on my hair, the ultimate coward move.

I loose my balance and she gets on top and begins to choke the life out of me.
I spot a rock in my line of sight and reach for it.
She lifts my head off the ground and slams it down again while still choking me, causing me to wince in pain.
I try to reach the rock again, and I finally do.
I lift it and strike her in the head, causing her to roll over unconscious.

I clutch my neck, gasping for air.
I look at the now bloody stone then over to where the rest are to see them staring at me wide eyed.

I rush over to them and untie them.
Danny suprises me by hugging me, then Joy, even Sam joins in.

"Ok" I say "we need to leave before she wakes up"

"We can't just leave her like this" Danny says

"You're right" Sam says "help me tie her up"

When they're finished, we run off.
When we reached some way, we heard sirens behind us.

Huh, look like Summers going back to prison after all.
But this time,
For murder.

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After having a little counseling session with Joy,and she assured me she was ok, we begun walking again with Sam and Joy in the front (we wanted to be able to see them at all times) and Danny and I behind with the bags.

I reach out for Dannys hand and he thankfully doesn't refuse. I mean, how embarrassing would that be?
"Are you feeling any better?" I say to him.

"Yep"

I frown, he was obviously putting the best forward.

"Danny"

"I'll manage Gravity" is all he says.
 
I frown and look away.
I spot a calender on the outside of a shop and walk up to it.
I've been on the road so long I don't even know the date. I then realized that if I didn't know the date or day a calender was no use to me.

I look to someone in the shop.
"Excuse me, what date is it?"

The lady looks at me."The 9th" she says and turns back around.

I tap her shoulder again.
"The 9th of what month"

She gives me a look but answers me anyway.
"The 9th of September"

I nod, then realization hits me.
I run out of the shop to where Danny and the others were waiting.

"Tomorrow is my birthday" I said "I'll finally be 18"

"An adult!" Joy beams "Just like Danny!"

An adult,
Which means, no longer considered an orphan.

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Gravity: just vote please.

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Anyway....
I wanted Gravitys birthday to be the 10th of December like mine but the timeline wouldn't match up :(

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