Troublemaker

34. SELF-SACRIFICE

Vengeance is the most dangerous thing in the world: it can go from stealing someone else's stuff to killing someone. But vengeance is always better. It's better and more dangerous.

"Excuse me?" Niel asked, "Why?"

"Because I told you too, unless you don't want the money, of course," Amber narrowed her eyes, "You and I both know that you want to kill Ashton so badly, right?"

He pursed his lips back, "With all the commotion going around in finding Jayce, the police would find out if we killed her,"

She scoffed, "Not 'we', but you. I'll play victim, of course,"

Everyone furrowed.

"Okay, how about $50 000?" she negotiated again, "Each."

All their eyes lit up, "Okay."

"Deal."

Amber gave back a small smile, "I'll release you five now, and we're going to stay in the woods until Ashton comes," she said, "He and Jayce would be together, so you all can kill them soon after,"

"Isn't CCTV going to catch you releasing us?" the thief asked.

"My dad would cover for me, like he did for Jayce. I have nothing to worry about,"

~~~

"You brought a gun?" Ashton asked, as he made tea in the dorm.

It felt quite strange being back here, knowing she was just here in the morning.

"I don't exactly have a knife with me, right?" Jayce questioned back.

He scoffed for a while and took the knife she dearly loved from one of the drawers.

Her face light up, "I thought it was still in the coat,"

"I wouldn't let Niel's dirty blood just spread on my clean coat, so yes, I cleaned it," he grinned.

"I'm gonna need something to change into," she said.

"Just get whatever you like in the wardrobe. Do you want steak burgers by the way? You look famished," he remarked, giving her the cup of tea.

"That would be nice,"

She smiled as she sipped the tea, and took out the gun from her pants. Ashton flinched, thinking she was going to shoot her but she took out the bullets instead.

"A revolver?" he queried, taking the gun body and examining it.

"And we only have 6 bullets,"

"6 bullets for one person is a lot, am I right?" he asked.

Jayce frowned, "No matter how much I forgave Amber, I knew this point would come,"

"You don't have to be guilty. You know she deserves this," he responded. She smiled back, "I'm gonna order some steak burgers, just stay here and don't even try to shoot,"

"Alright, vice president. I don't want to waste any bullets."

~~~

"So, are we officially like, boyfriend and girlfriend? With no fake crap and stuff?" Ashton asked, as he took a big bite from the burger.

Jayce laughed a bit as she wiped her mouth, "What do you think?"

"I'm thinking of dancing with you at the Christmas Ball, graduating high school, entering university, marrying you and then changing my name to Ashton Brooks," he replied completely.

"Well then, I think I'd like to do that with you," she said.

He gave a low chuckle.

"If I die tonight," she started again, making Ashton flinch again, "I need you to promise that you'll live on. You can only die if death picks you up. If death doesn't pick you up and you die at your own will, then I won't wait for you in whatever is up or down there," she replied.