ℱ𝒶𝓎𝒶𝓰ℴ𝓃𝒶 [ᶜᵘʳʳᵉⁿᵗˡʸ ᵇᵉⁱⁿᵍ ʰᵉᵃᵛⁱˡʸ ᵉᵈⁱᵗᵉᵈ]

♡ 22. - 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔 ♡

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[𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚏𝚏 𝚘𝚏: 1𝚡12]

𝐙𝐚𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 nothing but emptiness, as she saw the light fade from the boy's eyes so quickly. Her back hit the floor hard, and directly after, Murphy drove the back of the gun to her temple, almost knocking her out cold.

She could only watch as he walked toward the lever, pulling it - and the door was closing.

The freckled girl could immediately hear murmurs coming from the delinquents outside, obviously confused at why the dropship's door is suddenly closing. She could hear Raven's familiar voice outside:

"Hey, what the fuck?"

And just like that, she was locked up in the dropship with Murphy.

Directly after the door closed, Zae heard a voice that was coming from inside.

"Zae, what's going on inside?"

Her eyes landed on a radio standing on a table nearby. Raven was the one talking through it. Right, she knew that she'd gone off to get gunpowder.

Stumbling, the freckled girl quickly got up on her feet, - grabbing a sharp glass shard in the process - snatching the radio, backing up further into the dropship. The knot tying her hands was loose, and she easily got it off her wrists.

Murphy obviously saw, and pointed the gun at her.

Zae was still dizzy, still stumbling where she stood. Her grip hardened around the glass shard, making it cut deeply into her skin, blood dripping to the floor.

At seeing the radio, Murphy threatened:

"Don't you dare."

She could feel the new bruise on the side of her forehead sting a bit more, while she glared back at him.

In swift movement, the freckled girl brought the radio to her chin, mumbling in pain:

"Murphy killed Myles and I'm next."

Ans just like that, he knocked her out, making her drop everything.

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There was still pounding in Zae's head as she eventually woke up hours later. She was lying on the floor, and her vision was just clear enough to see Murphy swiping a blanket over Myles's dead body.

To her surprise, she wasn't tied up anymore, but there wasn't really a need since she was locked up in the dropship and he had the gun. At seeing her sit up in pain, he loudly said:

"Great. You're awake. By now it should be morning. And guess what? You got another person killed."

Zae glared at him in anger, trying to prevent tears or a scream of rage. But she did nothing. But then she saw it. There was a rope made out of red and orange seatbelts, hung over a pipe, and at the end of it: a knot, showing that she was supposed to get hanged there.

Murphy opened his mouth to say something, but then a voice coming from outside interrupted them.

"MURPHY! Murphy, if you even touch Zae, I swear to God, you're dead!"