Paralysed By Choices ✔️

Chapter twenty: Are You Going To Man Up Or Be A Coward?

Before Jess, I was just a normal teenage girl who wanted everything life could offer. I was that sweet, innocence girl who never did a bad thing in her life. I was that girl. The good student with the good grades, the one who never drank and the one who stayed pure. Before Jess, I had a good life.

After Jess, I wasn't that normal teenage girl. I wanted nothing that life could offer. I had a bad mouth, an attitude that only my friends could deal with. I wasn't that girl anymore. I was skipping classes, my grades were decreasing and I drank a lot until I passed out and I had sex with anything that moved. After Jess, I was messed up.

My life before Jess's murder was a blur. I didn't think about it anymore because it was history, it had vanished and it was gone. I've deleted it from my memory and now as the lights were shining brightly in my face and everyone's eyes were on me, I knew that this was the reason why my life changed. It changed to save others.

All I knew was I was half covered in blood, my leg was throbbing and my clothes were ripped like I've been attacking a shark and not some crazy people who wanted me for something unthinkable. Guns quickly shot up and aimed directly at me as everyone gasped and murmured. I could see Norrie and Cam in the corner of my eye. Norrie looked at me with her red puffy eyes and she looked glad to see me, not angry that I caused this mess. Cam had passed out as I turned my direction to the men with the guns pointed at me.

"Alexis Archer." I looked at the man who said my name. I was assuming he was the one in charge. He was wearing a black beanie, black clothing and he had a small beard growing around his face. He held a riffle directly pointed at my head; I was not afraid of this man. They're not intending to kill me.

"You've got me," I said to all of the five men in a circle around me, "now let these people go."

One of the men chuckled. "We've got her boss." He said into a radio which was attached to his belt.

The radio crackled. "Good, bring her in."

*

Spencer.

It was not safe anywhere anymore. We couldn't go back to the courtyard and to the front entrance because we didn't know what was around these corners. We didn't have any guns, only a knife. "We should jump this fence." I told Jason who looked around at his surroundings.

We're on the other end of the campus, far away from the hall. It was a horrible silence. No shoots had been fired; no screams had echoed this campus and nobody had been let free. "No, we should go back." He finally replied while leaning on the fence where we could be escaping right now.

"What? Why?" I asked. My stomach was turning at the thought of getting shot or beaten up by a trained killer.

"Because, Spencer," Jason snapped, "Lexie is our friend. We don't know if she's hurt or dead or already taken and what about Maggie and Noah? We have no idea if they're dead or alive. We can't just leave them here to die. They need our help." He breathed in and out, knowing that he wouldn't change his mind.

I shook my head. "Alexis told us specifically to leave the campus," I explained, "we could die too."

"Forget about what Lexie told us!" Jason exclaimed, the anger boiling up inside of him. "Are you going to man up or be a coward?"

After a few moments of contemplating, I nodded my head and grabbed the only weapon we had. "Let's go."

Jason smiled and I followed him back to the hall where everybody was. I didn't really want to go back for Alexis. She turned herself in, she caused this entire mess. People were dead because of her and Maggie was in danger, Cam had been shot and God knew where Noah was.