The Tutor and the Bad Boys

Chapter 45

KEVIN'S POV

Soon enough James pulled up. He got off of his bike and threw his helmet to the side.

"What's going on?" he asked walking up to us. "And why do you guys look like you were crying?"

"James, this is about Keith," I started. He sat down and motioned for me to continue. I took a deep breath in and calmed my nerves before telling him. "Keith is dead."

"How?" he asked, his voice hard and strained.

"He was going to the hospital to meet up with us because Charlie was shot, and then he was grabbed by someone. That person contacted me, and I agreed to give them information about our gang if it kept Keith alive," I said. "Then in the hospital I realized that Keith wouldn't want that. He would put the gang before his own life, and I made the choice. I pulled out of the deal and then they killed Keith."

James was silent and his head was down. He sniffled and looked up.

"He wont be coming back. You know I was always scared something would happen and I wouldn't be able to tell him but now I really can't tell him," James said.

"What did you want to tell him?" Zack asked gently.

"Doesn't matter now does it? He is dead," James sobbed. I was frozen. James was the stoic one out of all of us. He was the one that never let anything break him, but here he was, crying.

"It's gonna be okay. We have to tell the rest of the gang though and then we can go after the bastards that took him," Zack said.

"You aren't mad at me?" I asked.

"I understood why you did it. It's a hard choice but you made one. I don't know if I would've made the same choice, but I know Keith would have," James said.

"Uh guys, about the people that took Keith, I think they took Rachel," Zack said.

"Wh- how- wait what?" I sputtered.

"At the diner, it doesn't matter because it's the same people so we have to come up with something like now," Zack replied.

"Fuckin hell. Let's go see Charlie call the gang in and tell them," James said. I nodded and the three of us walked towards our bikes. We started up our bikes and I led the way to the hospital. We reached there about 15 minutes later and we quickly found out way to Charlie's room. We walked in and saw our entire gang standing around.

"Hey guys," Nicki greeted.

" Hey, " Zack said. "Shit Charlie it's good to see you."

" We heard what happened, sorry we didn't come sooner, " James said.

"That's fine, I am glad to be awake. Where is Keith?" Charlie smiled.

" Um, that's what I need to tell you. It's not a fun story, " I started. I took a deep breath in and the words flowed like a waterfall. "The night Charlie was shot, when we were going to the hospital, remember how I stayed back to call Keith? Well someone else picked up and it wasn't Keith. I don't know who it was, but they said that I would tell them any information they wanted and Keith would live. They said that if I told any of you, they would kill all of you and Keith."

"Continue," Charlie said, her smile was gone as if it was never there.

"And I agreed. I'm sorry I didn't want to lose Keith. Then today right after Charlie woke up I realized that Keith wouldn't betray our family like that, so I called and told them that I was calling the deal off. They shot Keith then. I am sorry, I know I killed Keith."

" Kevin Garnett, you listen to me right now. You didn't kill Keith. You made a hard choice. We will avenge him, " Charlie said sternly.

"And another thing, the guys that killed Keith kidnapped Rachel," Zack cut in.

" What, " Nate growled. "Oh I will kill those hitches with my bare hands, no gun needed." Everyone started talking, and agreeing ago out hunting them down.

" Silence, " Charlie yelled. "Keith may be gone but Rachel isn't. She has no choice now, she is neck deep in this, but she has no idea what is going on. No buts, we are telling her about the gangs. As for Keith we will hold a memorial at the gang house tomorrow because that's when I get out of this hospital."

I nodded and walked out alone. It didn't matter what Charlie said, the guilt of being the cause of Keith's death was eating me alive. Finding out who framed me, crashed into rachel, kidnapped and shot Keith and kidnapped Rachel  was the only thing on my mind.

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