"Come on I thought we were mates," a voice calls from the far distance behind us.
I'm panting trying my best to regain my breath but I feel like I could fall out any minute.
"Are you okay?" He asks panting as much as me with his hands on his knees.
"Yeah I'm just tired of running," I exclaim giving him a small smile. Kinda hard to do when you're busy gasping for air.
"We gotta keep going," he says regaining his air but his breathing is still heavy.
"I don't know if I can," I reply, defeat slowly sinking into me.
"Hey," he says turning me to face him with his hands on my shoulders, "don't talk like that," his green blue eyes staring intensely into mine.
"But-" I try to interject but he cuts me off.
"No, you need to be strong.." he trails, "we need to be strong," I nod my head in response and close my eyes for a little before opening them back up.
"This is all my fault," I murmur, feeling tears form into my eyes.
"Don't-"
"You guys! I'm getting bored here! I'm going to find you!" He yells, boredom in his voice. He's mixing that up with deranged. And it sounds like he's more close now.
"Michael-" he cuts me off by putting a finger to his lips. I immediately close my eyes and back into the tree we are against. Thankfully its large enough and dark enough for us to both hide against. My body's pressed against his and his arms are now wrapped around my waist securely with one of his hands covering my mouth from my heavy breathing.
Immediately we hear leaves crunching louder and footsteps getting closer. He's now directly on the other side of the large trunk we are against. Tears start to stream down my cheeks and I swear you can hear my heart thumping like a ticking bomb that's seconds from exploding.
We're going to die.
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"No ones out here but the three of us! We're miles away from anyone! I don't understand why you are still running!" He bellows from behind us or should I say next to us. I flinch from fright at his taunting outburst and close my eyes.
I then hear an exasperated sigh, "Fine! Be that way!" He then takes his weapon and slams it against the opposite side of the tree, causing the weapon to shatter into pieces. I see a dear in the distance and see the dear take off running from the noise.
This causes him to run in that direction.
He thought it was us. Michael stops me from moving instantly until he's sure he's out of our sight. We got lucky.
"We have to move. Now." He whisper shouts. I nod my head and he takes a hold of my hand to guide me safely with him but right when I do that I'm yanked back and slammed into a body instead. I let out a shrill scream once I'm snatched by my hair, with hands around my throat.
