~Raven / Rebel / June 15th~
--9:57PM, Isaac Redwind’s apartment--
“Rock, paper, scissors, shoot! …Rock, paper, scissors, shoot! …Rock, paper—Oh, good, he’s waking up.”
A loud groan came from under the heavy sheet atop the couch, the mass moving slowly. I placed my index finger and thumb on my lips and whistled loudly. In an instant the blanket was flying off the couch.
“So, let’s try this again,” Dylan said. “Now that you’re all taped up, I won’t try to knock you unconscious. What side are you on?” After a muffled reply, he continued. “No side?”
Another muffled reply. I hung my head, hoping my hair would cover my expression. It was one of those, “Could I ever do anything so stupid?” moments; those silent, humiliating, stupid moments.
“Sorry ‘bout that,” Dylan said. The sound of duct tape peeling off of skin surrounded us. “Can’t be too cautious these days, can ya?”
“Cautious?” Isaac screamed. “That wasn’t cautious! That was… physical assault!”
A phone was picked up and Dylan said, cocking a gun, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”
A fist was slammed on the door from the outside. All heads turned to hear the visitor call, “Police! Open up!” Now, when two persons – or three – share the same enemy, it doesn’t matter if they also share hostile feelings. I wondered whether Isaac was going to run as I was picked up and rushed somewhere. I placed my hand out to glass and felt for a window lock. Opening the lock and window I climbed out onto the fire escape. But he wasn’t behind me.
“Come on you guys!” I said in a rushed whisper. “Hurry up!”
One came out and my hand raced to his head. Wrong hair.
“Dylan!”
“Look in my dresser for a note, Rae.”
“What? Hurry up!”
“My foot’s stuck. Find the note, or I’ll come back to haunt you!”
Isaac shut the window and pulled me down to the ground before I even had a chance to understand what he had said. Shouts came from above. “Dylan,” I said quietly, worriedly. We were, for some reason, hiding in a hedge.
Gunfire.
Four shots rang in my ears. I knew who they were aimed at; I knew who had been shot. If luck was with us, one of the lawmen had gone down too, but that wasn’t what I thought about. He was gone. I knew it. Those monsters had taken the one man I could ever love away from me!
“I’m gonna murder them!” I said through clenched teeth, attempting to storm my blind self out of the shrubbery. I struggled from Isaac’s grasp on my arms.
“I don’t know why I’m helping you since you just tried to kill me, but you can’t just barge in there!”
I paused and counted to ten. Not that it helped, I was still as mad as heck. I placed my hand on his arm and tried to look him in the eye as well as possible, tears starting to well up in my own.
“But they killed him.”
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Oh, my brain is so dead today. I apologize for such a corny, undetailed post.
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