That day, after Cyrus and Alice got kidnapped, no one said anything. No one knew. Not even their own friends.
~~~ Jackson's Point Of View ~~~
Cyrus and Alice said they would meet us in the cafeteria at lunch. They didn't tell us where exactly, but I was really sure they would be at the same place we always eat lunch at.
Strangely, they were not there. We looked for them everywhere but still couldn't find them. We thought of calling them but their phones are both not working.
"What do you think they are doing?" Sally said worried,
"I don't know, I mean they told us they would be here. If they wanted to go somewhere else wouldn't they tell us? Like call us or text us?" I asked more to myself,
"Should we call Sheriff Issac, maybe if he knows anything?" that wouldn't be a great idea,
"I don't think so, even in the slightest chance they were skipping school, his father shouldn't know about it," I explained,
"Fine, but do you think they are okay?" honestly I don't know. But I don't want her to worry so I said, "I am sure they are fine, S,".
~~~ Cyrus's Point Of View ~~~
I wake up to the strangest pain. My eyes couldn't adjust to the room quickly, because the room is all white and bright. As soon as my eyes adjust to the room, I swiftly looked around. There was a man in front of me grinning at me. Then to my right, there's Alice. She still hasn't woken up. She is all tied up on the chair. I looked at my chair and so am I. My feet are tied to the chair with a big rope, and my hands are tied on behind me together. My body is also tied to the chair. I can't move my body but I can definitely move my hands a little. I moved my hand to feel the back of my jeans and it's there. They must've not seen it, but now I have to wait for Alice to wake up and for this creepy guy grinning at me to...I don't know, turn around or sleep or something.
After what felt like 20-25 minutes of staring at each other with the stranger, Alice wakes up. She is also adjusting to the room. Since the room was pretty white. Right when she notices where we are, her face fills with horror. She looked at me and I grin at her knowing what I will do.
"Where are we?" She asks looking from me to the stranger and to me. Right when she saw the stranger, her eyes widen.
"Uncle Theo?" what?! He is her uncle?
"Hello, Alice," Stranger Theo says,
"What are you doing? Why are you doing this?" she says looking at him in disgust,
"Oh, Congratulations guys, mission accomplished. You two found The Silent Man," he says clapping.
Alice and I look at each other in horror. He can't be. Why would the silent man just expose himself like this, unless he wants to kill us so the secret wouldn't go out. Shit! We need to act quickly.
I looked at Alice and she looked at me confused. When I turn to look at Theo, he has his back to us clicking on his phone.
"Any last words?" he asks still typing on his phone his back turned to us. This is my chance. I push my hand in my jeans before pulling out the gun I stole from my dad's gun collection. I pull my hands up aiming to his chest.
"Any last words?" I ask back grinning. Alice looked at me with her jaws dropped to the ground. Theo turns around frowning. I grin at him before shooting him three times on the chest. Alice looks at me clearly wordless.
"I am sorry Alice," I didn't realize it was her uncle,
"Where did you get that from?!" she practically yells
"I can explain that later, Alice. We need to get out of here before others come," I said looking everywhere to find something,
"Wait look, the glass he was drinking with, we can break that and maybe use it to cut the rope. Let me do this," she pushes the chair to the glass. When she got to the glass, she pushes it with her head. It falls and breaks. I look around the door to check if anyone heard the glass break and no one did. While I check if anyone's coming, Alice starts cutting the rope with the broken glass. I hope this works.
Ten minutes later, her arms are free. Right when she finishes her hands, she goes for her feet that are tied together. After she was free, she runs to my side and starts untying.
I grab my gun from where it is when she finished untying. I hold my gun in front of me looking out for anyone coming while Alice looked for out phones.
"There!" she whisper-yells when she found our phones behind his desk,
"Alice hide someone's coming!" I call but not before a guy enters the room with a gun. Shit! I punch his face repeatedly until he passes out. I don't want to kill anyone else so I won't use my gun anymore. Alice watched me in horror as I fought the guy. When he falls on the ground passed out and all bloody, I grabbed Alice's hand and run out the door hiding in every corner to check if there are guards.
"Call Jack and tell him to bring his car to where your phone's location shows," I tell her looking at the guard standing at the front door,
"We have to call the police, not Jack," she whispers,
"No, we are not going to call my dad, A. What do you think would happen if he found out I stole a gun and killed the guy with it. Also, they will probably have the sirens on. The sirens can't be any good," I say not looking at her at all.
"Okay," she says and starts calling Jack. When he picks up she tells him exactly what I told her "Follow me," I say when she hangs up,
Before we move, I heard footsteps approaching us. I punch the guy behind me once using all my force, enough for his to fall on the ground. I grab Alice's hand and run to the opposite left side and hide. When the door guard heard the bang, he runs to the right side with his gun where the other guy had fallen. Right when he bent down to check if the other guy is dead or not, I drag Alice slowly with me making sure we don't make any noise. I grab the door handle and slowly open it. I look back to see that the guy isn't there anymore. Shit. I run yanking Alice behind me and hide behind another corner. Alice's phone rings loudly and some guys including the guard run out of the door following the voice. She accepts the call when she notices the caller ID is Jack. Right, when she picked up, he says "We're here," she hangs up and gets up to run with me, but not before a guy stops us holding a gun at us. We put our hands up so it would trick him. When he turned around to call the others, I grabbed my gun and shot his right leg and his right hand where he was holding the gun with. He drops the gun and cries out for help and the others run toward him, half of them following us. One of them shoots but missed right beside my head and hit the glass door. The door Shatters into pieces making a great opportunity for us to get out of there.
They shot again and missed and hit the other glass door. When it shatters into pieces I grab Alice and push her behind me. A sudden pain hits on the stomach. I look down at my bloody stomach and notice a piece of glass stuck in it. If I lose a lot of blood before we get out of here, I am going to pass out and put Alice in danger on her own. I won't be able to protect her. I hold the pain and run holding her hand while shooting behind me with the other hand.
When we are out of their sight and find the car, we run as fast as our feet can take us. I couldn't run anymore. The pain starts getting worse and I start to get weak.
"Alice, help me, I can't run," I say in a low voice holding my stomach. She takes my hand and puts it around her shoulders.
"Jackson, Sally, help me get him in," she says dragging me by the waist.
"Shit! What happened to him," I hear Jackson yell followed by Sally.
He takes my other hand and puts it around his shoulders while Sally opens the car door and waits for us.
Before we make it inside the car, I heard them shooting again and the front glass of Jackson's car shatters.
"Shit, they are here! Jackson help me get him inside! Sally get in the passenger seat and stay low! If they shoot again, they will shoot you!" Alice yells at them. Alice grabs my gun and starts shooting behind us while Jack settles me in the backseat of the car.
"Alright, Alice! Get in!" Jack shouts behind the noises of the gun shootings. Alice runs inside the car and right when she jumps in, Jack swerves the car and drives off. While Jack drives, Alice takes my shirt off and holds it on my stomach to stop the blood from gushing out.
"Jackson! Go faster! They are following us with two cars!" I hear Alice say before I completely pass out.
~~~ Alice's Point Of View ~~~"Jackson! Go faster! They are following us with two cars!" I say looking behind me at the two black cars."I am trying!" he yells at me not looking back,"Then try harder Jack!" I yell back. I look down to check on Cyrus and he's passed out."Shit," I mumbled checking his pulse."What?" Sally turned around,"We need to go to Dr. Harlod, Jack," I say tears appearing in my eyes. Dr. Harlod is Sally's cousin. He graduated with a doctorate degree. He graduated about a year ago and started working in the biggest hospital in Goldfinch. When we get to the hospital, it is pretty busy so the black cars aren't behind us anymore. I am sure they have given up on us and pro
~~~ Cyrus's Point of View ~~~ "Jackson, start the car, they are still following us!" Alice yells at him and he swiftly starts the car and drives off to the road hitting the gas hard and driving it as fast as it could go while mumbling 'we're dead'. I am not sure where Jack is driving to but it certainly isn't the way to any of our homes."Jack do you know where you're going?" I ask,"No, but we can't go home. It's too dangerous, so we are just going to drive until they lose us," Jack says gripping the steering wheel tight,"Are you insane?! No, we are not going to do that. Our parents will be worried-" Sally says"Would you prefer them dead than worry about us?!" Jack yells cutting her off,"We can tell the Sheriff!
~~~ Cyrus's Point of View ~~~ It is not something I knew long ago. It's not something I discovered in grade 7. It's something I came upon just now.The fact that I am in love with Alice. I am sitting on the bed looking at the one and only...Alice. She is sleeping peacefully with her face turned to me. She is absolutely irresistible. From her dark brown hair up to her beautiful long eyelashes to her small cute nose to her appealing pink lips. She is just glamorous. Jack walks out of the bathroom wearing shorts and nothing on top showing off his 6 packs. He has a towel around his neck and his hair was dripping wet. He looks at me swooning over Alice.He rai
~~~ Cyrus's Point of View ~~~ The town looks like it's having what we call a costume party. A 1920s costume party. While we are driving through the town people give us looks."What the hell is this town?" Jack whispers more to himself,"Why are they looking at us this way? And why do they all look like they are in the 19 somethings?" Sally says looking out the window giving them dirty looks,"Guys, I don't think we can find a hotel just driving around. Let's take a walk and look for one," Alice says getting ready to get out of the car,"Are you out of your mind? Don't you see the look they are giving us when we are in the car? Who knows what they would do when we are out of the car?" Jack keeps driving through the crowded roads,
~~~ Cyrus's Point of View ~~~ On our way back to Goldfinch, the only thing we could do was sleep. Jack and I switched places a couple of times while one of us drive and the other sleeps. It was a 6 and a half hours drive back to Goldfinch. We expected the black cars to follow us on our way back like they did the last two times, but there was no sign of them. Right the second we got to the hospital we ran to my mother's room. She was lying on the bed while my dad was sitting on one of the chairs. They were both asleep and we didn't want to wake them up so we decided on getting some breakfast until then. We are currently on our way to the cafeteria to eat something while my parents rest. I barely said two words on our way to the hospital and until now. I can tell my friends
~~~ Alice's Point of View ~~~After a while of sitting and talking to his mom, I said I better go since my dad would probably be home and he would want me to be there with him. "Hey, do you want us to come with you?" Cyrus said,"Yeah you know, like a sleepover so you won't have to face the evil yourself?" Sally asks,"No guys, it's fine. My dad wouldn't be okay with it. He would want me to spend more time with him. And Cyrus you should look over your mom. I will be okay," I smiled at them giving them a hug one last time so I could go home."Hey wait, be careful okay? And also, if you can do it, maybe try, try and look at the spot you shot him. You know he still has to have t
~~~ Jackson's Point of View ~~~That night while we were trying to stop the blood from Alice's hand, we heard another shot."Is that Cyrus?!" Sally asked petrified,"I will go check," I said running downstairs hoping it wasn't Cyrus that was shot,"CYRUS, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?!" I yelled when I noticed the dead body lying on the floor,"He was going to escape and-and I swear I-I didn't mean to, oh my god," he was shaking as he stuttered the words out,"What are we going to do?" he asked panicking,"Okay help me before they see it," I said trying to get a hold of the feet,"We're not going to hide the body, that's a crime," he said stupidly,
~~~ Jackson's Point of View ~~~When we walked in, Alice said, "Hi," in a tiny voice.Well, I guess, now let the night begin."Hey Alice, how are you feeling?" I asked first as I got closer to her and rubbed her hand,"I am feeling better, thanks," she said as she turned her head to Cyrus,"What happened?" she asked,"Nothing, nothing happened. We're all okay," he assured her. She smiled and let it go start talking to her dad. Cyrus and I used to opportunity to get out of there and walk around."Don't look suspicious, Cyrus. You looked really doubtful in there," I told him honestly,"What did you actually do? How would you just be playing around with a knife and just kill someo-" I