"Max!" Amelia hissed while peeking behind the wall.

Somehow, we went up to the second floor of the abandoned building which was covered in graffiti. Now, we were hiding in a storage room.

"No, no, not the time to go yet," Max spoke up as he turned to her.

"How long you want us to be here? The whole night? It's cold as fuck!"

This ain't gonna work. I knew that Amelia hated the cold, and the guys would probably just find us at this place easily.

"Dude, trust me. If there isn't any change in 5 minutes, we can go."

"Fine!"

One Mississippi, two Mississippi.......

Looking at the second hand of my watch, 3 minutes have already passed by.

Creak.

"Shit," Amelia mouthed.

Little did I know, catastrophe was about to happen.

Creak.

The sounds got louder and louder as our nerves became tenser and tenser.

"Get to the back and hide. Ally and I are watching them here," Max turned to me and said seriously.

"No, no, dude...... We can't do it on our own."

Turning to him, I stood up slowly. "You got to trust me." Grabbing Amelia's arm, I tipped toed through the doorway and got to another smaller storage room.

We ducked down on a corner and peeked through a hole in the wall at them.

"Don't move." A raspy and low man's voice suddenly came from behind making us jump forward.

Fuck...

"Ah!" Amelia shrieked even though it came a whole second late.

The man didn't hesitate and pointed his gun at Amelia's forehead. "Another word and you two will be gone."

I gulped hard and nodded. My hands, feet, and my whole body was shaking terribly. I could see Amelia doing the same as well.

"Follow me." The man grabbed my neck forcefully making me get up while keeping the gun on Amelia's head.

Taking the last peek at the hole, I hoped Max would look back at us that second, but he was totally concentrated on looking through the doorway. Well, I guess he didn't even hear us in the first place... All we could do now was follow the orders of the man which was, of course, deadly, but we had no other fucking choice. I made eye contact with Amelia a few times during the walk towards nowhere. She glanced back at me a few times with her mouth shut tightly. She clearly wanted to say something, but we knew that with one single move we would be dead.

Walking through the old building, my eyes kept glancing around our surroundings, trying to find a possible escape route or any ways to get away from that man, while hoping Max would suddenly appear and save us. But the longer I walked, the more hopeless I grew. Perhaps this was the last day that I would be alive... No, wait. I swung my head to the left quickly, as I thought I saw a person. Wha......

"Look forward!" The man yelled at me.

I quickly turned my head back pretending nothing had happened. This might be it. This might be the only chance.

Broom

The man immediately held his gun up and pointed it towards the wall on the left of us. "Show your fucking self!"

Broom

"Come on, COWARD!" He then fired a shot towards the hallway.

"Ah!" She screamed.

I moved to her side and hissed by her ears. "Move away."

Out of nowhere, Ally darted towards the man behind us and slammed two bricks on his head, making him collapse to the ground rapidly. Max then appeared, he ran towards the man in front of him and swiftly grabbed his gun. "You dickheads!"

The man surely didn't give up, he stood up once again and threw a punch onto Max's face directly. Thankfully, he was quick enough to jump out of the way.

"Catch the gun!" Max called facing me. He threw the gun to me. I caught it and sprinted away with Amelia while Max and Ally dashed towards him and pushed him down to the ground.

"Shit!" The man snarled and grabbed onto their legs, but Max didn't give up either and stomped on his face a few times. Before turning the last corner in the hallway, I could see that the man was on the ground unconscious. Max and Ally immediately ran towards us after.

Amelia slowed down as soon as we got out of the building. "Wait...wait for them." She was panting as she released my tight grab on her arm. Her face was even redder than an apple, with sweat all over it.

"Are you okay?"

"Who could be okay after that!" She sighed and glanced back at the hallway.

All of a sudden, Max's raucous voice came again. "Run guys run! They are in here!"

Shit.

Without thinking, I grabbed Amelia's arm again and darted towards the direction of the gate. Glancing back at the building, I could finally see them rushing out of the hallway.

Bang

Fuck.

The shot made me ran even faster.

"Did they get shot?!" She yelled.

"How would I know!" I knew that there was nothing we could do now but keep on running.

After a few seconds, they finally caught up.

"Did you call the cops?" I shouted at him

"Yes. Yes! I did!"

"Why aren't they here yet!?" Looking all frustrated, I turned to him.

"I don't fucking know! I called them in the building 5 minutes ago."

Bang

Bang

Ally turned around and fired a few shots at the guys with the gun in her hands. "Motherfuckers!"

"Why the hell do you have the gun!" I shouted at her.

"Because that dumb ass guy failed us." She spun around back to us.

"You shouldn't be using it!" I roared.

"Bro, let my girl decide! We are getting hunted by armed guys!" He scolded.

Bang

Bang

Bang

"Fuck ah!" Amelia howled suddenly making all of us look at her.

Oh God, oh God no! No no no!

At that same moment, we could hear the siren of the police cars. Glancing back at the building, I could see the men running away. But I couldn't believe what was happening right in front of me. Amelia immediately collapsed to the ground.

"Leg...leg." Blood splattered everywhere as she tried to cover the huge wound with her hands. We ducked down and did the same, trying to prevent further blood loss. "Shit shit shit..." she yelled in distress and twisted her body again and again.

"Girl, girl, you're okay..."

"Amelia, calm down, you're alive..."

Max and I have absolutely no idea what to do but just calm her down and cover her wound.

"Bandage guys! You can't stop that humongous wound without fucking bandages."

"We don't have it!" I shouted.

Ally then poured all of the things out of her bag and grabbed a roll of bandage. "Who says that?"

Max and I tear pieces out and wrapped it around her leg right away.

"What? You carry bandages around every day?" Max turned to her, while I continue wrapping more layers of cloth around her leg.

"Stop talking, you guys need to apply pressure! Let me do it." Ally moved closer and started pressing on the wound tightly.

"Luke, check her pulse. Max give me more bandages, these are already soaked with blood."

I quickly took her wrist and put two fingers on it.

"Keep checking it, she's gonna pass out in a few." Ally kept on wrapping bandages around the wound, while Max helped her.

"Amelia, don't worry, help is coming," I faced her and said calmly.

I could see that lines between her eyebrows growing deeper and deeper, while she tried to gaze down and look at the wound. "Thanks...guys..."

A few seconds later, her eyelids started to fall.

"Luke......Luke..."

I moved closer to her, letting her place one hand on my face. "Amelia... You'll be alright..." Touching her face softly, I breathed.

"I...I love you." Breathing heavily, she moaned, while looking deep into my eyes.

I ducked down more and got nearer to her face. After stroking her hair a few times, I placed a kiss on her lips. It was then her eyelids shut completely.

"Luke! Check her breathing!" Ally yelled at me as she saw Amelia unconscious.

Immediately, I tilted her head back and leaned in to hear the breathes.

"She's fine." I sighed while looking at her chest.

"Keep monitoring pulses and breathes. Max, tighten this bandage with me."

After another 3 busy minutes, paramedics finally arrived.

The 3 of us were standing in front of the ambulance watching as the people took Amelia into the car. She was laying on the flatbed, still unconscious.

Somehow, the memory of us at the beach suddenly flashed across my mind. I wonder...I wonder if she was ever going to heal and be that happy girl again...

I know that this case was connected to my dad which made my anger boil to a point I couldn't hold anymore. I couldn't believe my dad could even do harm to the person I treasured most in the world.

I know, I know I was thinking too much, but I think seeing her like that just made me psychopathic and my mind uncontrollable...

"You guys did a great job of saving her life. The paramedics said the wound is already healing."

A policewoman approached us and said.

"It was Ally the whole time." I looked at Ally and smiled.

"Wouldn't have done it without you guys." She looked between Max and me and curved her lips.

"Is she going to be okay?" I faced the policewoman and asked.

"Yes, it's not a life-threatening shot. She'll definitely be fine, don't worry. Now I need to ask you guys some questions about the shooters. When......"