Chapter Fourteen: Death and Anxiety

ANDY’S POV

I became conscious as soon as I felt the rope tugging on my neck. I couldn’t move or scream for help. I knew I was going to die and I knew it would be ruled as a suicide. Ray would live out the rest of her life thinking I would have rather died than marry her and start a family.

My last thought as my consciousness started to fade what a quick prayer to keep Raymeera, our baby and our family safe from this monster destroying our lives. Sometime during that prayer, everything faded to black.

NICK’S POV

I hadn’t felt anything. I didn’t feel the gun being placed in my hand, didn’t feel it being placed in my mouth, what woke me was the sound of a gun being cocked. All I felt was excruciating pain for a while and then the blackness overwhelmed me.

TANYA’S POV

All my work had been executed flawlessly and even better than what I had planned . No one had woken up to save them and no one would ever be able to point a finger at me. I had finally managed to avenge the love of my life, Kyle. Raymeera, or rather, Maria, had destroyed my life and left me grief stricken and unable to function. I crawled back into bed next to Trevor with a sly smile on my face. Him and Joe would have some serious damage control to do in the morning.

CRY’S POV

I woke up early the next morning with the strongest urge to check on Nick and as I opened the door I was flooded by smells of gun powder and blood that should not have been there. I immediately ran to his side and let out a terrified scream. Half his face had been blown away and due to rigor mortus setting in already, his hand still held the gun in what used to be his mouth perfectly. There were no traces of the handsome man I had first met in this bloody mess.

I screamed again for help and Tanya came running in. Her first reaction was to grab a trash can and start vomiting. She was followed by Joe and Kita.

I looked at Joe desperately. Don’t let Ray in here, she’ll freak out.”

Joe helped me up, held me by my shoulders and with tears in his eyes began, “Honey, Raymeera has seen something a lot worse.”

I followed Joe down the stair case and halfway down I saw Ray on her knees staring blankly upwards. I followed her stare and broke into even more uncontrollable tears. Andy was hanging from the banister – eyes bulging, tongue hanging out and his body going blue.

This was too much. It was all just too much. Today was the day my best friend was supposed to be getting married. Instead of running to  her and comforting her, I pulled out my cellphone and dialled 911.

“Hey, we need an ambulance. We have two deaths, it looks like suicides.”

TREVOR’S POV

I walked into my room with the intention to comfort Tanya but instead found her frantically packing her things into suitcases. “Baby, what’s going on.”

“Generally when people start getting suicidal, it’s not a good sign of stability.I could have been attacked by these suicidal freaks at any given time and I trusted you to keep me safe but then hey, you might just be as bad as them.  I am pregnant Trevor and I will not let shit like this hurt m’m y baby. I’m out Trevor. No more.”

She grabbed her bags and walked out without as much as saying goodbye to anyone.

She had left the compound and I wouldn’t be able to protect her now. If she had really loved me, she would have fought through this with us. Right now, I had people I loved that needed me.