Ray
Watching out for Mal was like asking to be run over by a ten ton semi than hit by a train, while walking on hot coals and having a knife stabbed through your throat while singing Taylor Swifts ‘Shake it off’, off key. If you don’t quite understand how hard that is you should try it some time. I once had to choose a Taylor Swift song to describe her. I had been sitting in Lewis’s room and after a good fifteen minutes of nothing but Taylor Swift lyrics I came to the conclusion that it would be ‘Red’. Lewis, Mal’s twin brother, had bragged that she knew every Taylor Swift song and could sing them all from memory it was just one of her many skills.
As I looked at her now and she screamed from them to stop I thought of all the reasons I loved protecting her. Why I had been willing to fallow her on foot and sacrifice myself if it meant she was okay. She was my whole world, my moon and sun, the best part was that she knew it too. She knew how much she meant to me and I could see how much I meant to her in the tears rolling down her face.
“STOP PLEASE LEAVE HIM ALONE!” Mal screamed as the thick metal made connect with my jaw again.
I spat blood and wonder how many more hits I can take before my jaw shatters. I can hear Mal pulling against her chains even though I can’t see her through the thick oozing blood that has seeped into my eyes. I wonder yet again how we got into this mess. I wonder how just two weeks ago our lives were slowly merging and now she was chained to a wall and I was being beaten to death strapped to a chair. Two weeks. That was all the time it took for our lives to be completely tossed to hell.
“Please, let him go… I’ll do whatever. You want us right… You want to make me happy? Let him go.” Mal’s voice is strong as she speaks but her words are sharp as swords.
“That is all I have ever wanted Malory, but I don’t see how we could be happy with him around. He will only hunt you down and make us miserable.”
“Your damn sure I will… If your gonna take her you’re going to have to kill me first. Because I won’t rest until I have Mal safe at home in my…” The punch is so strong that it knocks my chair to the ground.
My head hits the dust covered ground and I groan. My head is pounding but the pain is bearable, what isn’t is knowing that if no one comes within the next five minutes I’m going to be dead and Mal will be gone.
Mal is screaming once again but this time it’s for a different reason. I blink my eyes and see that the attacker’s attention has been directed to her once again. My blood boils as I see the hand slide across the top of her jeans and down the button.
“LEAVE HER ALONE!” I yell gagging as blood fills my mouth and I am tossed into a coughing fit.
“Bet you wish you could touch her like this…”
“Get your filthy paws off of HER!” I scream not caring that pain is raking my body with every word and blood is running out of the corners of my mouth.
“I’m sorry Malory… I can’t spare his life… I will make it as painless as I can…” Mal screams and I head a click of what sounds like the hammer of a gun being pulled back.
This is it. This is the moment I die. The moment where I leave Mal and am written off as a total and complete frailer. This is the moment when I leave Mal to fend for herself, when I break my promise, when I leave completely. The moment I leave Lydia in that place.
I refused to look away from those green eyes I had always hated. Instead I watched as they aimed the gun at my head and a sick smile spread across their lips. I felt my body tense as I watched their finger curl around the trigger. My breathing was shallow as I stared my killer in the eyes, willing them to end it.
“Look away Malory… Don’t watch this.” They said our eyes locked.
“No. Please don’t… Don’t.” Mal breaths and I feel a pain in my chest that isn’t from the broken ribs.
It felt like minutes went by, but I knew it was only seconds. I wished they would stop torturing me like this and just kill me. Just end it all, make Mal hate them more. I watched as their finger finely squeezed the trigger. The last thing I heard was a bang and Malory scream.