When I awaken all is dark. My skin feels delicate against rough and grimy canvas. I hear voices, mumbling in the distance. Slow. My eyes snap open. I am on me and Josh's bed in the shelter. Winston, Mike, Josh, Sophie, Hendrix, and Miranda are all tied back to back with oneanother. Jason is standing above me. "AH!" I shriek, scrambling into the wall."Wha-what?!" Jason smirks."I took pity on you and set you free. I found a less illegal way to shut you up." "HELP!" Miranda screamed, her athletic body flexing against the ropes. "He poisoned us! He says he'll only give us the antidote if you promise not to tell," explains a franticly maintaining a somewhat serene façade Sophie Summers, nudging her BFF to take a chill pill. Jason nods."Precisely. Now, sweet Abigail Katelyn Walker... promise!" The choice is obvious. I have to promise. Even though he'll escape being brought to justice. He'll dwell along with other normal people in the world and secretly continue his crimes. All of us will live in torture knowing the secret. Me? I'm not saying I don't break laws. Sure, I swipe the occasional candy bar or some cheap Claire's earrings. Its no biggie. I'm pretty positive my parents probably have shoplifted something in their lives. I don't do anything that would get me in prison. Rape? Murder? The thought of doing any of that makes me sick. Murdering someone! Someone must have a mental illness to do something like THAT! The choice arrives at the tip of my tounge."I promise."
Jason grins and plugs a large syringe into each of my friends, one by one. They all shudder and cringe as the large needle punctures their skin and delivers anti-toxins straight into a sensitive nerve. "Thank you," I manage. "No problem, Abby. Now let's go." Before I can say a word, he hoists me up and onto a ledge I didn't even know existed. In front of my awed eyeballs he unties my friends and also hoists them up. Somehow it takes less than 10 seconds and everybody is to shocked to speak. "Bye, now!" Jason cackles. "Don't!" Sophie shrieks. Just before he shuts the door, a figure bounds past me from somehow deep behind the ledge and leaps down and punches Jason. I whimper, clutch Josh's arm tightly, and gingerly peer over the edge to see.. "AZALEA!" Hendrix bellows.