12

David:

I gripped the steering wheel tightly and my jaw clenching. Immediately Sophia called I knew something was wrong. I parked my car and made my way to the front door. I knocked several times but nobody answered the door.

I walked in too see the living room was a mess. The door opened almost immediately and a very worried Sophia walked in. 'Have you seen him?', she asked. 'Not yet', I said walking deeper into the house. 'We have enough time to search for Daniel and call the cops before he comes back', she said. I nodded walking into another room while she searched another.

We searched all the rooms but didn't see any signs of Daniel. I walked back downstairs and was about to enter the living room when I saw a door handle on the wall but there wasn't any door. I tried pushing it and opening it but it didn't work.

I saw a cabinet by the side and opened. I saw a key and took it putting it into the door knob hole. it entered and opened. 'Hey Sofia come check this out'. I entered the room looking around. it had a table and a chair. On the table was a gun, knife and other weapons. To the other side I saw a leg. I went over removing the things covering the leg and saw it was a body. I looked at the face and saw it was Daniel. I touched his body to check for a pulse but nothing. His body was pale and full of injuries.

I carried him bridal style and walked into the living room only to see Sofia tied up to a chair with a scarf covering her mouth and a man with a knife. From the looks of things he was Daniel's uncle. 'So your the one my nephew has been hanging around with', he said eyeing me up and down. 'What the fuck are you doing in my house?'. He folded his hands looking at me sternly.

'What does it look like I'm doing?', I said. Hes eyes showed nothing but anger now. 'Imma give you kids two options. Leave my fucking house and forget about anything you've seen here or else..', he smirked taking the knife towards Sophia neck and she let out a mufled scream, 'Imma kill you both'.

'What if I say I'm not leaving your house without Daniel'. He seemed taken aback by my response. 'Then you die', he positioned the knife towards me now. 'Im gonna give y'all a head count. if I reach 1 and y'all still here then I have no choice but to kill ya'. I didn't move. I had a plan. Sophia looked at me with pleading eyes telling me to do something.

'Three...'. I sighed. 'Two.....on....', he was cut off by the noise of several sirens. He looked at me immediately. 'You motherfucker. You called the cops on me'. I shurgged. 'Maybe'. The door immediately burst open and some police men came in. 'Put ur hands up', one of them said to him while another untied Sophia. A paramedics came in taking Daniel from me and putting him in an ambulance.

'Get in', I told Sophia entering my side of the car. I drove quickly towards the hospital and watched as some nurses put him on a stretcher and took him inside the hospital. I walked into the hospital and took a sit. Sophia sat beside me. We both were quiet. Each of us deep in thought. 'How long did you know?', I suddenly asked with my head still in my palms. 'Long enough' she said. 'What do you mean?'. I said now looking at her.

'Ive know since 6th grade'. 'How can you have know and not said a fucking word to anyone. What if he died', I said angrily. 'I tried. He didn't want be tell anyone. it's not my fault. I did what I could do', she said now looking at me. She looked equally frustrated as I was so I didn't press further. I hoped that nothing will happen to Daniel. Not now when I've started to like him.

Sigh!

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