| Cora |

XXX Axel

My feet were aching from all the walking I'v done. I was sipping on water from my water bottle with my hands cuffed in front of me, while I was practically forced to listen to this super annoying girl complaining.

"I mean, I don't know why it's so hard to just stop by a clothing store and get new clothes, like I stink so bad." The girl complained, she had curly red hair with green eyes and many freckles on her face. She was super pretty but a total dud. I learned to just keep on saying "uh-huh" like I'm agreeing with her but just really I was tuning her out.

I sipped some more out of my water bottle and layed down on my back with my arm under my head.

"Axle, are you even listening to me?" Hazil demanded.

"Yes, it's so unfair." I mumble without thinking. Oops I guess I just said it so much it slipped out of my mouth.

"I knew you weren't listening!" She huffed.

"Why are you even sitting with me? It's not like I care about your life problems." I say closing my eyes. Carson was lucky, he was already asleep next me, and he didn't have to be tortured anymore.

"No what? I sat with you because you were lonely but I'll just leave then." She snapped. I heard her get up and stomp away. I smile, finally, peace. I hear shuffling by me and I instantly groan. "Go away, Hazel." I say irritated. Can this chick just leave me alone?

"Sorry to disappoint, but I'm not Hazel." A girl's voice says smoothly. I open my eyes. She was beautiful, with creamy brown skin, curly black hair with curly bangs, and strikingly hazelnut colored eyes. She was wearing tan baggy cargo pants that hung loosely to her hips and a black tank top that hugged her upper body showing a little stomach, and with a shotgun slung on her shoulder. I sat up quickly.

"Then what is your name?" suddenly nervous because of the stunningly beautiful girl in front of me.

"Her name is Cora," Nick says suddenly behind her, before she could say anything. He slung his arm around her waist. My blood boiled when I saw her uncomfortable gaze. How dare he touch her! I wanted to rip his arm off her waist.

"Yes, Cora is my name." She says clearly not into Nick, trying to pry his arm from her waist. He looked down at her smiling sweetly and tightening his grip on her waist, she winced. I watched with interest and anger.

"Umm, I'm going to go to the bathroom." She says trying to move out of his grasp. "That means you let go." She is clearly irritated with Nick. He nods before kissing her cheek. She rolled her eyes and immediately started rubbing the spot he kissed her like she could somehow get the kiss off her cheek. I chuckled as she walked away from him, obviously not going to the bathroom, and joined a group of girls huddled together.

"You are not a ladies man." I say sartcastically, Nick scowled at me.

"Shut up. She's mine she just doesn't know yet." I rolled my eyes. Still staring at her smile and laugh, she turned to me and smiled back and winked. "Hey!" Nick snapped. I turned my head to him. He looked jealous. I smirked at him.

"What?" I say innocently. He was practically fuming.

"She's mine, watch yourself. If you even start to flirt with her I'll cut your throat with or without The Maker's cue." Nick says angrily, I rolled my eyes. Such a drama queen.

"I'll try but it's not something I can control." I say winking at him. "The lady's just come in, without me doing anything." Nick scowled at me and stomped away. I sighed and laid back on my back and closed my eyes. At least I have someone to live for, Cora.

"Lights out! Josh yells, and the lights cut out in the gymnasium. And I slowly drifted to sleep.

XXX Jack

I woke up when I heard the door to the gymnasium creak open beside me. I sat up quickly, my heart started pounding. Four figures stepped in. Maybe they were just coming from the bathroom? I shifted on my butt with difficulty since my hands were still handcuffed behind me.

"Hey! Who's there?" I whisper loudly. Their shadows quickly jumped at my voice and moved quickly towards me. "Nick? Is that you?" They didn't answer, I saw someone take out something from their pocket. "Hey! What's going on?" I whisper more loudly. Before I could do anything else I was pinned on the ground on my back by a person, with a rough big hand over my mouth muffling my grunts and yells.

"Shhh.." A deep voice sounds in my ear, pushing cold metal against my head. A gun, but that didn't stop me. I tried to fight him off but he was amazingly strong, what sixteen year old can be that strong? The other three hurried to my captors' side, while I struggled.

"Here put this on his face, make sure he breaths it in." My jailer says. One of the hooded figures reaches towards me and I flinch back trying to yell or scream. I bit the hand. The hand flinched back.

"You're gonna regret that." My captor said coldly. I ignored his threat and opened my mouth to let out a scream but then a damp, thick rag covered my mouth and nose. It smelled sweet, intoxicating and it made my head swim. I couldn't seem to focus on anything. My struggles got weaker and weaker each breath I took until my vision started getting blurry. It must have been almost five minutes of me getting pinned to the smooth wood floor with the rag secured to my face before I passed out.