The Plan

The tension rose with every second of silence while all three of them stood still without moving. Just the thought that the boy in front of them could want to sell her out, was enough to let everyone be aware of each other, even now Amber still didn't completely trust Matthew.

"Don't worry we won't do ya anything, there is no way that we would help such a piece of shit. Come to our littl' camp ya seem like ya coul' need a good share of rest, we have nice grilled meat and alcohol all ya could want out here, well except for a functioning car ahahah."

"We'll gladly take you up on that offer." Matthew quickly responded and followed him while pushing his bike.

"Thank you."

Even though the atmosphere loosed up a bit Amber still couldn't relax, on one side due to the throbbing pain in her right hand and on the other one because anyone here could still sell her out at any moment. But this encounter could be the saving hand that helps her up to safety or the final snap of the rope that was preventing her fall from the precipice.

"Just sit down wherever ya like there is enough space for everyone" The boy interrupted her thought process.

It looked like a storm passed through their camp, empty bottles of alcohol and trash were lying around everywhere she stepped while on one of the deckchairs around the camp was resting a young boy probably around the same age as the one who came running towards them. His cheeks were slightly red and near him was lying a small dried stain from what seemed to be his puke. On the other site was sitting another boy with a girl who just interrupted their flirting to check on who just arrived, each of them with a half-emptied beer bottle in their hands.

"Lemme introduce ya to my friends, these two lovebirds over there are Sophia and Joseph while the drunkard there lying flat on his back is our youngest on' Leo and I am William."

"Nice to meet ya" The only two conscious members happily welcomed them. "My god what happened to her she looks quite shitty"

Matthew gave himself a loud facepalm in after witnessing the behaviour of their hosts.

"What only happened to the new generation, well not that I was any better at the time. Whatever let's get to the most pressing point before I witness any more of this." He faced in the direction of Amber "Do you mind telling us what happened and what is going on here?"

She nodded and started to tell them the whole story, obviously leaving out the parts about a big treasure being hidden somewhere and instead changing it to 'his father had debs', whilst doing so Matthew took care of her wound and cleanly disinfected and bandaged it. It took her several meat skewers and around an hour to finish the whole story to this point. Her listener, who were surprisingly silent throughout the whole narration, except for the snoring of the sleeping one, remained with open mouths.

"Ya went through quite a lot of shit didn't ya, that also explains your looks, let me give ya some clothes of mine, come." The girl entered the bus and signalized Amber to follow her. "And non of ya perverts better take a peep inside or I'll personally kill ya!"

It didn't take them long until both of them went out of the bus. Amber was now wearing more revealing clothes given the fact that she had only access to a teeny garderobe, a way too narrow top and a pair of hotpants were now emphasizing her in-shape body. William let out a long whistle.

"Quite the looker aren't ya..."

"Now that you've changed let us go back to the topic if we want to save your friend we need a plan to free him and escape from here, every minute that we are wasting here could cost Brian's life, so we should hurry up. Any ideas?" Matthew interrupted him before the comments could get any worse.

"For the escape, we could use the heli but we would need a pilot and either something to cut through a thick chain or someone who can picklock." Amber took the initiative.

"Well our pal Leo over there can fly, I think, at least he took a course once." Everyone threw looks of disbelief towards William "What ya two didn't know? I mean, his family is filthy rich so they paid him the course and even though he is in this condition this is our only possibility right?"

"Sigh... well I don't see any other opportunity for us other than trusting him then. I have a bolt cutter in the package of my bike so that should help against the chain problem. Now remains the question on how do we get him out of there?"

"We coul' just overwhelm them right, we are more after all"

"I don't think that'll work we are two adults and a bunch of teens against three battle-hardened gangsters with weapons."

"Right..."

"The problem is that we need to get them away from the shed where Brian is held captive then cut the chain, put out the heli and flee. We need something that distracts them for enough time, so that we can do all that... Wait a minute, the only thing I could think of right now is that I could be the distraction..."

"And how do you want to pull that off?"

"How? That's easy they are searching for me all over the place, after all, the question is how do I escape from them and join up with you once you are done?"

"I know how, I could fix my bike it will last you for about half an hour with the fuel left inside, after most of it ran out through a leak. You could bait them to follow you and run away from them in order to buy us enough time to escape with Brian. When you've done that you'll run to a place where we hid the bike take it and flee from them, we then join up at a pre-established meeting point."

"That sounds good enough!"