BANG! BANG!
“You’re not going to kill another one of my kids!” my mom screams, aiming from the window of the other car. All of them hop out one by one to shoot at each other. My mom, dad, Alistair, and even Felix all shoot at Lana’s feet to keep her from shooting at me.
“Stay away from my fucking daughter!” Dylan growls.
But the other cars come to a screeching halt near the opposite side of the road. Kai, Nathan, and Milo jump out, pulling their guns and knives one by one.
BANG! BANG!
The gun is knocked from my mom’s hand, blood rolling down her arm from a shot that hit her.
“Fine, you want to do it this way?” Mom barks as she rids herself of her empty gun, only to pull out two knives. “We’ll fucking play a good old stabby game.”
“You motherfuckers have hurt our family enough,” Felix growls, approaching the group.
“Come and fucking get me then,” Nathan growls back, spitting on the ground. “Time for a fucking rematch, bitch.”
BANG!
A bullet ricochets against a tree, right near where I left Levi.
My eyes skid around to try to find the origin.
Silas.
He hops out of Heath’s car, which he borrowed, and joins the fight on my mom’s side, while Lana and her guys are on the opposite side.
Alistair is the first to strike, slicing off a piece of Kai’s sweater. “You hurt my girl … now you pay the price.”
Dad hops around with his knives, grinning like a maniac, before he cuts Kai too.
But Kai seems unfazed. “Fuck you, you fuckers tortured my son,” Kai growls, slicing away at both Alistair and Dylan, hitting my dad in the arm.
“Dad!” I scream.
But he can’t even hear me over the fight. They’re dodging each other expertly, dancing like they’ve fought out this war many times over.
Will it ever stop?
I look up from the tree stump, hoping Lana is distracted enough so I can reach out to Levi, who’s still somewhere in those woods, struggling on his own.
“You should’ve run with your family when you had the chance,” my dad growls at Lana. “Now you pay the fucking price.”
“He tortured my fucking kid!” Lana screams back. “That’s not a fucking price for an accident!”
“An accident?” Felix says through gritted teeth. “You think killing my daughter was anaccident?”
He strikes out from pure rage, hitting Lana with the back of his knife.
“That doesn’t mean you can just let your son take revenge!” Kai barks back.
Nathan backs him up with punches in Felix’s gut. The three engage in a three-way fight, and my dad jumps in to even the playground.
“He’s a killer. He deserves a painful, tortured death,” Silas hisses as he steps forward.
Levi’s dad, Kai, storms at Silas. “Over my dead fucking body!”
The fight grows even bigger as Max jumps out of the car too and tries to defend his dad, who’s getting his face pummeled by Felix. When Max gets struck with a knife to the leg, Heath screams and storms at them, punching his way through the adults.
