Chapter 6: Agony

My lips quiver as I stare down at Beth's also quivering body impatiently for Jeff. He's taking too long to find the first aid kit from his grandparents' room or where ever, which I hope he went for. The room we are in is quiet only the tension of fear we could hear and Beth's whimpering sound she's making because of the pain she's feeling. I couldn't help but be upset because she said that she's going to die, I can't lose her, we can't lose her.

"Guys..." I hear a low whisper and I look at Beth's pale face. "I-I am losing too much blood a-and, and it-t's making," her eyes starts closing.

"Beth look at me! Don't sleep," I start to shake her body and her eyes try to keep open but are still threatening to close. The others run over her in panic. At that same time, we hear a bang. I look where the noise came from but I didn't see anything in sight except the different ways the house is divided without a wall so it has big open spaces.

"Julia, I think we better get out of-" A gunshot fired towards us, fortunately, didn't hit any of us.

"Come on help me with her!" I grab onto Beth's arm and Liam grabs the other. "Come on, try walking with me, Beth," at least while we run it can keep her from losing consciousness.

Bam!

We hurriedly start our way towards the staircase in panic. I blow my cheeks out with heavy breaths to steady myself as we go.

Bam-click-Bam!

"Aaaaagh!"

"Hurry guys!"

"It hurts!"

"Come on, hurry! We are almost there!" We run towards the staircases and start our way down there as carefully as we can. We almost reach the end of the staircase when Jeff runs into us.

"What are you guys doing?!" He has a first aid kit in his hands looking at us confused.

"Someone is firing after us we got to move now!"

"Shit! Let's get out of here-"

Bam!

"Aaaagh!" Sam screams and I whip my head around to look at what happened.

"Holy!"

"NOO!"

My eyes go wide in aghast, my heart humping out of my chest with a horrific scream, "Aaagh! Oh my God!" My other hand crashes over my mouth as I watch Jeremy crashes to the floor with a double bullet through his head and blood gushing out into a pool.

"F-fuck! Let's get out of here!" Skylar yells sobbing. I turn and we start our way down the stairs in complete dread. I couldn't help but cry while we continue down the stairs unsure if the killer is still following us.

"Aaagh!" Beth screams in pain.

"We are almost there baby!" Jeff yells from before us bolting down the stairs. We run as fast and carefully as we can down the remaining staircases before we run towards the passageway towards the second stairs. We make our way over where it is and start our way down it, we reach the end of the second stairs and start looking around for the guys.

They are nowhere in sight. No!

"Guys!?" I shout but not as loud to be caught.

"We don't have much time Julia!" We hurry Beth towards the living room and place her on the couch. Tears start to drop from my eyes, I can't believe Jeremy is dead!

"Baby?" I look over at Liam and he looks at me assuringly. "We are going to be okay but Beth needs our help right now okay?" I nod and look at the kit.

Jeff opens it and takes out a tweezer, alcohol, bandages, and cotton. "Where are the needle and treads?" I ask. We can't just leave the wound open!

"I-I don't- use what we have we don't have enough time!" I nod then remove my shirt from her wound before I grab the tweezer from the kit then proceed to go and grab the bullet when I stop. I can't do this. What if I mess up!? Most of all I can't go through someone's flesh with blood gushing while they cry in pain. I am not strong for that and so is my stomach.

I can feel the queasiness forming in my stomach thinking about it and shove the tweezer into Liam's palm before rushing towards a vase I see placed on the floor next to a window. I run over towards it and lean my head over while I clutch the top of it. It was a huge vase almost the same height as me and I am 5'4.

"Liam get the fucking bullets out!" Jeff yells. I am too busy puking my stomach out to even see what is going on over there.

"Aaaaagh! Aagh, fuck!" I close my eyes while I try not to listen to Beth's screams of agony, but I have to be there with her. She's my best friend and she would've been there with me. I clean my mouth with the back of my hand and rushes over Beth's side watching as Liam carefully pushes the tweezer into the gunshot wound to get the bullets. "Aagh!"

"Baby it's going to be fine, I promise. Shh, try to relax all of this will be over soon," Jeff is smoothing down her hair as she tries to numb the pain biting on her bottom lip.

"Mhmm!"

"I'm almost there Beth," Liam says while he slowly pulls the bullet out. The bullet finally comes out and her blood gushes out even more. Her ankle is so severe, her flesh is all spluttered while they hang from her angle her bone visible. I couldn't imagine the pain she's feeling right now. "I got to get the other bullet so try to be calm," Liam tells her before he places the first bullet down and proceeds to get the other one.

I close my eyes as he tries reaching inside and pulling it out. Beth's cry echos throughout the manor and it scares me to death thinking about the killer inside. "Aaagh, it hurts!"

This is too hard to watch. "I am almost there- it's out," Liam places the other bullet down then reaches for the alcohol and pulls it open. "This is going to hurt," he leans the bottle over her ankle so the liquid can go inside the wound and she screams in anguish tears rushing from her eyes.

"Aaaagh-agh it hurts....ah, it hurts...," her voice is hoarse from all the screaming she has been doing. Liam grabs the bandage then starts wrapping it around her ankle at the same time we hear running and we turn around to see Riley, Kevin, and Jamal looking so astounded.

"Where were you guys!?" I yell at them.

"W-we thought um, there was someone down here!" Jamal whispers and I furrow my eyebrows in confusion.

"What do you mean? The killer is upstairs when we got up there because he fired after us and he shot Beth and killed Jeremy..." I trial off feeling like I am on the verge to cry. We lost after friend.

"No.. he was down here a few minutes after you left so we ran," my eyes widen in alarm my lips parting in astonishment.

"They are two psychopaths!"