** 3 Days before Confessing**

The journey from Danzel Airport to Mexico was smooth sailing without a hitch and the sounds of excitement from the students has me covering my ears so I don't go deaf.

"I can't believe we are in Mexico right now" Kome and Daphne squeal from beside me and I plug my fingers into my ears because they are too loud for my poor sensitive ears.

"You both are annoyingly loud" I say and walk away from them but they keep following me while squealing even louder and I can bet they are intentionally being loud so as to tick me off.

"Alright everyone I'm too lazy to assign you to groups so please do that yourselves and follow the tour guides to wherever they take you and try not to get lost" our teacher announces before dragging his suitcase into a taxi and instructing the taxi driver to take him to a hotel.

"I love Mr Adams so much" Daphne says.

"Because he doesn't care what we do as long as we don't get killed?" I ask and she nods enthusiastically.

"Well then fine maidens of the sea would you like to be in the same team?" Kome asks and I link my arms with hers and Daphne does the same with her other arm, "I'll take that as a yes so off we go ladies, Mexico awaits"

"I wonder if Mexican men are as hot as they portray them to be in their dramas" Daphne says.

"If they're really hot would you bang them?" I ask and she looks at me like I asked an utterly stupid question.

"Of course not" she says and then a goofy grin claims her face, "I'm saving my virginity for Aaron"

If I were drinking something I would have spat it out but because the only thing I'm drinking right now is my own spit, I choke on it and Kome starts hitting my back to get me to stop coughing.

"That was so wrong" I say and Kome nods in agreement, "why are we even hanging out with you?" I joke

*

I can't believe I'm on the same team as Erik, just being around him has my energy bar growing even higher but on the other hand there's also Aaron who's here and has my energy bar decreasing at a faster rate.

I thought we were allowed to pick our group members so how in the world did I end up with the people who stand out the most in the school, how the hell did I end up with Aaron, Erik, Lanna, Sailem, Angela, Chris and Malik.

"I'm done walking and I am sitting down" I announce and plop down on the nearest bench because my swollen feet are killing me. I massage them but even touching them makes it hurt more and makes me want to hit a specific someone on the back of the head with a brick or maybe a baseball bat.

"We haven't even been walking that long" Daphne whines and I let her feel the full force of my glare.

"We've been walking under the hot Mexican sun for more than two hours" I inform her, "I'm hungry, I'm tired and I bet I smell like crap"

The girls in the senior class murmur in agreement and also seat down on benches and stretch their feet, Aaron looks bored like he doesn't even understand why he has to be here, Erik still looks like an angel, and Kome is well being Kome and is taking pictures of everything she sees.

Erik sits beside me and some of the other girls in other groups in a passing bus glance in our direction and I won't be shocked if they're planning to do something bad to me because I'm sitting this close to him.

"Is my smile giving you energy?" he asks and I blush momentarily before I snap myself out of it and nod my head.

"If it wasn't for it I would have collapsed before we even reached here" I say and lean back and allow the Mexican sun dance on my face. "What do you think of Mexico?"

"It's a nice place to be" he says and he looks like he's contemplating something, "but I'm not sure I'd want to live here if that's what you're asking"

"Why not?" I ask him, "If you ask me I like Mexico a lot"

"Is it because it's not Danzel Island?" he asks

"Danzel Island is great and all but I feel like a prisoner whenever I'm there and I feel like there's just too much in the world for me to experience for me to spend the rest of my life on an Island in the middle of nowhere" I say and shrug, "Why don't you want to leave?"

"I just can't imagine myself anywhere else" he replies and his smile falters before becoming bright again.

"Well then shall we continue on?" I ask and stand up immediately before the mood becomes tense and serious.

"About time" Daphne huffs and I unconsciously find myself looking in Aaron's direction, I wonder whether someone like him has ever thought of what life would be like outside of the island.

I shudder the moment I realize I was just thinking of Aaron and when I look up he's looking at me with a murderous expression and I turn my face away immediately.

"What are you doing?" Kome asks, "Get over here right now"

"I can never understand that person and I never want to" I murmur to myself and let Kome and Daphne drag me around for the rest of the day.

"What were you and Erik talking about?" Kome asks and I shrug my shoulders, she then proceeds to poke me repeatedly in the ribs with her acrylic nails which hurt me a lot.

"We were just talking about life on the island and if we wanted to leave after seeing these little parts of Mexico" I say and push her nails away from my side.

"Watch out!" a voice calls and before I think twice of what the command means I see a bullet fly past my face and break through a store's glass.

Kome screams and ducks down and for a moment I am stuck where I am standing, watching everything in slow motion as more bullets land in shop glasses and a few hit passersby.

A hand pulls me backwards and my back comes in contact with a muscled chest and everything returns to normal motion and I gain my senses immediately.

I hear his rough and deep voice before I hear what he is saying, "Are you stupid!" he yells and shakes me with so much force that my vision blurs momentarily.

I yank my hand out of Aaron's grip because it was beginning to restrict my blood flow, I grab Kome's hand and drag her behind me as we all start running towards the bus that we came with.

Our tour guide begins to shout at us to get in quickly when a fire grenade flies into one of the bus's window and lands on a seat, my eyes enlarge as I scream for everyone to get down.

Someone pulls me and jumps into the water fountain behind us and I land on their chest as the sound of our bus blowing up rings in my ears. The person is holding me so tight that I'm scared of raising my head up and looking at what's going on outside the water fountain.

The person lessens their grip on my waist and I sit up and look around me at the massive destruction around us, the debris from the bus made things around us catch fire, there are broken glasses everywhere, dead bodies and blood litter the side walk.

"If you're done straddling me then I advice you get off me" Aaron snaps and I look down at the person I'm sitting on.

I stand up immediately and climb out of the fountain and the sound of Aaron cracking his shoulder back into place has me feeling like throwing up what I had for lunch.

My eyes search the crowd for Kome but I can't spot her braids in the crowd and I begin to get scared. Someone hugs me from behind me and the smell of roses mixed with sweat makes me relaxed and I turn and hug her back immediately.

"What in the world is going on?" I ask and Kome starts crying.

"It looks like a gang fight" Erik says from behind Kome and he looks like hell, well a hot version of hell if you get what I mean. My feet hurt from falling down the stairs plus all the running around and jumping that we just did made things worse.

Ambulances along with fire service arrive at the scene and they load the dead bodies into a pickup truck and help the injured into the ambulances.

"Is anyone injured here?" a paramedic asks and we all shake our heads but Erik raises his hand up and then points at me.

"She sprained her ankle pretty badly and I'm not sure if she can walk properly" he says and I want to duck my head and hide because in a situation such as this it's very embarrassing to enter an ambulance just for a sprained ankle.

"Please seat on the edge of the fountain so I can check your feet" the paramedic orders and I do as I am told, he examines my leg and applies an ointment on it before wrapping it up, "It's bad but not that bad so you just need to stay off it for a while"

I nod my head repeatedly and the paramedic after checking the rest of us goes to check on the other people. Daphne hugs me while bawling her eyes out, I pat her back comfortingly because if I don't do this for her then I also will lose my mind.

"There's no cell service right now so we won't be able to contact anyone and I don't think wandering around after something like this happened is a good idea" Erik says and I sigh internally at how good he is at taking control of things, "so let's find a hotel or motel to spend the night at and then we'll figure it all out in the morning"

We all nod in agreement, well except for Aaron who only grunts in response and I want to ask him if he's okay but I'm still scared of him so I'm not going to get close to him while he has that murderous look on his face.

We walk a little further away from the site of the incident and find a motel that rents out four rooms for us and since we are 12 we decide to go three in each room. Daphne, Kome and I volunteer to stay in the same room and head in immediately.

I enter the shower first and lock the door behind me, I slide to the floor and cover my mouth tightly so that they don't hear me crying. I still see our tour guide shouting at us to get into the bus and I can still see the bus exploding slowly in front of my eyes as I am being pulled into the fountain.

I know no one is talking about the fact that he is dead because we all just want to forget everything we just saw in front of us. I can't believe some people live their whole lives seeing that kind of thing.

I quickly take a shower and let the rest make use of the bathroom as well. My hands keep trembling no matter how much I beg myself to stop shaking.

The sound of someone knocking on the door makes me jump because in my ears it sounds like a grenade going off and it makes my heart rate go up painfully.

I open the door and the two senior girls are standing outside our door and they raise nylon bags filled with beers and I grin as I open the door wider to let them in. They settle themselves comfortably and I join them on the floor as I check the beer brands they brought.

We all start chatting about useless things, Kome and Daphne join us as we start discussing anything that comes to mind, another knock resounds on the door and I get up to answer it.

All the guys are standing outside with nylon bags filled with beers and other alcoholic beverages. I grin at them and they all grin, well all except for Aaron but I wasn't even expecting much from him anyways.

They all come in and we form a circle and soon enough the room is filled with laughter and arguments and even though none of them would like to admit it, it's clear that we all don't want to be alone on this dreary night in a foreign city

Qwiin_tee here

I wasn't going to upload this story anymore cause no one but me was reading it but a friend told me she'd read it so here we are.