Chapter Twenty-Six

[Selena's POV]

"Open the goddamn door, Selena!" Ryan yells at me.

Ryan and Alfredo both have one of their arms wrapped around Justin's back as his arms are wrapped around their shoulders. I watch as they help limp Justin over to the front door of the house and I quickly open the door for them. With every little step I can hear Justin wincing in pain making my heart ache.

"Help me carry him downstairs," Alfredo says to Ryan.

Ryan turns his head towards me. "You stay here." he says sternly.

I hug my body as Ryan and Alfredo carry Justin down the staircase that leads down to the basement. After a few minutes, I hesitantly head upstairs to Justin's bedroom. I walk into the small bathroom that is connected with his room and closes the door. I turn on the hot water for the shower and strip out of the hospital gown letting it fall to the floor.

All I need right now is to take a few minutes to myself to clear my thoughts.

Once the water is hot enough I step inside. The hot water engulfs my body making me close my eyes. I lean my head back and takes a few moments to enjoy how good the water feels.

My mind wonders off to the events that have happened the last few hours.

The images of how Liam had snuck up behind me and stabbed me in my side before I could even do anything plays through my mind. I feel my eyes begin to water when I think of how Justin was pinned to the floor by Liam with his gun pressed to his temple. If it wasn't for my quick thinking to grab Justin's gun that laid beside me and fire a shot towards Liam, Justin probably wouldn't be here right now. And neither would I. Then I picture all the injured and dead bodies that lay on the hospital floor. I know who and what Justin does, but seeing it happen in person has given me a whole different view of him. He hurt those people for no reason. A fear tears slip down my cheek.

I push all my thoughts to the back of my head and begin washing my body. In a matter of a few minutes I'm rinsing my body off then turning the shower off. I step out of the shower and grab a towel. I wrap the towel around my body and walk out to the bedroom. I get into Justin's dresser and randomly grab a shirt of his and a pair of his boxers. I don't have any of my clothes here, so I have to wear Justin's.

I dry myself off then dress myself into Justin's clothes. His shirt being too big for me and hangs down past by butt. I inhale the scent of Justin's shirt and finds myself smiling.

Then I hear Justin scream from downstairs making my head snap up. Out of instinct I dart towards the door to try and get to Justin's side, but instead I run into a body. I look up and my eyes are met with Ryan's.

"What's wrong with Justin?" I shout. "Are you hurting him?"

Ryan chuckles. "Alfredo must have taken the bullet out of his leg. It looked like the bullet was in there deep." He shrugs and pushes me backwards into the room with one of his hands as his other comes around and reveals a knife.

I feel my heart stop and takes multiple steps back from him. "W-what are you doing?" I say shakily.

"I'm doing what I should have done the moment you stepped into Justin's life." Ryan says, his hand gripping the knife tighter. "Ever since you came along you've caused nothing but trouble for us. Not once, but twice we've almost been caught by the police because of you. And now," I watch as he raises the knife up causing me to back up more, "Justin has been recorded on tape and I bet the police have already figured out where we live by now."

"It wasn't my fault! Everything would have been fine if Justin didn't-" I get cut off as Ryan sends a hard smack to my face. I grab my face in pain and can already feel my cheek reddening, knowing there's probably a handprint left behind.

"You deserve to die!" Ryan yells.

First Liam wants me dead, and now Ryan.

"Justin will kill you before you even try to hurt me." I threaten.

"Oh, really now?" Ryan shakes his head and laughs softly. "Last time I checked, your little hero is downstairs getting stitched up and can barely walk. He can't save you this time, princess." An evil smirk spreads across his face making my heart beat faster. "Either I kill you now, or it'll happen later. No mater what, you're going to get killed. That's why Alfredo and I agreed to help Liam with killing your slutty ass."

My eyes widen as so does his when those words leave his mouth.

"You've been planning to kill me this whole time?" I ask, feeling my body starting to shake.

Ryan doesn't answer. I take the opportunity and make a dart towards the door. I feel Ryan's hand try to grab my shirt, but I'm able to slip past his fingers. I run as fast as I can downstairs hearing Ryan's footsteps not far behind me.

"Justin!" I call out for him as I head down the staircase to the basement.

I look around the basement until I see Justin laying down on a couch. Alfredo sits on a stool next to him and I can see him stitching up Justin's leg where he's gotten shot. I run over to Justin's side as he looks at me worriedly.

"Selena, what's wrong?" Justin asks quickly.

"Ryan, Liam, and Alfredo," I say breathlessly, glancing over at Alfredo as he's just finished stitching up Justin's leg. "They've been planning to kill me this entire time!"

Justin furrows his eyebrows together. "Whoa, calm down. What's going on?" Justin says, slowly sitting himself upright on the couch.

Before I can answer I hear Ryan come down to the basement. The knife that was once in his hand is gone now. I glare at him and then at Alfredo, feeling angry tears starting to build up in the corner of my eyes.

"They made a plan with Liam to try and kill me!" I shout, looking back at Justin. "That's why Liam was here earlier trying to kill me and why Ryan just tried to kill me upstairs!"

"You what?" Justin says, anger now in his voice as he looks over at Ryan.

"That's right. This whole time we've bee trying to kill the little of yours. And it would have worked too if Liam would have stabbed her in the heart instead of her side." Ryan says.

Justin grabs my arm as he struggles to stand to his feet. He then pulls me into his side and wraps and arm protectively around me and I wrap my arms around his waist. My hands clutch his shirt tightly, afraid to let go of him.

"I trusted both of you!" Justin yells at Ryan and Alfredo. "I trusted that you two would help keep Selena safe. But all you assholes did was do the opposite! It was already bad enough that I knew Liam was out to kill her from the beginning, but now I know that you two have been trying to kill her too this whole time." Justin shakes his head and tightens his arm around me. "Fuck you two."

I tuck my head into Justin's shoulder. "I wanna leave, Justin." I say, my voice muffled.

"We are," Justin says, his hand rubbing my back. "Right now."

"Where are you even going to go?" Ryan says. "You have no place to go."

"You really think I'd tell you," Justin looks at Alfredo, "or you, where I'm going to go?"

"Justin," I say softly, picking my head up to look at him.

Justin kisses my forehead. "Go over there and grab one of the guns. Make sure there's bullets in it, okay? I'm going to take it with us."

I nod my head and quickly walk over to the corner of the basement. There's at least ten hand guns laying out on the table with packages of bullets laying next to them. I grab one of the guns and it take me a minute to figure out how to open the barrel to see if there's any bullets inside. It's loaded with six bullets. I start to make m way back to Justin's side when I decide to grab another gun. I may need to start carrying one around with me now.

I walk back over to Justin and takes his hand in mine, lacing our fingers together. I gently tug on his hand to try and get him to follow me. I want nothing more than to just leave. I'm so scared that just being in the same room as Ryan and Alfredo is making me feel uncomfortable. Justin slowly follows me. I hold onto his hand tightly as he limps to the staircase.

"Good luck trying to find someplace to go." Ryan says, his arms crossing. "But I hope you know we'll find you."

Justin stops when we're halfway up the staircase and looks at Ryan. "If you ever get near Selena again I'll kill both of you, and Liam, without any hesitation." Justin threatens.

Everything from the point happens in slow motion.

Ryan pulls the knife out from his back pocket and in a blink of an eye he's making his way up the staircase with the knife raised high. I feel Justin try to push me up the stairs to get me out of the way, but I wasn't going to let Ryan hurt Justin. Without thinking, I hold up one of the guns I've grabbed and point it at Ryan. My finger pulls the trigger and the gun fire off with the bullet hitting Ryan in his shoulder. I watch as he falls backwards, falling down the stairs and lands on his back on the floor. It take a moment to realize what I've just done and a gasp escapes my lips.

"She shot me!" Ryan shouts in pain, grabbing his shoulder.

"Go, Selena!" Justin says, pushing me up the stairs.

I shakily climb up the stairs with Justin right behind me. Justin grabs the van keys off the table and he leads me outside to the van. I get into the passenger seat, my mind picturing Ryan's body falling back onto the floor with the blood instantly starting to soak his shirt. Justin gets into the driver's seat and starts the car before he back out of the driveway and peels off down the road.

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~ Author's Notes ~

A lot happened in this chapter, oh my god...

BUT, I did try to make this chapter as interesting and as long as I could. It would have been longer, but what happens next is what I want to happen in the next chapter. :)

So where do you guys think Justin will take Selena and him? Do you think they'll be safe now?

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