Morgan's Pov

It was the next Thursday and Shelby was glaring at me as we walked to check out. Her arms were crossed against her chest.

"I hate you," she growled under her breath. 

"Love you too Shelby." I laughed. I checked us out and we walked out watching Josh get in the van and he turned to look at us. Shelby almost stopped but I grabbed her arm and we kept going to my car. I got in and she buckled in. 

"Still hate you," she murmured.

"Shelby chill. it's going to be okay." I said and she yelled abruptly. 

"Okay! We are about to go into a cruise ship and find Josh who is like, a criminal! That's okay?" 

I looked at her and I tilted my head slightly. "Shelby, If anything happens I'll push you off the edge of the cruise ship." I looked at her completely serious.

"That's comforting." She murmured and she slumped in the seat. I started the car and we began following the van. We pulled over at the same spot and we waited till it was night time and we got out. 

I grabbed Shelby's hand and we began running as quietly as we could to the Cruise ship we saw a few days ago. When we saw it Shelby started hyperventilating. I turned to look at her. 

"Shelby? Shelby, look at me. It's going to be okay." I looked at her seriously. She looked at me terrified and it was now, I started feeling bad. "Come on. Let's get you home." I said. I gently helped her up and we went to turn around when I heard multiple clicks of guns being pointed at us. 

"Get down, on the ground." One of them said. Shelby immediately went down as she has passed out from overwhelming anxiety. I kneeled next to her to make sure she was okay. I felt a gun against my head and I turned to look and I was met with familiar Blue eyes. They were glaring at me. I looked at him shocked but my glance hardened while I waited. 

Eventually, they brought me on the cruise ship where Shelby was set next to me on the bridge. We were told we were waiting for the leader. That was reassuring. What in the world had Josh gotten into? This wasn't good. 

A girl walked up to me. She was wearing a skin-tight black suit with Dark purple streaks on it. Her hair looked mostly the same. She had Raven colored hair that reached down to her collarbones that curled at the ends and Bright purple streaks down the sides of her head. She had black combat boot heels on that were about 2-3 inches tall. 

"Who might you be?" I asked. She looked at me with a stern look. 

"I ask the questions, you answer. How did you find us?" She asked. She had a very faint accent that sounded somewhat German but I wasn't 100% sure. I scoffed. 

"I want to know the name of who I'm talking to before I answer any questions." I was met with a heel to the face and I yelped feeling blood fall down my nose and she grabbed my hair making me look at her. She had Almost lifeless brown eyes. They just looked dead and unexciting. 

"Listen here you little brat. None of us will hesitate to throw you off this cruise ship and feed you to the damn sharks so I suggest you obey and answer," she smirked and went over to Shelby and picked her up and I growled. "Answer." She put her over the edge of the ship. "Or she's gone." 

I looked at her hesitating. Was it worth it? I had no doubts they wouldn't hesitate to throw her over. 

"We followed your van. It's hard not to get suspicious when you pick up a student on the same day same time in the same black van." She looked at me and then she thought for a moment. 

"Why did you follow us?" She asked looking at me still holding Shelby over the edge of the ship.

"Because someone I know hops into that exact van every Thursday and doesn't return till Monday," I said glaring back. She finally brought Shelby back on board. 

"As soon as she wakes up, we'll start our process," she said and walked away. What process?