**Delilah**

I panic as I find myself trapped in a bathroom with possibly three men on the opposite side of the door, who has the intention hurting me or even worse, killing me.

Scared and fearing for my life....was an understatement.

My body shivers with fear as their pounding against the door only grows louder, and I witness cracks seeping through the wooden door.

"You better get your pretty little face out this instant", Austin roars louder than my beating heart against my ribcage, and at this rate I'm pretty sure ribs would shatter open.

My body grows more tense from Austin's threat existing his mouth and smug snikers fill my ears, must be Austin's minions.

I scan the bathroom with my eyes and everything seems to be perfectly inplace. It's surprisingly organised for a house filled only with men.

It feels like I've been in here for hours and I sit on the floor, holding my knees tightly against my chest.

"You just come out whenever you want to cupcake, I'll be waiting outside the door", Austin chuckles and it sounds like his alone.

"Just face the fact that there's no escape sweetheart. So I'll just have a seat then", he coos and a slight shadow covers the bottom of the door. His voice filled with amusement and suddenly I feel sick to my stomach.

"Okay, times up", he says standing up and everything goes slient. My heart beats faster and I listen intensively for any moment and hear none. Has he left?

My body shocks as I witness the door being slammed off it's hinges and my breath gets caught in my chest.

Austin steps into view with a smug grin on his face. "Told you there's no escape", he snarls and crowl back away from his until my back hits the wall. But the distance between us is still not safe, since he's only a few feet away from me.

"Austin please, why are you doing this", I gulp not even bothering to hide my fear any longer. I feel like I've come face-to-face with the devil.

"To proof a stupid point to Blake that he can't always get what's mine", he growls and I flinch at his tone.

"But his not even here. Just let me go. Please", my voice weak as I plead him to let me go.

"Things don't have to be like this", I reason and he shakes his head like his having an internal battle with himself.

"Don't you tell me how things are supposed to look like! You don't know anything!", he shouts pointing the gun in my direction and tears roll down my face.

"I loved you Delilah. And he took you away from me! He took my parents! He took my toys! He took my friends! He took my family! He took my life!", he shouts much louder than before and anger radiates off him into the atmosphere.

"Why not just let that anger go? Why hold onto so much anger?", I ask quietly and he laughs boredly.

"No matter how hard I try, Blake will always be better than me. The world sees him as 'Mr Perfect'. The successful guy who decided to join culinary school and now owns five-star restaurants all over the world. The guy who owned his first company at the age of eighteen, even if I don't want to admit it, I have nothing compared to my own brother", he says quietly.

"And now I'm going to take away the one thing he really cares about...you", he laughs staring at me with the gun held inbetwen his fingers.

"Please don't do this", I plead choking on my tears.

"Let her go", Austin suddenly says and shakes his head. "Don't be a fool. If we let her go she'll go back to Blake. We need to make him pay for what he did to us", he answers himself and my body fills with confusion and fear at the same time.

"Run", he shouts at me. "I'll shoot her if she runs", he says again and chuckles at himself.

"Austin please stop this, you're acting crazy", I plead and his face goes emotionless.

"Crazy!? Did you just call me crazy, no-one calls me crazy. You're going to pay", he raises his hand and I flinch.

"Why are you flinching?", he asks his eyes filled with hurt and I stare at him, confused by his sudden behaviour.

"I would never hurt you Dee", he says softly and my heart breaks to see him like this. He totally lost it. He lost himself because he is filled with so much hate and jealousy over something which was never a competition.

He falls to his knees and he looks distant. And all of a sudden everything makes perfect sence, like a puzzle fitting together perfectly.

His mood swings, talking to himself, anger, aggression....there's only one conclusion.

"Austin do you have-", I ask my voice soft, sensitive to the topic but he cuts me off.

"Bipolar", he nobs confirming my thoughts and I suck in a breathe.

"It's out of control Delilah", he nods his head. His eyes bloodshot and tears sprinkle my eyes seeing him in so much pain.

I feel like I should wrap my arms around him and tell him everything is okay to be okay. But then I snap back to reality and see the postion I am in.

He lays on the floor rocking back and forth with tears in his eyes staring at the metal gun in his hands.

I have two options at the moment :

One : quickly run out the door and find my way out without getting caught.

Two : avoid the chances and stay in position, until Austin snaps again and might shoot me.

So I go with option one.....

Quickly I grab my opportunity and stand up, running through the door down the passage.

"Get back here!", Austin yells behind me and my body fills with adrenaline as I roam the house.

I hear laughter and press my back tightly agaisnt the wall, but I know I have to move now since Austin's voice is growing louder as he nears closing behind me.

Quickly I run down the spiral stairs and run to the door at the end of the narrow passage, but it's locked and I begin to panic. Using my shoulder blade I nudge the door, but it doesn't budge. Oh come on, it works in movies!

Something sharp pokes in my leg and I remeber the key and quickly place it in the lock. Praying that it opens, and it clicks. Thankfully opening.

Fresh air hits my chest and adrenaline pumps through my body as I run into the sunlight and spot a high gate. Helpfully I can climb it in time.

I've never been an athlet but right now I push as hard as I can and use every muscle in my body to escape.

"Not so fast princess", Austin shouts behind me and I look back, my legs still running and I slam hard into a huge tree branch falling to the ground. A sharp throbbing pain enters my head and I let a loud groan.

My head snaps into Austin's direction, instantly regretting my decison not only giving me whipflash, but also staring at the now armed gun directly in my direction and I inhale a long shakey breathe as tears rush down my face in defeat.

This was never how I imagaind my own death.

"That cloud looks like a unicorn", I state half-unconsciously with a little giggle and my vision starts to blur.

I look to the side and see a blury silhouette standing infront of me, blocking my vision. A loud sound rings through my ears and one falls to the ground.

I move my zinging head from the loud sound not even able to make out what caused the sound as my hearing silences and I stare up into to the sky, blinking rapidly as I squint my eyes from the sun shining directly onto my face, but I feel too drained to move another muscle.

All I hear is a sharp loud zinging noise in my ears, and my eyes are seeing double and even blury depending on how fast I move my head.

My vision slightly clears and my heart increases seeing Blake fall to his knees beside me, a silver shiney object falling from his grip next to him, and his face blurs again. I must be hallucinating....

"And that cloud looks like Blake", I giggle once more and I soon frown mentioning his name.

My eyes focus on his lip as they move hastily but no sound, no words escapes his mouth.

My head moves to the side my eyes growing tired until darkness fully take takes over me.

**[A/N]**

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