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Chapter Two

Both Ashton and Kavya froze. The music stopped and everyone started standing up. As everyone was still looking for whatever was going on; armed men with masks rushed into the club and started shooting sporadically.

Ashton ducked to the floor immediately. He zipped his trousers and hurried ran towards where Laila and Josh were. Laila clutched unto him immediately, her eyes reflecting her fear.

"What's going on?" She asked and Ashton shook his head.

"No idea either. First, let's get out of here" Ashton said as he became to crawl among the broken tables and chairs.

"Yo! John, where are you?" One of the armed men yelled and Ashton hissed.

"I knew they were here for him" Ashton said as they stopped crawling.

A girl stood up and tried to run out. She got shot and fell few meters away from Ashton. Laila yelled but Ashton had covered her mouth before she could let a sound out. Ashton watched the armed men before turning to Laila and Josh.

"At my count, you run" Ashton said with all seriousness. Laila shook her head negatively and Ashton slowly removes his hand from her mouth.

"It's too risky" Laila whispered as they heard another set of gunshots.

"If we don't move, they will find us" Ashton replied and they saw a large amount of students running out.

"Move it!" Ashton yelled as he pushed Josh and Laila forward.

"Lower your heads" Ashton yelled again as they started hearing gunshots behind them.

Ashton tripped over a body and fell down. He cursed as he struggled to get to his feet. He heard a gunshot and he felt a wet liquid staining his chest. He touched it and brought his hand to his face. Seeing his hands red, he glanced at his chest before blackening out.

"My son, can't die! You have to do everything you can!" A middle aged woman yelled on the top of the VIP floor of one of the biggest hospital in New York.

The TV on the floor was saying the news of a recent attack on a club house where over 25 teenagers had lost their lives and over 15 more injured. Some of the teenagers had not even been found.

A middle aged man held the woman in his embrace as she walked loudly. The man wore a complex expression as he turned towards the head of the hospital.

"Please do everything you can" he said in a firm voice.

"Mr Westlake, be rest assured. We have our best team performing a surgery in him right now. They are sure trying their best" the man said in a solemn tone.

"Thank you" Mr Westlake said.

He led his wife to a seat and they both sat down. He placed her head on her shoulder while she whimpered and sniffed her nose.

The crowd of doctors could only stand wait in front of the surgery room. They were all anxious and scared. Nothing could happen to the Westlakes' only son.

The surgery went in for hours before a young man ran out towards the Head of the hospital with a worried expression. He said a few words to him and the head of the hospital face changed. Mrs Westlake jumped to her feet as she walked up to them.

"What's wrong?" She asked scared and exaparated.

"What's going on? Where's my son?" She yelled when she received no reply.

"Ma, please calm down" one of the doctors said trying to pacify her.

Anxiousness grew in Mrs Westlake's heart as she started gasping.

"Where's my son? I said where's my son?" She yelled.

"What's going on?" Mr Westlake asked rather calmly.

"The thing is...." The head of hospital started as he started talking to the couple in low voices.

"We'll sign it" Mrs Westlake said without a second thought.

"This is highly confidential" the head of the hospital said and Mrs Westlake glared at him.

"Come with me then" he said as they rushed towards his office.

He sat them down and placed a file in front of them. Mrs Westlake picked up the pen and took a deep breath before signing it. Mr Westlake sighed before also turning the file towards himself and signing it.

"Just pray for him"

Laila walked up to Josh with a worried face "Will Ash be okay?" She asked scared.

"He will" Josh said rubbing his forehead.

The news was filled with the news of the shootout. Josh bit his lip as they announced the number of lives who had died. They had apprehended a lot of the armed men and they had confessed that they were hired but they had yet to say who hired them.

"We still have to give a statement at the police station" Josh said as Kavya walked up to them and Laila frowned.

"Is Ash okay?" She asked and Laila sneered at her.

"Do you think you guys can fuck in hospital gowns?" She asked and Kavya chuckled at her.

"I was merely asking about him. You don't have to be so worked up just because you are in heat" Kavya replied and Laila eyes went fiery.

"Heat? You looked like she was in heat a few hours ago? You were the one almost gagging slut!" Laila yelled and Kavya shrugged.

"A proud slut baby. I'm not like you who hides under the good girl pretense" Kavya said and Laila sneered again.

"Don't ever compare you and I together ever again? A proud slut? You should be ashamed of yourself! You are a dirty hag!" Laila yelled again attracting attention.

"Laila!" Josh scolded.

"We still don't know Ashton's condition and you are busy exchanging words here" Josh said as he turned to Kavya.

"I see you are about to get discharged. Go get discharged and get home safely Josh said and Kavya looked from Laila from her head to her toes and back again.

"I wonder how you manage to stay best friends with such an hyprocite for such a long time" Kavya said and Josh pursed his lips.

"Kavya...." He started but Kavya cut him off.

"See you" she said and waved her manicured nails before walking away.

"I wonder what Ashton sees her" Laila said and Josh sighed.

"Stop it already" Josh said as he rubbed his forehead again.

"Why won't let us see him?" Laila asked as she glanced at the elevator to the VIP floor that was guarded with guards in black suits.

"We told Ashton to come to the club. Do you think his parents would want to see us right now?" Josh asked as he sighed again.

"I don't have a good feeling about this though. I just hope he's okay" Josh said and Laila smiled a little.

"It's Ashton okay? He'll be fine" Laila said as she sat down.

Josh sat down beside her as the TV news announced that out of the almost 30 missing teenagers; 17 of them had been found and out of the 17, 2 were dead, 4 injured and the rest were fine.

"John Sienes is so dead this time around" Josh said in a low voice.

Mrs Westlake shot to her feet as she saw the horde of doctors coming towards them.

"How was it?" She asked.

"The surgery went well. He's fine and breathing on his own" the doctor replied.

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