Run.(4)

Have you ever had your life shine right before your eyes? well, i just did. and i saw myself walking in the forest and being hungry. because thats the only part of life i could remember. the knife in his hand glistened in the sun, which was going down and the sky was begining to darken. but it glistened for that half a millisecond that i saw it. then something shoved up against me. the next thing i saw was the ground, because i had just had a faceplant. i got up as quickly as i could and ran toward nick, who had his left hand on charles' wrist, bending it backwards so he couldnt use his knife. he had his right hand up against charles' chest as he was pushing him up against the nearby tree. i took the knife out of charles' hand, cause it seemed like the only thing i could do. nick seemed to be handling all the other parts. i threw the knife as hard as i could into the forest, while nick called me over to help him. he seemed to have him pinned up against the tree pretty well, he was so strong and i saw his muscles flexing.
"Andrea, can you hold his right hand up against the tree for a second?"
i did as i was told. when i had him securley up there nick punched him in the face really hard knocking him out cold.
nick pushed him to the ground and picked up a backpack that he had sitting by the fire we had made only miniutes before.
"We need to get out of here." nick said walking so fast that i needed to jog to keep up with him.
"Why? Will he wake up soon?"
"Ha, no. he wont be waking up for about an hour. But he has people working for him and they could be anywhere right now ready to pounce any moment, and i cant take down that many at once. "
"ok, so where are we going?" i asked, hoping he knew the way out of this maze of trees and leaves.
"To the cave." he said , like i should have known that.
"ohh, yeah thats right", he said remembering my amnesia,"um, there is this cave that you and i have been hiding out in for the past week."
he said tapping the tree beside him.
"What exactly are we hiding from?"
"charles and his crew of murderers." he said with anxiety. i looked at his face, and i could tell he was hiding something from me.
"tell me."
"Tell you what?"
"what your hiding from me."
he stopped and looked around hesitantly. then he started walking again.
"Ill tell you when we get to the cave."
"no, i want to know now before we get attacked again!"
"Ill tell you when we get to the cave.besides we will be there in only a few miniutes."
"tell me or ill-ill."
"you'll what?" he said stopping and looking at me straight in the eyes. i couldnt tell whether his eyes were like daggers or likea soft pillow that you just wanted to sqeeze and hug.
"Fine. I'll wait, but we better get there soon."
and in a matter of miniutes we actually were there. he had kept his word. the cave was behind a waterfall, so we were creativley hidden, and on the inside the water looked beautiful and the cave looked well, like a cave. there were 2 sleeping bags and a pile of firewood and signs that a fire had been there. nothing else was there and the only other thing here was nicks backpack that he had on his back. he sat on his sleeping bag and put his face in his hands and let out a big, somewhat annoyed sigh. i sat on the other sleeping bag.
"Okay, start talking." i said.
"well, i might as well start from the begining. as you know you and i are best friends and my mom and your mom are best friends and the other day-well last week, you and your mom went out for coffee or gas or something at cogo's and-and-and you dont remember any of this?"
"nope." i said popping the 'p'
"and at the cogo's, well, aparently the guy knew you mom or something- i-i dont know, he didnt like her and-and-"
"just say it."
"And he kidnapped her."
my mind went blank. even more blank then what it had been for the past 2 days. nothing was in my head except one sentence. Charles stanley had kidnapped my mom and now me and my best friend are trying to rescue her, but i cant remember her one bit because i had amnesia. stupid tree trunk.
"what happened next?"
"Well, the cogo's guy threatened that if you called the police that he would kill your mom."
i gulped.
"Anyway so you came to me and you wouldnt let me call the police for anything. so you and i went and followed your mom and that guy all the way to this abandoned building. well, we didnt follow him, but we knew he was on highway 60 and we found his car. so we went into the abandoned building and we sneaked in and-" he was cut off. cut off by the sound of a group of men outside the cave. they were only a few feet away from the waterfall that i thought fer sure they had to have heard our conversation, but they seemed to still be searching. i could hear mumblings of their conversations but i couldnt make out the words. i looked at nick. he waved me over to the deeper part of the cave, behind a rock that we hid behind. i ducked as far down as i could and i heard one of the men say this.
"Hey, Steve,check this out.looks like this is where they sleep. we found their hidoutthey have been in for the past week. doesnt look like they are here but maybe we should stay here in case they come back at night to get there stuff."
"yeah, okay. good idea. they'll come back and then we can capture them and take em to boss. search their bags and take allweapons inside. we can use them on that nick kid. "
"yeah, that kid is like what? 16?17?he is strong. "
i saw a big foolish smile creep across nicks face when he said that.
"yeah and giving him weapons wont help us any, so start searching those bags, they couldcome at any moment. ill lookout by the entrance to this hideout cavelike place. "
nick leaned in to me and whisperd softly into my ear"just wait till they get hungry,then one of them will go look for food and i'll take care of the one left behind. just stay quiet till they get hungry. "
i nodded my head in reply. that was a good plan. by the sound of the mens voices they were big, but nick could probably take them, after all he took down charles. but why hadnt he killed charles? right then and there? he had the chance. i would ask him that later.a few miniutes had gone by and i started to get a little sleepy and i began to close my eyes and count the miniutes like sheep.
"Ring, Ring, Ring"
my eyes flew open. i looked at nick. he looked at his backpack and pushed his phone on his side pocket to silent. i heard a noise behind the rock, and knew that the security guard had heard it. he came up to us and pushed a button on his walkie talkie.
"boss, we got em." the other guard was here in a flash and reached for me when nick sprang up and punched him in the face. it knocked him over but he got right back up and took a swing at nick, who ducked but didnt expect another punch from the other guard. that sent him to the ground but he got right back up too. seeing him punch nick was like punching me in the face. that set me off. i ran over to the guard and jumped on his chubby back, held his head in one hand and punched him the face with the other. but then he got a hold of my hands and flipped me over his back and i landed on the ground. i screamed and then realized that i didnt land on the ground i landed on the other security guard. he was knocked out on the ground and next thing i knew, nick was fighting the guy who just flipped me. he didnt look like he was winning so i went over there and tried to punch the guard in the face with my fight as hard as i could. he looked at me with confusion for a second and then went back to nick and puched him in the face sending him to the ground. i kicked the man in the place where it hurts and he groaned, then i saw nick getting up and then i saw a fist fly to my face and everything went black.