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Good girls die Young.

MAY

May was supposed to use the bathroom next but as soon as she had been left alone with the others going about their personal businesses , all she could think of was the fight she had gotten herself into and how she completely had no idea why she had done what she did .

It was unlike her to cause trouble for herself but recently she had been doing a fine job if causing a lot of trouble for herself .

Even though May had lived all of her life on the streets , she had always been the type to run when there was trouble , she had never stayed to fight for anything .

She had never wished to stay and fight and she had never regretted not staying and fighting .

But this was different , now , she wanted to fight .

If she fought , she would be free for life , she could remain friends with Dean and Blade and even pale ass Jade .

However , she had jeopardized her own plans by involving herself in an unnecessary fight , ruining her plans with her own hands and mouth like she always did .

She sighed , this was not how it was supposed to go .

She almost laughed out after she thought that , it was not like any of her plans went according to how they were supposed to go .

She splashed water on her face and walked barefooted out of the bathroom , giving up on washing up .

She walked down the stairs and to the church doors , she needed to see the sky , she was slowly losing her mind , thinking she was in confinement .

The door was easier than she had imagined and she was out and on the stairs that led out of the church .

Everywhere was so quiet , no birds or wind or any other thing that generally made noises .

It was like the world had been paused and she was the only exception left in this gray world.

May looked around the courtyard , impressed by the trees that were everywhere .

She moved to one that had a low branch and sat on it , swinging her feet as she let the sun soak Into her skin .

What was the point of having this level of fear when she had not even met her opponent ?

May was suddenly fearing for her life when she had been the same person to join the game with no consideration for her life .

Because, now she wanted to live .

She closed her eyes and relaxed.

There was too much time left to the event .

What did they expect her to do wIth all of the time they had let her have ?

She had never been good with too much time .

Her answer came in form of a distant rumbling threatening her gray world .

May opened her eyes and looked around , waiting for something to pop out from behind one of the several trees but nothing did .

She could still hear the rumbling though , so she climbed up on the tree for a wider range of vision , still nothing .

She decided to wait as she watched the sky , sooner or later the cause of the rumblings would appear before her .

Even after a while , the cause of the rumblings had still not appeared , she looked down instead to see Dean walking around .

He was holding his gun out and walking around the small courtyard stealthily .

His reddish hair was strangely moving even in the lack of the occasional breeze , bringing colour to her otherwise gray world .

May took one look at him before flicking rolled up leaves to his head .

He lifted his gun immediately , aiming at the trees and only put it down when he saw her , May put her finger on her lips as she watched his cold mask harden .

" Get down ".

He whispered fiercely and May smiled at the way his lips curved over the words .

" There's no time for this May , you need to go in and dress properly ".

May noticed as he dropped his gun , preparing to catch her when she did jump .

So , she jumped before he could completely ready himself and even though he caught her , he lost his footing and they both rolled aside .

May did not miss how his hand had cupped the back of her head as they rolled .

She had deliberately thrown herself into his arms without warning .

She liked whenever he was flustered by the suddeness of something , then she could catch a glimpse of him beneath the cold exterior he had built around himself .

She picked up her pistols and scrambled away before he stood up and glared at her again .

She laughed as she ran past an over zealous Blade and Jade who looked like he was about to wet himself ,the church doors were opened wider than they usually were , leaving May enough space to run through .

She ran through the doors and up the stairs to the consultation room that she stayed in .

She hurriedly took off her shirt and replaced it with just her kevlar vest .

Her bra was beginning to hurt her back so she took off the kevlar vest , got rid of her bra and put the vest back on .

She slipped her foot into her boots and tied it up before doing the same to her and fixing it into a ponytail .

She grinned widely as she left her room , she was glad for this distraction .

Now , she did not have to sit around , moping and waiting till it was midnight and she could suffer the consequences of not thinking her actions through ,yet again.

She jumped on to the banisters and slid the rest of her way down the stairs .

At the entrance , she pulled out both of her pistols and held them up before jogging out of the church and down the short flight of stairs to join the others .

She lifted her pistols and did a little shimmy as she pointed them around .

" What way are we shooting ? ", She asked as she ran out of the church , ready to shoot up a storm .

Dean moved out of the shadows of the trees they surrounded the church .

" Nice of you to finally join us ", He said to her ,his voice calm, May wondered if he was still mad at how she had jumped on him .

She chuckled at his mumblings .

" Come on Deanie , a lady always needs more time to pretty up ", She called as she went after him .

Dean gave off no reactions and from the corner of her eyes , she saw Blade trying to hold back his laughter in vain as he shook repeatedly .

Dean raised his hands , signalling that they get Into the formation that they had never discussed prior and yet used like they were Pros .

Blade moved to Dean's left and Jade to his right , May took her spot behind Dean , making sure their backs were touching.

They moved down the quiet street in their formation , it was hardest for May because she was facing away and walking in the reverse but she was okay as long as she was steadily resting on Dean's back .

As they finished walking to the end of the block , the rumbling was now louder and more detailed .

May skipped off towards the sound and pressed her ears into the wall that was separating them from whatever was causing these rumbles .

" It is standing exactly where we are also standing on the next street ", She said to them .

May wanted to see more so she pushed herself further to see this rumbling golem .

As soon as her face found the golem , she regretted being over zealous with this ,she should have stayed back in formation .

The golem that was over two sizes the usual ones was looking straight at her with its human eyes that seemed to be laughing at her .

It was larger and strangely more chiseled than the others .

This golem looked like it had swallowed another golem for lunch and swallowed the bones too .

" May ? "

May only heard Dean's voice faintly calling out her name .

She watched perplexed as the golems hand began to whir as it decided on what weapon to use to end her .

She knew to move , she was supposed to move but she could not move .

It was like she was a child again , letting her mum hit her because she felt that she must have deserved it .

May scoffed at herself as she continued to watch the whirring , she had always thought she had healed mentally and physically from her mother's abuse .

As she waited for the f*****g steel to decide what weapon should be used to punish her for daring to dream of escaping her life , she realized she had never healed .

She had merely learnt to live with it.