LOST ROSE

10

-Bella's POV-

"Antonio?"

My eyes widen when I saw him. After he entered inside, he collapsed on the floor with a loud groan.

Antonio!" I ran to him in a hurry, placing his arm on my shoulder and forcing him to stand up.

"C-clo..se ...t...do..r" His voice couldn't be heard. It was too low.

His right hand was on his waist, he hissed and I couldn't support his steps anymore. He literally put his whole weight on my shoulder, making it hard for me to reach the bed.

His face was bruised. He was bleeding. In short, he was beaten up. Or maybe more.

"Antonio what happened to you? Why are you in this state?! Who-"

"Close the f*****g door, Bella!!" He yelled loudly and I nodded quickly and headed to the door after I played him carefully on the bed.

But when I was in front of the open door, someone else was there. I swallowed hard when I saw 2 male's with a black mask.

"Bella?" I heard Antonio's voice. I slowly backed, not blinking from fear.

But where was the use of backing from them? I had to close the door. And so, I ran to the door and held the doorknob, ready to close it. I cursed when they kicked it open, hearing James coughing in pain.

I turned to Antonio, pure fear and anger could be seen in his eyes when one of them pulled me from my waist to his chest and had a gun pressed against my head.

"Leave her!" Antonio barked and fell to the floor as he tried to move his body.

"Bella!" James tried to stand up and help me in any way. But how when he couldn't even walk on his own? Neither stands up?

"Antonio..." A tear rolled down my cheek, looking at Antonio. More tears started appearing when I saw him looking so weakly.

The guy behind me pulled my hair and forced me to kneel down. I closed my eyes and started to shake. I felt like vomiting from fear.

"Look." He whispered into my ear and squeezed my cheeks hard, forcing me to open my eyes and look at Antonio. The other guy started walking to Antonio with a baseball bat.

"W-What are you doing with that? Let go! Don't you dare to touch him!" I shouted and tried to stand up and do something. Just something.

"Of-" Antonio groaned when the guy took his arm and pulled him in the middle, right in front of me. And then he stood behind Antonio's weak body, raising the baseball bat.

"No! Please don't! Kill me instead! Kill me!" I cried. And the guy's grip became stronger when I tried to escape and stop everything, his gun pressed now rougher against my head.

I saw Antonio closing his eyes and holding his breath with a smile, he knew what was about to happen. Why was he smiling? Why the heck was this i***t smiling?

It didn't take any time for him to hit the back of Antonio's head. And that hard. Everything stopped. The time, them. I was only hearing that 'piep' sound.

"A-...Antonio-" I called his name out in the loudest tone, but I couldn't hear my own voice.

"Let go! Let go!!" I yelled and he really let me go.

"No! N-No!" I choked out and crawled to Antonio, placing his head on my lap, having my hand on the back of his head.

"Bella...I have to-to-...te-tell you something." He giggled weakly.

"Me, too." I sobbed.

He closed his eyes for a while and laughed painfully. I heard him hissing when I pulled his head closer to my chest, I moved my hand from there and saw blood. His blood was in my hand. In mine.

And that made me feel so guilty.

His eyes were half-open and half-closed. He was still smiling and his teary red eyes were shining when his hand reached for my cheek and wiped my tears away with the strength that was left.

"You're my lost rose." He chuckled and held my hand to his heart, wanting to tell me something with his eyes.

"I know. I am your lost rose." I kissed him one last time.

And that's when the guy behind me pulled me away from him, but Antonio's hand was still holding mine. But the other guy stamped on Antonio's hand and kicked him in his stomach harshly.

They separated us.

The desperation of the movements when I watched his last breath fly away and couldn't do s**t was beyond trauma that a person could physically sustain. I knew that it was going to haunt me. Until my last breath.

I was screaming his name, cursing and yelling at them. To stop me, one of them pressed a piece of cloth to my mouth.

"Mmmhm-" I tried to escape from his grip. I tried not to breathe in, but I was forced to inhale the strong chemicals. And so, my vision started to blur.

But before I lost my consciences, "I love you, Andreas! I've always loved you! Please! Wake up soon. Please."

After I said it, I saw a smile on his face and a tear rolling down his cheek. That's when I lost my consciences.

-Andrew's POV-

"You got it done?" I asked Sebastian and Daniel. Both nodded.

"The girl is in the car and the guy is dead," Daniel smirked.

"Did you checked if he was dead? What's with his body? Where's his body?" I asked with an eyebrow raised and his smirk disappeared.

"Oh...that." Sebastian let out. I rubbed my face and glared at them.

"I am sure he's dead. I mean...his head was bleeding and he just...he just looked dead. Yeah." Daniel laughed and I smacked their heads together. How dumb could they be?!

"You both are kidding me, right? Is this a joke for you? Jay will kill us if he finds out that we-"

"Jay didn't tell them to kill Antonio. So what's with you, Andrew? Why do you want to see him dead so badly?" Jay himself asked it after he entered inside the old warehouse. I gulped and stood silent.

"It's okay." Jay placed his hand on my shoulder.

"Just get his body and ...torture him," Jay said. Sebastian and Daniel, both looked at each other with furrowed eyebrows.

I felt uneasy about it. About Daniel and Sebastian. They always do their job properly. Why couldn't they kill Antonio?

"Ah! And about Bella. Have fun with her, Andrew. Record it, send it to JJK. I don't really care what you do with both of them. I want to see them suffer. Just make sure to send the recorded videos to them." Jay winked to me and nodded to the others, whistling his way out.

"Fun with her?" I smirked and looked at the boys. Great!

"You both go back and take Antonio's body. And I'll...take care of Bella and that ...video." I told them and they lowered their head, agreeing.

Perfect!

-David's POV-

"It's been 2 days, Gabriel! 2 f*****g days! We have to find them and kill Bella for God's sake!" I punched the table and stood up, glaring at them.

We had dinner and I couldn't hold my anger anymore. They said that he's fine, over and over again. But I felt something...something. I feel that both weren't fine and that it was very suspicious. I was...worried. A lot.

"David, calm down." Noah sighed.

"Noah, I can't! I can't calm down!" I yelled and took a deep breath, to calm down a bit.

"So please...let's search for them. Let's hack Antonio's phone or so. Let's track his location. Please. Please, I really just- feel weird. Ok? So please! Let's look for them!" I begged them in a weak and brittle tone. Gabriel and Ronaldo looked at each other and then at me.

"If we track his location, will you be fine? If we are sure that he's fine, will you calm down?" Tedi asked and I immediately nodded.

He then, with a loud sigh, stood up and started doing his work. We followed Tedi and looked at how his fingers worked on the desktop. A specialist.

"So...Oh! I got it! Oh, no. Wait a minute. I got it. I-I am getting it! Tedi, you're smart. You're getting it!" He cheered himself up and I rolled my eyes, crossing my arms.

"I found him!" He suddenly yelled, startling us.

"Let's just go to that place," I said and they looked weirdly at me.

"What? But-"

"Let's just go, okay!" I don't know why, but something was happening to me. Why was I so worried?

And that about Bella?

Why was I hearing her screams and had weird imaginations playing in my head? In front of my eyes? And why did it look so real?

-

"Antonio?" George called his name after pushing the door. The door was already open and it was dark inside. So, Ronaldo turned the lights on.

"OMG, Noah! LOOK!" Tedi pointed at something. No, at someone.

And there he was. Laying on the floor. Just like I saw it. Antonio was on the floor in a very bad condition. What was that? We never had villains!

...not before Bella came in our life's.

"Bella! We have to find Bella!" I let out in a shaky tone. Ronaldo kneeled down and Gabriel helped him to get Antonio on his back.

And just then, 2 guys joined us. With guns. A gun was pressed against my head. I smirked and looked at Noah, nodding. I mouthed to him, 1,2...And now!

I turned around and held the guy's hand, pointing the gun above and gifted him a roundhouse kick. The guy fell on the floor frontal and I quickly reached for the gun aiming it at him. Noah and Tedi took care of the other guy and George had his gun in his hand.

"Who are you? Take off your masks, cowards." I glared at both of them. They took off their mask in a second.

"Jay's gang? Why would Jay..." I furrowed my eyebrows and looked at Ronaldo, who had Antonio on his back.

"Bella is Jay's fiancée," Noah said and I chuckled.

"No wonder they turned against us. Where's she? Where's Bella?" I asked Daniel, who seemed like he didn't want to answer my question.

"With Andrew," Sebastian answered.

Were they that scared or that stupid? How could they just say it so quickly, without hesitating? I am lucky and glad to be part of JJK.

"Where?" I asked again in a shaky tone.

"Look, we hate Andrew and Jay. So, that's why we are telling you about it. I really hate doing their work. Like...I hate the missions they give us and all that. We'll help you. But you have to trust us." Daniel said and Gabriel scoffed.

"They really are suspicious. I wouldn't trust-"

"We really mean it," Sebastian said. And he sounded honest. Not only sounded but looked sincere, too.

"In a few minutes, a video will be sent to you. And ...since we both know Andrew, he won't waste time to..." Sebastian hesitated.

"To what?" George asked.

"To ...you know."

"No, I won't let that happen." I held into Daniel's jacket and was about to drag him with me so that he could tell me where Bella was.

"It's happening. Right now." Daniel said and I stopped with everything.

"I wouldn't hurry. Look, we have to return with Antonio's body. But he's not dead, right? We already talked to him about it. He seriously needs to stop acting." Daniel sighed and out of nowhere, a Antonio was heard.

"I swear you beat me up hard. I am still in pain. And that baseball bat hurt, too. The blood is really mine. You could just use fake blood, idiots. But NOO! SOMEONE WAS WATCHING FROM THE OTHER BUILDING SO I HAD TO ACT LIKE A PROFESSIONAL!" Antonio whined and Ronaldo looked over his shoulder, at James.

We really were dumbfounded and confused. Did they plan it all?

"We're sorry. We had to do it. Because we were watched and we had to make Bella believe everything. And to make it look real, it had to be real." Sebastian laughed.

"Wait a minute. Why are you doing it? Why are you betraying Jay and why are you helping Antonio out?" I asked and they both smiled at me, then looked warmly at James.

"Before we became a member of both, we were friends with Antonio. Like...not friends, but neighbors. Close neighbors. His mom was really kind and sweet. She really cooked well, too." Daniel said and Sebastian nodded.

"You...get down." Ronaldo glared at Antonio, but he shook his head.

"It hurts. My head-My bones and body hurt...wait!" Antonio got down and had a pained face. He furrowed his eyebrows and cleared his throat.

"Bella-"

"we have to save her," I said and was about to run, but Antonio stopped me.

"First...we have to plan it," Antonio said and I looked in disbelief at him.

"Something has changed in Jay's plan. He told Andrew to r**e her." Daniel gulped and Antonio´s eyes widen.

"What?! What do you-"

George's phone vibrated. He took his phone out and looked at the text- video message. We all were looking at George, who looked disgusted at what he was seeing there.

"He's raping her. Worse even. She's asleep." George scrunched his nose and Antonio snatched his phone, looking at the video, seeing Andrew's dirty smirk.

"Antonio?"

Antonio was burning. Burning from rage. He was turning red. Red from anger.

"My princess..." His eyes are teary. We were afraid. We never had seen Antonio looking so done. Done with everything. He was in pain. He was angry and so mad.

"Daniel, Let's go! I need to take her! No, he can't do this to my girl! He can't!" Antonio cried loudly as he held onto Daniel's collar, shaking him.

"It's dangerous, Antonio." Sebastian placed his hand on Antonio's shoulder, pushing him away a bit.

Antonio wasn't in his right mind then. Just like the day he hurt me. And I knew something was going to happen again.

"It's because of you!" Antonio punched Sebastian and Tedi gasped loudly, meanwhile, Noah tried to save Sebastian from Antonio's anger.

"WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?! SHE'S MINE! NO ONE CAN TOUCH HER! HOW DID YOU ALLOW SOMEONE TO TOUCH WHAT IS MINE! YOU BASTARD! I JUST GOT HER BACK! WHY?!" Antonio barked and punched Sebastian once again, then searched for his phone. I didn't want to help Sebastian. I was scared, too.

"I'll go by myself!" Antonio pushed Noah away from his way and we quickly ran to Antonio, who now had Sebastian's phone in his hand, trying to stop him. He was screaming Bella´s name over and over again.

"Antonio, calm down!" Ronaldo shouted.

And so, Antonio lost his strength after a while. His head was bleeding and that badly. He needed treatment for his wounds. He needed it. He was really in pain and I am sure that it wasn't just acting. His head was really bleeding. We needed to plan it and be prepared for it.

And that's when I knew. Antonio loved that girl. So much...

We had to save Bella. No matter what.