Protecting the Bad Boy

Never without a fight

Leave me alone!!!!" I screamed in the top of my lungs.

"Dylan please calm down." Mr. Anderson touched my shoulder lightly, trying to calm me down. I shrugged it away and cried more. "Everything will be alright."

"Not it isn"t. Nothing will be ever alright. It won"t." I couldn"t control my tears anymore. He is dead. He is dead. You will never see him again. Those thoughts.... were repeating in my mind over and over again and I was going crazy. Why was this happening? Why me? Why he had to die? Why him? "Leave me alone!!!!!" I screamed once again and got up from the corner I was sitting and started to run like mad. I didn"t see were I was going "til I found myself in an empty white room with only a metal table on it. On the table was a gun. I walked towards it slowly with tears still in my eyes. I took the gun in my hand and after staring at it for a while I leaned it in the side of my head.

I pulled the trigger.

***

I stood up in my bed, my throat aching from the scream I let out. I was breathing heavily and cold sweat was running down my spine. I tried to calm down, but the memory of my dad"s death was in my mind and just couldn"t. I just stood there in my bed fighting with the tears. The gun thing in my dream never happened but the tears and people trying to calm me down did actually happen. I looked weak. I looked like a cry baby, but I couldn"t bare my dad"s death after what happened to my mom. I couldn"t live without any of them... But I tried... but this isn"t called living. This is called surviving.

"Dylan are you alright?" Daniel entered my room, with a worried expression in his eyes. I nodded lightly not wanting him to see how bad I was feeling. "Are you sure?" He walked closer to me and sat on my bed next to me.

"I"m okay." I said trying to look calm. But my breathing was trading me.

"Okay isn"t a feeling." He smiled at me lightly and I smiled back.

"Yeah." I stared at his face for a few seconds wondering how did he heard my scream. This room was supposed to be sound proof. "I better get ready for school." I said and he nodded and left my room without saying anything else.

I got up from my bed and went to the bathroom to wash my face to calm down. Those dreams stopped for while. I have like weeks without seeing them and now... they showed up again.

Oh so lucky me.

I went back to my room and started to get dressed. I just picked up some jeans and a hoodie, not giving a damn s**t about how I would look like. I wore my black trainers and put the gun in my belt. I had to be ready for everything. Just for sure I put some knifes and ammo in my backpack and left the room.

Eric and Daniel were staying in the kitchen eating breakfast. I just said hi to them and grabbed a chocolate bar I bought yesterday. I sat in the table and started to eat it slowly without talking. I wasn"t sure what to do now anymore. After Rhydian left my room, I was wondering about this mission. The mission was always the most important thing about me. So why I wasn"t giving its importance this time? Why I was letting the curiosity to get over me and don"t do what I had to do? I had to find that list. That"s it. I had totally forget about it till yesterday. I just had to find that goddamn list and leave this place.

"Dylan!" I heard Eric"s voice talking.

I raised my head to see him. "What?"

"Rhydian is outside. He is waiting for you." He said and I nodded lightly and got up and walked towards the front door.

Rhydian was waiting for me outside the car, leaning in it with his back smirking... no wait... He was smiling? At me? What happened to the smirk?

"Good morning." He said cheerful, but couldn"t reach his eyes.

Okay now I went to agent mode. What was happening?

"Hi!" I smiled back and got in the car as he did the same.

"We"re... not going to school yet. We are going somewhere else." He said as he started the car and drove down the road.

"Why? Where are we going?" I asked now thinking that he was going to kill me after finding out that I was the one who shot those guys yesterday.

"Well.... yesterday I..." Told ya". I touched the gun in my belt. "...realized that you had your birthday a month ago and I had no idea.... so I am giving you, your birthday gift today."

I started to feel a little bad thought. My birthday wasn"t a month ago in fact. Oops?

"I lied to you." I said biting my lip.

And the car stopped immediately and I almost hit my head with the glass in front of me.

"What do you mean with you lied to me?" He turned his head slowly to me glaring.

Wow! What did I do?

"My birthday wasn"t a month ago." I said slowly. He could have a gun with him. But my hand was still in mine and if I was fast I could block his hand from aiming my head, and threat him that I was going to shoot him. I had done this before. I could do it again.

"So you are still seventeen?" He asked, trying to hide something from his eyes. What? I have no idea.

"No. My birthday was yesterday."

Surprise? Okay, it"s not my fault. I haven"t celebrate it since my dad died, so I spend that day like every other normal day. Plus I never liked celebrating it from the beginning.

"Oh. Well... Happy birthday." He said and drove again.

"So where are you taking me? In a dark place where you can kill me?" I asked trying to see something change in his face, so I could be sure that I had to use my gun, but he just laughed.

"No. Don"t worry. You"re safe with me. Trust me."

Don"t trust anyone Dylan. Do you hear me? Anyone. Ever.

Dad"s words screamed in my mind. I just sighed at them.

I won"t dad. I promise.

"So where are we going?" I was starting to get pissed.

"We"re here." He said as an answer.

And we were in the middle of nowhere. What a surprise huh?

"Where are we?"

"Well this is a place where I come to clear my thoughts." Rhydian answered scratching the back of his neck.

I took a look to the place. It was practically the middle of nowhere. It was like one of those lost places in the movies where usually is an abounded warehouse, but there was no warehouse here. It was just an empty field next to a forest. It was full of flowers and some huge stones were placed in the middle of the field like an art work, which looked pretty amazing if you ask me.

"I wanted to give you this." He said leaving in my hand a pocket knife.

It looked old in the first sight, but it was more than that. In fact it wasn"t old at all. The wood"s color in the handler made it look like it was a precious thing from centuries ago. The metal part had a black shade over it making the knife look like it was black or something. The first thing that came to my mind it was that it was possessed. There were some letters written in the metal part...

"Never without a fight"

"What does it mean?" I asked Rhydian who was staring at me with a smile in his face. "To never give up without a fight." He said and I thought a little about those words. "I want you to keep these with you all the time... You know... to protect yourself."

Honey I have more knifes in my backpack that could it be in the kitchen!

I wanted to say but just smiled and nodded at him. It was kind of him and I don"t know why I was feeling like this. It was like for the first time since forever I finally could feel something else than anger and sadness. It was nice to know I had other feeling too.

"Thanks." I said.

He walked towards the car and I followed him. As soon as we were both in the car Rhydian started the engine and drove to school. My thoughts were running towards millions directions. I just had to focus in the mission. Find the list and leave this place as soon as possible. It was that easy. Probably the list was in his computer, so I just had to make him invite me in and I could finish the job quickly.

I turned my head to see Rhydian. His face looked pissed off. Like someone was singing "Twinkle Twinkle little star" in his ear for hours now. He looked angry and sad at the same time, and I had no idea if I should talk to him or not. But in the end I wasn"t his friend, or such a thing. I was here just to protect him and take that list in my hand, and not to talk about our crushes and our first kisses and s**t like that or whatever normal teenagers do these days.

Soon enough we were in the school"s parking lot. Rhydian parked the car and we both walked out of it and entered the school. The hallways were empty, but noticing the watch in he wall, I figured it out that it was almost the end of the second period.

"Just... keep the knife with you." Rhydian said to me out of the blue as he walked away from me. I just stood in the place without figuring out what the hell he wanted to say to me by that.

I took the phone out of my pocket and hacked to the school"s cameras to see where he was going. I was searching through the hallways, when the bell rang.

How lucky my f*****g life is.

Now it was like mission impossible to find him, but I still could use the micro-trackers in his body. I was about to open the app to find him, when my eyes caught something. It was the image of the hallway where I was, and behind me... there was a girl... pointing a gun towards.... me.

I turned in time and ducked before the bullet could catch my head. I cursed under my breath as everyone started to scream and run like mad at the sound of the shot. I had roll my eyes at that. My hand touched the metal handler of the gun I had in my belt and took it out pointing the girl"s foot.

Yeah still not ready to kill. I suck I know.

Soon the hallway was empty and it was just me and her.

The girl in fact looked like she was like twenty or so in fact, so she wasn"t technically a girl. She was woman. Her hair was brown and reached her shoulders. And her face.... she was really angry. I smirked at her before shooting her in the foot.

She groaned in pain falling in the floor. I took advantages on that and got up from the floor and ran in her direction to take her gun away, but she pointed it at me again and shot. I ducked again and covered my head with my arms, not giving her the chance to shot me straight in the head. I ran faster towards her and as soon as I was near enough I kicked the gun in her hand flying it in the air away from her. I pointed my gun to her and shouted.

"Who sent you?" She just smirked at me.

I bend over and smiled at her sweetly before punching her in the face. "Who do you work for? Answer you b***h!!!"

She just grinned once more. Her hand started to move slowly towards her belt and when she noticed me looking at her hand she acted so fact I almost didn"t realize what she was trying to do. A small knife came out of her belt and flew towards my face, almost missing me in a bit, leaving a small cut in my right cheek.

My eyes widened at the pain and at the shock. She f*****g cut my face. The b***h!

"Oh no you didn"t!" I said glaring at her.

She was about to use the knife again, but my anger was climaxed.

"Wrong move honey!" I said sweetly shooting her arm, making her scream again from the pain.

"You b***h!" She shouted and I frowned.

"Me a b***h? You were the one who pointed the gun at me first and cut my face. Have you ever heard of the "Not the face" phrase?" I was almost shouting now. I was pissed off. Beyond being pissed off.

My eyes caught something moving and before I could realize anything, a bullet flew in my way. Seriously? This is the second time in two minutes.

I raised my gun and aimed towards where the bullet came form. And that"s when I saw some blond hair on the corner of the hallway. I pointed at the foot which was left a little uncovered from the wall. I was about to shoot at that foot, when two huge arm grabbed me form behind. The first instinct was to punch the guy, but the voice froze me.

"Run!" Rhydian shouted to me, taking my hand and grabbing me through the hallway and didn"t stop "til we were in the car driving like crazy in the middle of the road.