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"How can I believe you?"

"How can I believe you?"

Me and the blond who I learned name was Austin stared at each other.

"If we want to figure out what the hell is going on you two are just going to have get along." Carter said, annoyed with both of us.

Since the boys claimed they were innocent, Austin and I have been arguing on how we don't know if the other is lying.

We don't know how to trust each other, but how could we? We found a dead body and don't know who's responsible for it. I think trusting each other too much is a bad idea and not trusting at all won't get us anywhere.

Austin gave me a look but said "I can't trust her. I can't trust any of you."

"Well obviously you shouldn't," Carter said, looking at us both. "We have no reason to trust each other. Not till we know who actually did it."

"Ok then, how do we figure out who did it?" Austin asked.

"Well if I had the answer I wouldn't be here listening to you two fight right now," Carter said, annoyed.

"Ok so what do we do next?" I asked. All of this uncertainty was driving me crazy.

"Call the police," Carter said.

"Go home and forget this ever happened," Austin said, a little too calmly.

"Yeah ok. Let's call the police and tell them we woke up in a car with a dead man that we may have killed and just tell them we didn't do it. Of course they'll believe four drunk teenagers who don't remember anything," I let out a deep breath after my mini rant.

"And we can't go home because?" Austin asked.

"They'll be looking for us. The police are most likely searching the car and trying to find us as we speak," Carter said.

I stood up from the couch and walked out the back door. I couldn't handle all of this. It's all too confusing and the boys aren't exactly helping.

The back yard was surrounded by a tall, brown, wooden fence. It had a pool which was covered up and has a deck around it. I couldn't help think of the family that lives or had lived here.

I walked over to the little wooden swing that was on the porch. It squeaked as I sat but seemed sturdy enough to sit.

Before I could do anything the boy who didn't talk much, resulting in us still not knowing his name, sat down beside me.

He had light brown shaggy hair and light blue eyes but hasn't talked once since we woke up in the car. Austin and Carter thought it was because he was just shy but I felt like all this has messed with him a bit.

"I uh-" he said, holding up a wet, ragged washcloth. "Got you a rag to help your eye."

He didn't look at me. He just awkwardly handed me the wet cloth and I immediately put it over my eye. Having it on there for only seconds made it feel better.

"Thanks. Ya know Austin didn't even say sorry to me once?" I said to him, but he still didn't look at me. "I mean I don't even think he felt bad about it. He probably did it on purpose because he just seems like one of those boys to fight all the time, not give a crap about anyone else, and do drugs all the time. But my eye hurts really bad and probably looks awful and I have no way to treat it because we're in the middle of nowhere."

"You don't talk much do you?" I asked.

"Not now I don't. This whole week has been awful and now this? I can't even go back home," he says, his voice softening the more he speaks.

"Yeah, I get it, but we'll be back before you know it," I say, looking at the miserable boy in front of me. "But at least your no-"

"Hey! Come on we have to go," Austin yelled, running out of the house with Carter.

"Woah! What happened?" I shout, jumping from the old swing and over to the two boys who are climbing up the fence.

"The police," Austin says, panic clear in his voice.

"The police? Where?"

As soon as the words are spoken I hear the sound of police sirens and the screeching of tires.

"Come on you two!" Carter shouts. I was to focused on the sirens to focus on the situation at hand. At the same time the two boys jumped off the fence to the other side to where we couldn't see them.

"I-I can't," I say, my voice cracking.

"What do you mean, you cant?" Carter says, were not yelling anymore in fear of them coming back here.

"I mean I'm not physically capable of jumping up this thing," I explain. I look over to the boy who obviously cant either, he's staring at the house like he's waiting for them to come rushing out here.

"Oh my god," I hear Austin groan.

As quick and gracefully as he did before, Carter jumps over the fence.

He cups his hand and leans down, silently telling me to place my foot on his hand to boost me up. I put my foot in his hand and he lifts me up enough to grab onto the top of the fence. He keeps ahold on my foot as I pull myself to the top and swing a leg over.

I swing the other leg over and quickly jump down from the tall, wooden fence. I probably should have slid down instead of jumping considering I'm not graceful whatsoever. I landed on my foot twisting my ankle painfully and landing on my back.

"Ugh, come on," Austin says, grabbing my arm to help me up. I let out a gasp of pain from my ankle just as Carter and the boy come over the fence.

"What happened?" Carter asks, looking at me in concern.

"She just hurt her ankle. No biggie," Austin says.

No biggie? I think it a very big biggie. I can barely walk without pain shooting through my entire leg.

"Alright then. Come on we have to get out of here," Carter says.

We all run to the forest lining, with me being behind, and the police not catching one glimpse of us.

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"Can we take a break now?" I whine, My voice sounding rough and cracked when I speak.

We've been walking for what seems like hours, the sky already turning dark. Both my ankle and eye are bruised and throbbing with nothing to help it whatsoever. I haven't eaten or drank anything for about twenty hours and my stomach is hurting and my throat feels like sandpaper.

Austin hasn't let us take a break and always tells us to hurry up when we're falling a little behind, which for me has been every ten minutes.

"No. We have to keep walking," he says, sternly. "We have to get somewhere eventually and I'm not spending more time out here than I have to."

"Come on, man. One little break won't hurt. We've been walking for hours now," Carter says, trying to convince the stubborn man in front of us.

"The more time we waste is time we could have to be inside a warm house with food and water. So yes one little break could hurt," Austin fires back.

We've all stopped moving now to talk face to face. I kinda wish we were still walking just so I didn't have to see the deadly glares they were sending each other.

"We are all tired, exhausted, and hurting," Carter gives me a side glance when saying 'hurting'.

"You don't think I am as well? I'm just trying to get us safe faster," Austin says, his voice getting louder.

"Well getting anywhere doesn't matter if we're all passed out from exhaustion before we get there," Carters voice higher matching Austin's.

I decide if I don't stop them things will get very violent very fast.

"Hey guys listen!" I yell, both of them looking at me. Now that I have center stage I don't want it. I don't like having all the attention on to me but I had to stop them.

"Austin please just an hour rest at the most?" My voice quieter and softer than my outburst I had moments ago. "My eye and ankle are killing me." He looks at me, eyes softer than before.

He sighs. "One hour," he says not looking at me.

I smile in content as I find a soft patch on the grass to lay in.

Carter and the shy boy laying a few feet away while Austin sits propped against a tree, sulking but sleepiness clear on his face.

Just as I'm about to drift off into sleep I hear Carter say, "Nice job at convincing him to stop."

I give him a sleepy smile. "Just wasn't in the mood for yelling."

"Yeah I always yell at people to stop them from yelling," he says, chuckling.

"Well it worked didn't it?" I ask, just wanting to sleep.

"Yeah. Yeah I suppose it did. Good night Ave."

"Not my name, but ok."

"Well now it is," he says. "Good night"

I sigh. "Good night Carter."

So I know I took so long with this update but I try to make the chapters very long and I was also on vacation for a month but I hope this chapter makes up for it.

Also I've had a few people sending covers in and I really appreciate it. So if you want to send covers in I'll put them in the chapters of my stories and give you a mention.

Thinking of doing another pov next chapter. Who do you think I should do?

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