Justin pushed the gate open and came out into the middle of the woods. He started running and stopped when he heard two shots. He wanted to go back and see if Jake was okay but then he heard the guy who was still behind him. Justin started running, not sure where he was going. He ran until he reached the edge of a small bluff and saw hope. There was another house at the bottom of the ravine.

"I’m going to get you." The guy behind him said in a creepy voice. "You can’t hide from me."

Justin took off running again trying to find a way down. He was crying even though he didn’t realized it. He took a wrong step and fell down the side of the steep hill. Once he managed to regain control, he ran down the short distance between him and the house. The side of his face was covered in blood and his clothes were ripped in different parts. He was covered in dirt, grass and leaves.
When Justin reached the door he started knocking on it as hard as he could.  He gasped when someone did open it.  Justin let out a sigh and looked at the woman staring at him in shock.

“Do you have a phone?”  Justin asked.

She nodded.

“Can I use it?”

“Sure, come on in.”  She told him.  “Are you okay?”

“Yeah.  Can you close the door and not open it again no matter what?”  

“I guess.”  She said closing the door and then locking it.

“Sarah, what’s going on?”  A guy in jeans came out, looking a little startled.  “Who is he?”

 “I’m Justin Taylor.”

“Taylor?  Are you Craig Taylor’s son?”  Sarah asked.

Justin nodded.

“How do you know about him?”  Justin asked.

“Robert’s sister is gay.”  Sarah told him.  “We are definitely voting for your father.  He is trying to make a better society.”

Justin smiled and nodded.

“What happened to you?”  She asked him.

“Someone’s trying to kill me.”  Justin told them.  “I think they shot my bodyguard.”

“My god, I’m calling the cops right now.”  Robert said.

“Thank you.”  Justin said.

Robert took his cell phone and dialed 911 and told them about the situation.  Minutes after that, someone broke the front window and Sarah and Justin ran to the kitchen where Robert was.

“What now?”

“Second floor.”  Robert told them and the three of them went up the stairs.

“This is not happening.”  Justin whimpered.

Sarah took Justin’s hand and gave him a smile.  They got inside one of the rooms and locked it.  Robert took a bat and positioned himself next to the wall close to the door.  That way if anyone came he could take a swing at them.  Sarah took a golf club and gave one to Justin.

The three of them were just waiting when someone started kicking the door.  Justin closed his eyes and squeezed Sarah’s shoulder.  She looked at him and swallowed hard.  She was scared too.  As soon as the door opened and someone came in carrying a gun Robert swung the bat at the guy’s hands.

“Fuck.”

When the gun dropped to the floor Sarah went for it while Robert tried to swing at the guy again.  The guy fell back and Robert missed him by an inch.  The guy smirked got up and ran away and back down the stairs.

“He’s gone.”

Justin and Sarah came out of the room.

“Well, you don’t see this everyday.”  Sarah told them.  “Should we go down?”

“Give me the gun.”  Robert told her and she did.

The three of them went back down carefully making sure that the attacker was not there.  Robert had the lead making sure he had a good hold on the gun.

“What now?”  Sarah asked.

“We wait for the cops to arrive.”  Robert told her.

There was a loud noise and then the front door was thrown open.  Sarah and Justin jumped back while Robert pointed his gun at the guy.

“Jake!”  Justin shouted.

“Justin, are you okay?”  Jake asked pointing the gun he had at Robert.

“He’s okay.”  Justin said running into Jake’s arms.

The four of them sat in the living room waiting for the cops to arrive.  Jake told them he had managed to shoot the guy that had stayed behind but didn’t tell them that he had received one of the shots.  Sarah and Robert were holding hands while Justin kept crying on Jake’s arm.  

“How long are they going to take?”  Justin asked.

“It’s pretty far.  We moved here because it was secluded.”  Sarah told him.  “We like peace and quite.”

“How long has it been?”  Robert asked.

“Half an hour.”  Jake told him.

“Give them another twenty minutes.”  Robert said.  “I’ll go get us something to drink.”

Just like Robert had said it took the police and everyone else twenty minutes to get to Sarah and Roberts’s house.

“Is everyone okay here?”  An officer asked while the second was outside also with his gun out.  “We received a call.”

“Justin!”  

Justin jumped to his feet. 

“That’s Brian!”  Justin yelled and ran outside to where he saw Brian running up to the house.

As soon as they reached each other, Justin jumped up and Brian caught him.  He put his arms around Brian’s neck and secured his legs around Brian’s waist.  Daphne came next to him and hugged Justin from the side.  Molly and Jennifer hugged Justin however they could and Craig managed to put a hand on Justin’s back while he stared at Brian.  

“Justin, we were so worried.  They didn’t want to let us come.”  Daphne told him.  “Then your father and Brian followed them anyways.  It was crazy.”

Justin smiled at her and kept hugging Brian.

“He has a big family.”  Sarah said when she was outside.

“Jake?”  Kevin asked.  “Are you okay?”

“Uh yeah, at least this time I didn’t pass out.”  Jake told him as a paramedic helped him.

“Hi, I’m Detective Horvath.  We are going to be doing a search around the area.  We are going to need Justin and Jake as well as the Bentley’s to come down to the station.”

Craig nodded.

“Tomorrow.”  Brian said.  “I’ll take him tomorrow.”

Craig bit the inside of his cheek.  He didn’t want to leave his son with Brian but he knew he didn’t have much say about it.

“Jake tells me that he shot one of the guys in the house.  It’s up on the hill.”  Ben said, walking with the detective.

After everyone had moved away, Brian took Justin to the back of one of the ambulances where a paramedic took care of the young man’s scratches.  Once he was ready, Justin and Brian walked to the jeep.  

“I want to go home.”  Justin whimpered.

Brian nodded and closed the door.  He had never been so scared in his entire life.

***

He watched from the top of the hill and frowned.  The little shit had gotten away this time.  He wasn’t going to rest until Justin was dead.  He ran back to the house looking for his brother.  When he reached the basement and turned on the light he cringed at what he saw.  His little brother was in a puddle of blood.  He frowned and turned off the light before he ran up to his room.  

He quickly threw some of his clothes inside a bag and took out the two guns he had hidden under his bed.  He picked up the stash of money that he kept for emergencies and the keys to his car.  When he was at the back of the house, he hiked down making sure that no one was following him.  

An hour later, he had reached his car and got inside.  He took out the paper and pen that he kept there and looked over the writing.  It had the names Jason, James, Adam, Tony and Curtis crossed over.  He read the last name, Justin, and he cried as he added a new one with the red ink pen.

JAKE.