Authors: BWWM Publishing
Chapter 10
The pistol slipped from Jon’s hand and landed on the floor. He wrestled with Jack rolling around, trying to push him off of himself, but Jack kept him pinned to the ground. Jon tried to make him lose his balance and kicked with all his strength. Jack lost control for a split second and he was on the floor. Jon crawled towards the pistol but Jack pulled him back by his leg and started punching him, to render him unconscious. He punched with all his strength till Jon was heavily bleeding and almost cataleptic.
Ariel watched as the stepbrothers struggled with each other, she couldn’t believe how the day had unfolded. She was a hostage in her own house and potentially, they all may end up dying today. Jack punched Jon to a pulp and stood up. He came hurrying towards her and tried to unlock her chains.
“Where are the keys? Did you see where he kept the keys?” Jack was speaking in an urgent tone, which complemented the current situation.
“No… but, the safe! He has all the cash… he put it in a suitcase and took it out,” Ariel looked towards the empty safe as she uttered these words.
Nobody noticed Jon moving on the floor when he got up, and retrieved his pistol from where Jack had kicked it. He pointed the gun towards Jack and Ariel as Jack got up and stood in front of him, blocking Ariel out of his sight.
“You’d be more careful about saving this bitch if only… you knew more,” Jon pointed the pistol straight at his stepbrother’s forehead.
“You little fuck! This is between you and me! Keep Ariel out of it!” Jack yelled at him, he was scared but he knew his little stepbrother couldn’t hurt him, or so he had assumed.
“Okay, let’s do that, let’s keep your lying and cheating slut of a wife out of this, let’s talk man to man,” Jon sneered at his older stepbrother.
“You’re not going to get away with this, you know you’re not gonna get away with this,” he took a step closer to Jon and Jon just stood there, with a look on his face that revealed his determination.
“And who is going to stop me? You? Or your chained wife?” Jon threatened him, he hadn’t planned it this far. Jack was supposed to come home later and find his wife bound to a chair and his safe empty. But things had not unfolded in his favor.
“You don’t have to do this Jon…” Jack started to seem helpless. His reckless stepbrother was holding a pistol pointed at him and he couldn’t figure out how to convince him to stop this madness.
“Oh… but I do,” Jon started to move sideways so that he can make his way out of the room. As he moved, his feet touched a toppled lamp and he lost his balance. Just then, Jack leaped at him and tried to disarm him when the sound of a gunshot rang through the entire house. Jon suddenly pulled back to see Jack, holding on to his bleeding chest and looking at him as if he couldn’t believe his eyes.
Jon could barely think, ‘I shot him, I shot my stepbrother,’ he knew he had gone too far.
Ariel shrieked and cried out for Jack who fell to the ground near her feet. She started yelling uncontrollably and shook Jon out of his thoughts.
Aaron’s face popped up in Jon’s mind and suddenly, he sprang back to reality.
He picked up the same piece of cloth, which was now drenched in his stepbrother’s blood, back into her mouth when he realized he couldn’t spare her either. His stepbrother’s lifeless body lay next to his feet.
‘She’s an eyewitness,’ he backed up and pointed his pistol at her as if he was no longer in control of what his hands and feet were doing.
“Noo! Please don’t! Please don’t kill me,” she begged him.
“I’m sorry,” and with that he shot her in the forehead.
Chapter 11
Jon hurried out of the room and retrieved the hidden suitcase. He could barely think anymore, he sent a text message on the kidnapper’s number just like they had instructed him. His mind was still rushing, trying to get Jack’s face out of his mind when the kidnapper replied with the details of the location he was supposed to come to.
He sped up as he tried to consider the evidence he left behind. ‘I had to save my son, I was only trying to save my son,’ but no amount of reasons could justify what he had just done. ‘Worst comes the worst, I’ll end up in jail; at least Aaron will be safe and alive.’
He started feeling emotional; he couldn’t believe how things had turned out, he had killed his own stepbrother, his own blood. Flashes of memories from his childhood started passing by in front of his eyes as he drove way over the speed limit. He realized he had blocked all the good things about his elder stepbrother out of his memory since he had developed feelings for Amy; he despised him because Jack was always a better man than him.
He was closing in on the location when the kidnapper called.
“Change of plans,” said a coarse voice at the other end of the line.
The kidnapper had told him he had to deliver the ransom to a different location because it was not safe here. Without even considering the fact that the kidnapper might be manipulating him, he agreed hastily. He couldn’t wait any longer to see his son. He had never even imagined himself committing all these crimes, and if he does get caught, which was highly unlikely, he wanted to see his son before he went away to pay for his crimes.
Jon reached the specified location to find a black jeep, parked in the rubble of an old, abandoned building. He got out of his car and slowly started walking towards the masked men who were standing behind the jeep. They were talking about something in hushed tones, but Jon couldn’t hear. When they saw Jon approaching, they gained their composure and walked towards him.
“Where’s my son?” Jon asked bitterly
“He’s upstairs,” one of the masked men said pointing towards the 2
nd
floor of the old, devastated building that barely had any walls anymore. A small form was bound to a pillar, he recognized his shoes. Aaron looked unconscious, but he was sitting up with his back towards the pillar. Jon handed the suitcase over to one of the men; he had counted the sum he managed to obtain and stacked the extra cash under the passenger seat of his car.
The masked men eagerly checked the contents of the suitcase, satisfied; they cleared his way and hurried towards their car. Jon broke into a run and hurried up the flight of stairs. As he reached the second floor he saw the pillar and small boy sitting with his back towards it.
“Aaron!” he called out as he rushed towards the pillar and started fumbling with the robes. As he loosened the knots, Aaron’s body slumped towards the ground lifelessly. His face was covered with a black cloth so he wouldn’t be able to see anything.
“Aaron! Aaron can you hear me,” Jon started sobbing trying to get his son out of the constraints of the rope.
He took off the cloth covering his face and couldn’t believe what he saw. His son’s face was bashed in and purple from bruises. There were severe wounds on his temples and his neck and his body slumped into Jon’s lap.
Jon couldn’t keep himself together; he let out a loud cry, holding his son’s lifeless body in his arms till his lungs gave up and slumped into unconsciousness.
He woke up in a hospital ward, surrounded by nurses and patients. A crippled man sitting on the hospital bed next to him was delivering a speech as if he was talking to a huge crowd, no one noticed him. Across from him, a girl was crying uncontrollably in her bed, when she saw him looking, she started laughing like a lunatic. Jon had no idea why he was there, inside a hospitals psych ward; he remembered nothing about what had happened. He felt like he was forgetting something important, and suddenly the image of the body of a little boy flashed in front of his eyes and he remembered everything. The boy had been killed in a brutal school bus accident and his face had been completely smashed in. He couldn’t remember who the boy was, but he suddenly remembered his name; Aaron.
He turned to a nurse who was standing over his bed scribbling something in a file. He started to sit up and ask her what he was doing there when he read the name on the file.
Adult Medical Health Services Hospital
Jon Lopez – Patient No. 1756
Paranoid Schizophrenic
THE END
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