1 DILEMMA

I'm running in the woods again, and it's funny because I hate anything that has to do with strenuous activities except for sex I'll be down to fuck anytime. But for some reason almost every dream I've had for this past month, I'm always running.

I'll be off to sleep land and then BOOM I find myself running in my dreams, I think all the running that I've been doing in my dreams is the reason why I've lost so much weight. Like seriously, I've been realizing that my clothes are getting baggy on me. I'm not fat believe you me. I'm not stick thin either. Thank my crazy as fuck healthy freak parents for that, they're doctors too. They're surgeons of what I don't know, never bothered to know much about their work, not like I'm gonna be a doctor someday. I'm gonna be an actress. I've always wanted to be on the big screen.

Hi I'm Rose Petal, my name sounds cliché right? Well mom wanted to name her first child Rose, after her favorite character in Titanic. And it just so happens that dad's last name is Petal. I'm 5'10", as I said I'm not fat, but I'm not stick thin either. I have wavy thick brown hair which reaches mid back, it can be a bitch to comb sometimes, but that's what you get for being a girl, it's all a part of life.

I heard multiple gunshots before I got up out of my dream. Why the fuck did I hear gunshots this time? I've never heard or seen anything in my dream, just me running until I wake up. I turned around in bed to come face to face with David, he's my best friend. Standing at 5'8" with an hourglass body shape and a luscious booty that I so am jealous about. I mean why did he get the booty, and I only got, I don't even know what I got. He's got beautiful grey eyes, and the smile that could light up a whole room to match. I leaned in close to him and start nibbling on his neck, right behind his ear.

"bitch you better stop that shit before I beat your ass" he mumbled.

"Good morning bitches, the queen bitch is, why the fuck do I always find you eating my man's neck like a freaking vampire?" Connor asked not even phased by what I'm doing. Yup David is gay. I have my very own gay best friend. We've known each other even before we were born, our moms are best friends, so it was inevitable when they got pregnant at the same time, I think they planned that, I mean come on best friends getting pregnant at the same time had us minutes apart. I smell something fishy, but I'm not gonna ask questions, as I don't want to hear about my parents sexcapades, so let's just leave it at that.

"What can I say ConCon he's tasty, I can't help myself" I replied smiling innocently.

You see it's something I've been doing since we were two years old; I'd do it when I was worried about something when I wake up from a nightmare, it's just how it goes.

"I heard gunshots this time Dee and I've got a bad gut feeling" I said to David.

"Me too babe, I'm kind of scared for what's going to happen today babe, but we must be getting ready, we have school bitch" he replied. I didn't want to go to school, I hated it. But we had to anyway. We got ready for school, ate breakfast on the way and went to homeroom when we got to school.

Everything went well at school, but for some reason that dreadful feeling was still lingering between David and I all day, it's like twin telepathy but between David and I. He can sometimes feel what I feel, and vice versa. We know each other better than we knew ourselves.

"Meet us at the house babe, we'll go collect the package on our way" David said to Connor when school was out for the day. We were lucky enough to forget the package we were supposed to collect for our moms, note the sarcasm. The drive was almost two hours because we spent almost an hour and half at a small diner eating and wasting time. When we got to my house, we weren't prepared for what we saw. As we were driving up the driveway I realized something was wrong, and it was not because of the dreaded feeling I had. You see, our parents live in a freaking mansion; both our parents are rich, and being best friends they decided to build a house or more like a palace together. After the house was built they put up some hidden clues (only those who live in the house know where they are) to warn whosoever coming up that there is trouble in the house. So when we were about halfway towards the house we saw the flashing red light. I took out my phone and called the police to notify them. We stopped the car, not going any further and took to the bushes or more like forest surrounding the property and took our time creeping towards the house. Then all of a sudden we heard gunshots followed by screaming,

"Lord help every one of our family members in that house" David and I cried. About halfway near the house we heard more screaming then total silence. A minute later we heard cars driving down the driveway, after they passed we ran to the house. The doors were wide open, we cautiously went in. "Ahhhhhhh" David screamed with horrified looks on our face at the scene before us. Our parents, siblings and Connor laying in a pool of their bloods, each with multiple gunshot wounds. As I looked at them, tears streaming down my face like a flowing river, I saw my mom's finger pointing towards the coffee table. I walked towards it trying to find something on it, but I only saw her purse. "Run!" shouted David. I grabbed the purse running through the house towards the basement where there is a security lock door, only my family and David's family could open it, as it has our DNA's programmed in it. I put my hand over the scanner and rushed out, then David put his hand on it after we got out to seal it shut. "We cant get out boss, we have to go back out to the front" screamed a man. We ran into the forest , deep into the forest. But since we grew up here we know these woods like the back of our hands. As we were running, we heard gunshots. It was just like my dream, me running through the woods hearing those gunshots.

After running for about six and a half hours we stopped, to rest a bit.

"How did they know that we were in the house?" asked David

" I think it was because we left the car on the drive way instead of hiding it" I replied.

I remembered that I had mom's purse so I started rummaging through it.

" What's with the purse Rose?" asked David.

I didn't answer, just kept on looking, until I found an envelope, I took it out and turned it over. Noticing that both our names were on it, I called David over and opened it.

'My dearest babies, if both of you are reading this, that means we are not here, hopefully your reading this when you both are married and we have seen and spoiled our grand kids. If not then this is the reason, you see, we did an open heart operation last month. Remember the day when your father and I came home distraught?(Rose) yea our patient didn't make it. A couple weeks later another relative came in for a surgery, this time your parents David performed it, that patient also didn't make it. Later we found out they were members of a Russian Mafia family, better yet the Don himself and his nephew. We got death threats, but didn't do anything about it because our patients were too far gone to have lived through the surgery. What we did wrong was not taking those threats seriously, your dad was apart of an Italian Mafia. He got out to study as a doctor, that's how we met. The Russian Mafia thought we deliberately killed their Don because your dad was apart of their rival's family. So they came for revenge. We want you to go to Italy, and the address enclosed in this letter is where you should go. They'll be expecting you guys as we notified them the moment we realized we were in danger. Your passports are in the side pocket of my purse, I got extra passports for all of us, because of our ties with the Mafia, we could never be too careful. Take the private jet, yes its ready for you guys. Everything is set for you guys. And remember, we love you guys so much, be safe'.

"Well shit just got real" said David. " Come on let's go before they find us"

I replied, getting up and brushing off myself. We walked some more until we reached the main road. Yes people, we hitched a ride to the airport. We got to the private jet, climbed on, and took off. " they weren't kidding when they said everything was set huh?" asked David.

"They sure weren't" I replied making myself comfortable lying on him. Not long after we fell asleep.