Why do you act like you know everything? - 2

Leo's eyes fluttered and gradually his sight was restored, and he stared directly at the moon at one sight.

He quickly sat up, the breeze is blowing and it is making the grass to dance joyfully from one side to the other.

"Where am I?" Leo groaned and then, the little and small face of Salient shown in the dark.

The fire at a distance, was created by Ryan, and all of them are sitting round it. While Leo is lying at a farther place, away from warmth.

"Whe-where are the oth-others?" Leo stuttered.

His clothes are beyond the word dirty, but at least he have a little source of warmth.

"Over there!" Salient hushed and pointed to where they all gathered round the fire, talking and planning out their next move.

Leo managed to stand on his two feet and walked upto them, his hands on his ribs like he got a deep cut by that side.

Joe was the first to see him, and when he did, he said it out loud.

"Look! There's Leo!" he said and they all turned to face Leo, who's hand left is on his right ribs.

"Leo?" one by one they asked themselves questions, but Leo wasn't moved. Because he didn't see the person he was looking for.

"Where's LiLi" he asked and they all stared down at the ground.

He guessed something and he guessed it right. It was all his fault. He listened to Joe and now LiLi got captured. He started to blame himself for paying attentive ears to Joe in the first place.

LiLi was taken by those men.

"Don't tell me she was taken" he said and Joe's eyes widened.

"Even if she got captured, she said we should move on. And when we get there we should... "

"Look Joe, if I were to be honest you are the cause of this!" Leo yelled, his olive coloured eyes scanning Joe in hatred.

"How is he the cause?" Chloe asked.

"Remember what you told me when the rest was still asleep?" Leo asked, ignoring the ridiculous question (according to him) of Chloe.

"Remember what you said about LiLi?" Leo asked.

He hated to admit it but Joe had been suspicious to both him, Ryan, LiLi and even his siblings.

"Even if I said something about her and you knew it was a lie or you didn't like it, why didn't you have your own way?"

"Why do you act like you know everything?" Ryan shot at him.

Joe stared at Ryan and then at his brother.

"We all know you never liked LiLi from the start and I can sense happiness in you because she is not here" Ryan said.

Liam and Salient looked at each other and nodded sadly in agreement.

They all knew. But the only person that wanted to prove them wrong and also wanted to defend her brother, was Chloe.

"How are you sure that he don't like LiLi. He have his own way of- "

"It's the truth, Chloe" Liam said and Chloe turned her head to face Liam.

"What?" she whispered and Liam nodded sadly.

"I know you know too, Chloe but sometimes siblings also need to hear the truth... " Salient said in his cute and captivating voice.

"And the truth here is that, Joe don't like LiLi, it can be read just through the imprint of your thumb!" Ryan said.

All eyes on him (Joe). He said nothing, nor did anything to defend himself. With his actions, his siblings and the two brothers started thinking and wondering why he acts the way he do.

"We are going to look for her. And if anyone wishes to stay back and get killed... "

Leo started as his eyes scanned Joe thoroughly.

"So be it"

The vision of LiLi was blurry for a moment when she opened her eyes, but gradually, her sight regained normality.

"Whe-where am I?"

Her question returned unanswered.

Her hands were tied and so were her feet. She looked down at her hands and then realized that she was also gagged. It turns out that the people that captured her, offered such a hostile hospitality of gagging her and tying her hands and feet with well weaved ropes.

And that's not all...

LiLi was lying down on a bare and cemented floor. The coldness affected her seriously because she wore a short sleeve dress.

She managed to turn to her left just to meet the eyes of another lady staring at her.

Both LiLi and the lady shrieked in fear. Had it been both wasn't gagged, I bet they'd have let out ear piercing screams.

Immediately they started shrieking, blinding lights from no where exploded all over the place, making them to shriek the more.

Shadows surrounded them. Of course, the two ladies that were lying on the cold floor knew they were humans, but with the blinding lights that affected their eyes, none of them saw the faces.

"Well, well. The two peeps are up" a female voice was heard.

Only LiLi knew how many times she passed out on that spot. Hearing no reply from them, the lady gave a type of signal and two men knelt beside them with knives in their hands.

LiLi thought that was the end of the world. She had come to the end of her miserability and parentlessness and just as she sighed in and let out a little prayer, the gag on her mouth fell and she saw the men stood straight again.

Oh, they just wanted to rip off the gag.

LiLi panted silently with relief and joy that death got a boundary.

"What are your names?" the female voice asked.

LiLi gulped heavily. She possibly can't tell them her real name, she don't know who these crooks are.

"And be careful with who you lie with, I already know who you are"

Oops.

LiLi and the other lady turned their necks to look at each other and then at the lady standing.

The other lady said hers first.

"My name is Aisha" her tiny voice said and all eyes settled down LiLi.

"I bet you know mine, so tell me what it is" LiLi said and like she made a mistake, all eyes widened at her boldness and words.

The female lady standing, however, let the corner of her lips to raise.

It was definitely a challenge.