Cynthia E. Collazo

The Billionaires Secret

"Lizzy get down!!" yells my best friend Sarah. I see her drop to the floor and not a second later as if something pulled on me, I did the same. As I am falling to the floor, my heart drops. I heard a faint whistle and then the crash of broken glass. Then the realization hit that the driver side window just got shot out right were my head used to be. While I'm on the ground in complete shock, Sarah managed to open the back door. She was half way in, when I hear another faint whistle and Sarah let out a high pitch scream as a bullet tears through her thigh. She pulls her feet in the rest of the way and closes the door. I roll under the car trying to seek shelter from the shooter. From what I could tell they were on the left side of the car, hidden somewhere in the dense tree line. So I rolled out to the right side of the car praying that I didn't misjudge their location. I sigh in relief as I open the passenger side door. Then all I could hear is Sarah's muffled cries. I look at her and see that her left leg is covered in blood. I take off the sweater I'm wearing and hand it to her "put pressure on it, okay". She shakes her head yes and did just that. I turn around to start the car, and in the rear view mirror I see the silhouette of a man standing behind us. He's a few feet away from the car, and he's holding a gun. It's aimed right at us. I start the car and put it in reverse. "Stay down!!" I yell at Sarah as I hit the gas. I head straight for him, pressing the gas pedal as hard as I can. He fires a few shots at the car but jumps over before I could hit him. He's on the floor and looking straight at me as I drive by. I kept going until I was all the way down the driveway of the log cabin we were staying at. I back into the road and switch into drive to pull away. I'm driving as fast as I can to get away. I ran all of the stop signs and red lights, my only priority is to get away from him as fast as I can. We were about 8 miles away from the log cabin when I pullover to the side of the road. I put my hazard lights on and get out. I go to the trunk and grab the med kit my dad packed when we left on our trip. I grab the gauze, medical tape, antibiotics and the tweezers an bottle of water. I walked over to the backdoor and helped Sarah to the edge of the seat to try to fix her wound on her leg. I managed to get the bullet out although the pain had her resisting completely. I wrap and tape her leg up. As I am putting the med kit back, I grab the leather suitcase that we found in the log cabin. "Do you suppose this is what we were getting shot at over?" I asked Sarah as I put it onto the trunk of the car? I opened it, The 20,000 dollars was still there and so was the black note book. I grab the note book and open it to see what's inside that's sooo important that we almost lost our lives. It was so wierd, I just couldn't make sense of it, it was in some kind of code. "We need to go before they find us, and they still have Jess, we have to go to the cops Liz" said Sarah. I shook my head no. "We can't go to the cops, they might kill her if we do" I said. As tears roll down her face she asks "What do we do then?". " Give me a minute, I have to think about it... there's only one thing to do, we negotiate" I answered. She nods her head in agreement as I put the book back and close the trunk. I walk to the driverside door and get in. I start the car and start heading in the direction of the nearest town. "Get comfortable and get some sleep, the next town is hours away and we need to get rid of this car. They will be looking for it" I said as I turn on the radio to tone out the doubtful thoughts I was having.