"And where the hell do you think you're going?," Mike yells out to his son who's carrying me away.

"I'm not about to be a fucking sitting duck, we gotta move," He answers him not even looking his way. Mike and Marcus run up to us catching up. "We're splitting up," He tells Mike

My dad takes a halt to empty the water in his boot while trying to catch his breath.

"We're gonna stay together," Mike says back to his son.

"Says who," Armando tells him while turning us both around. I was still trying to catch my breath and stop my head from spinning from the crash.

"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. We're staying together Armando," Mike says putting his foot down and regaining his posture to then stand in front of me and Armando. Armando let's go of me and walks right past him.

"Fuck out of my way," He says snarkily while passing Mike and bumping his shoulder. Mike works quick and grabs his body holding him by his jumpsuit collar.

My dad runs up to them and tries to break up the fight.

"You guys seriously can't be fighting right now! We are stranded in the middle of the woods and can't go to anyone for help," I scream out at them. They took a pause and look over to me. Then get back to what they were doing. "You gotta be kidding," I say rolling my eyes and pulling out my phone to see if I have service.

"You are the only person who can identify whoever is doing this!," Mike yells quietly to Armando while shaking him. "The only way that any of us stays alive, is that we get them before they get us." he continues pushing him more.

"There's no us," Armando tells him while copying his actions and pushing Mike back. "There is no us!", He yells again. They need counseling asap.

"DAMN, that Lowrey DNA is a bitch," Marcus says still holding their arms from each other. I put my phone away after unsuccessfully getting zero bars and walk back towards the group. "Now everyone unflex on three! One... two..." My dad suggest but they both unflex on two not letting him count to three.

Mike explains to Armando why they're here in the first place in slight chance that he'd comply.

"Y'all better not slow me down," He says to all three of us.

"What a dick," I say under my breath.

"Lose your phones. You keep up with me or I leave you in the dirt," He tells us. "You're in my world now", He finishes while walking off. Marcus and Mike throw their phones in the water but I keep mine just in case.

Marcus and Mike are still hot on our tails while we're all moving through the woods, I hear them have a conversation so I speed up to where Armando is.

"You need to take a couple of deep breaths. You don't always have to be the biggest jerk in the room," I say to him. He ignores my words and gives me a "stop talking" look. "Just saying," I tell him refusing to stop talking.

"cuanto más rápido hagamos esto, mejor," Armando says while speeding up his walk. I still follow him having no clue what he's saying. (the faster we do this, the better)

"Man my feet hurt," I say to him while looking down at my feet in my work shoes. I still speed up my walk but my toes feel awful. "Pause, we gotta take a timeout," I say to not only him but Mike and Marcus too.

I lay my back on a nearby tree after checking for spiders and take my shoes off revealing my socks. I just had to wear the most fanciest and uncomfortable shoes today?

"We don't have time for this Y/N," Mike tells me.

"My feet hurt!!," I whine back. They feel like they're on fire for Pete's sake.

"This is bullshit," Armando says to himself before walking over to me and pulling me up. He turns around and squats signaling for me to get onto his back. I comply and lift my legs to jump and finally settle on his back as he continues to walk.

"Watch those hands Mike junior," Marcus tells Armando as he sees that his hands were very close to my butt but laid right under my thighs.

I relax my arms around his shoulders interlocking them as he continues to walk as if it wasn't a setback.

"Thank you, i appreciate it. When we're an hour in, we can switch," I say jokingly to Armando trying to lighten up the mood. He lets out a low chuckle and adjusts me on his back making me bounce a little.

"I like this position, there's some others that I like, that I can show you," He says cheekily to me.

"GET YOUR SON MIKE," My dad yells to Mike while keeping an eye on Armando. ——— We continued our pathway for the next hour. Armando wasn't showing any tiredness of holding me on his back and Mike and Marcus were walking behind us keeping their pace.

After another hour, I get off from his back after my phone gets a notification.

"I told you to get rid of that Y/N," Armando tells me annoyed.

"I know, I know," I say trying to spare the lecture. I unlock my phone and see a new post on the news announcing how we're wanted men. "Fuck.." I say out loud.

"What? What did you see. Did they find us?," My dad asks quickly.

"Guys were on most wanted," I tell them while passing my phone over.

"¿Cinco millones de recompensa?," Armando questions. (five million reward)

"Fuck fuck fuck," I keep saying while pacing back and forth, anxiously running my hands over my hair,

"It's okay, It's okay. We just gotta do this quicker and clear our names," Mike says trying to relieve the stressed tension.

"How! We are wanted men Mike, it's everywhere they even used my good photo...," I say to him. And knowing they announced this everywhere means even gangs will be on the lookout for us. "And they only want 5 million for me?," I continued with a confused face. The audacity, I'm worth a solid 50 but okay...

"Don't even Y/N," Marcus starts. "We gotta keep moving guys," He says. We all continue to move quickly into the woods deeper and deeper. About a couple of more hours later, it was officially dark outside so we made a fire and sat around it.

I sat in between my dad and Armando while plugging my phone into the portable charger and setting it back into my purse that survive all the running. Marcus was going on this rant about how the universe brought us together.

"I bet none of us thought when we woke up today that this is where we will be," He tells us all. "You out of jail. We going to jail. Y/N not about to survive in these woods so we might as well leave her," He continues while pointing to each of us.

"I can't wait until the bears mistake your body for a thick tootsie pop and eat you alive," I say back to him.

"Love you too baby girl," He says ignoring my comment.

Armando's eyes never leave his fathers. Marcus notices this.

"Mike... is there something you would like to say to Armando?," Marcus questions him.

"Why are you talking to me like that? No.", Mike answers confused.

"Mike.. this is your moment. I've watched stuff like this happen on TV," I say.

"Express with your son," My dad tells him ever so casually. Mike looks over to Armando to work something up.

"I'm sorry," Mike says truthfully to Armando.

"For what?," Armando asks practically declining his apology.

"For everything man. Seems like bad shit happens to the people I love, maybe I'm cursed," Mike starts. "I just feel like... maybe I cursed you," He continues still looking towards Armando. The fire starts to grow taller and is reflected off his eyes.

"You ain't fucking curse me. Bad shit happens to everybody," Armando tells him. "It ain't always about you," He continues even more rudely.

"You must be in the anger stage," I say sarcastically to him in a way to defend Mike. I clean off the dirt from my freshly done nails and look over to Armando.

"Ignore her," My dad starts. "Look Armando, I don't know if you know this but I died a couple of weeks ago," Marcus explains. Not this shit again.

"Sorry to hear that," Armando answers bluntly feeding into my dad's delusion.

"All good! I wasn't ready to go, I can't die. But we were all brought here for a reason," He tells him. He stands up and spreads his legs and arms. "Now let's bring it in!," He continues motioning for us all to do a group hug. All of us just look at him like he's crazy.

Armando stands up and throws a bark of wood into the fire making it almost go out.

"Y'all are some terrible fucking fugitives," He says while walking over to the tree branch fort I made with him.

"Okay, I know this isn't the right time to ask but by any chance is there a nearby shower?," I ask Mike and Marcus while pulling out a bar of soap from my purse.

"Yeah you not gonna survive out here," Mike tells me. ——— Exactly 1600 words!! thank you all for reading and most definitely another chapter will be out by tomorrow instead of thursday. as usual i'm praying they're aren't any typos and i hope y'all enjoyed💕💕