42|| Dread In The Air

                                    

                                          
All I want to do right now is to cry and scream and let it all out because it's killing me inside. 
                          
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Tristan sat in the airport in a shocked daze. He still couldn't believe he had lost Kim. Sometime later, Darren and Iyke arrived at the airport and ran to him. "Tristan?! What happened?!" Darren asked worried. "Did you find Kim? Where is she? Talk to us?!"
                          
Tristan just stared unable to answer and Iyke instantly knew Tristan wasn't able to save Kim. He quietly put a hand on Darren's shoulder and shook his head. "Let's take him home" Iyke said quietly.
                          
"Iyke..." Darren tried to argue but a soft look from Iyke shut him up. He helped Iyke pull Tristan up and to his car.
                          
"They took her...I couldn't even..." Tristan mumbled devastated. He was too shocked to protest or react when they took him to his car and drove him home. 
                          
They arrived at Tristan's house and saw Carter, Deborah and Kazeem waiting for them. "What are you doing here?" Darren whispered to Deborah.
                          
"I was worried, what is going on Darren? Where is Kim?" Deborah asked near tears. She clocked Tristan's lost expression and it worried her.
                          
"Shh" Darren just said. He and Iyke took Tristan to his room and came back to meet the others. The mood was solemn.
                          
"He couldn't save her right?" Carter said quietly.
                          
"You..." Darren angrily said and grabbed a fistful of Carter's collar. "Why did you come here? Was this your plan? To distract us while your father took Kim?" Darren accused angrily, "did you come to spy on us?!"
                          
"Back off!" Carter hissed, pushing Darren away. "I came here because I wanted to save Kim. She was the only one who...bothered to think of how I feel. Maybe I should have warned you earlier but I didn't know if I could trust you."
                          
Darren glared at Carter and Carter glared back. Sensing the hostility, Iyke held Darren incase Darren would attack. "Wait! So Kim is in the hands of that terrible man?!" Deborah exclaimed in shock. 
                          
"You have to save her, you have to save her before they kill her." Deborah said, clutching her brother's shirt.
                          
"We will but we can't do anything while Tristan is in shock" Iyke said, glancing at the hallway. "We have to wait for Tristan, Tristan will get out of this, for now...Carter, are you with us or against us?"
                          
Everyone turned to Carter. "Only for Kimberly" Carter said.
                          
"Good, if your father doesn't know you are with us, you have to return to London." Iyke said. "you have to protect Kim for us."
                          
"No problem" Carter answered.
                          
"We should go now, Tristan needs some time alone" Iyke said.
                          
"I will stay here to watch over Tristan, and him" Darren said, giving Carter the stink eye. "Tristan can't be completely alone."
                          
"No problem, just, don't fight. We have bigger things to concentrate on" Iyke said, "let's go." Iyke took Deborah and Kazeem with him and it was just Carter and Darren in the living room.
                          
Darren and Carter eyed each other distrustfully then sat opposite each other. They stared at each other hatefully.
                          
In Tristan's room, Tristan was seated on his bed staring into space as moments he spent with Kim flashed through his eyes. "Kim...Kimberly...I..." Tristan began to say before he suddenly screamed in rage.