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I blink severally and open my eyes wide. I look around, my attacker is lying on the floor. He painfully groans he is still alive.

"We have to go!" Andre says in a tone I find rude.

However, I am not leaving until getting answers from my assailant. I slowly move to him. Andre shot him at his abdomen.

"Who sent you? The Nickels? The Coopers', I mean my aunt and uncle? Who?" I scream at him. He has a scary face, it looks like it is sculpted with blunt object leaving uneven edges. His jaws are so prominent and pronounced. He is like one bucket of ugliness.

He opens his mouth revealing his bloody teeth and gives me an evil grin before shaking his head.

"Careful kid with who you trust." He shuts his eyes in pain.

I shake my head, "What is that suppose to mean? All I need to know is who send you."

"Neither of those people have anything to do with this. Just don't trust blindly." His hand goes to his wound.

Andre is getting impatient and he looks like he could kill. He's wearing a wife-b