Last chance

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As soon as Seth knew what hospital Becky was at he ran, he needed Becky as Roman amongst some of his other classmates were pronounced dead raising the number to 20 students dead. He ran as fast as he could, with tears streaming down his face. He couldn't stop himself, he needed to be there...he needed Becky just as much as Becky needed him.

Sasha's operation was simple, the bullet was removed and she was good to go. Ever since she woke up she's just felt numb, staring at the wall in agony not from being shot but from losing some of the best friends she'd ever had. She couldn't describe the feeling building up in her chest, it just felt like she'd left a part of herself behind in that school, like she was no longer complete. Right now she felt lonely, her family hadn't even bothered to show up yet and she needed them because she'd lost the only other family she'd has.

Seth didn't stop even when his lungs burned and his body screamed at him to stop, he couldn't take it any more he couldn't stop because the pain was taking over. The heartbreaking feeling of losing those who mean the most, now Seth has to live his life for his friends too because they're gone, they had their lives stolen from them and now Seth has to keep going.

Becky didn't even speak when she woke up, she didn't even feel lucky she just felt selfish that she got to live and Charlotte didn't. Just before Charlotte died she handed Rebecca her ring and made her promise that even after everything she would keep going, that she wouldn't break, she'd keep going and live a life for the both of them. Becky wanted to scream, she wanted to take the ring off and throw it but she couldn't, she just laid in a hospital bed nervously fiddling with it.

Sasha knew one thing, she needed to see Becky, she needed to know how to happened? If Charlotte was suffering? If she was terrified like Bayley was... So she got out of bed and she slipped through the shadows of the hospital, just hoping to find Becky still alive, hoping she wasn't too late.

Becky
I heard a knock on my door but I couldn't even speak but the door pushed open and a blue haired girl came into vision, it was Sasha. "B-Becky?" She was shaking as she took a step into the room. "Sasha..." We locked eye contact and just stared at each other for a moment, if i looked hard enough I could still see the fear in her eyes. "It was s-so horrific..." Her hands were trembling as she reached for her necklace. "I-I know...I-I can't do this without her." I started to play with the ring on my finger and Sasha glanced down at my hand.

"Bayley...dean...uh- they're gone too. Bayley just begged me to make the pain go away and I couldn't...I couldn't stop her from dying..."

"Charlotte she tried to protect me, they tried to take me but she stopped them...she died for me..."

"How do w-we carry on?"

"I don't know..."

Sasha looked up at me and I just broke, my sobs started to echo throughout the hospital as I placed my head in my hands. I could hear Sasha's sobbing too as she fell down onto my bed, taking me into her embrace. "T-they can't be gone, they didn't deserve this..." Sasha's grip on me just got tighter as we clung on to each other for dear life, not knowing what to do...not knowing how to cope.

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People were scared, scared something like this would happen again. Thousands of children scared for life, absolutely horrified as they watched the terror rip through the school. Many had their families ripped apart, many had lost the people who meant the most to them, many people had lost their second family and nobody, nobody knew what to do...

Becky and Sasha they didn't move, just holding on to each other in fear that if they let go they'd lose the other. Both girls just sat silently, letting their heartbreaking sobs fill the silence. Becky begged for this nightmare to be over, she begged for this to just be some sort of sick joke but deep down she knew it was really over, her friends were really dead. Maybe you could call the two girls lucky for making it out of the building alive, but they didn't think of that they regarded themselves as anything but lucky.

Seth stood outside the hospital building just catching his breath as ambulance after ambulance arrived, he finally built up his courage and he stepped into the hospital. Walking past many wounded students, the lucky ones who didn't get killed. He walked over to the front desk and waited for the receptionist to come over to him. "Son what can I help you with?" She was very calm, even though the hospital around her was chaos. "I need to see my partner, her name is Rebecca Lynch." She nodded, clicked a few keys on the keyboard before looking back up at me. "Second floor, room 23 and its the 4th room on the right." She handed Seth a visitor pass and he just slipped through the corridors towards Becky.

There was knock at the door but neither girl had the strength to open it. Seth knew someone was inside so he pushed it open, he saw Becky and Sasha with tear stained cheeks and red puffy eyes clinging onto each other. "S-Seth..." Becky's voice was so fragile and weak and it made Seth's heart ache. "God...I'm so sorry you had to go through that, I'm so sorry I wasn't there to protect you..." She shook her head. "I'm glad you weren't there, I don't think I can cope losing you too...please just come here, I need to know you're really here...I need to know I've still got you..."