What's left unknown

Chapter 2

"Would you kiss him?"

"Absolutely not."

"Okay then, oh! What about that blonde over by Chick-fl-a?"

"I would do him, right here, right now"

"I don't know about right here, but I'd do him"

Aurora and I play our favorite game that we always play at the mall. One of us points to a guy and the other decides if we would kiss him, kill him, or do him.

"Now I want Chick-fl-a" complains Aurora. I look at her and see the longing in her eyes for fast food goodness.

"We should get going, Reese, My mom is going to get pissed if I miss dinner again."

You must be thinking "What a strange name?" about Aurora. The story is her parents are immigrants from France and her mother was infertile. They decided to adopt a little girl and could not find a name they could agree on. Then the two parents started to learn American fairy tails, specifically, sleeping beauty. They thought the name was pretty (which I agree with, just a bit strange to name your child after a Disney princess). Aurora hates her name but her parents won't let her call herself something else.

"Ya, lets go then."

Aurora is my best friend, my only friend really. Besides my older brother, Jared, and Aurora I'm alone in this gigantic world. I'll see girls in humongous packs traveling through the mall and the only thing I can think is .....HOW? I just can't stand people.

"So next time we are here do you want to get some fro-yo then chill in a store with big couches?" Aurora asks as we head to the closest exit.

"Sounds great, I live for junk food and chilling on couches." I reply then shove her jokingly.

"That's something you would say" Aurora replies and has a tint of laughter in her voice. Her laugh drags my attention to the glimmer in her vivid green eyes. Another thing that's very curious about Aurora is how she actually kind of looks like the Disney princess. She has long blonde hair that has a bit of wave to it, and has a soft looking face. I on the other hand have grey misty eyes that scares anyone who looks at me, and black hair that isn't very interesting. Then the paleness in my skin makes me look sick all of the time. Once or twice I've been approached by strangers that asked if I was okay. It gets embarrassing.

"So I assume you got your car fixed if you are driving me home" I ask, as we start walking up the giant stairs that head to the doors that lead to the parking lot.

"Ya, luckily my dad-" But I never got to find out what her dad did, because of the defining bang.

*KABOOOOOOOM*

"What the hell is that!" I yelled and turned to look at Aurora. Instead of finding fear or surprise on her face, I find dread and anger. Not what I was expecting from my dear dear friend.

I could hear Aurora muttering under her breathe above all of the hurly burly. I only caught stuff like"This wasn't supposed to happen... not yet.... we need more time..."

"Waddya mean 'not yet' ?!" Another loud bang and the stairs we are standing on begin to crack and shake under us. I can see and can hear other people on the stairs diving for the railings and running trying to get off. There where people shoving other people trying to get off first. The huge mass of people shoving me to the side leaves me with no choice but to jump over the railing. I was close enough to the ground it wouldn't be that bad. 

"Reese! Don't you dare!" 

*KABOOOOOOM* That's another bomb.

I totally did it. I landed on my feet, then fell to my knees.

I could see Aurora running to me from the bottom of the stairs, screaming. How pleasant. "Reese! We have to get out of here!"

*KABOOOOOOM* 

"YOU DON'T SAY! " My sarcasm doesn't leave even in times of trouble. I start to get up and think for a brief moment about how I've never broken a bone when I do stuff as dangerous as this.  

She grabs my arm and yanked me into the hallway with the bathrooms and water fountains. But before I entered I turned around and watched as people fell from over the second floor railing as another explosion erupts from a store on the second floor, and as the giant stair case fell to the ground, and watched helplessly as the people on it died.

Aurora grabbed my arm and pulled me near the water fountain. "Reese, stay here and don't do anything. Do you understand?" Aurora says with a fire in here glimmering eyes. 

"Is this a terrorist attack?"

"Shhhh" She said waving a hand in my direction as she reaches for her phone. Only it wasn't her phone, but a something shaped like a phone only dramatically thinner, super sleek,  and black all around. Which is strange because everything she owns is pink and purple. She touched the front a few times like she was using a phone and then put it away in her pocket. 

"Aurora, what was that? "

"Reese, promise me you will stay home with your brother all day tomorrow, you won't leave your house, you won't go to school."

"You didn't answer my question. What's going on?"

Aurora takes a few steps back and looked me up and down. It was look she was looking into my soul with her piercing green eyes. I try to think of a time I've seen Aurora look so serious, and I can't.

"Reese" she starts with a dark look in her eyes. "I promise one day, a day not to far from now, that this will all make sense. Now I'm going to bring you home, it's not safe for you here"

"It's not safe for any of us here"

"You will know what I mean soon"

"Aurora, what are you on?"

"Just shut your loud mouth and let's go home" she started to walk away the way we came, faltered, then turned back to me.  "And Reese, I promise everything will connect in the end"

"You sound like Dumbledore." I stared to follow her and fell into step. When we reached where the big stair case is... Well... Was, I stopped and Aurora did right after. It was just a pile of rubble, and sadly, bodies. There were lots of doctors running all over, with stretchers here and there. Cops were talking to the poor people who had to experience the bombing. I looked up and saw two big gaps in the railings and the floor up on the second floor. There were officers blocking off the gigantic gaps in  the floors and pedestrians on their phones trying to call loved ones. There were sounds of children crying and even some adults and teenagers crying. There were people crying over bodies and splatters of blood in many different places.

My hands cupped over my mouth. This was very different than my late night adventures of finding out who killed my parents, there weren't criminals getting killed. There are innocent people spending the day with their families and friends. 

I looked to the right and near the Ben and Jerry's and there was a child with his arm blown off with his mother praying over him. Tears should be falling from my eyes, but they don't, I've never cried before.
Aurora grabbed my shoulder and dragged me to an employees only door in a store and walked out. Go figure, it's raining. 

I look up and see my brothers car pulling towards us and he runs out and wraps his arms around me and without a word shoves me into his black SUV and puts his sweatshirt on me. But he stays outside and talks to Aurora. There is a very serious look on his face. My eyes switch to Aurora and she is back on her black phone-looking thingy and shows something to Jared that I can't see. They talk for another two minutes, which is odd because they have never really talked. Aurora gets angry at Jared for something and stomps off. Jared gets in the car and pulls away from, by far, the most traumatizing situation I've ever been in.