The Panic of Fear (Book One of The Fearful Trilogy)

Chapter Twenty Eight

  Walking down the hallway I feel sad. Everyone I love is dead, so why am I still pressing forward? I ask Frost the question. "Because. You want to save people." I shrug at his answer.
  After walking for awhile we enter a room with windows. I go and look out one. I see the street but no one on it. Anyways I don't think they'd hear.
  The windows look thick and we're high up. I move over to Frost and hug him sadly. "It's oka-" Frost gets wrenched from my arms and he hits a wall.
  I spin around to see a bolt of electricity hit me in the chest. I fly across the room and smack against a wall. My vision starts to swim.
  A paper hits my chest but I don't care. My vision is blurring.

For years ago

  I wake up in the hospital. I don't remember the ambulance ride over here. I see Jordan laying next to me cuddling my side.
  I smile and lay my head on his shoulder. "EXACTLY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" I look over and see my dad standing. No. Looming in the doorway.
  I go to protest but he grabs my wrist and drags me outside the room. The IV tubes in my arm are painfully yanked out. My dad doesn't stop pulling me behind him until he throws me in the car.

  When we get home he starts dragging me behind him. I press my feet against the patio and he turns around. "What are you doing?!"
  I step up to him. "Stop trying to boss me around." He goes to punch me but I duck and hit him in the overweight stomach he has.
  He doesn't move and I get punched to the floor. After being pummeled into the floor my dad smiles his disgusting smile.
  "You don't have the guts to stand up to me." That makes me mad. I don't feel the pain anymore, I feel anger. I stand up and face him.
  "I don't care if you split my lip. I don't care if you broke my ribs. I don't care anymore. I. HATE! YOU!"
  He punches me in the face and drags me up the stairs. He throws me over the side and I hit the floor hard. I hear a door slam and groan.
  I close my eyes. And hear a gunshot.

  When I open my eyes I see a monster that looks like a robot with electricity going through it. I look over a Frost and a zap of electricity burns a hole into the wall beside me.
  I tell myself not to move. I slide my eyes over to Frost and see he's still knocked out. What would a monster from the fear of cold dream of? I slide my eyes back over to the monster and see it hasn't moved.
  A motion activated monster and a knocked out monster on my side. And a Floofic that's hiding. Not great odds.