When A Dream Becomes Reality

When A Dream Becomes Reality Part 16

   When the next day came, we all tried to sleep in, which for an hour or two, seemed to work just fine. The house was nice and quiet, but then Terry suddenly sat up in bed, he looked like something was wrong. I tried to convince him that everything was fine, but he kept insisting that he was getting a horrible feeling. Eventually however, I managed to talk him into going back to sleep, so he laid back down, and did doze back off, as did I.

   However, sleeping in was short lived, when there was racket out in the living room. It sounded like someone was trying to get in the house. We all ran down the hall, where TJ made sure the door was locked. TJ told us all to be quiet, so he snuck out the back door, then tried to run around the front to surprise whoever it was at the door. 

   "TJ can't do this alone." Terry said, sprinting out the back door before I could stop him.

   Jamie and I ran out the back to the front, where as we got to the front, I could see TJ struggling with Luke to get a gun out of his hand! But because Luke was so much bigger than TJ, he just shoved TJ away, pointing the gun at Terry, who was also in the middle of the yard, ready to jump in if TJ failed to disarm Luke. TJ tried again to jump in to stop Luke, but again, Luke was just too big and too strong to TJ to fight off, so again, Luke just swatted him away.

   "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT TERRY!" Luke yelled in a psychotic manner, "HAD YOU LEFT MIKE ALONE, AND LET ME HAVE HIM, I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO THIS LEVEL!"

   "Luke, put the gun down." Terry said calmly, trying to talk Luke out of his episode.

   "TAKE ONE MORE STEP AND I'LL BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF!" Luke shouted, "BECAUSE OF YOU, I'LL NEVER HAVE MIKE AGAIN!"

   Terry's dad and brother happened to drive by. When they saw what was going on, they immediately pulled into the driveway, got out of Vince's truck, and immediately tried to jump in to stop everything........ and that's when it happened. Before ANY of us could react, before Vince and Jerry could get anywhere near him, Luke pulled the trigger, shooting Terry in the chest!

   "NO!" I shouted, running over to Terry, who lay on the ground motionless.

   While I ran to Terry, Jerry and Vince tackled Luke to the ground together, where TJ was able to take the gun from Luke, disarming him, immediately taking the bullets out of the gun's chamber. I stayed with Terry as police and an ambulance were called. Terry looked at me, he was trembling and grimacing from the pain, blood was everywhere. I tried to put pressure on the wound, but nothing I did was helping.

   "This...... isn't..... your fault.... Mike." Terry said, barely getting the words out.

   "Don't leave me Terry! Please hang on until the ambulance gets here!" I pleaded.

   Just as I thought Terry was going to hang on until help arrived. I watched in horror, as slowly, Terry's life began to deteriorate, and then with a final "I love you.", Terry sadly died in my arms. I slowly laid Terry's head on the ground, backing up in tears. Jamie came over to comfort me, Jerry and Vince were holding Luke down until police arrived, which they did shortly after Terry passed away. Then the ambulance showed up, but all they could do was check Terry for a heartbeat. When the paramedics were unable to find a pulls, they officially pronounced him dead at the scene.

   After having the coroner called, Terry's body was finally hauled away, Luke had been arrested, with TJ giving police the gun and bullets as evidence. It was clear Luke would be put away for a very very long time. As for me, I had just lost the one man I loved more than life itself, not sure how I was going to go on with my life. Even two weeks later, after Terry's funeral, I wasn't sure if I would ever date again.

   How was I going to go on after having lost my best friend?

THE END.