Manifestation

7: Reunion

Her smile widened as she laughed at somebody's joke. She turned around and saw me standing there. She dropped her taco plate, sending it crashing to the floor. We ran over and held each other in an embrace.

"Mom." I sobbed into her shoulder.

We fell to the ground hugging each other. She sobbed and stroked my hair. There were no words to describe how happy I was to know she was alive.

"I thought you were dead." She sobbed.

Everybody was staring at us.

I heard Ryan gasp and run over to somebody.

"R-Ryan." A woman sobbed.

Rachel and Whitney joined our tight embrace, sobbing with us. I kissed their heads a wrapped my arms around both of them.

Then a thought struck me, if they were here, so was Luther, and if Luther was here, so was Jim. I tensed up at the thought but pushed it out of my mind. Right now, I was focusing on my family.

We finally pulled away and went into their plane to discuss how I got here, Ryan and his mother came with us.

"How did you get here?" I asked.

Mom looked down at her hands. "Luther found the entry point. We think it is the same place Ryan came from. There was ripped fencing. We didn't focus on that part of the camp that much. They all came through-" she took in a sharp breath. "We lost almost everybody. I watched Lilac get ripped apart. Lilly shot herself. Luther and Jim helped me get Rachel and Whitney out." She started crying into her hands and I rubbed her back.

"You two know what happened at our camp." Ryan's mom spoke up. "I didn't see if anyone else got out. It was just me. What about you two?"

I explained everything to them since Jim kidnapped me. My mother was fuming when she heard what Jim did.

"Why would he do that?"

"He was jealous." I took in a sharp breath. "Is he here?" I asked quietly.

At that moment, the plane door flew open and a tall, muscled man with his hair shaved close to his head stood before us.

Ryan whipped out his gun and stood in front of me, blocking me from Jim.

His eyes grew wide. "Arizona." He said quietly.

He took a step forward and Ryan cocked his gun. "Not a step further."

I stepped out from behind Ryan.

"Ryan, stop."

"You promised me, Arizona, you promised me you wouldn't get in the way."

He was right. I did.

"I did. But now is not the time. Not in front of your mother. Not in front of my sisters." I took a step back and put a hand on his gun.

"I can't believe it-" Jim said.

"Shut up." Ryan commanded.

Jim put his hands up. "It's ok. You can pull the trigger. I don't blame you. I've tried to kill you too many times before and you saved my life. You could've left me to rot with those creepers but you didn't. And I never got to thank you for that."

All of a sudden, my mom leaped on Jim and started punching him in the face. Jim didn't fight back. I wasn't going to try to stop her. He deserved it.

My sisters tried to pry her off of him but she kept punching and punching and punching. Eventually, one of them got Zoey and Victor to take my mother away from Jim.