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Attack

~Cecelia~

"Ha! I won!" Enrique bragged as he open the car door, "Asshole, you only 'won' because you pushed me causing me to fall onto the couch." I said annoyance lacing my tone. I huffed at him as I climbed into the Black Escalade. I look around the car, but I don't see Alejandro and Penelope. "Where are they? He said he would be waiting for us?" I ask, now, worrying about them.

"Beto, where did they go?" Enrique ask the driver , "The little girl was thirsty, so they went to go get something to drink." He pointed back at the house. We both nod our heads relaxing a bit. I see another black suv behind us, I'm guessing that's where Maria and Lucas are waiting. I wonder if Alejandro is going to let them stay with us after what happened.

Ding
I pull my phone out of my back pocket and I see a message from an unknown number. I open it and it says 'BOOM!' I furrow my eyebrows at the message. Suddenly a timer takes up my phone screen, it's counting down from 20.

20....10....5....

After the 5, it showed a picture of the house and that's when I realized the house was about to explode. A bomb was about to go off.

I quickly get out of the car and and run toward the house. "PENELOPE!" I scream trying to get there in time.

BOOM

I fly back hitting the car, my entire body racking with pain. My ears are ringing, and my eyes are blurry. As I try to get up, I fall on my hands and knees.

I taste a metallic flavor in my mouth, and my ribs hurt. I think their broken, I swallow the flavor and gather the energy to get up. I look up and the house was in pieces, wood, glass, and other materials were scattered everywhere.

"Penelope." I whisper, Enrique comes around the car. "Cecelia are you alright?" I hear Enriques muffled voice. I remember Alejandro and Penelope were in there. "Penelope!" I cry out running to the flamed house. Enrique runs after me, catching me, keeping me from going into the burning house.

"NO, NO, let me go Enrique! LET ME GO!" I scream at him, trying to get out of his hold. Tears are running down my face, I fall on my knees. Enrique is still holding onto to me "I have to go get her, please!" I beg him.

I let out a sob. My Penelope is gone. My heart aches, I don't know what I'm going to do. Enrique let's go of me and I fall completely on the ground. But she can't be dead, right? No, I won't accept she's dead. Not until I see a body, using the opportunity that Enrique is distracted in his own grief, I run towards the house.

"CECELIA!" Enrique calls out to me, he starts running towards the door, but the fire causes the doorway to collapse. Fire blocking the entrance.

I entered the hot house before the doorway collapsed and I try to make my way to the kitchen . I enter the hallway and see everything falling apart. The smoke starts getting into my lungs, I start to cough losing oxygen.

The kitchen is just a few feet away, I get on my knees to crawl. The lower you get the more oxygen there is, I take a deep breath. My head is starting to pound and I feel dizzy. I made it into the kitchen where I see Penelope in a corner crying over Alejandros body. She's holding his hand and calling out to him.

"Penelope!" I yell towards her, she look up to me and tries to run up to me. "No!" I yell out, "it's not safe.". She nods and looks down at Alejandro. My heart skips a beat, is he dead?

I shake my head getting rid of any negative thoughts. I climb over the ashes and burning objects. I see the back door and Penelope is right by it. "Go through there!" I point at the door next to her. She nods and she gets up, sprinting toward the door.

She opens the door and runs out. I always told her if I ever told her to run, to just do it and don't look back. No matter what.

I get into a crouch position and quickly make my way to Alejandro. I check his pulse and I can't feel anything. I put my ear to his nose, I can barley hear his breathing. I put my entire weight under his arms and pick him up. This man is heavy, I struggle to keep him steady. I feel the smoke filling up my lungs again, this time I run, well speed walk to the door.

I grab onto the door knob, but it burns me. The fire must have escalated. I go up against the door to push it, but it doesn't budge. I'm starting to loss consciousness. I reel back and kick the door as hard as I can.

It breaks open, I push through my lost of energy. I drag Alejandro all the way to the front where Enrique was holding a crying Penelope. He saw me and quickly made his way over here. As he reached for Alejandro, my world went black. I felt as I hit the cold, hard ground. The last I heard was Enrique calling out to me and Penelope crying hysterically.

Throughout this chaos, the only thing I was worried about was Alejandro. Is he okay? Is he hurt? Is he dead?

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Sorry guys for the short chapter!
But I hope y'all enjoyed it. These past few months have been crazy and I couldn't focus on my writing, but now I'm back and trying to get out as many chapters as possible. Thank you for sticking around and waiting!! Love yalll🤍🤍