Save Me

CHAPTER 5: WHO YOU?

Twen's POV

I've decided not to live in a world where you're not alive Jamie...I can't. I don't think I'm the only one who will feel this way, I wouldn't be surprised if any of your other kids come to the same decision as I did.

You're the only one we've felt affection from in the entirety of our lives. I don't know if you'll be sad or angry that I did this, but I don't think even you would want to live here by yourself.

I'm sorry if you do feel this way, but I'm ready. I've been ready for a long time; I've just never done it because I didn't want to hurt you.

But you're gone now so I don't have to be afraid of hurting you anymore. I will join you and anyone else who decides to follow, we'll be a family, together and forever.

I'm ready now.

I breathe in through my nose and out my mouth. I close my eyes and take another breath trying to calm my pounding heart. Even though I'm ready I'm still afraid, I'm afraid of the pain, of dying, but...I'm more afraid of staying here alone.

I widen my jaw and breathe out. As I'm about to close my jaw and bite on my tongue, the door opens.

All my breath leaves my body as I smell the scent of the figure who opened my cell door and is slowly walking to my side.

"J-Jamie," I whisper.

Jamie's POV

After not hearing anything in Twens cell I open the door with the little strength I have left and walk in. I let the door close behind me, once I'm fully inside I hear him whisper my name. I start to slowly walk to his side.

"Twen? I'm sorry for not coming to check on you." I don't receive a response; I hope he's not angry at me.

"Twen, are you mad at me?" Once I finally get to his side and settle down next to him my heart begins to pound at the sight before me. Twen was crying, his eyes were closed shut, but tears kept falling out, his eyes were puffy, and his face was red with snot coming out his nose.

"T-Twen," I whisper. "I'm so so sorry, I-I didn't mean to leave you alone. I'm sorry." There was nothing I could really say to comfort him other than I'm sorry, there was no way I was going to tell him what happened.

I begin to remove the chains from his cuffs beginning with his ankles and then wrists, all while calling out his name and repeatedly apologizing to him. Once he was fully free he jumps up from the ground, hugging me and wrapping his legs around me making me fall backward, but am able to stop myself from falling any further.

With me, in his tight embrace, Twen begins to cry out loud, a cry that I have never heard come out of Twen. He was trembling, wailing, and crying almost desperately, his embrace getting tighter and tighter the more he cried.

"T-Twen what's wrong you're scaring me, what happened?"

"D-Did someone do something to you?"

Twen shakes his head no. At this point, he has calmed down a bit, but his body is still shaking, he's sniffing the snot that came out from all the crying, and has the hiccups.

"Nobody hurt you? Then what's wrong?" I say softly as I pet the back of his head and rub his back to calm him down."

"I (hiccup) think (hiccup) you (hiccup) dead." This makes Twen continue crying.

After hearing what was making Twen cry, shivers spread throughout my body. I knew what it felt like to lose someone you love so I felt horrible for making Twen go through that.

"I'm so sorry Twen it's all my fault."

Twen shakes his head no once again and lets go of his embrace to look at me, even though I know he can't see me.