Save Us

Chapter 8 : Save Us

Hope sat on her bed with the notebook in her hand. It was night and the outside world was dark. Hope was scribbling in her book all of her friends accidents.

Ember

Death: Fire

Event: Fire broke out early in the morning. Was supposed to see her in the morning. So fire starts before I arrived.

Hope tapped her pencil on the notebook. 'What else?' She wrote down what she knew about Ember's death. After writing all the helpful notes, she started to think about the solution.

"Nobody knows the cause of the fire ...," she said to herself. Her eyes were only focused on her scribbled notes. "If I go back in time long before the fire ... I can call her phone."

Her mind thought about the many possibilities. "Hang on ... where was I?" She tried to remember where she was during the accident.

"I would still be in bed. If I time travel then, I would be awake. Okay ... I guess," she got out of bed and took the watch. She placed it on her left wrist and took one last look at a photo on the wall. It was a photograph of Maya, Mallory, Ena and her after Ember's death.

"Alright photograph ... get ready to have Ember in it," said Hope. She started to enter the date and time. Hope took a deep breathe with her finger on the Start button. "Here we go."

Her finger pressed the button and just as before her body felt as though it was thrown backwards. Her body felt as though she was crashing through glass. With each glass she crashed through, she aged backwards.

This continued for a while. It was a torture but it was something she was willing to go through to save her friends. She kept on crashing through layers and layers of glass before the final crash. Her body was laying on the bed.

The outside was getting brighter indicating it was very early in the morning. It took a few seconds before Hope could see and hear properly. She sat upright on her bed in her apartment. The watch was on her left wrist. On it was the countdown to the accident.

00:14:06 Hope saw the time. "Okay so fourteen minutes before the fire starts. I need to call," she said to herself. She got out of bed and rushed to grab her phone. She had to power on the phone. "Of course I had to shut the phone off."

Hope waited patiently. Her eyes were fixed on the time. Soon her phone was completely on. She quickly checked her contacts and tapped on Ember's profile. "Her phone is always on." She pressed the dial button.

Her hand brought the phone closer to her ear. "Please pick up the phone. Please. Please."

***

Ember was in her house. She slept peacefully on her bed. The room was cold. Beep! Her phone started to ring. Ember however only tossed in her sleep. The phone rang for a moment before it stopped.

Beep! The phone rang again. Ember was still in dreamland. Her body tossed several times. The phone rang few times. Ember started getting annoyed with the ringing and sat upright in her bed. Her hand reached for the phone.

"Who the hell calls at this time?" her hand reached for the phone and she looked at the caller ID. Hope. "Hope."

Her finger pressed the accept call button. She brought the phone close to her right ear. "Hello? Hope~" she said in a sleepy voice.

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"Hello? Hope~" Hope heard Ember's sleepy voice.