After Life (BOOK 2)

Chapter 3

I ran. I ran as fast as I can. I came upon the ruble and all the memories came flooding back to me. The screaming and all of the tears that were shed on this day. On August 29, 2015. I walked into the building, and I saw her. Her body was complete normal.

She looked just like... Rose.

"Rose," I said walking to her, "Rose it's me, its Nathan," I shook her softly. Suddenly her eyes snapped open and she was screaming. I grabbed her from the floor and hugged her. She smelt different from her normal self but it was Rose, the real Rose, My Rose.

"Let go of me!" She said hitting me, "get off of ME!"

"Rose," she stopped instantly and froze up. I pulled her away and looked into her eyes. I felt happy, it was Rose.

"Nathan?" She said looking at my face. I nodded my head, she started crying. I pulled her close to me.

"Shhh," I said into her hair, "I'm here, I got you, I'll always be here for you. Come on we have to get out of here!" Nathan got up and grabbed Rose. We started to run to the exit, we made it to the door. And I ran out but I lost my grip on Rose. I turned around to see her pressing against a transparent wall.
'No, I'm already to late,' I thought to myself.

"What do you mean it's too late?!" Rose said slamming her hands against the force field surrounding the factory.

"Calm down Rose," I said looking into her eyes, "I'm not going to lose you again, I promise," she nodded her head. "Are you ready?" I asked her, she nodded her heads in agreement. I grappled her arms and pulled with all of my strength. I kept pulling until she screamed in agony! I let go of her hands and she fell to the ground. I ran to her.

"Are you okay," I asked taking her hand into mine.

"I just don't want you to leave me again," she said looking into my eyes. I leaned in to kiss her, but then I heard a twig snap. I'm pretty sure Rose heard it too.

"Get out of here Nathan," she said in a low whisper, "no I'm not leaving you again!" I said to her.

"You have to," she said, "please," I shook my head and ran my fingers through my hair. I trapped onto her hand and pulled her down the hall of re exit. We sat down behind a counter. Just we heard voices from outside the building.

"Come on Jake," it sounded like a teenage girl to me maybe a couple years older than me but still very young, "nothing is going to be in there!"

"Shut up Annie!" Jake snapped at Annie. Jake has to be big and tough, he had a deep voice.

"Knock it off," another girl had to be the same age of Annie, maybe twins?

"Don't talk to me like your older than me Brin!" Jake said to Brin.

"Well I wouldn't have to act like the oldest, if you would stop being a complete pain in my a-,"

"Wow guys just stop," said a young boy with black hair and green eyes. He looked about the age of 11, came out of the woods surrounding the area, "you guys should listen to Wyatt," a younger girl emerged from behind Wyatt. She had long blonde hair with blue eyes. She looked about the age of 12-13.

"You guys were suppose to stay by the car," Jake said, "you know you could have been killed?"

"Really Jake," annie said stepping out from behind him, "they are just children, they just wanted to be with us,"

"Whatever," Jake said rolling his eyes, "lets just get this over with, I'm supposed to be hanging with friends tonight,"

"You have friends?!" Brin said in a sarcastic tone. Jake simple roiled his eyes and walked up to the building.

"Hey Brin," he said looking into the building, "I think it's your turn to check it out,"

"Wimp," she said walking past Jake and Ito the building. She didn't look sacred or afraid. She was completely confident, she held her head high.

"Um, Hello?" She said in a poor defenseless voice, "is anyone in here?" She started to cry. Man she is a great actor/faker! Suddenly I heard a loud crash from behind me. A older looking guy came from the room behind where Rose and I were sitting. He looked down the hallway at Brin.

"He-hello, miss?" He said walked over to Brin, "are you okay?"

She looked up at the man and shook her head, "I'm fine, I'm sorry for bothering you,"

"No it's okay," he said. He helped her to her feet. Suddenly she pushed the man to the wall. He struggled to get out of her grasp. She laughed and a smirk appeared on her face.

"You should have stayed In hiding!" Suddenly she pulled out a steak out of her back pocket, and raised it above her head and thrust it down to his heart. I heard Rose gasp beside me, I quickly put my hand on her mouth. I put my finger on my mouth to tell her to be quiet. She nodded her head. I removed my hand.

Brin had left the guy in the hallway. He was slumped over and clutching his chest. Rose and I walked over to him. His eyes were still open, Rose wrapped her arms around me and started crying. I bent down and closed the mans eyes. I stood back up and took Roses hand, we walked toward the exit. Rose stopped, "I can't go,"

I looked at her with sadness on my face. "We can go together," I said looking at her. She nodded her head. We walked towards the door. We took one huge step and we were out, "we did it!?" Rose said jumping into my arms.

"Yes, yes we did," I held her close. I loved her. And I knew she loved me. I pulled her away and kissed her soft lips. I didn't want to let go, but to soon the kiss ended and she looked up at me, "I would like to leave," she said, "I don't like it here,"

"Oh, yes of course, do you want to hop on my back? I don't bring a car, so...," I said. She stared laughing, "leave it to you to forget a car," she jumped on to my back, she leaned close to my ear, "I love you Nathan Wonder,"

"And I love you Rose Wilsburg,"