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Colby pov

The next thing that happened I did not expect. He ran up to her and kissed her. On the lips. Ew.

She pushed him away quickly. "E- Emily, what the" Sam stuttered out. "How- I uh why?" He tried to hug her.

But she pushed him away and said, "Sam no, I'm married. I have a kid." And Sam's face immediately looks devastated. It was Emily he was trying to bring back. And when she came back, she said no. I'm not defending him, I'm saying he feels betrayed.

"W- what?" Sam says

"I- I'm sorry?" She said, but she questioned it. She was confident talking to him.

He backs up and scoffs. "So you come back here, to support me, and just don't?"

"Support you? You're hurting people?!" she yelled. The fire was almost all over the walls of the room. The smoke was probably getting to a life-threatening level. But then I realized, Brennon was freeing me. And Reggie and Kat were freeing Jake. Emily was distracting him. We just needed her to argue with him till we could leave.

"I did this for you!" Sam yelled back.

He and Emily kept yelling at each other. And then I was free. And so was Jake. But how were we able to get out? He would charge at us before we were able to leave. Emily had to do something.

The two of them stopped arguing. Sam stepped back. He could tell he was angry. He was mad and he was gonna do something. He screamed at the top of his lungs. They grabbed an unconscious Corey, lifted him, and stabbed him in the eye.

It's a lot more traumatizing than it sounds. I don't even wanna describe the image to you. Just a lot of blood. And hundreds of happy memories shattering in my brain. Then he looks at us and walks over to us. But before anything happened, Emily walked towards him and put her hand on his chest. "Stop." She said, He made eye contact with her.

"Why should I stop?" I said, "I have nothing else now."

She thought for a second and he waited. "I'll make a deal with you," she said.

He stepped back. "Say it." He said.

"I- I will stay with you forever, if- if you let everyone else out." His eyes opened wide in surprise.

"Would you really?" He asked. She nodded. "You promise?"

"Yes," she said, I studied her face for a few seconds. She just looked sad and disappointed. No fear or anything. She made eye contact with me. 'Leave' she mouthed. I looked at all my friends. We could leave. She distracted him.

I looked at Jake, Reggie, and Brennon, "Guys let's go." They nodded and we walked. I opened the door and let them out. I looked back. I looked at my best friend for the last time. He was hugging her. She looked back at me. Then I left the room and shut the door. They were gonna burn to death in there. Emily, an innocent girl who has a life, was going to die for us four.

"Did you shut it?" Reggie asked.

"Yeah," I said,

"What- why?" he said. He pushed past me and opened the door slightly.

"Reggie, what are you doing?" I asked with some anger in my voice. We had to get out of here.

"Did you not see what Emily signed?" He said.

"What?"

"In sign language." He said

"Uh- no."

"She just said to leave the door a little open," Reggie said.

"Wha- why?" I asked

"I don't know, she just did." He said.

"Wait- you know sign language?"

EMILY POV

I sat in Sam's arms for a few minutes. It wasn't terrible. Sam was my brother. I lived with him as a kid. I've had this hug before and I didn't hate it. But I had to do this. I had to leave. I backed out of the hug. I looked at him as he held my arms. His face was messed up. He wasn't mentally stable. He was never gonna be okay again. "Sam," I said. We made eye contact. His blue eye was pretty. But I couldn't help him. Nobody could. "I'm sorry," I said. And in a swift action, I pushed him back into the fire and ran out of the room. When I got out of the room two of his friends were arguing. But I immediately shut the door and held it. I looked at them.

"HeLP," I said. Both Colby and Reggie came to hold the door with me. We felt the door try to open several times. And didn't move until the door got too hot.

It went silent after a while. We left the door. Then we left, back to our life, with a very injured Jake. 

Sam

I sat against the door sobbing. She had left me. The only person I wanted now just left me. I killed people for her. I got nothing back from it. I hurt innocent people for nothing. Every single thing I thought I did good means nothing now. I threw it all away. I threw my family away. I threw my friends away. I threw away Colby. The only person that stayed by me my whole life. I just sacrificed- everything.

Before I did all this for Emily, I did it all for Colby. I gave Colby the best life I could.

I don't know if I regret anything. I did it for him. I did it for Emily, even though she was already alive. I did this for the people I love.

I know I told Colby I didn't care about him. But I do. I did everything before for him. Just for him. I was his best friend. I've ruined his life now.

...

I can still help him. I am gonna die here no matter what. I might as well help the reason I did all of this.

I grabbed the box in the corner of the room that was near where Kat was sitting. It was enough to do the ritual I wanted. I did the same process that I usually do, except I used my blood. I repeated a certain amount of words, imagined the exact thing I wanted, then let go. I'm sacrificing myself to the devil. For Colby. For his life. I'm creating a new life for him. Everything he wants. All the friends and life that he wants. I cried to myself. At least he would be okay.