WHERE TO NOW? (M/M) 18+

Chapter 10

Leap of faith.

I awoke to the sound of whispers filling my ears. The door left slightly ajar in the night. I shifted uncomfortably in my place on the floor, the dusty old carpet digging into my back when I notice Damien was no longer in bed. It's probably his voice I'm hearing. I wipe my face of sleep, knowing I won't be able to get more in this strange environment, I get up.

As I get closer to the door, I hear Damien and a voice I don't recognise. I pushed it open slowly in my half-asleep state, and for a split second I thought I saw a knife before the man looked at me and Damien slammed his head into the railing.

My eyes widen as I yell "What the fuck is going on?" Damien didn't acknowledge me; he kept his eyes on the two men at the bottom of the staircase. One holding a bat, while the other, a gas canister.

Wait, a gas canister?

Before I knew what was happening Damien was throwing his body in front of mine, sweeping us back in the room as the stairs went up in flames. My heart was in my throat as my ears became useless, only hearing the crackling blaze roaring outside. Damien started waking everyone up, shouting as he stripped off their sheets. I watched as he grabbed both of the kids and ran back outside onto the balcony, shielding their bodies from the fire as he ran past.

Daz and Skylar came barrelling out of the room when my mind came back to me. Snapping me out of my shock. I followed Damien and looked over the balcony, trying to help find a way for Damien to get the kids to safety, but there was nothing. No ledge, No boxes, trucks, nothing. We'd have to jump.

"Hey, down here!" A just audible yell reached my ears as Kieran came sprinting into view below us. "Throw them" Skylar and Daz began to protest when one by one, without hesitation he threw them over the railing. They landed safely in Kieran's arms and cried loudly as he tried to soothe them and detach them from his neck at the same time. "Hug your brother Bianca, I need to help everyone else, okay?" She let go of him and ran over to her brother. They openly wept in each other's arms. They must be terrified.

Daz went next as Skylar and Damien helped him over the railing, lowering him down as much as possible. Skyler climbed the railing easily, holding onto the bars as she let her feet dangle and Kieran supporting her fall. Damien looked at me. "Go" He demanded, and I lifted one of my feet onto the railing, when I heard a whimper.

No. No, no, no, no

I spun around and realised the flames were higher now. I could only just see the doorway that I had been in only moments before. The wooden frame now cracking and spitting as it burned. I took a deep breath before I ran for it. Damien yelled at me to wait, and I felt him graze my sleeve as I moved. But it didn't matter, all rational thought had left my mind.

I slipped into the room, my flannel warm with how close I was to the flames. The smoke was so thick, I couldn't breathe. Every surface a dusty blur in my vision as I lifted my sleeve to my mouth. "Bleu, where are you?" I yelled, coughing on the humidity as furniture began to light around me. Faint whining filled my ears, but I couldn't place it. "Bleu?" My eyes darted, searching frantically for him. The burning table crashed beside me, fire eating away at the joints as smoke and embers puffed into the air.

"Bleu, come here boy" I said, coughing. The sound of his bark drew my eyes to the bed. I knelt down, careful not to touch the alight carpet patches around me. There he was, he was huddled under the bed, he looked stuck, but I couldn't tell. His eyes darted in fright as the sound of glass shattering filled the room. I coughed once more "Come here boy," I outstretched my arms. "Come here" He crawled towards me hesitantly, but I could see the desperation to reach me in his eyes. He reached me and I stood. I tried to stomp out the burning carpet beside me but it wouldn't extinguish.