Bye Goat ||Colentine||

12. Water

I stopped to catch a breathe. I coughed and I didn't know why I was coughing. I only got a few blocks from my home.

'Baah!'

My eyes perked up I wiped my tears always from my face. Was that a goat?

'Baaaah!'

There it was again. It sounded like a baby.

I coughed again and again. I looked behind me to where my house is seeing grey cloud coming from my my chimney.

'Baah!'

I heard again and looked towards where the sound was.

"Goat?" I whispered under my breathe.

'Baah!' I heard it fading away.

I turned back to my home seeing it somehow glowing from the outside. I saw my neighbors walking outside yelling some sort of stuff.

'Baaah Baah!' I heard again.

"Oh don't worry baby I'll get you.." my sentence trailed off as I saw my home getting burned by a orange flame.

More people came outside with small pots of water trying to get rid of the fire but nothing helped. They all kept yelling stuff that I couldn't hear. More and more people tried to help but a lot just stood there watching my home get eaten by flames. But that watching stopped when they saw their homes get caught by a flame.

'Baaah!' I heard a baby goat whine.

I heard people screams ring through my ears as I walked back still in shocked in what I just saw.

'Baah!'

Oh gosh oh gosh what's going on. I saw more of the orange flames growing faster and taller. I couldn't bare looking.

Where was mom? Where was my dad. My mom. My mom. My father my dad they were inside of-

'Baaaah Baah!'

"Oh gosh darn it where are you!" I yelled as I tired to follow the sound of the baby goat as more tears fell to my cheeks making my face wet.

I heard more people screaming and instead of feeling cold I felt more warm. I cried even more on my knees on that grass trying to find this animal that was making sounds.

'Baah!'

I crawled around crying more than I've ever cried before. I cried and I couldn't stop. I felt more warm as I looked behind me seeing people running with their houses on fire as I was trying to find the goat.

"Oh gosh oh don't worry my love I'm right here.." I said as I a saw a small baby goat's foot stuck with a fence wire. A small goat that looked way to familiar. A baby goat that I saw earlier that day.

"Oh dear oh did you get out of your cage.." I untied it slowly not to hurt the goat.

'Baah!'

"I'm sorry! I'm trying to be...careful..." I coughed as I felt heat coming up to my shoulder and as I saw the sky turn into a red-yellow hue.

"There! Are you okay oh I'm so sorry.. how did you get all the way here..where is your mommy..where is your mother.." where is my mother.

'Baah'

I pet the goats fur but when I turned to look back everything I loved was destroyed on the floor being eaten but flames.

Seeing everything I have ever loved trashed on the ground as if it doesn't matter.

'Baaah!' The goat in my arms sneezed.

I coughed trying not to breathe in the ashes, "im so sorry you have to go through this baby goat.." I ran away from the village. I don't know where I was going but I kept running away fast til I could only feel cold and not heat.

I ran and ran fast as I tried to not breathe in the ashes of the village that I once love so much.

I notice that the flames came from my house. What possibly could my mother leave on the stove! Oh wait.

My tea.

My tea that I left on the stove was still burning when I went upstairs to give my mom medicine. The tea that I left still burning when I heard my parents arguing. The tea that I left when I ran outside of the house.

It was my fault. The fire started because of me. I killed everyone I have ever loved. I killed myself. I am everyone I have ever loved.

I entered somewhere that was surrounded by tall trees. I looked behind me seeing a red dot in the distance.

'Baaah!'

"Oh you might be thirsty. I am too dont worry we will get some water.."

I finally started walking catching my breathe. Coughing too much feeling like I would throw up. I needed water. Gosh my head.

I felt too tired I need to sit down.

'Baah baaah baaah!' The goat whined.

"Oh what is it?" I felt kinda spooked in theses trees since I have never been inside of here before.

I heard water flowing in the distant wondering if there was a lake nearby. I walked further and further. My eye lids felt heavy.

'Baah!' The goat practically jumped out of my hands running to the water in the distant drinking it.

"Oh dear slow down now..don't choke.." I yawned as tears kept coming.

I sat down and leaned my head to where the water was. My face was basically inside the water. Though the same as the goat I started drinking so much and way too fast and way to much that I slipped into the water. The current being too fast that I felt myself started slowly washing away.

"Cecil?" I looked at the goat as it whines and backs away from the water

I tried running back. Though I couldn't comprehend what was going on I feel like I wasn't going fast enough. My body was so exhausted from running that my legs had a burning feeling as I tired to 'run' in the water.

I couldn't make it. My vision went blurry as I cried even more knowing that everything I have loved was trashed on the floor like it didn't matter.

I felt my foot trip on something as the water kept rushing into me as I felt my breathe leaving me. The water was too cold and the air was too cold. I couldn't breathe or see or talk, what was happening. What was going to happen to me. Am I going to die? I'm going to drown. No no I can't, I'm just a kid. I cant die now not just yet. I'm just a kid.

I felt something heavy hit my head. I couldn't understand what it was but my spine to my legs to my arms felt numb. I fell into the water hitting something and now I couldn't move and couldn't breathe. What's happening to me.

All this water I have inside of me I can't breathe. Theirs water in my lungs. I felt my vision go dark as I felt my soul leave my body.