I Need You

Prologue

Well you know how it was before the cruelty started, right? Wrong! No one knows. Not any more.... Anyone a day over 35 is killed. So who would remember? Why would they want to? Well I do. I remember it all. Now it's been quite a few years now, so forgive me if I don't tell everything.

*flashback*

      "Mom!" My little brother hollers for our mom. Like he has been for days. He still doesn't know yet. Mom died four days ago. No one else knows but me and Pa. I'm the only one he told because he knew I'd handle it well. When he told me how she was walking across the train tracks to get to the store. There was no train. The train tracks become derailed about a mile further down from where momma was. A car had driven by and asked to give her a ride. Of coarse she'd take it. She never knew a stranger, she thought everyone was a child of God. Well we don't know exactly what happened afterwards but a day later she was found dead on the side of the road. She was a great and kind woman, but she trusted too easily.
      We don't have a tv because momma and Pa agreed that it would make us even more lazy. Now I'm glad we don't have one, I don't want Anthony to have seen her like that. Surely it's been on the news.
The funeral is in two days. It's been that long because of how bad it was. Also dad wasn't sure if he wanted an open casket or not. Didn't know how he wanted anything done. Pa was broken. He didn't work right afterwards.

*_* two days later *_*

Today is the day of the funeral and instead of getting ready for it I'm out looking for him. I told Anthony yesterday how momma died. He didn't take it very well and has ran away. Pa has gotten worse, his skin has gotten paler. Everything is hectic here. Finally I get the idea of where Anthony is. I walk through the woods, down the trail to the swinging rope. I grab the stick, we use it to grab the rope that's over the river. It's close enough to were I can reach it. I out stretch my arm and hand to get it. My foot slips from the dirt I was standing on. I'm dragged by the river that I fell into. I can just barely get my breath. I'm tossed and turned under the water. It's so fast that i can't swim with it. I can't catch a breath of air, my mind is start to fuss everything out. I can't think straight. I hit a root of a tree, it knocks me out.
"Well hi there lovely." A blurry man stares down at me. My vision starts to clear and I cough more. He pats my back to help even though it doesn't. It hurts from where I hit the tree. The man smiles at me. I stand up and I brush off my pants to find that their not there.
"What the- what did you do to me?!" He rolls his eyes.