Crying: A Dystopian Novel

Bleeding: Chapter 5

++++ JOHN ++++

  "Hello? Who is this?" I hear someone pant into the radio.

  "It's John, who is this?" I say. Anna wouldn't have asked who was here. She knows.

  "Eleise and Laelynn. We are in the cove. Help." I run to the front door and look around. There are no more guards, but there is a crowd of people at the radio room. I ignore it and Grace comes and stands beside me.

  "What's going on?"

  "I don't know. We need to go to the creek."

  "Why?"

  "I'll explain on the way there." We jump in the golf cart and I finish explaining as she parks.

  "Eleise? Laelynn?" I whisper as we slide down the bank.

  "John!" Laelynn comes out and clings to me.

  "What happened?"

  "They just showed up at our house and took them away. Anna threw us the radio and told us to run. We didn't know anything about the radio, where to go, what else to do." Laelynn squeezes my hand. "I was so scared. You've got to get them back." She goes over to the wall of the cove and sits down, shaking. I sit down next to her and squeeze her hand.

  "It's okay. We will get them back. You're safe." I say.

  "What now?" Eleise says.

  "Well, there's a whole crowd of people at the radio room. I think we can start there." Grace says.

  "What if the men come back?" Eleise asks. She's only 13, but she is taking control of what's going to happen to them.

  "We will deal with the what if's, but we need to get you two back up to the radio room." I say. We leave the cove and pile in the golf cart. People swarm around us as we park next to the radio room.

  "What happened? Are they okay?" People from all around ask questions as Grace and I rush the girls inside. I'm keeping my cool for them, but I'm screaming on the inside.

++++ ANNA ++++

  "Stop! We're not loyal to them! I hate them!" Michael is screaming at the driver as we near the pack's headquarters.

  "Shut up! I have orders."

  "Anna," Mom whispers, "Are you okay?"

  "I'm fine," I say. "I just hope Eleise and Laelynn got to John." I'm very upset, but not because we are being taken to our deaths, but because I will never know what happened to them. I will never know if John found them out in the woods somewhere, or if they are safe. We'll never know.

  "Anna?" Michael has stopped yelling at the driver and is looking at me.

  "We'll never know." I cry.

  "What are you talking about?" He says.

  "We'll never know if they're okay."

  "We're not just going to let them kill us."

  "What are we supposed to do?" Dad says.

  "Well, everyone thought Grace was dead. I can be Mike. We can do that."

  "Michael, you sound absolutely insane. Face the facts. We are going to die." I feel the truck swerve off the road, and I scream as we flip and roll for at least a minute.

  "Is everyone alright? Michael, check the driver. We need to get out of here if we can."

  "He's out. Let's go." The rope on Michael's wrist has slipped off at some point, and he comes over and unties me. "See? It'll be okay."

  Dad busts through the back window, and we escape through it. "Okay. We need to stay off the roads, but we can follow them home. Let's go."

++++ JOHN ++++

  "Okay. Let's go." I say.

  "Be careful, John." Grace hugs me before I jump in my truck. She's staying with the girls. Dad and I drive toward the city, followed by several other trucks filled with neighborhood volunteers.

  "Approaching the turnoff." Dad says over the radio. "You good?" He asks me.

  "I'm fine." My insides are burning as I say it. They could be dead. We drive for about an hour, and I'm almost asleep when the shouts sound.

  "John! John!"

  "John! It's them!"

  "Huh?" I ask. I turn to see four figures waving from the tree line. I jump out of the truck and run towards them.

  "John!" Anna and I run toward each other as she shouts. "Are they okay?" She wraps her arms around me.

  "They're with Grace. They're okay. Are you?" I ask.

  "Run!" Someone shouts.

  "What?" She yells.

  "Run, Anna!" Her dad is shouting to her as he runs, and now I see why. Some of the pack are running toward us, aiming there guns. Anna gasps and we run to the truck.

  "Hold on!"  I shift the truck to drive and do a 180 in five seconds. We drive up beside Michael and he hops in the back seat.

  "Get Mom." He pants. I race off the road and pull up beside Mrs. Versi, and Michael helps her in.

  "Are you two okay?" She asks them.

  "John, we need to get your dad." Anna says. Bullets dent the metal all over the truck, but miss the windows. I see one of our trucks up ahead, picking up my dad.

  "That's covered. Where's your dad?" I say.

  "Ah!" Cries ring out from in front of me. Mr. Versi is lying on the ground ten feet in front of me, clutching his side. I stop the truck and Michael hops out with me. We pick him up and put him in the back seat.

  "Dad!" Anna yells.

  "Go." Michael says once he's shut the door.

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  "Anna?" I say. She's walked out of her parents' room, and refuses to do anything but stare at the wall. She wraps her arms around her legs and rocks. She doesn't need to do anything else and I know; he's gone. I go back over to my house and find Grace and the girls.

  "Are they okay?" Laelynn asks.

  "Yeah. Anna and Michael are okay." I manage to say.

  "John?" Grace leads me into the kitchen away from the girls. Mom is there, as well as Dad.

  "He's gone. He died."

  "Michael?" Grace asks, biting her lip when she finishes.

  "No. Mr. Versi was shot." Dad says.

  "Dad?" Eleise gasps from the corner of the room. She runs out of the kitchen to the front door, exiting the house.

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