I walk closer to the door and then I hear big boots hitting the tile floor. I stop and stand there listening. It doesn't sound like Kyle I reach for my bag and pull out the gun he gave me. I've used a gun before at the shooting range with my dad when he was teaching me. I take the safety off and hold it at the door. The door swings open and I point the gun.
"Andrea!" Yells someone from behind me, I look away absentmindedly and see my dad.
"Dad!!" I yell dropping the gun. I hear a gun shot and I scream for him. I fall to the floor crying.
I get shaken suddenly and I wake up.
"Are you okay?" Asks Kyle
"What where is my dad !"
"Hey take it easy your gonna hurt your self"
"Where is my dad"
He cusses under words under his breath that I can't make out.
"Your dads not here no one is its just me and you. You fainted in the bathroom"
"Oh"
I reach in my back pocket and feel nothing. He looks at me and gets an awkward expression on his face.
"Oh you were holding this when you fainted" Kyle says retrieving the picture.
"Thanks" I say putting it back.
I notice I'm laying in a tent, I go outside and see that were not by the gas station anymore.
"Hey how long was I out?"
"Not that long"
Yah not that long I think to myself, it's dark it must have been almost five hours how was I out for that long! I get a queazy feeling in my stomach and think of my family. It's been to long what if they got sent to a different camp.
"Andrea you should really get some sleep"
"We should keep going" I say maybe to quickly
"It's getting to dark"
"My family needs me"
"There okay they would want you to be rested and healthy"
I look away tears in my eyes and look up. The moon looks so beautiful white and huge, I look for the face in it and see it right away. I look at all the stars around it and see almost a million of them. Before I couldn't see that many at my house in town but here it looks there to be millions and millions. I search for the Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, the Little Dipper, and then I feel so much calmer. I yawn and make my way over to my backpack.
"What are you doing" he asks as I pull out my rolled up tent.
"I'm getting my tent out"
"Use mine"
"But then you won't have one"
"We can both use it"
"No no no" I start to protest but he talks over me
" It's gonna be cold tonight we'll need to be warmer"
" I'll be fine"
He gives me a look and sits there. I make my tent and go inside it and put my blanket on. I start to shiver, it is cold, very cold. I hear my tent unzip. I feel him crawl over to me and I already feel the heat radiating off his body and slip into a deep sleep.
I wake up to rustling of leaves outside. I look over and see Kyle sleeping. I get out and stretch and look up at the sky this time already bright and sunny and blue not a single cloud in sight. I change into shorts and a t shirt very quickly before he wakes up and brush my hair, and put my Nike air shoes on.
I take a water bottle out and drink feeling the cold water go down. Kyle comes and sits next to me.
"Ready?"
"Ready."
We decide to bring only one tent and start walking towards where I think is the refugee camp I lost my direction ever since I fainted and he brought me into the woods, which is kind of creepy. We get to highway 69 I remember now which way to go and feel way better. We've been talking the entire time we've been walking. Not like the other times.
I adjust my backpack and look over. I see trees and oranges and greens and reds soon it won't be autumn anymore soon everything will be covered in white fluffy snow. I see a doe with her fawn and mentally take a picture. God I love animals.
"You like animals" he says
"Yes I love them"
"I used to volunteer at the pet shelter almost every weekend"
"Really me too at Saint Paul's animal shelter, where did you go"
"Oh it was out of town before I moved to Manchester"
"Oh" we keep talking for a while and I feel as if the world isn't falling apart and everything will be okay because it will, whatever that wall is will soon be gone and everything will be back to normal. I put that thought through my mind and smile.
