Beside You

Chapters 21-22: The End

Chapter 21~

   We all walked to the amusement park.  It wasn't too far away.  Honestly we all neede a place to go and get our minds off the fact a lot of our friends probably died.  Just thinking about that made me have to choke the tears back even more.  I squeezed Calum's hand to help keep back the tears.  I could tell it was hurting the others too.  How can we go to this amusement and try to have fun, when our friends could be hurting right now. "Guys I cant't do this, I can't go to this amusement park and have fun knowing our friends are out there hurting", I said stoping right where I was standing.

   "I can't either, I've been trying to hold it in, but I can't, my cousin was on that boat, that's my family, it's too hard", Jordan said, tears trailing down her face slowly one at a time.  I pulled her into a hug.  We cried a silent cry.

   "I can't either", Calum said.

   "Me neither", Luke said, they joined us in a kind of group hug type thing.  We were all trying to get comfort from each other.  I broke away, hearing something.  I couldnt really tell what it was.  I had the smart thinking of grabbing a flare that was in the basement of the house we were in.  I have that hope that someone will find us, even if it might be false hope.  The sound got closer and closer.  Everyone began to notice it.

   "It's a helicopter... IT"S A FREAKIN HELICOPTER", Calum yelled.  I quickly pulled out the flare and triggered it.  Finally the helicopter came into sight.  We were all screaming for help and waving our arms and waving the flare.  We had hope, we have hope and that hope is helping us.  The helicopter began to get lower.  They noticed us!  A ladder was dropped right in front of us and we began to climb it.  One at a time, we climbed to our freedom.  Yes we thought that being on an abandoned island could be the coolest thing ever, until we took a look into reality. 

   When we were all on the helicopter now. 

   "We saw a lifeboat in the water the other day, but lost sight of it and began to search for it.  We got a call on our radio that a cruise ship had sunk and knew it had to be some passengers", A guy said to us.

   "Thank you man for helping us", Calum said.  I was sitting beside him. 

   "What is all of your names, I need to take record", The guy said.

   We all started to say our names.

   "Arian Garner".

   "Calum Hood".

   "Jordan Monroe".

   "Luke Hemmings".

   "Well children you are safe now, We are going to take you back to where the other survivors are, and get you back home safe and sound.... now you should get some sleep it'll take a while to get there".

   I don't know about the others, but I dozed off, just like that.  I fell asleep on Calum.  I dreamt about the others.  Our friends who weren't with us.  Who we don't know if they are alive or dead at this point.  They were reaching out to me, kind of like they were asking for help.  Harry looked the most scared.  I couldn't help them I was stuck on that island and couldn't even swim off to help them. 

   I woke to people.  We landed.  We were at our destination. 

   The four of us were directed off th ehelicopter and into a giant building.

   "You four will stay in quarter B, we put everyone by age, 14-22 is B", the guy said and we walked into a large section of the building.  There were bunk beds and people everywhere.  Not too many, but at least 20 people our age in here.  Mostly all were crying, either scared or just got some bad news.  I searched the room for the others.  I couldn't spot anyone.

"Oh my god you guys are alright" a voice said behind us.  We spun around to spot Michael standing there, an expression of surprise on his face.

   "Michael"!  We all screamed and jumped into a group hug.  He looked puffy eyed, like he'd been crying.

   "Where's the others Mikey", I asked him.

    "Umm about that come with me", we followed him to some chairs and sat down.  He sat across from us. "We all didn't make it", I could see tears swell into his eyes as they started in all of ours.

   "Who didn't make it Mikey what about Erica What about what about oh my god I can't" Jordan started to ball. 

   "Erica, Ashton, Harry, Niall, Alexis, Jasmine, and Zayn---died the rest are missing", Michael couldn't hold in in anymore.  None of us could.  How?  How could this happen?  Everything was perfectly fine a few days ago.. Why??  Michael stopped the tears for a few minutes to finish.  "Only Liam, Louis, and I are left.  We Kept hope that you guys would be found.  The life rescue people were going to take us back to the US. yesterday, but we asked for one more day.  Gosh I can't believe you guys are alive, Liam and Louis are waiting for me on the airplane deck.  You guys need to come with us".  We all nodded and headed off to the airplane. 

Chapter 22:The End~

   The flight seemed to take centuries before we landed in LAX.  Simon was at the airport to pick us up.  We're going to have a funeral for the others, our friends, our loved ones, ones we cared so greatly for.  We piled into Simon's arms all at the same time and cried once again. 

   He drove us to a hotel where we slept at so we could go to our friends' funeral tomorrow.  So soon.  Too soon. So soon. 

   The next day it took everything to get me out of bed.  Luckily I had Calum there.  To hold my hand.  To tell me everything was going to be okay even though he needed comfort himself.  We piled into Simon's car and drove off to the funeral.

   The funeral of our friends.  Too emotional and depressing and sad.  How am I dealing with this? How can I deal with this?

   After the funeral was the burial.  I squeezed Calum's hand harder than ever then.  All seven of us were holding hands in a line, watching.  Waiting, thinking... of how lovely our friends were to us.  Knowing we cannot spend a long time grieving, but keeping their friendliness alive. 

   When everything was over we walked away, all of us still holding hands.  Knowing if we all have each other we can get through this...........Together.