There Once Was Life

Chapter 5

All of a sudden the sky goes red and everyone is blown to the ground. I look up at the sky and see everything on fire,I then try to get up but my breath is taken away as someone kicks me in the stomach. I can barely hear,but I see just fine,and what I see puts me into action. A raider is kicking my brother in the back. I push the raider I have away and run to my brother. I take my pistol and shoot the raider in the head,and another raider comes up and takes its away and punches me in the jaw. Dylan is attacking a raider that is trying to stab him,and Thomas is punching one,I have never seen them so angry. Seeing my brother crying makes me want to kill and I did but I will again. I turn back to my raider and take out a knife that I stab him in the stomach with. He looks at me and pulls it out,then he falls to the ground.

I also fall to the ground on my knees,by Sam. He is breathing hard and crying. I start to cry as he is trying to talk,I shake my head. "Don't talk save your strength",I say. Thomas and Dylan walk over and stare at Sam. Thomas looks like he is about to cry and says,"will he make it?" Yes he will make it,I yell. Dylan puts his hand on my shoulder but I brush it away. Sam turns over on his side to me and crys softly,"I'm so sorry I couldn't live Ali",he says. Tears roll down my cheek and land on the ground by him. Don't be sorry,because you are going to live. And if you don't it's my fault,and I'm so,so sorry Sam. So sorry, I say. He looks up at me ands says quietly,"I love you Ali,and I will try my best to stay alive". I nod "I love you too". He closes his eyes,I scream in tell Dylan tells me to stop. "He's still alive"! He's just unconscious,look he's breathing". I go back to Sam and look at his chest,he is breathing but its shallow. I pull out a sheet from my bag and put him in it. "We will carry him to safety",I say as I look at them.

It is dark and everyone's feet hurt but we continue on. I am holding Sam and Thomas is walking beside me,Dylan is farther up in front. He hasn't been talking to me for the whole three hour walk,and I try to think of what I did wrong. "If Sam was awake he would be complaining about his feet hurting," I say as I chuckle to myself. Thomas looks over at me and says,"maybe not thinking about dieing would help". But I can't it's like it's going to never go away,even if he lives,the thought that I almost let him die,it's just bad,I say.

I think we should stop to rest,because you aren't even healed all the way and everyone is tired,Dylan says. I nod and sit down,Thomas goes to find firewood and I lay Sam down on the grass by me. Dylan sits down on the other side of me and stares at the ground. "I'm sorry,"I say. For what,Dylan says sarcastically. I glare at him and say,"you know what I was having a rough moment for once and I brush you away a little bit,I tried to say sorry,but whatever". "God knows I can't have one moment where I just lose it,you can all you want I never get made,but you got mad",I finish. He looks at me and back at the ground. "I'm sorry for putting you through that,it's just I'm use to you being the strongest of us with emotions,so it was a change that I need to get use to,"he says. I stare at the green grass that is slowly turning grey,without the water that it needs. I hear sniffles and turn to see Dylan crying softly trying to hold it in. I take his hand and hold it,he looks up at me and stops crying as if seeing me helps. He comes closer and lays his forehead against mine. "I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you when your parents passed,I was to busy to notice how hurt you were and only thought of Sam,"I say. We look at each other and he places his hand softly on my cheek and kisses my forehead. "I needed you that's true,but you can't always see it when someone does,and that was the first time you didn't see it,"he says.

We all fell asleep with no one on guard,when I wake up I'm relived when I see we are still alive and on the ground. The sun is up and bright as if it's summer,and it's extremely hot. I take off my blue sweater and black shirt,under it all I have a white tank top. I then think if Sam is hot,I run over to him to see he is still breathing,but it's getting slower. I take his clothes off and put a blue shirt on him instead of the long sleeved shirt,and change him into shorts. I go to my bag to get me some shorts but only have more jeans,so I just keep my black ones on. I bring food to Sam,and smash up some canned peaches and open his mouth. I slowly put it in,hoping he will swallow and he does. I almost cry tears of joy when I see it. I put more in his mouth then the last bit of water,and more peaches. Thomas is smiling when I turn around,"he is swallowing,"he says. I nod and cry,"yeah he is". Thomas hugs me and says,"it will help him live as much as it can,"he says.