There Once Was Life

Chapter 13

Thomas breaths into and out of me,helping me breathe as I have my eyes closed. I open my eyes and see Dylan crying as I am being picked up by Thomas and Gale. Everyone is standing in shock as I am carried to the room I awoke in. Dylan tries to follow,but when we come to the room,Thomas tells him to stay out.

I am in my bed as I wake up,Dylan is asleep on the couch again but with dried tears on his face. I have a breathing tube attached to my nose. I turn on my side facing where Dylan sleeps and cry. "I'm so sorry Dylan,I'm sorry that I've acted so horrible,but you have also hurt me,and I still love you." I say to myself,but Dylan has woken up and heard it. He walks over to me and puts his hand on my cheek,I'm sorry too,he says. I open my eyes and look at his blue eyes. He smiles as he kisses my forehead,I hope you can forgive me,he says. "I do but can you live with a monster?" If she is the girl I love then didn't I say through Hell and back,Dylan says. I smile and instantly falls back to sleep.

Thomas wakes me up and says,"you have healed really fast so you can now walk and run by your self." But you will have to workout before you can get a job again. He says as he smiles. Thank you for saving me,I say. He blushes "I would do it for you anytime,"he says and walks out. Gale is helping me up as an alarm goes off. We look at the beeping,and it's a fire alarm,Gale grabs my hand and runs out the door pulling me with him. We are outside with Dylan and Thomas,and see raiders have attacked again. We are about to run like Romania told us,but I pull back. "We need to help the kids in there get out,"I say. Then I think about Sam's body,I turn around and run towards the coffins,I start pulling them out of the building,so they don't burn. The soldiers are fighting the raiders at the gate,as the civilians and families run out following Romania. I have pulled out all of the coffins out of the burning building,and I go in for more kids. As I enter to smoky room someone grabs my arm and trys to push me in a fireplace. But I hold back and scream,as he pulls my hair and trys to push me in again. Gale comes behind him and stabs him with a knife,and kills him. I pick myself off the ground and go to a teenage boy my age,he has dark brown hair and brown eyes. He is ingured in his thigh and can't walk,I put his arm around my neck and Gale does the same,we get everyone of the building just as I lean over my knees and start to puke.

The raiders have left us to our mess and we are picking all the food that is left and get on horses. There are only a few horses,so only "important" people ride them. "Where are we going,"I ask,as I get on my horse. Dylan is riding by me and says,I don't know probably somewhere new..again. I have the ingured guy on the back of my horse,he is holding onto my waist. "Thank you for getting me out of there,"he says. My name is Mason,he says. No problem,and my name is Ali,I say. "Your really pretty Ali,"Mason says. Thanks? I say. Dylan looks at him,and tells him he should back off. Why is this your lady,well you'll have to share cause she is hot,Mason says. Are you serious! Dylan asks as he looks as if he is about to jump off his horse and fight him. "No, I was kidding she is pretty but I was just playing around,"Mason says. Yeah,good choice,Dylan says still sounding pissed off.

We have been riding on horses for ever,most people have to walk so it's worst for them, I don't know why I'm riding a horse,but I am. There are so many people the whole city is walking with us,to many people and we will be spotted, by raiders, I think as we ride. Finally Romania decides to rest for the night,I look at my watch it's 10:17 "yeah its time" I tell my self. Me, Dylan, Thomas and Gale make our camp farther away from everyone's. I start the fire and sit down between Gale and Dylan,Thomas sits on the other side cooking some type of food. /I'm sorry,"Dylan says. Gale says "it's fine,"but Thomas just stares at him and says,you almost killed her. "I said I was sorry",I didn't know what I was thinking,Dylan says. Sure,Thomas says as he hands everyone food but him,"you can't get yours". Dylan is about to yell so I get up without anyone noticing. I walk to a tree that still lives,"your a survivor" I tell it. As if it heard me I hear a voice say,you are too. I remember the soft comforting voice,I turn around and see a vision of my momma.

I smile as tears fall down my cheeks,she walks over to me and says,"don't cry darling you must be strong." How,if I lost everyone I care for,I say. You have those boys over there that care for you and you care for. And losing us will make you stronger,you need to be. The world depends on you my baby girl. How does it depend on me? I love you,she says and disappears into the stars. I sit down by the tree,and I run a hand through my hair as I think. I just saw a vision of my momma,and she told me "The world depends on me." Uhhh..yup I'm going crazy,I tell myself. As I am about to get up I feel safe by this living,green tree,so I lay by it and not meaning to but fall asleep.

I fell asleep by the tree that night,but wake up by the camp fire. No one else is awake when I wake,it's only nine so I understand. I take another pair of clothes with me as I go down to the small river. Romania said don't drink it,but we can bathe in it. When I reach it I undress,and step in.