Run

Chapter 15

I hear a rumbling, I can feel the earth below me vibrating. That can only mean one thing, I've felt this before. I jolt awake and quickly look around. The void it's so close. I quickly get out of my sleeping bag and grab it, my backpack inside it and I'm holding my knife. I'm about to yell to wake people up when I hear a scream. That scream, I know it, it's Lucy's . I look to my left and see her almost falling off the edge into the void. She's clinging to the edge.

"LUCY!" I yell as a drop my sleeping bag, run and dive to grab her arm before she fall's into the void. As I grab her arm her body weight starts pulling me down too. I stab my knife into earth. The ground beneath me begins to fade and crumble away. 

"Cassie just let me go!" Lucy yells at me.

"No way, I'd rather die then lose you again" I say back. 

"But then we'll both die!" she screams back. I look up and see she's right, the earth my knife is dug into is about to crumble away. I look down and she looks at me with teary eye's. I look at her too. If I'm going to die right now then I want the last thing I see to be her eye's and her face. 

Suddenly I feel a strong hand around my arm pulling me up. When I look up I see it's Luke. Once I'm closer the other guys help pull me and Lucy up. 

There's no time to talk. Once the guy's know were're fine we all start running, I reach down and scoop up my sleeping-bag along the way.

 We run for about an hour when we finally stop to take a rest and more-so talk about what happened. Once everyone stops I walk over to my sister and hug her, now finally being able to process that I nearly lost her. I don't care if I look weak to the group at this point. She hugs me back and I can feel her tears on my shoulder.

"Your fine. Your fine. We're fine" I whisper to her. She reminds me so much of her old self right now.

She pulls away from me looks up and nods. I can feel someone walking up behind me, I turn around and see Erik but before I can even think he pushes passed me and hugs Lucy. Not as long as I did though, soon he pulls away and looks at me.

"You can stay" he says bluntly. 

I'm shocked but I don't let him see that, I just nod.

Luke walks up next to me and says to Erik,

"Erik why the hell was the void that close?" his voice infused with worry and confusion.

"I don't know" he says shaking his head .

Everyone else has gathered around by now.

"I thought earlier it was a little close.." I look down at the ground "but I didn't think..I should have.. I-" I suddenly feel really guilty, if I had said something maybe Lucy wouldn't have been in danger.

"It wasn't your fault" I look up from the ground and see it was Oliver who said it.

"Yeah you couldn't have known" Noah adds.

"Guys what ever happened we can't think about it or discuss it now, if the voids moving quicker for some reason we need to stay ahead of it, we keep running for now. YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE WE KEEP RUNNING FOR NOW WE NEED TO STAY AHEAD OF THE VOID" he shouts to everyone and then blows his whistle. And then we all run.