Pic of Stephen
7:15 pm
We head as fast as we can to our room and start to pack up while everyone else goes to class. Classes were from not to 8:15 and the safe zone time starts at 7:00-8:30 pm. Classes were every night during the week. We use to go but now that we are 'dead' we need to stay away. We also split up to pack up whatever we need and put it in Stephens room.
"Um why do you need to take your bed a part?" I ask Dylan. He is taking off all of his sheets and starting to cut at the matress.
" Just give me a second! I need to hurry up and finish" He says.
"Come on! We need to go! Taking out your anger on this bed won't make you feel better! " I say aggressively. He gives me a look and through down the blanket. He grabs what he has and walks out the door.
"Ugh. I didn't mean it like that but we will die if we don't move on! " I say to Dylan down the hall by now.
8:30 am.
You can hear all the gun shots. They announced a purge tonight. Meaning that it is a free for all for certain groups. We wait and watch TV in Stephens room. It was a small but perfect size for one person kinda room. You walked in and to the left of the room was his king sized bed, on both sides of the bed was his night stand with a lamp, to the right of the bed in the center of the wall was a window, and directly in front of the bed was a TV and to the left was his bathroom that when you first walk in straight ahead is a glass shower that had the shower head on the left and on the right were all the shelves for him and his wives stuff. In front of the shower on the right side of the wall was the sink and toilet.
" think it would be best to close the curtain and not look out the window." Alyssa says to Isabel. Isabel closes the curtain and plops down on the bed. Kyndalyn continues to scroll through the channels. Dylan is playing a really outdated game ; flappy bird.
We sit and wait for Stephen, that is if he is still alive.
Just when we lost hope Josh comes bursting through the door.
" Give me my keys!" Said Stephen chasing after Josh. Stephen snatches his keys and pushes Josh out of his way to walk in. Stephen had spiky blonde hair, a little bit of facial hair, and blue eyes.
" Dylan, Lucas, Truman and Josh can sleep here with me tonight and Alyssa, Isabel and Kyndalyn got to the room across the hall with my wife, K. You know since they think you are dead they plan on cleaning out your rooms. So yall will have to stay here for now Says Stephen and Josh mimicking him from behind. Josh was white, and had brown hair, he was kinda tall.
" Wait! I need to go back to the room! " Says Dylan as he jumps up and heads for the door. Stephen stops him and asks where he is going.
" I just need to get something!" He says in response.
" You're not leaving, you're staying here. Good night girls." Stephen says as the girls walk out of the room. He has us staying with him and his wife is in josh's room with the girls.
12:34 am.
After about an hour after Stephen put all of us to bed, I still couldn't go to sleep. I was laying on the floor and so we're all the other kids in here. Stephen was in his bed. I toss and turn in the bed and wonder what I could do to pass time. Then I hear a creek at the door. I saw a figure pop out of the room and into the hallway. Leaving the bedroom door cracked behind them I get up, grab my gun and chase after him. I see the figure running down the hall way as fast as he can. It was Dylan.
" What are you doing?" I say whisper shouting at him as I chase him down the hall. He just ignores me and continues to run to our room. He slams the door open and starts to attack the bed again.
" What are you doing? Have you lost your mind? Your sanity, is it just flying out the window?" I say to him.
" You don't understand, what I'm looking for something so important." He says still ripping away.
" Come on Dylan! They could be here any minute and clean up this mess for us! We need to go! " I say grabbing his arm and trying to pull him out the door. I get him half way out the door and I heard 2 words that have never been more terrifying than now
"open target!"
Dylan collapses and starts to fall to the floor. I raised gun and shot all 3 of the boys that were out in that hallway. I run back to Dylan on the floor and hold his body in my arms.
" Please! Don't go! Don't do this to me! I can't lose you!" I scream at him. My tears flowing down my face like an angry river. He takes his hand and puts them behind his neck. He started to wince in pain. He takes off the chain around it. I've seen him before with the chain but it was always tucked into his shirt, never reveling what it was. He took it off and it was a dog tag. It had his name on it on one side, and on the other it read 'alive in Christ'
" What does that mean? " I ask
" It means that there is a God out there who loves you and is going to protect you. " He says." Now go back to the room, rip up that matress and somewhere inside there is a bible. It's a special book. Just trust that was is essential, is invisible to the eye." He says placing the dog tag in my hand. His eyes starting to let out small tears. His eyes to to flutter. He was trying so hard to keep them open. I varied my face in his chest and sobbed. His eyes closing for the last time. His eyelashes no longer being like shreds of gold, but like coming together to make one golden brick. His body went limp and cold. I knew, Dylan was dead.
