Dreamers

Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9: Jacen

         I’m always telling my mom that being a foster mother must stress her out. She has been drinking more and more. I’ve told that one day it will ruin her liver, and that she will regret it, but she never listens. I actually really enjoy having siblings even if they are not my real siblings, but maybe we took in too many. Don’t get me wrong, I love them all, but Jessica is just so different. She drives my mom crazy because she is so independent but shy. Whenever my mom tries to get her to do something, Jess views it as a suggestion and ignores it. Suddenly I hear screaming then someone scrambles up the stairs

         “Jacen! Jacen! Help!” Mayfawny screamed while she pounded on my door.

         “What is it May?” I was at the door in a few steps and swung it open to see Mayfawny with blood all over her hands and tears streaming down her face.

         “Mandy, and Madisyn!” She said and started crying harder.

         “What happened? What’s wrong?” I asked frantically.

         “Mandy just started shaking and spasming and she fell on the floor, and then Madi got sick after Mandy started bleeding from her mouth and nose and I tried to help but I just couldn’t.” She sank to the ground and started to rock back and forth.

“Where are they?” I couldn’t get the words out fast enough.

She pointed out the back window, so I ran down and into the backyard.

         The scene I saw in front of me was so grotesque. My mom was lying in the grass; her limbs were twisted in unnatural angles. Blood soaked the front of her shirt and her hands too. There was a towel soaked through and through with blood. Madisyn, on the other hand, was still conscious and still throwing up. The back yard smelled like the hospital. I heard sirens coming closer, so I ran to the front yard to direct them, but there was no one there. All I saw was a shiny ball of light hanging in the air in front of the house, it looked like a vortex. The grass and leaves near it flying around and being sucked inside. I walked closer and closer, forgetting my purpose. As I got near I heard the sirens again, then I reached out to touch it. A fantastical burst of light, I closed my eyes but I could still see the lights. As I passed through whatever it was, it felt as if I was being pulled apart limb by limb. I did not have a smooth landing on the other side though. I rolled onto the street scraping up my arms and legs and embedding rocks into my head. I slowly stood, my head pounding and my arms and legs bleeding. A ambulance was parked nearby, which explained the sirens. Something was strange though, I didn’t even recognize where I was. I wasn’t on my street anymore. I really didn’t even think I was in my dimension.