The Awake

Sleep No More

Elizabeth and I had cooked all the pizzas and had served everyone.

"Hey Dray, I made some stuff." Ben said approaching me with a box. Inside was dozens of little necklaces. Each had a little chunk of rock on the front of them. "I used the Rock Aaron got us to make these necklaces to boost our immunity. There's more than enough for all of is."

"Good job, Ben." Elizabeth said happily.

"What can I say? I'm a ROCK hard thinker." Ben joked. This time we all laughed. Ben and I handed each member of our group a necklace and had enough left over for everyone to have another bit I decided to save the rest just in case.

This was when Ty came running up the stairs.

"Hey, I finished it!!" He cheered, breathing heavily from running so fast. We all cheered and quickly finished our pizza. Everyone piled downstairs to Ty's workspace. He had been working hard, for a long time. He was tired and excited at the same time. My sister had become Ty's lab assistant and was just as tired as him. Then Ty held up the pink glowing liquid.

"Good work, Ty." I said to him. He smiled.

"I helped!!!" Madison whined.

"You too, sis." I said patting her head.

"Will it work?" Parker asked from the crowd of people.

"I think it'll bring her back." Ben said to Parker.

"Now Aaron can be forever happy. We are about to wake his sleeping beauty." Elizabeth said, turning to me. This touched my heart, the last thing Aaron had said was to wake Cailey from her sleep. We did it. Together.

"What's that?" Tim asked pointing at a dose of the pink liquid that was in another injection, on the table.

"I made enough of the Antidote to have two doses. I'm going to use one on Cailey and the other on him." Ty said looking back at his sleeping brother, Luke.

"You should wake him first. You earned it." Nick said from the back of the group. Even with being in the back, he could clearly see everything over our heads. Ty looked around to see everyone's answers. We all nodded our heads and Ty smiled.

"Okay, then. Let's see what happens." Ty said approaching his brother with an injection in his hand. Ty gently lifted Luke's arm and inserted the injection into his vein. His brother's eyes flickered open.

"Luke?" Ty asked, standing over him.

"Ty? Where are we?" Luke asked sleepily. Ty laughed and pulled his brother to his feet. He embraced his sibling.

"I'm so glad you're okay.." Ty said as he held Luke. Luke was still figuring out where he was. He looked back me and his eyes widened.

"Dray? Dray!! What's up buddy?" Luke asked rushing over to me. I laughed and gave him a quick hug. He looked past me at the crowd of people. "Who are they?"

"My friends. They helped us survive. We wouldn't be here without them." I said looking back at my group."They're all very good people."

"Hi, everybody." Luke said waving at the cluster of us. He went through and individually met everyone in the room. Right there in the basement, we told Luke the same story we had told his brother. He took it the best, out of the ones that we had told the story to.

"Now, let's go wake the princess." I said pushing past everyone. We walked up both flights of stairs and stopped at the guest room Cailey was in. Ty gave me the injection.

"Finish the mission." He said. I thanked him again and faced the door.

"You ready?" Zach asked, placing his hand on my shoulder.

"Born ready." I said nodding.

"Then hurry up and go in!!" Madison yelled from behind me. I held my breath and opened the door. Cailey was laying in the bed, the same way she was when I saw her last. Ty gave me the honor of giving the dose to Cailey. I grabbed her hand and flipped it over. I carefully poked the end of the needle into her wrist, inserting the Antidote in her vein. I pulled it out and stepped back. We all were silent as we waited for something to happen. Then her eyes opened.

This isn't the end of our story. It is merely the beginning. We had fulfilled Aaron's final request. We woke her. But she wasn't the only one to wake up, that night. All of us awoke spiritually. We are Awake. We are The Awake.