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"BARRYMORE!"
I screamed over and over, but nothing happened. All it did was fill the silence. My head started spinning and I eventually fell from the dizziness. I had just got back from death, and the Dark. And now Barrymore was facing them both. There was nothing I could do to help.
So I did the only thing I could in that moment. I cried. I wasn't even sure for what anymore. Everything suddenly became unbearable. I was here, in the Beyond, utterly alone. My best friend had just been swallowed by the Dark, and I didn't know if I would ever see him again. My family and everything I knew was in danger. And I was sitting here like a sack of potatoes, crying my eyes out. I had no idea what I was supposed to do now.
There was no one I could turn to, nothing I could do. I was completely lost.
I let it sink in, and then fall right back out in tears. How had things gotten so out of hand? I wondered silently at myself, replaying all the events since that day I wrote the letter announcing my goodbye. Everything had happened so fast, I couldn't believe it had only been a few days. It felt like forever ago. I thought of the nights I had slept curled up with Barrymore. About when he would climb trees to change because he was bashful about it. About my nights watching movies and eating ice cream with my brother. All the way back to my very first conversation with AJ.
I would never know how long I sat there. I wasn't sure when the tears stopped falling, but eventually I realized that they had. I Felt the ground mourning with me, feeling my sadness. Everything around me seemed to Feel it, and I became touched. Even the sky tried to give me Strength, and in that moment the sun began to shine.
I stood up, knowing that it was time to stop. I had to get up and move on. There was still a universe to save and my family to bring back. Barrymore wasn't going to come back by me sitting here.
I brushed myself off, and set out again, looking for the Dark. I was going to find it.
Except I had no idea where to start.
I walked around, trying to find the hole I had first fallen into. That was the first I had come in contact with it. The next time I had come into contact with it was when it took over Barrymore, when we were walking towards it again to find it. So it must really like that spot.
I suddenly thought about the man from my dream. Had he dug the hole? Was he the source of the Dark?
I wasn't sure how that would work. He wasn't even supposed to know about all of this. And I still didn't know why he wanted to destroy me and my family. I could almost understand Barrymore. But he was the one who left... It still didn't make sense.
