What Happens Next

The Past: part 4

Months past and I've been with Lucas and Kathy. We've stayed at the emergency room since then and grew close to them. We acted like family and joked a lot. Lucas and I became boyfriend and girlfriend and were nearly inseparable.

"Come on, we need to head back." Kathy says walking ahead of us, "we're not to far behind Kathy." Lucas calls back walking next to me as we held hands.  I smiled as we looked at each other and got to the emergency room we've been staying at.  We sat down and looked through the supplies we found.

     I looked at them as they talked about the supplies and looked to me.  I looked back at them a bit confused as Lucas came over to me, placing his hands on my thighs, "we wanted to know something." He says looking up at me, "what I it?" I ask confused, "what you have in your bag.." he says softly as I wrapped my arms around him.

     I looked back at my bag and then at Lucas, "weapons, some last minute resort supplies and a few pictures.." I say softly looking at him, "why?"  "We've just been curious you know?" He smiled to me.  I nodded a bit smiling as he pecked my lips and went back to his sister.

     That night there was a fire lit in the middle.  I sat by the my bed and grabbed my bag and made sure it was all together.

     Lucas walked over and hugged me from behind and smiled a bit, "so, we found you alone.. what happened to your family?" He asks looking at me, "I don't really know to be honest.  I was separated from my dad and his wife in the beginning, and I didn't see my brother and my mom a month before all of this." I say softly looking at him.  He nodded and pulled away as we laid down and kept talking when eventually, everything was black.

     Heat came firing, screams became audible, smoke being breathed into my lungs.

     My eyes shot open as I quickly got up and flames were surrounding me.  I heard screams as I quickly got off the bed and saw Lucas running to Kathy.  When I ran through the breaking walls and the crashing ceiling, Kathy was laying by the fire pit on fire, screaming in pain.

     I gasped and grabbed Lucas's arm as I saw him crying as I made him leave.  We ran out together when I remembered my back pack.  I ran back in when I looked at Kathy, still screaming in pain, I rushed over and took out my gun being quiet as I put her out of her pain.  I started rushing to my back pack when I heard crashing, I looked up and saw a steal pole come crashing down on me, planting onto my back.  I screamed in pain, sounding like bloody murder as I quickly moved to get it off and not burn myself more as I grabbed my bag, dragging it as I got out and fell, yelling in pain, tears falling from the coursing power of pain, pumping through my body.

     Lucas saw and rushed over looking at me as he cried in fear.  I looked up at him as he looked at my back, seeing blood and peeled skin.