The key was dangling off the pipes above, it was hidden, but it reflected light from the dead, blue light bulb. The weight of pain I have at the moment is unbearable! But I'll make do! I stretched up, grunting, everyone is still screaming, I grabbed the key! It was stuck!!! Rats started gnawing my hand, crawled onto me, and started biting me!! I screamed!
I can't see a thing! But I feel Ivan and James removing the rats! I held the key on my hand tightly. The rats stopped coming, and ran though the blue and white hallway, Ivan was about to hug me, but James hugged me first, I hugged him back, I tried to tighten my grip, I let go, and he was covered in blood! My blood!! I looked at my body and screamed! There’s a deep hole of missing flesh! Tons of scratches! Endless blood!! I feel like Carrie but I'm covered in my own blood!!
I started bawling, I gave James the key, and he looks at me with pride and sorrow, and rushed towards my brothers! There's only three minutes left! My body is numb! Every step I feel pain all over my body.
I fell to the floor, I feel so weak! James is, again, trying his best to unlock it, John and Jonathan...
"We need one more key..." James says.
"What?" I say, weakly.
"We need one more key! Everyone! Search for that key!!"
I crouched towards the other chains, in hopes to find a hidden key, the first one, Bradley and Mrs Summer, has one key hole... Examined the second one, Anne and Henry, there's three on my brothers, and four for Stephanie and Elliot. All this trouble just for...
"Come on!!" John shouts.
Oh no!! Please no! Wait.
"Can you hear that?" I asked.
"Hear what?! We have no time for this!" Ivan says.
"It's a key!" I say.
I barely stood up, and pointed at the top of the descending, screw textured pole. A key dangling, spinning along the pole! I reached out! I screamed! There's a knife dangling as well! Come on! This psychopath is getting out of hand! Please! I reached out but then... I knew I was too late...
John and Jonathan gurgled their blood coming out of their body, hands twisted, sinking into the hole! No!!
A sharp pain suddenly appeared on my chest... I look down... It's the knife from the pole... I fell to the floor once more.
"Kirstie!!" James cried.
"I'm... Okay..." I say.
"We need to take the knife out!" Mrs. Summer says.
"No... It's too late for me... I've been bitten and scratched by rats... impaled and deeply scratched by needles... I cut myself to fill a stupid bowl... and scratched by bats... So now I'm bleeding like it's sweat after a hardcore workout... And now a knife on my chest... We all know I won't survive..." I said.
"No! You'll survive!" James denied the facts.
"Are you kidding me? Let's be realistic... this isn't some made up story... All good things have to come to an end...”
James started to cry... I feel like I'm in a story made up by some sick-minded freak... I mean seriously... Who would put their characters in such a situation...? And now I'm dying... James is probably the main boy, and then I'm his lover... But... My experience to be with James and everyone else was amazing...
"When you get out... Find that psychopath... Avenge everyone who died today... Hoodie, Cutie, Henry, Stephanie, Elliot, and my brothers... I'm actually surprised I survived this long..."
My eyes are still filled with tears... But I smile at them... No matter what... I told myself... 'Don't let anything get you down' and I'm keeping my own words...
"I've always told myself something to get myself through anything... Don't let anything get you down... Just look at me... I'm weak... At the brink of death... And still talking like an idiot... talking about nonsense..."
I closed my eyes... As I know any second... I'm going to lose my breath, and die...
I look at James and put my feeble hand over his cheek and he holds my hand. "I love you, James..." I say. "Lisa... I couldn't asked for a better best friend".
"My time with you, Ivan, was amazing..." I smile at him, "Don't let this traumatize you Anne... Live on with my words..."
"Mrs Summer... You're like my second mother... Thank you for being there..."
"Bradley... I've always thought you we're stereotypical... But... You're one of those good stereotypes..."
"Tell everyone I know... That I loved them..."
I look at James and smile at him.
"What are you smiling about?" He painfully asks.
"I guess... In a way... He did get away with it..." I say.
He starts to cry, and lays his forehead on mine.
He whispered "I love you... And if I ever get out... no one will ever replace you..." He breathes heavily, "And I'll remember you..." He pauses, "For as long as I live..."
I closed my eyes, hearing everyone sob... Sniffing... My eyes are still filled with tears... It's now my time... This is Kirstie Evans... And I see this as my end.
Author's Note: All new chapters for Exordium Part 2 will be posted soon. Thank you for all the support you have given me. I am truly grateful for your generousity of your time to read my imagination illustrated in words. Thank you once again. Share, vote up, and comment on what you think will happen next. Ask your questions in the comment section. What do you want to happen next? What do you think will happen after this interlude? Come back on July 1 to see the unfolding story of The Ties That Bind. A Pentology based on both my life and my friends' lives. Five book. Once again thank you. Share, Vote up, and Comment. Don't forget to come back in July 1. Maybe i would post it earlier.
