Battle Scars (magcon)

Chapter 13

Cams pov

He did it. He kept his promise and did it. He left me though.

I walk into his room with Hayes right by my side. "Cam, what was the last thing he said to you?" Hayes asked. "He-we were talking about Matt. We were talking about his laugh, and all the videos we did together. Then we saw Carter and the last thing I heard him say to me was "Did that really just happen?"" Tears spring to my eyes as I remember what brought him to say that," what about you?"

"He was yelling at me. He said that everything was his fault. Those were his last words..." Hayes started bawling again.

I look around the room a little bit, before taking Hayes-he fell asleep while crying- tucking him in bed, and started to explore his room. His phone was on the charger beside his bed, so I grabbed it. I went straight to his messages and started looking at them. The last person he talked to was to Hayes "go check on Skylynn. Hurry, I need to tel u somethin" I was the second... We were talking about how Matt had amazingly soft hair, and how Carter had really cool snap backs. I go through his contacts and look at his moms' contact before clicking on it and calling her.

C- hey Ms. Grier... Umm do you have a minute? This is kind of important...

E- cam, is that you? Why are you on Nash's phone? Wait what happened to Nash?!

C-he, uhh, I'm just gonna say it... He jumped! He jumped and I was too late! I'm so sorry!! Please don't be mad at me! It's just I miss him so much!! He was my brother and he helped me with so much! I'm so sorry! I have to go...

She stayed on the phone but didn't say anything. I could hear her crying, and I heard her boyfriend/husband say something but I couldn't make out what he said. Soon enough, she hung up.

That's three. Three are gone. Three missing holes. Three. Three out of twelve. Matthew Espinosa, Carter Reynolds, and Nash Grier. Gone. No more. Now we had to pick ourselves up, but how? I kept questioning that and soon enough, the rest of the boys have come into the room. It's a thing we do now. Every time someone dies, we go to Nash's, but now he's gone? I look up from the phone for the first time and realize, this is the first time I've realized what was going on. Then I ran.

--------------jack j pov---------------

I look around. Yup, this is Nash's room, but where's Nash? I see Hayes, and Cameron's right there, I look over and see the window open. That's the reason we're here. I look over to Jack and nod my head. He comes over to me and we cry, Nash was basically the leader and now we don't even know! But what hurts the most was being so close to them and watching them walk away. When I'm done with my little fit. I look over to Cam. He's frozen, eyes bloodshot, just staring at the screen. As I look closer and pay more attention, I realize that it's Nash's phone! I hit Jack and motion to Cam, who doesn't seem to know we're here. The next thing I know is Cam runs out of the room, going outside and standing in the grass. I run down there with him and hear "I'm already there! I'm already there" and he falls to the ground sobbing. I walk up to him and try to comfort him. "Those were the last things he said to Matt. I think it was from a song," he smiled slightly. I looked at him and remembered when Nash always said " I'm already there" when we had to be somewhere, of course he was usually the last person, but that was his saying. "It was also the last thing he said to us," I tell him staring at the grass. "I know. I wish I could've said goodbye. I just m-miss him s-s-so much!" He starts crying again. I try to imagine this from his point of view. Him and Nash were basically brothers, like me and Jack. And if Jack died, I would basically be dead, because he's my bestfriend. The truth for me would be that I would have no one anymore. Nobody to make me laugh, nobody to remember the different times of things, nobody to help me become me. Then I understood.

Carter left because Matt was gone, so he had no one. Nash felt like he had no one, so he left. I have a strange feeling that this game isn't over though. More broken people in this group will cause more deaths. Hopefully nit though. Hopefully we win this battle. I look over at Cam and grab his arm. "Where are we going?" "Were going to go back there and were going to help those boys." "How am I gonna help, if I'm broken myself?" I stare at him, trying to find hope somewhere in him, but it's gone. He put his trust in people and now he's lost. "Cam, please! I can't lose you! I need you to help me!" "I'm just going back up there because of the beds," he answered back.

When I get up there, all the boys are asleep. Taylor and Aaron by the window. Shawn and Jacob, yes he's here too, why wouldn't he be? Mahogany by herself with a pillow, Jack beside her using the same pillow. And Hayes and Cameron sharing a bed. I take a seat by Jack and lay my head on his shoulder. Slowly falling into a dark sleep.

Dream-> I look over to see Nash and I run over to him. "Nash! Nash! I missed you so much!" "Don't say that you liar! That's all you ever do is lie! I bet if I shot Jack in the head, you would only pretend to to be sad!" "What are you talking about?" I ask confused. He points to his left and I see Jack laying in a pool of blood, his head shot. "NOOOO!!"<-end

I wake up sweating and crying, everyone looking at me with worried eyes. "Are you

Ok? You were screaming my name?" Jack asks me when I finally wake up wake up. "Yeah, it was just a dream, no big deal." I say simply before checking my phone. 11:39. Wow that's a bit late. "Hey guys, don't you think it's time to go to y'all's home?" Chad asked as he walked into the room. "Sir, we are here for Hayes. We thought that because he just lost his-uhh-his b-brother we would stay with him. And Cam refuses to get out of the bed." Taylor's voice cracked. "Oh, well that's sweet. Listen, y'all stay as long as you need. Hayes needs y'all's help, and I'm sure Cameron does too," he winked at us before leaving. Why is he so happy? He just lost his son, if anything the strangers in my house would be the least of my worries right now! Hayes finally gets up and looks beside him, freezing before speaking,"Guys. Cameron's gone"