Randy - These Days

Alive?

Hi,

so here I am again, sorry for how dark the last chapter turned out in the end.

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(Rye's POV)

'We can't tell if anyone is alive,' I repeated the word of the police officer in my mind.

'We can't tell if anyone is alive, we can't tell if anyone is alive, we can't, we can't tell if anyone is alive, one of them is quite small and looks younger than the others, he fits your description, we can't tell if anyone is alive,' tears started to form in my eyes and I felt something breaking inside me, 'He can't be, he can't, I couldn't live with him, I can't,' I looked around, Jack and Mikey looked shocked and Brooklyn had tears streaming down his face. Jack slowly got closer to Brooklyn and pulled him into a hug, this show of affection, gave me some hope again, I clung as strong as I could to the fact that they couldn't tell if anyone is dead, which means, there is still hope, he still could be alive, I wanted to go there, safe him myself, but I knew that I wouldn't even get there before the police officers would stop me and that would cost time and if they wouldn't be able to save him, because I wanted to be the one, I would never forgive myself. She (the police officer) looked at me and with that made it clear that I can't get closer if I want to stay here.

The colleague of the police officer that talked with us came over and said that he called, because they need to get parts of the tree off the car, before they can start rescuing anyone and that the paramedics said that it is incredibly urgent, as they looked really bad and with that much being buried under the tree they can't do anything, apart from saying that the three people in front looked incredible bad and they can't rescue anyone through the small way where fewer limbs were, as limbs around and partly in the car prevented that.

I felt my heart drop further if that was even possible. 'I should look for it in Australia,' I thought, 'on the other side of the world.'

The police officer that just came over, looked at me and asked: "Could you drive the car 20 meters away, please, if you feel able too, as one of the vehicle to lift parts of the tree needs to be really close."

"Of c... ourse," I tried to ignore the need to cry, scream and faint. I tried to ignore the feeling like everything slowly slipped away, the feeling of being powerless and useless, the feeling that I couldn't do anything for him. When I looked closer I had realized, that the Tree buried the Van with the lower part of its tree crown. So there were so many limbs sticking out in every direction. I had no idea how anyone could survive that

I did what I was told to, but I did it slowly because I wasn't certain if I could any other way.

Once I got out, I heard a rumble of incredibly loud thunder.

We all were so shocked, so sad, so emotional, that we forgot, that it was still storming. The rain had stopped for the time we were here, but right at the moment I thought about it, I could feel it slowly starting to rain again and with that, the wind picked up again. So I made my way back over to the others as fast as I could.

I felt so helpless, so useless, I couldn't do anything to help him. I reached the others and tried to give Brooklyn who looked at me a hopeful look accompanied by a small smile.

"I never felt this useless before."

"You aren't useless, you found him," Brooklyn answered, still crying.

'F***, I said that out loud,' I didn't know how I could answer him, because we might have been too late, I might have been too late, I might have been too late for Andy.