CODE RED (Book 1)

Complications

My breathing was shallow, and it felt as if a pressure was weighing down on my chest. Things were silent but then again they weren't. My lungs hurt from the smoke and I couldn't help but cough harshly as I had no other choice but to inhale it.

The crying, the scream of agony and pain. Kept reverberating in my ears, as well as the barn falling apart above me. It was loud, to loud.

The barn made loud creaks as the wood snapped from the flames. I couldn't tell you how many times I had almost gotten slammed underneath their weight. I could have died, but I made my way through by crawling underneath, trying my best not to burn myself from the fire that had stuck to the large wood.

Things were hot, unbelievable hot. Sweat and blood fell from my forehead and chest. Most of it not even my own.

I felt the heat against the skin of my arms and legs, it intensified around my entire body. Feeling like it was engulfing me entirely. Was I burning? I couldn't have been. There wasn't the sharp unbearable sting of fire on me but I felt it nearing my back as I kept running threw heaps of straw.

The disgusting smell of hot manure wafting it's way inside my sensitive nostrils. The stench itself burned my nose unlike the fire that was making it's way closer to me as I came to a wooden pillar holding the barns roof top up.

I couldn't see it enough to watch my footing as I tripped and landed on my stomach. Grunting as my muscles ached from the pain I had been endured and all the running and fighting back I did in order to protect myself as well as. . .Alex.

Thinking of him now only wanted to make me scream in agony once more for the unforgivable torture I had witnessed.

Why would the very man that had given life to me do this to a person I cared about and had done nothing to deserve it?!

I loathed that man.

I was fuming with rage, but at least I got my revenge for what he had done to both of us. I had kissed Alex before running away from it all, to escape. I didn't want to leave him, believe me I didn't. . .I wished I could have hung him over my shoulder even if I knew it was all over. We had reached our end and I never thought it would turn out like this.

There was no time, the barn had collapsed on us, but I made it out and grabbed in for him but it had been to late, he was burning, and all I could do was stare in horror.

The gun shot rang through my ears just then from moments prior. . .I woke up.

There was a hand over my mouth and I instantly panicked. I shoved the person to the ground. Who ever it was had pulled me with them and we both fell to the hard floor.

"OW!" Came a voice I knew all to well.

My eyes widened, no doubt I felt disoriented and then I was reeling backwards, pulling myself away from my boyfriend who sat up rubbing his head giving me a critical look. Brow raised.

I sighed feeling a bit of annoyance go threw me at his actions. That wasn't normal, covering some ones mouth while they slept. What did he expect to happen?

"What the hell was that?" I asked, annoyance clear in my voice. I wasn't a morning person and I didn't like that awakening action he had just done on me.

He stopped rubbing his head and lifted himself up to his feet same as I giving me an innocent look now.

"Relax, I just thought I'd wake you up." he said giving me a half smile with shrug." You didn't look so good."

I ran a hand threw my messed up bed head before asking him, " How did you get in here?"

He looked to his left, eyebrows nit together as if it were a strange question, or maybe it was just obvious but I hadn't realized it yet." Uh, your mom." He stated.