The Purge

9. Burn

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After a while of sulking I put on a pair of pants and shoes. Michael, Calum, Luke, Ashton and I carried all the bodies out of the building one by one, Brionna stayed inside too beat up to walk. We made two separate piles one for Markus & my dad and the other for the assholes that tried to kill us. We buried Markus and my dad next to the building with a small cross made out of sticks we found. When we got to the pile of enemies I told everyone to go inside and drenched the corpses in gasoline. One of them must have just been unconscious because as soon as the liquid hit him he woke up, it was the man's friend. He looked around frantically before his eyes landed on me.

"Please don't kill me! I was only following orders," he pleaded. His eyes widened when he saw the box of matches I was holding.

"You killed my friend," I replied.

"I didn't the girl did!" he said sitting up but slumping back down. My guess was his legs were broken.

"While I was being tortured all you did was stand there!" I shouted.

"I had to!"

"You killed my dad!" I exclaimed. I had gained the attention of a few people that had come out onto the street after the siren came on.

"Forgive me please!" he begged. I lit the match the I was holding in my hand and prepared to flick it.

He began frantically trying to crawl away from the pile of drenched corpses which, sadly for him left a trail straight to him of gasoline.

"Light em up," I whispered and threw the match forward.

"No!" he screamed. Everything seemed to go in slow motion as the match hit the bodies engulfing them in flames and the flame followed the trail of gasoline to the man. As soon as the flame touched him, he screamed as loud as he could and wiggled around as if he was having a spasm. The people on the streets looked at me in horror but I simply replied with a sick sadistic smile.

Finally after 15 minutes he stopped screaming and dropped to the ground with a thud. I walked away from the flames and back into the building. I poured bleach on my dads blood spots which were on the tile ground and went upstairs to pour bleach on the blood puddle where Markus once was. Somehow the sizzling noise the bleach and blood mixed together made was music to my ears. Everyone was packed up and ready to leave. The boys and Brionna filed out the door and I was the last one out. Before closing the door I looked back and saw the blood stained walls, a broken table, blood soaked couch, the bathroom was overflowing with water from only god knows what, and busted kitchen lights.

"Sorry!" I called down to room service and stuck a 100 dollar bill i found in one of the houses on the door handle before closing it.

"I know this is a weird question but what do you want it to say on your tombstone?" Brionna asked.

"Wow way to be a downer," Calum laughed.

"I know it's a sad topic but I just want to know," she shrugged.

"I would want mine to say something silly," Ashton said.

"I would want mine to have hidden meaning that only certain people would get like 'The ships have sailed'," Brionna said extending her arms out dramatically.

"Mine will be serious," Luke said.

"Me too," Calum agreed.

"Mine will say something ridiculously stupid," Michael chuckled.

"What about you Cam?" Brionna asked.

"I want mine to say some meaningful shit that's relatable like 'You can't always plan out life, lie's like a bowl of skittles, m&ms, and peanut butter m&ms. Every time you reach into the bowl you might get something different'," I laughed.