City Smoke of The Future

CHAPTER 6

The Elder's fussed about the security, while Jaz and I were questioning the "Member". It was like playing a righteous cop and a terrible cop. Jaz was interrogating him hard as if words could drill holes.  I was taking down notes on every minor and major detail that was pointed out. The boys had gone up to their room as they were tired. While I was in the process of dozing off and writing down notes, Jaz took hold of me and proceeded to shake the ever-loving life out of me. I looked at her bitterly and said, "What the hell Jaz? I'm tired... Can we leave him here and run away?". Jaz rolled her eyes and said, "Well he gave us a wonderful point. He said that the skin was smooth and there were no cuts visible on the creature's body, If it was a zombie we would have seen multiple cuts and bruises." I fake gasped and dramatically said. "Who would've thought about that! A 9 foot creature without bruises and one huuggeee eye on his face and always carries a club, No-one would've tau- OF COURSE IT IS NOT A ZOMBIE! IT HAS THE WORD CYCLOPS WRITTEN ALL OVER IT." Jaz looked shocked for a moment and said. "The creature does not have a tattoo all over its body saying cyclops..." I stared at her straight in the eye and said, "Im done! Im going to sleep, call me only if one, there is a fire. Two, if one of the members are infected. Three, if you or Atlas or Desmond gets sick or injured. Four, if the cyclops has invaded and finally five, if food is served. Jaz rolled her eyes and said, "Sure boss" I stared at her as hard as I could and finally walked away towards my room. I opened the door, shuffled my way to my bed and flopped on the bed. I looked around trying to sleep, but my head kept bringing back the image of my lifeless brother on the floor. I close my eyes and blackout, remembering the things me and my brother did. I remember him throwing a ball across the room so that I would learn how to catch, I remembered him fighting me playfully and purposely letting me win. I remembered plenty more things, I tried to escape it and tried to open my eyes but I couldn't, I felt like I was trapped in my own head. I soon pass out. 

I wake up and open my eyes to see tears flowing down my face, I felt as if I couldn't breath. I tried to slowly take in deep breaths and keep myself calm, but I found myself failing and on the thought of failing I felt more weight on my chest. I start losing air when suddenly Sunflower gets into the room saying, "Hey Death breath you seen Des-" He stops midway seeing the fear in my eyes and the loss of air I was having. He ran up to my side and tried calming me down by telling me to take deep breaths but I shook my head indicating that I couldn't. He instantly loosened the colour of my shirt and calmly said, "Look at me." I looked at him directly and he started asking me questions like, "Think of 5 things you can feel right now", I shook my head and said,"Thats not going t-" He looked at my coldly and I did exactly what he said, I looked at him and said,"I can feel your breath, I can feel the breeze from outside, I can feel the fabric of my shirt, I can feel the vibrations on the ground and I can feel the cold floor against my skin." Atlas/Sunflower kept asking me questions like that till I became calm. He helped me get up and that's when I realized how crazy I might have looked. I was in a fetal position and I was breathing heavily and almost literally clinging onto my skin like it was about to fall off, I was also not breathing properly, all this summed together meant I looked like a mad man. Atlas looked at me and said,"Do you want to talk how it started?" I told him the whole thing, all the way from dreams of the memories to the cold lifeless body of my brother. I told him about the weight I felt on my chest and the pain of suffocation I felt while I tried to sleep. He looked shocked with his eyes filled with tears and said with pain brimming his words," You might have PTSD induced dreams and you might have depression too, You have to come to me if you have any other thoughts like this... And I cant let you sleep on your own, I might need to send Jazmine into here." I looked at Atlas with tears in my eyes. I didn't want the others to know, I only wanted Atlas to know, Dang I didn't even want Atlas to know, I just wanted to suffer by myself... I looked up at Atlas and said, "Do you mind if we keep this incident between us? I don't want to worry the others.." Atlas nodded and said," I understand but someone needs to keep you company.." I then asked Atlas, "Can you keep me company then?" Atlas pondered on the thought and agreed. He smiled and went up to his room to pack a few things, while I shifted a bed from the extra room to my room. (WE ARE NOT SHIPPING VICTORIA/DEATH BREATH [The point of veiw you are reading for the past 6 chapter] WITH ATLAS/SUNFLOWER. THIS IS PURELY JUST A FRIENDSHIP!!)