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jack's night terrors was starting to become a reoccurring problem in the marais household.

sometime during the night or early morning jack would have night terrors. just to fall back asleep or to cuddle into jonah or corbyn as they sang to him. the boys even learned drown out his cries.

"come on jack. let's try sleep to tonight." jonah said tucking jack into bed. corbyn and jonah kissed his head and turned off the light.

jack waited for the sound of his foster parent's door closing. once it did the boy continued to keep himself awake.

jack pulled a flashlight and a book from out the nightstand. he sat there trying to read but the words didn't make sense to him.

why do big words have to be so big?
he thought to himself.

he tried to read the same sentence over and over, but the words didn't make sense to him. the boy eventually fell asleep.

the real question is what are his dreams about. or what he was scared of?

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of the three boys jack was the last one who made it out alive.

their mother handed zach to daniel and ushered him out the house, she went back in search of jack. he hid in his room scared of the boiling heat and the growing flames. he screamed curled up into the corner of the room. he felt as if his screams were silenced, his voice was taken from him.

jack felt as if his flesh was burning, his lungs filled with smoke. he felt like he was dying, he was paralyzed with fear the boy was only eight years old and he was watching his world go up in flames.

then his mother scooped him up and pushed him out to the front door like his brothers. jack stood in doorway waiting for his mother to follow him.

but she didn't, she faced towards the blazing fire.

"don't leave me!" he yelled in between coughs.

she looked at him before walking into the flames.

jack was speechless, his mom was gone. daniel practically dragged him out, yelling at him for nearly getting himself killed as the fire department came trying to stop the house from burning.

"where's mom?" daniel asked jack.

but what answer do you give your brothers when you witness your mom dying?

jack didn't say anything only crying into daniel's chest along with zach. jack ended up crying so hard he threw up on the front lawn.

sometimes he wondered what would happen if daniel didn't pull him out.

if wasn't for daniel he would've had same fate as their mom.

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instead of screaming jonah and corbyn woke up to a hard thud.

they assumed zach fell out his bed. but when jonah peaked in his room he was the same as when he last left him.

"jack!" corbyn shouted, causing jonah to run to his other son's room.

jack was thrashing on the floor, scratching his arms so hard his left arm was bleeding.

jonah got down on the ground and wrapped his arms around the boy, pinning his arms down.

"stop it! it's burning! it's burning!" jack shouted, kicking his legs in the air.

"it's jonah bud, it's jonah." he whispered.

"don't leave me! please don't leave me here!" he shouted, crying out "mom i'm sorry!"

jack woke up and began hyperventilating and the crying didn't help, he gagged throwing up on the small carpet.

"jack honey it's just a dream, you're safe." corbyn held his hands telling him everything will be okay. they eventually got his breathing even.

"i-m—" jack stuttered nonsense.

"don't, just try to breathe baby," corbyn hushed.

"i'm gonna let you go and i will get a bandaid," jonah said letting go of jack and walking to the bathroom.

"come here baby," corbyn said pulling jack to his chest, rocking him slowly.

"this gonna hurt a bit," jonah said spraying disinfectant spray onto jack's cut, and he applied a bandage.

"you want to sleep in our bed tonight?" corbyn asked and jack desperately nodded.

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