I wasn't sure what it was. It chased me. I was running but I was going no where. It was gaining on me. There was nothing I could do about it. I was going to continue running and so was it. The only difference is, it was moving. It was getting closer. 3 feet. Then 2 feet, closer and closer it came until it reached me. From the moment it touched me I felt it. Pain. Burning searing pain. I couldn't breathe. I was either going to die of heat or suffocation. Or both.
"RYAN!!!" My eyes jerked open and suddenly I knew what the "it" was, and unlike the fakeness of my dream, this was real. The fire was surrounding my bed. I was going to die.
"RYAN!!!" I turned to find the terrified voice. There she she was, Allie, beautiful tiny 5 year old Allie, shrieking at the pain of the heat. The window. It was my only choice. I would have to get Allie and jump out the window behind my bed. I must have been crazy. There was no way to run through fire and grab Allie, then run back through with her and jump out the window without killing us both.
So I had a choice. Allie or myself. Allie. That was my immediate choice. There was no way I could leave my sister behind to burn. It was not even a possibility.
Then the door fell. My bedroom door. It was going to crush her and she was going to go up in flames no matter what I did. "ALLIE!!!!!!! MOVE!!" I yelled. She dived out of the way. The door just barely missed her, but the fire was closing in on her. I couldn't get to her without burning to death and I wasn't going to be very helpful to get her out of the house if I was dead. She was going to die. I couldn't save her. I had to jump. It was my only choice. She was going to die and so was I if I didn't jump out that window right now.
I jumped up on the window sill and grabbed the curtain rod. "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" she shrieked in her small, high pitched voice. That was the last I heard from her. That was the last anyone ever heard from her. It was the most awful thing to hear.
I took one last glance at her burning body and her lifeless green eyes. Deep green like the leaves of a tree on a summer day, a sparkling emerald. The most beautiful eyes you'll ever see, gone. I broke the window with the curtain rod. As it shattered my heart shattered too.
I jumped.
