Chapter one-
“Laura is you crazy?” Anya questioned.
I started to laugh and gave Anya a hug.
“I’ve completely lost my marbles, just mad… but all of the great ones are, aren’t they?” I giggled.
“I’m one of the great ones but I am not mad.”
I ran forward and jumped onto a tree log.
“That’s just the thing Anya! Your one of the great ones but not the great one, because you are not mad!”
The warm breeze twirled all of the leaves around in the air. The woods had the echoes of birds humming and deer’s eating and the little chipmunks running about the ground. I climbed up the log and it started to move to the left a little, and I stumbled up the log trying to regain my balance.
“Oh please, Laura be careful!” Anya cried.
“Don’t worry Anya! I’m fine! You’re a worry but,” I mumbled.
“Anya you’re almost six feet up in the air! You can fall and break your neck or your back! You can kill yourself,” She yelled at me.
“So you’re telling me you wouldn’t catch me?” I laughed.
Anya gave me a dirty look. I shook my head. She is such a worry, for some strange reason she reminds me of a mom…
My foot sunk into a hole and I fell forward onto the log and wrapped my arms around it. My right foot dangled over the side and I clutched onto the log. My left foot was stuck in the whole and I hung seven feet up in the air. Anya screamed.
“L. Laura!” she cried, “Oh my god! Oh my god!”
“Anya shut up!” I tried to yell but her crying and screaming tuned me out. “Anya please calm down!” Anya looked at me. “Listen you need to climb up the log and get my foot out of this hole.”
“Are you nuts? I can’t even climb one foot off the ground and I’m terrified of heights,” She squealed.
“Just my fucking luck,” I muttered.
I heard feet running through the leaves and saw Anya darting through the forest.
“Anya! Where are you going?”
“I’m going to get your dad or your brother, so you don’t get yourself killed!’
My mouth dropped open.
“Anya don’t you dare! Anya come back! Anya!” She could no longer hear me, because she was too far away. I mumbled curses through the air. She is going to get me into so much fucking shit… I looked back at my foot and started to twist it from side to side. I pulled it back and then forward. I felt a sharp pain and I gipped my hands around the log. “Dam nit.” My foot tingled and it sent a shocking pain up my leg. I cried out in pain. My hands let go of the log and I fell over the side and my foot stayed in the hole. The only thing from keeping my face meeting the ground was my foot in that damn whole. My hands dangled out in front of me. I looked up at my foot and I felt it nudge from its place. I felt my body slowly fall to the ground. I put my hands in front of me and closed my eyes preparing myself for the fall.
“What the hell?” I mumbled. I looked up and saw a hand wrapped around my ankle.
“Laura what the fuck are you trying to kill yourself?” Ryan asked.
I smiled.
“Just pull me up will ya?”
He grabbed my ankle and took his other hand and grabbed my thigh and pulled me up. He lay on top of me.
“Thank you.”
“Laura are you out here all alone?” He asked.
“I was with Anya…”
“I know she is the one I ran into and demanded I come here. She had to go home because her mom was giving birth,” He laughed.
“Doesn’t she have great timing,” I smiled.
Ryan wrapped his arms around my waste and gripped my side and held my body tightly. I put my hands around his neck and his warms lips touched mine and he kiss me and then kissed my cheek, and then my neck and came back to my lips. Our tongues intertwined and he held me close. His hands lowered down to my lower back and he held me. His tongue ran down my throat and I gripped onto his neck. He looked at me and I smiled.
“I love you Ryan.”
“I love you too baby.”
He lowered himself down and his face went down my shirt and then pants and he started to climb down the log. I scooted myself down and I was about a foot away from him.
“Jump into my arms,” he laughed.
I smiled and then jumped forward and fell into his arms and we fall on the ground and rolled around in the leaves. We lay next to one another and hugged.
“I never want this moment to end,” I whispered to him.
“It never will.”
“Promise?”
“Promise and hope to die.”
He crossed his heart. He looked up at the sky and I looked at him. Ryan and I have been together for the past nine months and I am completely in love with him.
“Laura?” He asked.
He looked at me and we came closer to one another inches from another.
“What is it?”
“Do you love me?” He asked.
I sat up and looked at him.
“Of course… Why… Why would you ask me something like that?”
“I’m just so scared of losing you.”
I grabbed his face in my hands and looked at him.
“You will never loose me. I will always be here for you.”
“I just….”
“You just what Ryan?”
‘if I didn’t run into Anya you would have fell… and”
I looked away from him.
“I would of but I didn’t. I’m fine. I’m alive don’t worry so much like Anya!” I laughed. He shook his head. “Really I’m fine.”
“You’re completely mad Laura Petrovix.”
“Completely bonkers.”
We started to laugh.
“ What do you think anya will get?” Ryan asked.
“ A brother.”
“Naw.”
“Why do you say that?”
“She already has a brother.”
“So? She could get another brother…”
“I think she will get a sister.”
“Blah I’m always right and you know it!” I laughed. I jumped to my feet and then stumbled backwards.
“Are you okay?” Ryan asked.
He caught me and I looked at my god for sicken ankle.
“I just bruised my ankle, that’s all.”
“You want me to walk you home?” He asked.
“No thanks. I’ll be able to manage.”
“Always gotta act so tuff don’t yuh?” Ryan asked.
I punched his arm.
“I’ll be fine man. Go take one of Anya’s chill pills,” I giggled.
“Hardy har,” he muttered.
I shook my head.
“Ya’ll so difficult. I’m going to get walking home.”
“Are you sure you don’t want me to walk you home?”
“Yes Ryan, I’ll be fine! Geez…”
Ryan grabbed me and kissed my forehead.
“I’ll see you late. Love you,” he whispered.
“I love you too.”
I hugged him back and started to walk home. Ryan is eighteen and my parents are not too happy about that since I am only fifteen, and he is three years older than me but I honestly could care more or less. The sounds of people running through the forest and all of the animals made me feel as piece. This place is like my second home. I go to the darkest end of the forest because no one else goes there and I have to say I am like a recluse.
The feeling of being high up in the air and watching over the dark forest with all of the animals wondering about. The soft warm breeze and all of the leaves dancing around the trees. It’s so peaceful and beautiful.
“Laura you in shit know!” Markey shouted.
I looked behind me and here came Markey, my brother…
“What are you talking about dope?” I muttered.
“Ya’ll was supposed to be home an hour ago.”
“So?”
“Well you were not at home and know ma and pa are going to be pissed.”
“And your point is?”
“Damn, you’re so stupid. I aint never get you, and I never will.”
“Yeah Markey I know. You just don’t have the intelligence to understand my smart intellect.”
Markey stared at me blankly.
“Exactly,” I laughed.
“I’m older than you, and I’m smarter,” He said.
“Markey your nineteen. Your five years older than me yes… but I quote! “You are not…. You are not smarter than me!” Got it?”
“Well I don’t get in trouble any mores since I am an adult.”
“Yeah, but your still living at home with ma and pa.”
“Until I find a girlfriend, get married, and have some kids.”
“A dog doesn’t count as a kid and a girlfriend don’t count on a blow up doll.”
“Oh fuck you Laura.”
“You didn’t deny it either… pretty sad.”
He didn’t respond to me. Markey is my older brother and we have a younger sister Adonia. Adonia is seven years old and my ma told me when Adonia was born and she saw her she said she was going to be just a beauty when she gets older, so she named her Adonia after beautiful. I remember when I asked my mother if she thought I was beautiful and she told me I was a gorgeous gal, and every guy would want me and every girl would want to be me. I asked her if that was so then why did she name me Laura. She told me that her mother’s name was Laura, and she was the most gorgeous person you would ever see. You would never see another person like her, so she named me after her mother. To me Laura is such a plain name, and I have envied my sisters name for quite some time, but I became accustomed to my name and everyone I meet say they wished they had my name and I just end up calling them whacks. Aint nothing special about my name at all!
“Laura!” Markey screamed.
I jumped back and fell into a whole and went flying back into a tree.
“What the hell is wrong with you?” I shouted.
“I had been saying your name a thousand times.”
“As if! You should of tapped my shoulder not get one inch away from me and scream you moron!”
“Never mind that where are ma and pa?” He asked.
We both looked at our house and didn’t see the car.
“Hey ma! Pa?” I shouted.
There was no response.
“They are probably out shopping or something,” Markey said.
“Markey I thought you said they wanted me home.”
“Well yeah. Ma called me and told me that she wanted us both home and hour ago, but I sort of lost track of time.”
“Why wouldn’t of she called me then?”
“I don’t know, Oh yeah because you never answer your phone!”
“Well I mean if you call me about three times Ill eventually answer…” I muttered.
Markey shook his head.
“Markey...”
“Will you stop calling me that?”
“Never...!” I laughed.
“Everyone calls me mark or Markus. You’re the only one that calls me Markey.”
“Mark is too plain and Markus is too mature for you. To me you’ll always be Markey. Get used to it.”
Markey looked at me for a while and then his eyes traced back to the house. No it’s not right they were both supposed to be home today because my aunt is having a birthday party.
“Their aint something right Markey,” I mumbled.
“What you talking about?”
“Ma and pa should be home with Adonia. Aunt Spiyla’s party is today.”
“So?”
“The party I thought was going to be at our house…”
Markey and I stared at one another. I started to walk towards the house and stood in front of the door. I raised my hand towards the door knob and it just pushed opened.
“Markey... the house is...”
“I know,” He said immediately.
We both watched the door. I kicked it open with my foot and starred inside.
“Hello?” I muttered.
I slowly made my way into the house. All of the lights where off. Markey stood in back of me. I heard a noise from the living room and slowly peered the corner. All of the lights came on and every shouted happy birthday. I flew back and screeched. My heart beated a million times a minute and Markey stood behind me laughing.
“What the?” I said.
My mom came and gave me a hug.
“Happy birthday darling,” She said.
“My birthday isn’t for another two weeks. You said we going to have a party here for aunt Spiyla’s, because we didn’t celebrate it last week,” I muttered.
“Well I lied. We are having a party for you!”
“Why?”
“ Because hunny you’re going to turn sixteen in a couple of weeks, and turning sixteen is a big thing in the family,” She said. I looked about the faces and then heard Markey giggling from behind me. I spanned around and stared at him.
“You! You were in on this?” I screeched.
“Of course,” He smiled.
“Gr…”
“And plus I got a great picture of you jumping back. Your terrified face!” His eyes started to tear from laughter.
“You fudger…”
I turned back around and saw everyone looking at me. I smiled.
“Thanks guys,” I said blushing.
Everyone started smiling and we all had hugs and all that small talk and jokes. The night was filled with laughter and smiles. I sat on the tire swing outside of our house gathered around my cousins. Justin is thirteen, Dylan is nineteen, and River is my age. All I have is guy cousins.
“So lil cuz how does it feel to be sixteen?” Dylan asked.
“Ugh… amazingly great…” I said sarcastically
“You still dating Ryan?” River asked.
“Yes.”
“What does your parents think about that?” Dylan asked.
“Aint happy, but they dealing with it,” I laughed.
“What a BA,” River laughed.
“What’s a BA?” Justin asked.
“BAD ASS!” Dylan and I said at the same time.
We both looked at each other and started to laugh. Dylan pushed the tire swing a little and I relaxed a little bit. Dylan grabbed onto the tire swing and sat on the top of it and then I went flying backwards. We both landed on our backs underneath the tire swing.
“You moron!” I laughed.
“I mean to do that!”
“Oh yeah I bet.”
As I lay on my back I looked at the trees above me and saw a tree with perfect limbs which I could climb. I jumped to my feet and made my way up the tree.
“How old are you?” Justin asked.
“Sixteen in two weeks,” I called out.
“You aint act like a sixteen year old. You act like a thirteen year old boy!” He laughed.
“Duh! I aint never going to grow up! Imam stay like how I am for the rest of my life!” I Laughed.
I was about ten feet up in the air known and I hovered over the world. I felt like no one could ever look down on me and I was always on the top. Never quieting but always winning.
“Damn girl not even I can climb a tree like that” Dylan shouted up at me.
“You aint ever going to find another person that will ever climb trees like I!”
“We aint never going to find a girl like you.”
“You aint going to never find ANYONE like me. Not a boy nor a girl!”
They all looked up at me and where laughing. I looked down on the and I felt the smile across my face. I jumped from branch to branch and it almost as felt like I was flying through the air. I felt invincible. I went up higher and higher. As I looked down I saw the boys running around. Justin was running towards the river and then he fell to the ground.
“ Justin!” I screamed. “You I’ght?”
He didn’t respond. I started down the tree and then jumped down.
“ What’s wrong?” Dylan asked.
“ Justin! Justin!” I was out of breath.
I ran towards the river and fell next to Justin. He laid on the ground he looked so pale, and had this purple tint to his skin. I touched his hand and it felt like ice. His eyes met mine and they were blood shot and his eyes where dilated and where black as a dark hole. His body shook and he moaned out in pain.
“ Justin? What… happened to you…” I touched his hand and I held it tight.
Tears ran down my face.
“ River! Dylan! Hurry I need help!” I cried.
River and Dylan came running around the corner and when they saw me hovering over Justin they sprinted towards me and fell next to me.
“ What happened to him!” Dylan screamed.
River stood over us his eyes watering and he was emotionless.
“ I don’t know! I saw him collapse when I was in the tree, and I came over here and I found him like this…” I gasped.
Dylan bent over him and placed his hand on Justin’s arm.
“ We need to get him back to your house,” He said.
“ how?” I asked.
“ The three of us will carry him,” He replied.
At first I thought he was joking but I saw the seriousness in his face. I nodded my head.
“ Okay I’ll take his head and you take his feet. River you take his waste we will walk in a line. We need to hurry though,” Dylan demanded.
We all lifted him and started to make our way. His cold shivering body made me feel sick, but I couldn’t stop. We continued our way. I saw my pa in the distance.
“ We need to put him down I’ll go get my pa! it will be faster,” I said.
As we lowered him down I sprinted off within the second and ran into my dad.
“ What’s wrong with you?” He asked.
He then saw the tears in my eyes.
“ pa! hurry! Justin!” I cried.
Before I could finish I grabbed his arm and started to run off in the direction and pulled him along with me. When he saw Dylan and river hovering over Justin he started to run faster and I stopped and watched him. I breathed heavily and that’s all I could hear was my heart beat hardly on my chest as though it was about to burst through my chest. I bent over and put my hands on my knees and looked at them. My dad screamed out for the others and then my uncle and aunt ran passed me towards the boys. Screams and cries filled the air. Everything seemed like it was fake. It all started to diminish to black and the cries and screams slowly started to disappear.

Chapter two-
It’s been almost a month know. Everyone has been in their homes staying away from others, trying not to get the virus. My cousin Justin… He died when he was being taken to the hospital and soon after that River, his, mom, and dad all died. Dylan is the only one left from them and he is staying with us. At first my brother secluded himself to his room, because he thought Dylan would give us the virus, but he didn’t. After, that he felt quite silly about himself for doing that. He and I have been sharing a room. It was a little weird at first, but then I grew accustomed. All he does is lay in his bed all day staring at the ceiling. The first couple weeks he cried, but he can’t cry anymore, because i believe he has cried all of his tears away. He isn’t the same person I use to know. He doesn’t even speak to me anymore. I looked to my right and saw him staring at the wall.
“ Dylan,” I muttered. He was quiet and didn’t say a word. It almost seem as though he didn’t even hear me. “ Dylan!” I repeated. His head turned and he stared at me. His eyes where full of death, and his face had no emotion. “ do you want to go out to the woods?” I asked. He just continued to stare at me. I sat on my bed leaning on the wall. It was quit. I got off my bed and stood in front of him. “ Get up,” I demanded. He just stared at me. “ God dam nit I said get up!” He slowly rose and sat at the edge of his bed looking at me. “ Up!” He stood and faced me. He just stood there. I felt anger flow threw me and I tightened my hands into fists and I grinded my teeth.
“ What…” He said quietly.
“ Dam nit Dylan what happened to you?” I asked.
“ Their all dead. Why should I even enjoy living?” He asked.
“ Dylan their dead! Their all fucking dead and their not coming back! You must realize this, and laying on your bed all day staring at the ceiling won’t do any good! If your mother, father, or brothers where alive they would be so disappointed of you!”
“ don’t you dare fucking say that!” He screamed.
“ You know it true!!! You wasting your life away! Yes they all died, but I’m still alive! Markey is still alive! Ma and pa are still alive! How do you think I feel? I’ve been watching you waste away in that damn bed for the past month! I lost my cousin! My friend!” I stopped. Tears started to fill my eyes. “ I miss them all to! Dam nit I miss them too… but I’m not going to sulk for the rest of my life. I still have things to live for. I have you , my brother, parents, and friends. They need me. Just like we all need you! Please if you’re going to continue to sulk in your self-pity then… then leave. Get out of my room get out of my house because you completely disgust me!”
He stared at me. I looked at the floor and had tears run down my face. I felt his hands on my shoulders and then he hugged me.
“ I’m sorry Laura… I’m sorry…”
He hugged my tighter and I wrapped my hands around him and hugged him back.
“ It’s okay… it’s okay…”
He let go of me and then he looked out the window.
“ Wanna go to the woods?” I asked.
“ You parents gonna let us?”
“ Sucks to the parents!” I laughed.
“ What about the virus…”
“ Honestly I sneak out every single day to go to the forest. If I stayed in this house forever I’ll go even more bonkers.” He did a little laugh. I started to walk towards the window and opened it up. I sat on the ledge and looked behind me. “ Are you coming?” I asked. He looked at me for a little bit. He looked around and then he walked towards the window. I smiled and hopped down. He sat on the edge and hesitated. “ Come on now.”
“ Oh the shit you get me in,” He mumbled. He jumped down from the ledge and we made our way to the forest. The town almost seemed like a ghost town. Everyone was too scared to leave their homes.
“ I haven’t been out for a while,” Dylan said.
“ yes I’m quite aware. It’s sad how everything has gone downhill, but the thing is none of the animals or nature has been effected. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy going to the forest, because when I’m their I feel like everything is the same,” I said.
“ Is Ryan still alive?” He asked.
“ of course. We see one another every single day. I actually saw him earlier today,” I announced.
“ That’s nice,” He said.
“ yep..”
Everything around us was quit.
“ I miss the old days,” Dylan said.
“ So do i.”
“ You think…”
“ think what man?”
“ You think my family is in heaven?”
I looked up at the sky.
“ … I honestly can’t tell you.”
Dylan sighed. I looked at him.
“ But I’ll tell you this… their altogether… their happy and their together watching over you. Proud of you. Their together peacefully, and they are happy and they want you to be happy also.”
“ you think?”
“ Pshaw! I know!” I started to laugh. We reached the forest and walked in. it all seemed like how it used to be. Like nothing ever happened. I felt so at peace. Everything seemed like it was all so perfectly put together and it was all care free. Tears started to fill my eyes, but I quickly wiped my face and then darted towards a tree and made my way up it.
“ Never changed,” Dylan said.
“ I know right! I love this place!” I exclaimed.
“ I wasn’t talking about the forest.”
“ What the hell where you talking about then?”
“ You.”
“ me?”
“ Yes Sherlock.”
“ Why would I ever change? I am always going to be the same person I have always been and I will never change. Come on man even you should know that.”
“ Laura you never know.”
“ Rubbish!”
I hovered over Dylan.
“ Your such a guy,” Dylan laughed.
“ Better than being a stuck up girl!”
“ Ha yeah. So how’s the view from up their?”
“ Breath taking. You should come up here and take a look at this.”
“ Maybe some other time…”
“ Some other time my ass. You never will.”
“ once I get my strength back I promise I will.”
“ Pinky promise?”
“ Pinky promise.”
I smiled. I made my way down the tree and we walked back to my house and snuck through the window.
“ That was fun,” Dylan said.
“ Everything is fun when your with me.”
“ Come and eat!” I heard my ma say from the kitchen.
I jumped up and pushed Dylan to the side and sprinted into the kitchen. He followed after me. My ma looked up and saw the life in Dylan’s face.
“ Oh Dylan… you look great!” She smiled.
“ Thanks,” He said.
We sat around the kitchen and my brother and pa came in shortly afterwards.
“ Hey ya’ll!” I mumbled.
“ Ello,” Pa said.
We all sat at the table and started to eat.
“ What ya’ll do today?” Pa asked.
“ Wrestled bears and I climbed millions of feet up in the air… I even… traveled to the moon and back!” I laughed.
“ Wow… must be pretty great to do all that,” Pa said.
“ The greatest man!” I laughed.
We all started to laugh. This was nice. This was our first full diner with everyone. I was happy. I liked this living.

Chapter 3-
Dylan and I walked through the forest. I looked around there was something different about today. There are hardly any animals out today.
“ Did you notice?” Dylan asked.
“ The animals?”
“ yes…”
We looked at each other.
“ I’m going up,” I said.
“ Going where?”
“ The tree.”
We walked around trying to find the highest tree with the sturdiest branches. We walked around for a good ten minutes then came across one.
“ Their!” I pointed to a tree.
I ran towards it and made my way up. As I climbed I looked down and saw Dylan looking up at me. i stopped for a second to catch my breath.
“ Dylan! How high am i?” I screamed.
“ About twenty feet!”
I looked down and then sprawled backward and grasped onto the tree trunk. I have never been this high up a tree so far.
“ Laura be careful!” I heard him screech.
“ Don,” I mumbled.
I couldn’t scream, because I couldn’t catch my breath to. I looked up into the branches and continued going. I reached my hands up and grabbed onto a branch and I started to lift myself up and then the I heard the branch crack. I was dangling in the air and I looked up and saw it start to crack. My eyes widened and I felt adrenaline flow through my body.
The branch cracked and I fell and reached out for any branch within reaching distance. I grabbed onto a branch to my right and gripped onto it and banged against the trunk of the tree and hit the top of my head and I felt blood drip down my head. I was clenching onto the branch and then I heard a whole bunch of ruckus and looked over to my right and saw all of the hovercrafts. They were huge! It looked like you could fit thousands of people in there. Maybe even a million. I saw people crowded around it, and someone else start to get on the ship. They’re all going on the ship. Why?
I started to climb down once branch at a time. My head dripped with more blood and I felt a little dizzy. I was about a foot off the ground and then I missed a branch and fell next to Dylan.
“ What happened to you!” he cried.
“ There is a hovercraft… people… people are getting on it.” I gasped.
He looked around and saw the top of the huge silver hovercraft.
“ What the?” He mumbled.
I touched my forehead and then Dylan helped me up.
“ We must get home right know!” He said.
I nodded my head and slowly stood up and I stumbled through the leaves. We walked to the farm and dozens of people flew past us going towards the hovercraft. I then saw my parents, sister, and brother running towards us.
“ WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?” My ma gasped.
“ In the woods,” I said.
“ Are you alright! Look at you! Oh my god,” She gasped.
“ I’m fine ma. What’s? What’s going on?” I asked.
“ Their departing everyone onto that hovercraft and we are living the earth because this virus is killing millions of people and its spreading through the air. Where leaving right know. We have to get onto that hovercraft right away,” my mom cried.
I nodded my head and we all made our way to the ship. Dylan and Markey where on both side of me helping me run. I felt dizzy so they both had their hands around me. A dense crowd was before us.
“ What’s going on ma?” I asked.
“ I don’t know Hun…. I don’t know,” She mumbled. I looked around and I felt so defenseless. Markey and Dylan had this exspression on their face which I have never seen before. Markey saw me looking at me. He saw the worry in my eyes. I was shaking horribly.
“ Excuse me, officer?” My ma asked.
He looked at her.
“ Yes?” He asked.
“ What’s going on? Why can’t we get onto the ship… or more like it why isn’t anyone being packed onto the ship,” My mother asked.
The officer looked around and he knew he wasn’t supposed to say anything and then our eyes met and I felt the tears in my eyes. He stared at me and I felt his eyes go right through me. I started to shake even more and Markey’s grip tightened.
“ We can only get about a one point five million people from each state because we do not have enough room to fit everyone,” he said.
“ What will happen to the rest then?” Ma asked.
“ We will send out another ship and get the rest,” he said.
“ How many more are able to go onto the ship?” Ma asked.
“ This is the last place we got and then where leaving. Well this ship is leaving. We can fit about two or three hundred more people,” The officer said.
My mother looked around and saw all of the people. The officer then walked away.
“ Everyone, we must hold hands so we don’t lose one another. We are getting onto that ship,” Ma said. We all grabbed one another’s hand and pushed our way through the crowd. I ran into people from left to right and most of them where taller than me. my head was pounding. We were close to the ship and my ma started to go up the stairs and then someone ran into me and I flew to the side. I lost hold of my brothers hand. He didn’t notice and continued to walk forward. I sat on the ground and slowly knelt on my knees and stood up and pushed through the crowd. The cops stopped us all.
“ No one else is able to go on the ship! We are full!” They screamed.
I looked around panicked and felt tears run down my face. I saw my family go onto the ship and they were all smiling. My brother looked around and then shouted something to my mom. My mom looked around in frantic. Her eyes peered around everyone and then our eyes met. The look of horror came upon her face.
“ Ma!” I cried. “ Ma!” I screamed even louder.
“ Stop! We need to go back for my daughter! Stop! Stop!” My mom cried over and over again. Tears flew down her face and she thrashed from an officers arm and someone else flung her back into the ship. “ You can fit one more person!” She cried. “ You can fit one more person! You can!”
I watched her fall to her knees and my pa cried out my name. my brother stared at me and my cousin hit windows and cried out to open the doors.
“ Lee! Lee!” I little sister cried my name. “ Why isn’t lee coming?” She screamed. The ship slowly started to go up and I heard the cries of other. I watched the ship go and I just stood where I was. It started to leave and people started to run towards it. Their where about a hundred of us and most of them ran towards the ship or fell to the ground and cried with their loved ones. I watched the faces of my loved ones leave. I just stood there and felt so empty. Tears ran down my face and then I felt someone wrap their arms around me and I turned to my left and saw Ryan. I collapsed and fell to the ground. He held my in his arms and I sobbed.
“ Shhh it’s okay,” He whispered.
“ Where is your family?” I asked.
“ On the ship.”
“ I thought you were on the ship too?” I asked.
“ Yes I was…” He said.
I looked him in the eyes and started to hit his chest and cried.
“ Why did you do that! Why did you get off of that damn ship! You’re here know and your family is up their! Why would you do that!” I screamed at him.
“ I couldn’t leave you,” He cried.
He held my arms and I stared at him and fell into his arms and he held me.
“ I love you!” He cried.
“ I love you too,” I stifled.
Ryan Is the only one I have left know. Everyone else is gone. My whole life is gone, and it will never be the same again. Will people really come back for us or leave us all here to die off one by one. I can’t lose Ryan. Why did he come back for me. know it will even be harder when he dies and I lose the last person in my life. I felt so hollow and it didn’t matter what happened in the world nor my life anymore. Nothing matters anymore. I was left here with everyone else to die.
“ Where gonna be alright,” Ryan said.
“ Are we?” I mumbled.
He took my shoulders and stared at me.
“ I will always be here for you. I will never leave your side,” I said.
“ Promise?”
“ I promise and hope to die.”
I hugged him and felt tears build up in my eyes. We sat with one another and we had no one else except for one another. The whimpering of others loaning for their loved ones filled the air.
“ Where are we going to go?” I cried.
“ To your house I suppose,” He said.
I nodded my head. He stood up and helped me up and wrapped his arms around me and we stumbled forward. My whole body felt numb, and my heart has been broken into millions of pieces. We walked past people who were crying. They looked at us and continued to weep. I clenched onto Ryan and he looked at me.
“ Don’t worry am not going to let you go,” He said.
“ Markey wasn’t supposed to let go of my hand, but he did,” I yelled.
“ He didn’t mean to! He didn’t mean too….”
I cried and barred my face into Ryan’s chest. We continued to walk. Everything was quit and dead. All of the houses where vacant and the streets where empty. We slowly approached the house and I hesitated and looked at it. I’m coming back to my home, but there is no ma, pa, Markey, Dylan, or Adonia. It’s only me and Ryan from now on. Ryan tugged my arm and I continued to walk. As I opened the door the smell of home filled the air and my eyes filled with tears. Ryan sat on the couch and wandered into my ma and pa’s room. I swept my hand across their dresser and sat on the edge of their bed and started to cry. I sit there and cry for the loss of my family.
Ryan slowly walked in and stood by the door.
“ What know?” I cried.
“ Don’t worry,” He whispered.
He came next to me and cradled me within his arms and I felt safe and warm. I felt love.
“ We’ll make it,” Ryan said.
“ How do you know that?” I asked. “ How do you know well make it?”
“ Because I would never let anything happen to you.”
“ That’s regarding me. not you.”
“ As long as your safe and happy I’ll be fine.”
I didn’t know what to say from that. We sat on the bed together, and then I slowly fell asleep in his arms.
My eyes opened and I felt myself wrapped in-between Ryan. I looked at him and slowly removed his arms from around me and got off from the bed. He was asleep, so I covered him with a blanket, and quietly walked out of the room. As I walked down the hall I stopped in front of a picture of me and my family. My hand touched my ma’s face and then my pa’s. I looked at my brother and tears filled my eyes, and then I looked at Adonia and I felt my heart crush. I lost my baby sister. Tears flew down my face and I ripped the picture off of the wall and held it in my arms next to my heart and fell against the wall and cried. I held the picture with me, so I wouldn’t forget them. I slowly peeled the frame off in the back, and took out the picture and folded it over and put it in my sweater pocket.
I got on my knees and looked down the hall and smelled morning breakfast and walked into the kitchen in a daze. When I got in their it was empty and dead.
“ Only my imagination,” I muttered.
I sat at the table where I usually sit and looked around at the others chairs imaging my family sitting there. I looked outside and saw a group of people walking down the street. There must have been about three hundred people. I looked at the faces but did not recognize any of them. I lived by all of the forest. A huge land. As they walked a saw a little girl collapse and people gathered around her. I got up from the chair and walked outside. I stood on the stairs and gazed at them. As I looked around one boy caught my eye and we just stared at one another. I heard a mother start to cry and looked at her holding her little daughter. I could see from where I was standing she was shacking because she was so cold. But it’s not cold out, but she is cold because she must of gotten the virus. I ran inside and found one of my old winter jackets and ran back outside. As I made my way through the crowd someone pushed me and I fell forward and fell something jab into my knee and I cried out in pain. I gripped onto the jacket. I sat there and looked at my knee. A piece of glass was jabbed into my knee and I tore it out and clenched my teeth. I need to get this coat to that girl. As I stood back up in agony and limed over to her and held out the jacket. The mother looked at me and took the jacket and wrapped her daughter in it. She looked at me and tears filled her eyes.
“ Thank you,” She said.
I smiled. I walked back through the crowd and started for the stairs. I tripped on something and since I couldn’t put any weight on my right leg I stumbled forward and hit it on a log. I clenched my teeth and gripped my leg. Someone’s hands was on my shoulder and I looked up and saw the same boy.
“ Are you okay?” he asked.
I couldn’t speak because of the unbearable pain I was in. My hands tightened around my leg. He saw my paints soaked in blood.
“ You hurt!” He cried.
“ I’m. Fine,” I spat out.
“ No you’re not! There is blood everywhere!”
“ Shhh. Who are you? That group your in?” I asked
“ We all decided to join together as a family because we didn’t want to go through this alone,” He said looking at all of them.
“ How long have ya’ll been walking?” I asked.
“ About a day,” He said.
“ It’s already been a day?” I mumbled.
“ We would have been farther but we all gathered as we walked. I’m not from around here. I live about an hour away. As our group walked people just joined us.”
“ Do any of you need to use the bathroom? Or something to drink?” I asked.
“ We all do.”
“ You can come to my house. But only like twenty or thirty people at a time because I can’t fit everyone at once. But I do have enough food.”
“ That’s very kind of you. I’ll tell them.”
He turned to the group and started to shout for their attention they all stopped and looked at him.
“ if anyone needs to use the washroom, get water or food, do it know because this lady said we could at her home,” He screamed.
I saw smiles and people started to walk towards the door and some sat on logs and the kids played around in the forest.
“ My name is Celeborn,” He said.
“ Celeborn?” I asked.
“ It means silver tree. I don’t know why they named me that, but they did,” Celeborn laughed.
I smiled, “ I am Laura. Plain name.”
“ No its pretty.”
“ Thanks.”
“ let’s get you inside. Your hurt.”
I nodded my head and started to get up and fell backwards and Celeborn caught me.
“Let me carry you.”
Before I could even protest he picked me up and started up the stairs. When we got into my house their where so many people you could hardly move. I saw Ryan standing their flabbergasted looking at all of the people and then he saw me and ran towards me.
“ What’s happening?” He asked.
“ I’ll tell you later. Ryan show Celeborn where my parents room is,” I told Ryan.
Ryan looked at Celeborn and then saw his hands wrapped around my waste and stomach. Ryan turned red and made his way towards the room and when we got in their people stood around and Celeborn set me on the bed and I let out a squeal of pain.
“ Laura! What did you do?” Ryan asked.
“ I fell,” I muttered.
Celeborn started to roll up my jeans and then saw the gash in my knee.
“ what the fuck did you get in their?” Celeborn asked.
“ Glass,” I said.
“ I’m going to go get Rickton,” He said.
“ Who is? Rickton?” I asked.
“ A doctor. I’ll be right back.”
I nodded my head and he made his way out of the room.
“ Who was that?” Ryan asked.
“ His name is Celeborn. And all of those other people their like a family. They are walking and people just join them, so none of them have to go through this alone. He is a good person,” I told him.
I looked at Ryan and saw the jealousy in his eyes.
“ how kind?” He asked.
I clenched my fists, “ Are you fucking kidding me?” I gasped.
Celeborn entered the room and then another man was behind him. He was tall, pale, and black hair.
“ Laura this is Rickton,” Celeborn said.
I smiled and Rickton came next to me and saw my leg.
“ Damn,” He muttered.
“ Yeah,” I laughed.
“ I have to get out all of the glass and clean it… am not going to lie to you though, it’s going to hurt like a bitch,” Rickton said.
I started to laugh, “ I’ll manage.”
“ We got a trooper here!” He laughed.
I smiled. He started to get all of these tools out. I looked at Ryan.
“ Ryan will you go out there and see if anyone needs anything?” I asked him.
“ Of course.” He made his way out of the door.
Rickton started to take out the glass and I gripped onto the bed and bit my tongue. Celeborn grabbed onto my hand and I looked at him. I squeezed his hand. I looked at him and for the first time noticed his radiant bright green eyes. He had golden hair and tan skin. He looked like a model. I gazed into his eyes and the shut mine from the pain. I grabbed onto his hand harder and he placed his other hand on top of mine. I held back the tears.
“ Dam nit are you almost done?” I muttered.
“ Just a couple of pieces left. You’re doing good. Most other people wouldn’t be able to take this. They would of needed something to put them out. You’re a real trooper… What’s your name?” Rickton asked.
“ L. Laura,” I spat out as he pulled the last piece.
Ryan walked in and saw me gripping onto Celeborn, and him looking at me. I looked at Ryan and he just left the room and I let my head fall back. I shook my head and then Rickton started to clean it and patched it up. I went to go sit up and he put his hand on my shoulder.
“ You shouldn’t walk. Not yet.”
“ I’ll be fine,” I muttered.
I stood up and limped towards the door.
“ Like I said a trooper,” He laughed. “ So who you with?”
“ What do you mean?” I asked.
“ That boy Ryan. Is that the only person you with?”
“ yes.”
“ Would you like to join us?” He asked.
I looked around my ma and pa’s room and felt my legs shake and put my hand against the wall. Rickton and Celeborn saw the look in my eyes.
“ You can’t stay here forever,” Rickton said.
I put my left hand in my pocket and felt the picture.
“ I don’t have to,” I said looking down. “ I don’t have to stay here forever and I never had to.” I turned and left the room without saying another thing or looking them in the eyes. I limped past dozens of people and stumbled down the stairs and looked out at the forest. I turned to my left and saw the mother holding her daughter in her arms. Everyone new she was going to die that’s why no one was around. I walked over to her and huddled over her. She looked up at me and saw my leg.
“ Are you alright?” She sniffled.
“ I’m fine.” I sat down next to her and let out a cry of pain.
“ Oh please don’t sit,” She mumbled but it was too late I was already on the ground.
“ I’m fine. How old is she?” I asked.
“ She is seven. Her name is Skylet, and I am Lin,” She said.
“ I am Laura. Your daughter has a beautiful name… how long has she been sick?” I asked.
“ About a week,” She cried.
I looked at her and I gasped.
“ What is it?” She asked.
“ how can she still be alive?”
“ What do you mean?”
“ My cousin got the virus and was dead within a day. Everyone that has gotten the virus dies within a day. How is your daughter still alive?” I mumbled.
Her eyes widened and then she looked at her daughter. I reached out my hand and pulled the coat away from her. She was so pale and her lips where purple. She opened her eyes and they were completely red. Even the color of her eyes. I heard her mom gasp. She was breathing heavily.
“ open her mouth!” I shouted
Lin looked at me weirdly. And she slowly opened her daughters mouth. I crawled back when I saw the inside of her mouth. She had fangs.
“ What the fuck!” I cried.
Lin stared blankly at Skylet.
“ What’s wrong with her?” Lin gasped.
People heard us and came around and saw Skylet. Rickton came over and looked at Skylet.
“ Her pulse. She hardly has one. And she has no heart beat. It seems as though…” Rickton stopped.
“ What is it?” I asked.
“ Like a vampire,” He said.
Everyone started to gasp.
“ Is it possible?” I asked.
“ I suppose… I mean… maybe the virus is a transformation virus…” He started to say.
“ but then why did they all die?” Some asked.
“ Because they may of died because they were not strong enough or the virus was too deadly. Skylet is still alive and transforming and others might too. You can get the virus and either die or live and transform…” Rickton said.
Everyone was quit.
“ So everyone is going to get this virus and they will either live or die, and if they do so live… they won’t be human no longer,” I muttered.
“ Correct,” Rickton stated.
Everyone started to look at one another. I looked over for Ryan, and I couldn’t find him and I just starred at Skylet and Lin. Lin’s eyes started to fill with tears, and I then placed my hand on her shoulder. She looked at me.
“ It will be okay,” I whispered to her.
“ How do you know?” She asked.
“ I don’t know, but I can only hope.”
“ Hope has given up on all of us,” She cried.
“ That’s why Skylet is still alive….”
Her eyes caught mine, and she realized that there was a person who still had hope for her baby girl. A smile came across her face and her eyes started to water.
“ Don’t cry,” I muttered.
“ im not crying, because I am sad,” She whispered. “ I am crying because I am happy. I am happy that there are still true good hearted people in this world and I have one with me right know.” I smiled and placed my hand on Skylet's head and ran my hand down her face. She felt so cold.
“ Do you think it’s true?” I asked.
“ Is what true?” Lin asked.
“ That’s vampires drink blood?” I questioned.
“ That’s what they say.”
“ But just because they say something don’t mean that it is true,” I muttered. “ From what I can see anything is possible. Your daughter aint gonna die. She gonna live,” I whispered.
“ Thank you,” Lin sniffled
I looked at Skylet and touched her cheek.
“ May I hold her?” I asked.
Lin slowly put Skylet into my arms and I cradled her. Her breathing was heavy and I tightened my grip around her.
“ I promise, I aint gonna let anything happen to you,” I whispered to Skylet.
She opened her eyes and they where dilated and red. I felt my stomach drop and I brought her closer to me and touched her cheek. A smile formed around both of our faces and I felt tears fill my eyes.
“ Let’s get going!” I heard a man shout.
“ Who is that?” I asked Lin.
“ He is one of the leaders. There are three of them. He is the first. His name is Larone. The second guy next to him that has blonde hair is Merark, and the third fellow that is bald is Octas.” Lin said.
“ nice names?”
Lin started to laugh.
“ everyone! Please we must get going.” Larone stated.
I looked at Lin.
“ Are you coming with us?” She asked.
I looked down, and then looked at my house.
“ I know it will be heard to leave… But if you stay here forever you will be alone. Come with us.”
“ I won’t be alone. My boyfriend is here with me,” I said.
“ The both of you come.”
I didn’t know what to do. I nodded my head and stood up.
“ I’m going to-”
Lin stopped me. “ It’s okay. Say goodbye and then follow us.”
I nodded my head and walked towards my house. People where descending from the door, and walked towards the road. I bumped from people to people and stood in my empty filthy kitchen. I walked to my parents room and then sat at the edge of the bed.
“ Are we going to go?” Ryan asked.
I looked up at him and then looked around the room. I placed my hand in my pocket, and felt the picture. Tears welled up in my eyes, and then Ryan wrapped his arms around me.
“ No matter where you decide to go I’ll be there. Forever,” Ryan whispered.
I gripped onto his shirt.
“ Let’s go,” I stated. He stood up with me and we slowly walked out of the bedroom and out of the house. When we reached the edge of the grass and looked back at the house.
“ Goodbye,” I cried under my breath, and we continued on. I kept my head down and my hair in my face. Ryan had on of his arms around my shoulders and we walked side by side next to hundreds of people.
“ New?” A women asked. Without looking up I nodded my head. She looked at Ryan and then saw he was the only one with me, and by the way he was holding me not my family. I heard a little gasp from her and she patted my back. “ I’m sorry,” She whispered and then continued to walk. My legs felt a little limp, and I felt cold inside. I hated when people to pity on me. usually im not the person to cry, or too feel sad for a long period of time, but losing everything I had within an instant has taken quit a lot out of me.

Chapter four-
“ Laura,” Ryan whispered.
I looked over to my side and Ryan stared at me for a while.
“ What is it?” I mumbled.
“ I just wanted to check on you,” He did a faint smile.
“ Im fine Ryan…”
It went back to quit and we didn’t say anything more. We continued to walk deep into the forest to the point which you could no longer see roads, home, nor the community. It was so deep into the forest that it was hard to see through the trees. My legs started to feel tired, and it was getting hard to walk.
“ Ryan how long have we been walking?” I asked.
“ Hmmm… About three hours. Are you okay?” Ryan asked.
I nodded my head.
“ Just wondering,” I smiled.
Everyone started to slow down, and we came to a halt. I stood there, and tried to look beyond all of the people but it wasn’t working out, so I just leaned back into Ryan and closed my eyes.
“ We will be staying here for the night,” a deep voice shouted over all of the people. I opened my eyes.
“ We are sleeping in the woods?” I asked looking up at Ryan. He nodded his head. People started to spread apart, and lay blankets on the ground and people would sit together and talk. I looked over to the right and saw Skylet, Lin, Rickton, and Celeborn.
“ Ryan lets go sit over there,” I showed him. He nodded his head, and we made our way towards them, and Lin looked up at me, and smiled.
“ Hello Laura,” She smiled.
I nodded my head, and Ryan sat on the blanket next to Rickton. I walked past the blanket, and sat on a patch of grass and leaned up against a tree trunk. Celeborn sat on the blanket across from me and he was watching me.
“ Why don’t you come sit on the blanket?” He asked.
“ Hm im fine Celeborn,” I smiled, and leaned my head back and closed my eyes. I took a deep breath in, and it was known dark out, and people started to lay on the blankets and fall asleep next to one another. I looked at everyone and I felt lonely. I have Ryan with me yes, but I still feel lonely. I crawled over to Ryan and laid next to him, and he smiled at me.
“ It’s all going to be alright,” he whispered. I nodded my head, and he kissed my forehead, and he then shut his eyes and drifted into a heavy sleep. I laid there, and I was tired but there was no way I was going to get any sleep. I slowly got up making sure not to wake anyone up, and I walked away from all the people, and I saw a good tree to climb, and I started to make my way up. I continued to climb until my arms and legs couldn’t anymore. I was high up, and I could see everything. The light of the moon shinned on all the sleeping bodies on the ground. I sighed and sat on the branch and leaned against the trunk and brought my legs up and rested their.
“ it’s funny how I can sleep above twenty feet in the air, but not on the ground,” I laughed.
“ it is pretty funny,” Someone laughed. I gasped and I turned my body, and saw Celeborn standing on a branch below me.
“ You scared the crepe out of me!” I laughed, having my hand over my heart.
“ sorry about that,” Celeborn smiled, and climbed up a little so he was standing next to me.
“how did you climb so high?” I looked at him. He laughed.
“ I could ask you the same thing,” he said poking my arm.
“ I’ve pretty much climbed trees my whole life….” I said staring off into the sky. Celeborn was quit and we enjoyed the view. Celeborn and I jumped when we heard screaming coming from down at camp where everyone was sleeping, and Celeborn quickly started to climb down, and I did the same. When we got to the ground Celeborn had already run towards the people and I started to make my way their but I tripped over something, and I sat on the ground peering into the dark.
“ Gah! H- help me!” a voice screeched. It sounded horrid. I stood up, and peered into the darkness, and I heard something coming through the leaves, and I took a step back, and then a girl came on her hands and knees, her back arched and she was puking and screaming out in pain.
“ OH my god!” I gasped. I walked over to her, and put my hand on her back, and she was freaking hot!
“ Gah!” She screamed and her back tightened and she heaved making a horrid sound that made my stomach churn. Her muscles where moving beneath my hands, and it felt like they were moving underneath her skin. I just looked at her back, and I slowly took a step back, and she let out a ear killing shriek, and I stumbled back, and covered my ears with my hands, and tightly shut my eyes. I turned around and ran towards camp, and I cut myself on tree branches, and stumbled over rocks, but when I got back to camp about a three dozen people where acting like the girl. They were all on their hands and knees and screaming. I stood there looking at all of them, and I heard a low growl and I turned around and saw a dark brown wolf behind me breathing heavily. I let out a scream not of pain but of fear. People turned towards me knowing this wasn’t a scream of pain. I stood there looking at the wolf, and it made its way towards me and I stumbled back, and then it stopped, and arched its back, and let out a deep growl, and its whole body started to twitch, and it started to transform.
Before me was the girl which I saw in the woods, and she laid on the ground sweating and crying. I gasped and looked at her… we are turning into wolves… I jumped up, and saw a naked tree with no leaves and I climbed up it.
“ Everyone!” I said as loud as I can. Some people turned towards me but I needed more attention. DAMNIT.
“ EVERYONE SHUT THE HELL UP!” I screamed on the top of my voice. People looked at me, and they obviously heard me from the screams. The ones that were still changing continued to scream.
“ These people are turning into wolves! They are turning into wolves, and when they change into a wolf they will then change back into a human and be alright, but if they don’t change into a wolf, they’ll most likely die!” I said. Everyone’s eyes widened.
“ how do you know?” Rickton asked.
“ Because I saw it with my own eyes…” Everyone gasped and screamed filled the air, and people fell to the ground and tried to cover their ears. The horrible sound made my head pound, and I stumbled backwards, and fell to my hands and knees. I tried to crawl away, and I let out a cry, and I felt someone’s body fall on top of mine, and they wrapped their arms around me, and tried to block the sound from my ears. I was shaking, they tightened their grip on me.
“ Its g- going to be a-alright,” Celeborn whispered. I arched my back.
“ Celeborn….” I gasped. “ W- Where is R- R- Ryan?” I muffled. Celeborn turned me over, and was looking my in the eyes. I heard a deep scream from the distance, and my body froze.
“ oh no!” I screamed, and I tried to get away from Celeborn, but he held his grip on me.
“ No Laura.” He stated. I looked at him and pushed him off of me, and stumbled up, and looked for Ryan. My eyes traveled across bodies, and then I found one, and my heart dropped. I stumbled over to Ryan, and fell to his side. He didn’t look like the others though. He was sitting with his knees to his chest, and he was heaving in and out. He was pale.
“ I c- c- cant b- breath,” he choked on his words.
“ Shhh Ryan you’re going to be OK,” I whispered trying to reassure him. He wasn’t transforming into a wolf, so what…. Vampire… I put my hand on his back, and knelt down next to him.
“ L- L- Laura,” He spat.
“ What is it Ryan?” I whispered. Ryan looked up at me, and there was this coldness in his eyes… they were hollow, and he looked so evil.
“ Get away from me!” he hissed. I looked at him confused, but I didn’t move. He looked me in the eyes, and shoved me back, and I stumbled back, and looked at him confused. He got on all fours, and looked at me evilly. I sat on the ground, and then he lunged at me. I shut my eyes, and nothing. I opened my eyes, and I saw three men holding him down.
“ What… What’s wrong with him?” I cringed when he looked me in the eyes, and I had to look away.
“ he turned into a vampire. We already have gotten about three dozen vampires all tied down. They want blood, and we must restrain them,” Celeborn said. I looked at him.
“ Celeborn did you change already?” I questioned. He looked at me and nodded his head.
“ Yeah. Im a wolf,” he said looking me in the eyes. I looked back at him, and our eyes connected and the coldness in his eyes startled me and I looked away, and I realized I was either going to be a wolf or vampire…. Did I want to be able to transform into a dog or a freaking blood sucker… I sat there, and it was cold. I haven’t slept for days, and the world slowly drifted away from me, and everything turned black.
Chapter five-
My eyes fluttered open, and i opened my eyes, and saw tree’s everywhere. I propped myself up on my elbows, and looked around. Their where groups of people sleeping, I heard some people cussing, and I looked over and saw the other half of people trapped in something. All their eyes where black, and they were pale and looked as though they were on a frenzy. I recognized some of them from when we were walking. I stumbled up, and walked over to where they were trapped and gazed at them. I saw a boy around my age sitting on the ground behind the trap, and I knelt down.
“ hello,” I smiled. He looked up at me, and his eyes looked so evil. He smiled, and his teeth where pointed, and his grin was wickedly evil and sent chills up my spine. I went to stand up to leave, but then he jumped to his knees and looked at me.
“ Please, help me,” he whispered. I looked at him, and he motioned me to come closer to him, and I crawled a step closer, and then his hand shot out towards me, and he grabbed onto my shirt, and pulled me towards him. He was so quick and strong I didn’t even see him grab for me. he held me close to his face, and looked into my eyes, and I opened my mouth to scream but nothing came out. My throat was dry, and I just gazed into his eyes. his grin grew, and I tried to pry his hands off me, but they wouldn’t budge.
“ L- L- Let go,” I demanded, but it came out as a whisper. His grin grew, and he brought me closer, and I felt his breath on my ear.
“ Are. You. Scared.” He whispered. Shivers went down my spine, and I shook my head. And he let out a quiet laugh. A huge crashing sound came, and he let go of my arm, and I stumbled back, and I saw Celeborn standing there. He bent down next to me, and looked at me.
“ Are you okay?” he whispered. He tilted my head up, and looked at me,
“ Im fine,” I whispered. I looked at the guy, and he was shooting daggers at Celeborn. Celeborn looked over at the guy and stood up, and walked held out a hand for me, and helped me up. I stood there, and he put a hand around my shoulders, and we walked away from them. Celeborn helped me sit down, and he stood their looking at me.
“ Don’t go near them,” he said looking over at the people locked up.
“ Why? What is going on,” I said shaking my head.
“ Every single person went through change last night,” He whispered.
“ Every single person?” I asked looking up at him. He nodded his head.
“ Those people that are locked up… they are vampires, and the rest of us that are out here free…. Well I think you can figure that out,” Celeborn said. I sat there, and looked around at all the people. They were either standing or sitting, and a lot of people where running around and got they were so fast.
“ Wolves,” I whispered looking around. Celeborn just nodded his head. I closed my eyes, and tried to remember what had happened last night… me and Celeborn where climbing the tree…. Screams… that girl turned into a wolf… and then… Ryan he tried to…. I shot up, and ran over to the people that where locked up. “ Ryan are you in their!” I screamed my eyes searching the people that where in there. Someone grabbed me from behind.
“ Don’t go to close Laura!” Celeborn said pulling me back.
“ Is Ryan in their?” I asked. He nodded his head.
“ Celeborn,” I cried.
“ He is a vampire Laura!”
“ So are you going to keep all of them locked in their forever!” I screamed. People turned towards us.
“ Laura…”
I gasped and ripped his hand off me, and glared at him.
“ You all were going to let them die in their! Your monsters!” I screamed.
“ Laura, can you listen for a minute,” Celeborn asked taking a step closer to me.
“ Laura Petrovix,” A deep voice said. I looked over Ryan’s shoulder, and saw three men standing their shooting daggers at me. I took a step back, and Ryan took a step to the side. It was the three leaders. “ Laura, those people must stay in their, because if they come out all they will do is try to fight, because they are new borns and all they want is blood. Once they get over this frenzy then they will be able to come out, and function properly. Laura if they are out right know they will want blood, and they will attack us, and we will all have to fight, and it could cause many deaths.”
“ H- how do you know t- this?” I asked.
“ We are the three leaders. My name is Larone, and the two other men are Merank, and Octas,” Larone said. I stood there, and then I looked at them shocked.
“ Every single person has changed, right?” I asked. Octas nodded his head.
“ yes, that’s correct,” Larone said.
“ But. But I haven’t,” I whispered. They all looked at me, and I looked down. I felt a warm hand touch my chin, and they tilted my head up. Octas was looking at my face, and tilted my head up, and to the side. He let go of my chin, and then he grabbed my arms and looked at them. He inspected me, and then he took a step back.
“ She has no signs of even being sick,” He said looking at me intently. Our eyes locked, and I looked away.
“ She has to change though,” Larone said looking at me.
“ Well she is going to change, everyone did,” He replied. Know all three were looking at me, and when my eyes met Merank’s I quickly looked away, because the way he looked at me seemed like it was full of hatred. The three continued to look at me, and I looked over at Celeborn, and he did a halfhearted smile, and grabbed my arm.
“ come on Laura,” He whispered. I followed him, and we walked past groups of people, and I saw a similar person with their head in their hands, and her knees up to her chest. When we got closer I recognized who it was and ran over to her leaving Celeborn.
“ Lin,” I asked kneeling down next to her. She tilted her head up a little, and tears ran down her face, and her eyes where all puffy. Her eyes met mine, and then she flung her arms around me, and buried her face into my shoulder. She was so strong! I thought she was going to break my back. I let out a cough, and she loosened up a little, and let her arms fall, and she continued to cry into my shoulder. I ran my hand through her hair and rubbed her back. “ Lin,” I whispered looking down at her. Her cries became heaver. “ Sh, Lin what happened?” I looked around and I didn’t see Skylet. I wrapped my arms around her. “ Don’t worry Skylet is okay, it’s okay that she is a vampire,” I whispered, but I wonder if it really is. She started to shake her head.
“ S- Sh- She,” Her cries got louder, and her body was shaking. “ S- She d- d- died!” her whole body was shaking, and I felt tears fill my eyes, and I closed my eyes, and put my cheek on top of Lin’s head, and hugged her tightly.
“ it’s going to be okay,” I whispered. “ I promise.”
“ That… That was my baby!” She cried. I started to rock her back and forward.
“ I know, and she will always be your baby,” I whispered. I felt tears running down my cheek, and I buried my face into Lin’s face.
“ She isn’t my baby anymore, she is dead!”
“ That doesn’t mean you’re not her mother, and that she wasn’t your daughter. That was your baby and will always be your baby no matter what,” I said myself know crying. Lin pulled herself away from me, and sat their looking at the ground. I looked at her, and then up at Celeborn. His exspression on his face was full of sorrow. “ is their going to be a barriel?” I asked him.
“ We could go do it know,” he said looking at Lin. I nodded my head, and I stood up, and stood next to Lin. “ Lin,” I whispered touching her shoulder. “ Lin we are going to burry Skylet…” I said giving her shoulder a little squeeze. She looked up and nodded her head, and stood up, and I held onto her arm. “ Are you ready?” I asked.
“ Im…. Im never going to be ready to burry my child,” she whispered looking down at the ground. I wrapped my arm around her shoulder, and we started to walk. We walked through the forest for about ten minutes when we came to a meadow in the forest. Their where bodies in coffins, and all the coffins where shut, and their where holes for them everywhere. Some of them where already buried, and somewhere not. Celeborn walked over to one of the holes, and looked down at the coffin, and I followed him with Lin on me. We stopped and Lin stood their looking at the hole. I got closer and peered down into the hole and saw a coffin at the bottom. A tiny coffin for a baby.
“ this is… hers,” I said and it sounded more like a question. Celeborn nodded his head, and I felt a lump in my throat, and I tried to clear my throat, but it wouldn’t go away. I turned to Lin, and stood next to her. Lin looked at the hole, and I saw her breaking down. She looked so fragile.
“ hey baby,” She whispered. I looked at her, and tears fell down her cheeks, and her lips where trembling. “ I- I remember when you were first born,” she laughed. Tears continued to run down her face. “ You where my little angel…. My little baby. I love you so much…. I miss you….” Her cries grew louder, and I wrapped my arms around myself, and looked at the hole, and my tears started to come faster. “ Y- You’re okay know…. Your- You’re going to be okay know…. You’re in a good- good place….
i….” She stopped and it was harder to understand her because her words where muffled by her cries. “ Im going to see you again baby, I promise im going to see you again in the future,” She whispered. Lin’s knees where shaking, and I ran over to her and wrapped my arms around her.
“ She is in a better place. Your baby is happy and healthy, and she is always going to be in our hearts,” I whispered into her ear. “ She loved you very much, and she will never forget you, and no one will ever…. Ever forget her,” I cried. Lin nodded her head, and wrapped her arms around me. “ let’s go Lin,” I whispered. She nodded her head, and we broke from our hug, and I wiped away her tears, and we turned around and started to leave. Celeborn walked on the other side of Lin. Then Lin stopped and turned around.
“ I love you Skylet,” she cried. I felt my heartbreak, and I looked away from Lin, and closed my eyes.
“ I love you too Skylet,” I whispered hugging myself.
Chapter six-
I sat their peering into the cage. The people sat there and they were passing back and forward. I heard a small whimper to my left, and I looked around but saw no one. I peered back into the cage, and I heard some shuffling noses to my left once again. I looked over again, and then slowly stood up. I walked past the cage, and someone gripped onto my arm.
“ D- Don’t go over there,” A man said. I looked down at him and his eyes were bright red, and he was looking at the veins on my hands.
“ Why?” I asked pulling my hand away.
“ One of them escaped,” he whispered. My head shot up and the shuffling started to get louder. I stood their frozen. The man started to yell at me to run but my feet couldn’t move. Red eyes bore into mine, and white teeth showed through an evil smirk. I took a step back, and my foot slipped out from underneath me, and I fell back.
“ Don’t you touch her Serebeth!” The man in the cage screamed. I looked up and saw the teen guy that grabbed me before, and tried to kill me. he stood over me, and my breath caught in my breath. “ SEREBETH!” He screamed.
“ Lone shut up!” Serebeth growled. His voice made me feel sick to my stomach. He took another step close to me, and I sat their looking up at him. He took another step towards me, and knelt down. I looked away, and shut my eyes. I felt some unbelievably cold touch my chin, and he tilted my head up. Our eyes met. “ Hello,” he breathed out. I opened my mouth but nothing came out.
“ Don’t you kill her Serebeth,” Lone growled hitting the cage.
“ Why do you care!” Serebeth screamed. His hand slapped me across the face, but I felt like a truck hit me. I flew back falling to the ground with a thump. He was so strong.
“ because she hasn’t don’t anything!” Lone said.
“ yes she has!”
“ What has she done?!”
“ She…” He stopped. “ Shut up…” I heard footsteps closing in on me, and I opened my eyes, and Serebeth was in front of me once again. He lifted me up by the collar of my shirt. I struggled trying to get out of his grasp. “ Come on little wolfey, can’t you fight me?” he laughed.
“ I- I haven’t changed,” I said still struggling.
“ You….” He threw me to the ground once again. “ Everyone has changed!”
“ not me,” I whispered clutching my stomach.
“ And you’re not going to,” He said grabbing me by the throat. “ I wonder how good human blood is really going to taste…. Especially yours… it smells so good,” he said bringing his mouth towards my neck. His breath trickled on my neck, and it send shivers down my spine. I felt his lips touching my neck.
“ Murder,” I whispered. He pulled back and looked at me.
“ What?” he hissed.
“ Murder,” I said again looking him dead in the eyes. something cracked inside him, and he lunged his mouth towards my neck. I closed my eyes, and then I was flung through the air. I opened my eyes, and saw Celeborn fighting off Serebeth. Celeron’s hand went smashing into Serebeth’s face, and he flew back. Anger filled his eyes, and he ran into Celeborn’s hips taking him down. I stood up.
“ Serebeth stop!” my scream filled the air. Serebeth threw Celeborn through the air, and he turned to me, and grabbed my neck, and held me against a tree. I looked into his eyes, and I felt my breath hitching. Then I had this weird feeling. My body felt so hot. I looked up clenching my jaw. I felt sweat fall down my face, and I arched my back. Serebeth let go of me, and I fell to the ground on my hands and knees breathing heavily. My back arched, and I clenched my jaw digging my nails into the ground. The pain was unbearable. Screams of pain escaped my mouth, and my body started to heave, and I started to puke. My body was shaking. I looked up and saw Serebeth, and Celeborn looking at me. I shut my eyes tightly, and fell tears falling down my face. I started to heave, and my body shot back and I tilted my head up letting a scream fill the air. I fell to my side bringing my knees up to my chest.
“ Laura,” Celeborn said reaching his hand out towards me.
“ D- DON’T TOUCH ME!” I screamed. Celeborn took a step back. I continued to scream out in pain, and I stood up, and fell back to the ground. I puked harder, and my body was shaking from all the pain. I looked around and everyone was watching me. “ Celeborn!” I cried my jaw twitching. Celeborn knelt down next to me.
“ You going through changing?” he asked.
“ What the hell? Why did you ask,” I said through clenched teeth.
“ Because when everyone went through changing it didn’t last this long, nor was this painful,” he whispered. A pain shot up my back, and I went on all four my body shaking. I felt the bones in my back starting to move.
“ Stop the pain!” I screamed. My bones in my body continued to move around and crack. I shut my eyes, and fell to the ground my body continued to change. I opened my eyes, and everything was in a different perspective. My senses where ten times better. Everything seemed so much clearer and I saw things from afar better. I heard the sound of a deer in a pond a couple of miles away. I looked down and saw a set of pure white paws underneath me. my head shot up, and everyone was staring at me in disbelief. My eyes locked with Serebeth’s and he lunged himself at Celeborn. My feet moved before I could even think, and I attacked Serebeth. I moved so quickly. I was running on all fours, as a wolf. I rammed into Serebeth, and he fell back with a thud. Two people caught his arms and threw him back into the cage. I ran off searching for the stream, and when I came to it I looked down at me reflection. In the reflection I saw a pure white wolf, with radiant hazel eyes. this is me…
I felt my bones start to move once again, and I screamed but I heard a cry of a wolf, and snarls fill the air. It was me. my body fell to the ground and my bones continued to move. When I opened my eyes again I was seating and my body was shaking. I lifted my arm up, and saw a human hand. I was back to normal. I sat up, and stumbled forward making my way back to the group of people. When I got their they were all just staring at me. I continued to walk and I felt dizzy.
“ Laura…” I heard a familiar voice say from a distance. I looked to my left, and saw a pair of similar eyes gazing into mine. He was in the cage. I peered at him and felt my heart break.
“ Ryan….” I whispered. i heard him chuckle.
“ I guess we can’t be,” he said.
“ W- What do you mean?” My voice sounded horse. I took more steps closer and knelt down next to the cage.
“ Im a blood sucker, and you’re a filthy animal,” He said coldly. My eyes widened and what he just said, and I glared at him.
“ What happened to you?” I said shaking my head.
“Im a fucking vampire! That’s what happened!”
“ But that doesn’t mean you are not Ryan!” I screamed back. I stumbled back, and fell on my ass.
“ You and all you filthy animals deserve to go to the pits of hell,” he snarled. My body twitched, and a growl came from the back of my throat. I stood up, and so did Ryan on the other side of the cage. I turned around and started to walk away but I stopped.
“ Thank you,” I said not looking back at him.
“ For what?” He said coldly.
“ For making it so much easier to walk away from you,” I said and continued to walk away. When I got far enough from his sight, I fell to my knees, and tears poured down my face. I felt a pair of hands on my shoulders and I turned around and saw Celeborn looking at me. I did a faint smile. “ I loved him…” I whispered. Celeborn wrapped his arms around me.
“ I know you did….”
“ It’s hard…. He was the only one I had now…. Now I have no one…”
“ You have me, Lin, Rickton, and you will have others,” he said running his hand through my hair.
“ im scared Celeborn.”
“ Of what?”
“ of losing another person…” I whispered. I started to close my eyes, and my body went numb and I passed out in Celeborn’s arms, but before I was totally out I heard Celeborn whisper something in my ear.
“ You’ll never loose me,” He whispered.

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