Chapter 12

Chapter 12

“Jeremy!! We have to go, get up! NOW!” I nearly kicked him to get out of bed.
“What? Why do we have to go, wait! Where are we gonna go?” he asked, nearly knocking me to the floor as he got up. 

“We have to evacuate the building, the waters getting to high and theres and helicopter waiting for us at the top. Hurry up!” He looked at me confused.

“Ugh! Come on” I grabbed his hand and dragged him to the stairs. “We have to run. As fast as we can”

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We were nearly up three flights of stairs when I heard Jeremy stop. 

“JEREMY!” I turned around to see him lying on the stairs holding his ankle and almost about to scream in pain. “Oh my god! Jeremy, What happened?” I ran back down and helped him up as best I could. He nearly fell back. 

“S**t, uh okay” I couldn’t think of anything “Wait! Stay right here. Don’t move, I’ll be back I promise”

“No, don’t leave me!” But I was already almost at the top. I saw a sign pointing to a store room. I ran into the room, basically running into the door. I saw a pair of crutches. 

“Yes!” I grabbed then and nearly tripped over my own feet. Jeremy was screaming in pain, so I grabbed an extra few bandages. I sprinted back down to him as fast as I could, wrapped the bandages around his leg and helped him into the crutches. 

“Okay, come on, we have to get out of here” I grabbed him with one of my arms and helped him climb the stairs as fast as we could. 

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We got to the top of the hospital and ran out the door to get to the roof. The helicopter was waiting for us. It would have been 45 minutes they waited. The helped us up, into the huge compartment which was full of all my friends. I saw a container, with markers in it. I jumped up trying not to cause to much mayhem and grabbed the container.

“Wait! Let me out. I have to do something” They let me out and I climbed down the ladder and jumped down to the ground. I got out a red coloured marker and opened it, writing on the cement in different colours ;

‘Rest In Peace” and around it I wrote ‘Elsie, Lucas, Todd & Hazel FOREVER IN INFINITY’. I drew hearts and stars and clouds around it. I jumped back onto the ladder and climbed back up, looking back at the graffiti I just made. I could see eyes looking at me, some in tears, some angry. 

“Why would you do that!?!?!” I knew the voice. It was the voice of Vince. He was weak, from his hospital visit. 

“Do what? Vince, how would you know anything? You’ve been in bed for the last 2 weeks, living the life, while the rest of us lost friends, had to struggle. It’s been horrible” I watched his bright, but lifeless blue eyes look down at the ground. 

“I’m sorry” I said, ready for an answer like, “you should be” or “why don’t you just kill yourself” but instead I got “It’s okay, Cassi, it’s not your fault” Jeremy came and wrapped his free arm around me. He kissed me on the side of my head and leaned his head on mine. I wanted to stay like that, forever, but I couldn’t. I had to sit down. I sat down and Jeremy kept standing. Dana moved over a little and shared the only blanket we had with me. I was hoping this was the way we were going to get out.