Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from the Tribe
Love conquers all
Chapter I:
It was early in the morning and everybody in the mall was sleeping, but one guy. His name was Bray. He was one of the three leaders of the Mall Rats. He was sitting in a chair at the cafe, thinking over a cup of coffee. Bray was thinking about all the things that have happened to the Mall Rats, his tribe. It is said that: 'What does not kill you, will make you stronger'. In this case it was true, all the things the Mall Rats had gone through had made them stronger. They are a big family.
One thing that he and the rest of the Mall Rats would never forget was the explosion in Eagle Mountain where nearly Zandra, Amber and himself lost their lives. But let me tell you the whole story about the Mall Rats...
Zandra was buried by many rocks and if she hadn't been found by Jack and Dal she probably would have died there and with she her baby. Amber was found by Lex, he saw her with her eyes opened but when he arrived at her side she told him:
"Lex please find Bray, I know I'm going to die but you have to promise me you will tell him what I'm going to say to you"
"Don't be stupid you will tell him personally"
"Lex you have to promise me that if I don't survive you will tell Bray that I love hi..." and she fall unconscious; Lex picked her up and brought her outside. Bray was searching for Amber when a rock hit his head and he fall unconscious to the floor, Ryan found him and took him out of the building. Everybody was alive but Amber and Zandra were very bad injured and everybody was afraid because of Zandra's baby. While the three laid unconscious the rest of the tribe were trying to build a cart to transport Amber and Zandra because they couldn't walk. When Bray woke up the cart was built, he saw Lex and Ryan carrying Zandra and Amber's body and he thought they were dead. Tears started rolling down his face, he was blaming himself for not finding Amber when Tai-San saw him. She explained to him that Amber and Zandra were still alive but they were very bad injured so they had to get to the mall as soon as possible. Bray insisted in helping Ryan and Lex carrying the cart but Tai-San told him to rest for a few minutes because he was still weak. He insisted that he only had a headache but after sometime finally he did what Tai-San asked him to do.
Trudy came to speak to him and calm him down.
"It's my fault Trudy I should have found her and..." but he was cut off by Trudy.
"It isn't your fault, it's not anybody's fault you couldn't know this was going to happen Bray. But don't worry Amber is a very strong person and she will be over this and you two will be together again. Now what you have to do is rest for a while because you're still weak, ok?". Bray waited a minute until he gave her an answer, then he said:
"Ok, but tell me one more thing: who found Amber? And who found me?" Bray turned to face Trudy.
"Ryan found you unconscious because a rock hit your head and he took you out, and Lex found Amber still conscious but when he arrived at her side she lost consciousness so he picked her up and went outside the building carrying her. And just so you know, Ryan found you near Amber, so you nearly found her, and you would have if that rock hadn't hit you". Bray smiled at her and she left him alone to think.
When everything was ready to come back to the mall they started their journey back; luckily they didn't find anyone on their way back to the city. When they arrived at the mall Bray was better so he took Amber to their room, and Lex did the same with Zandra. Dal went to see how Zandra was because she was worse than Amber. After examined her he talked to Lex.
"Well I have good news for you: the baby is out of danger, it's very well. But Zandra has very high fever and her left arm is broken, so I have bandaged it as best as I could." Lex looked at him and asked.
"And what about the fever? What medicine does she need?" Dal looked worried.
"Look Lex, we can't give her any medicine..." Lex cut him off
"I can go and find it, I..." but this time Dal cut Lex off
"Lex we can't give her any medicine not because we haven't got or we can't find it, it's because she is pregnant, it won't be good for the baby, do you understand?" Lex couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"So what the hell can we do?" Dal didn't know what to answer.
"Just wait and hope she finds the strength to get over it" said Dal sadly. In this moment Jack entered the room.
"Dal I know what we can do to help Zandra" Lex turned to face Jack, he continued "we can fill a bath with water and put Zandra in it" Lex interrupted Jack
"And this will reduce the fever?" Dal smiled.
"Yes, that's a good idea, ok Jack find a bath or something we can fill with water. Lex stay here with her, I'm going to see how is Amber probably we have to put her into a bath too". Dal left Lex in Zandra's room and went straight to Amber's room. Jack went to the cafe and told the others how Zandra was and asked them to help him find a bath.
Bray was sitting near Amber, in her bed, looking at her. "You know what Amber? You look so beautiful, even in this situation" he smiled at her and continued, "Amber you have to wake up, you have to live because without you my live have no sense because I love you, I need you by my side and if you leave me a big part of me will die with you and again I will be empty. Have you thought of what am I going to do without you? I can't control everything or help anybody without you, so please baby fight and wake up, because I love you too much and I can't imagine life without you" he kissed her forehead and in that moment Dal entered the room.
Bray stood up and let his seat to Dal for him to examine Amber. Bray asked Dal:
"How is Zandra?"
"Her baby is alright but she has too much fever we are going to put her into a bath to try and reduce it, she has a broken arm too." Bray nodded. After a few minutes Dal said to Bray, "well she is better than Zandra, she too has fever but hers is lower and we can give her some medicine, she also has a sprained ankle so I have bandaged it. She has many bruises in all her body and a little wound in her forehead too, but she is ok" Bray smiled at Dal's words.
"I don't know how to thank you for this, I can only say thank you very much" Dal stood up and said to him.
"You don't have to thank me for anything, she is my best friend and I'm as happy as you to know that she is ok, well she has many injures but they are not as serious as I thought when I saw her in Eagle mountain. Sorry but I have to go and help Jack with the bath for Zandra, so put cold compress in her forehead to prevent the fever from getting higher, alright?", Dal put a plaster in Bray's forehead where he had a little cut, which was made by the rock that hit his head. Bray shook Dal's hand, and before Dal had left the room he shouted at him:
"Dal when will she wake up?"
"I don't know, but if the fever doesn't increase I think in five or six hours. By the way, I've forgotten to tell you that when she wakes up you have to give her this tablet, ok?" Dal answered to him, Bray nodded and caught the tablet that Dal threw to him. Dal turned to Bray and told him "Bray I'm sure that when I enter the cafe everybody will ask me about how Amber is."
"And what's wrong with that?" asked Bray
Dal replied "I want to know if you want me to tell them how she is or if you'd prefer telling them yourself" Bray pondered for a second before answering.
"You tell them, Amber needs rest and I don't want everyone coming in here asking how she is." Bray smiled at Dal and he smiled back at Bray; then he left Bray alone with Amber. He was extremely happy and he couldn't stop smiling. Amber was going to be ok.
Everybody was waiting at cafe and when Dal came in everybody stood up waiting for news about how Amber was. Dal started:
"She is well and she will wake up soon, she only has bruises in many parts of her body, she has a sprained ankle too and fever but it's lower than Zandra's. But she needs to rest so when she wakes up please don't go all of you to her room, ok? And can any of you give me some food to Lex and Bray? Where is Jack by the way?"
"He's at Zandra's with Ryan, they have found a bath and they are putting it in her room" said Salene. Dal smiled and went to Zandra's room.
"When Amber wakes up can Cloe and I go see her?" Asked Patsy.
"You've heard what Dal said, she needs to rest and we shouldn't disturb her" said Trudy.
"But we are not going to disturb her, we only want to go and see her. We promise that we'll only go and say hello to her and how happy we are because she is well and we'll go back to our room, please" said Cloe.
"Ok but if you disturb her you will have to clean the entire mall as a punishment, right?" said Tai-San. The two girls nodded.
"Well girls and boy, what do you think if we go to play a game at your bedrooms?" asked Salene. Patsy, Cloe and K.C nodded and they left the cafe with Salene. Then they heard Brady crying in Trudy's room so she left the cafe to go and look after Brady. In the cafe where only Tai-San and Ebony left, so they took some food to Bray and Lex. Tai-San stopped Ebony
"Ebony I think you should bring this food to Lex I'm going to bring this to Bray" she said pointing at the food she had in her hands. Ebony asked Tai-San:
"Why do you think I'm going to take Bray's food?" but Tai-San knew very well that Ebony was still in love with Bray and she thought that if she brought him the food she will try to win Bray's trust.
Ebony went to Zandra's room and give Lex the food, he thanked her for bringing it, and then she left the room. Jack had finished filling the bath and Dal was taken Zandra's temperature, it was still too high. Lex and Ryan put her in the bath, she started to move her head, but she was delirious. "It's all we can do for her, we can only wait, and hope that the fever goes lower, sorry Lex but that's all we can do for her" Dal put his hand on Lex's shoulder.
"Don't worry Dal, it's ok all of you guys have done all you can. I'm sure she will get better. Don't you mind let me alone with her?"
"Yes of curse, if you need anything just call for us, ok?" said Jack.
"Thank you guys." The three of them left the room, but before that, Dal turned to Lex and said to him:
"Lex, take her temperature every ten minutes to see if this works, ok?" Lex nodded and they left him alone with Zandra.