Joseph Winters sat in a class room beside his wife, Kamryn and three daughters Lacy, Alexandria, and Payton.
They were in a church building that used to be a school, so there were lockers all around in the hallways to be used for the kids to put their things in, after a Sunday school class, or Wednesday night Bible study.
It was a gorgeous building, and tons of trees, and flowers decorated the outside making for a perfect view of scenery when you looked out the window.
Lacy and Alex were the oldest, two twin girls age ten. Payton was the youngest, age four.
Joe's job was to clean that church building. So the girls would often times come with their mom during Joe's lunch break to play around in one of the rooms and have lunch with their dad. Today was one of those days they were doing that…but today was different…
Joe and Kamryn sat beside each other watching the girls play.
"I can't shake that feeling," Joe said.
"Why don't you talk to Mr. Hamilton? He might let you go home early," Kamryn suggested.
Joe was beginning to think about it when suddenly the door swung open.
"Guys we need to evacuate the building quick! There's a bomb inside!" yelled Harry Harris the secretary. Harry was normally considered the crazy man here…but right now with the way Joe had been feeling there was no way he was going to doubt what Harry said was true. He believed him.
Joe got up from his seat fast, and the chair fell over as it was being pushed back.
"We need to get out of here fast! Kamryn, take the girls I'll go help Harry evacuate the building."
With that Joe took off.
Dozens of people begin piling out of the building. They'd been having a pastors conference, so whoever placed that bomb knew that there would be a lot of people there…they knew what they were doing.
Joe kept rushing around the building with Harry when he noticed that the light was still on in the room he and the girls had been in. He knew the light could be on or off if the place went up in smoke it didn't matter…but Kamryn always shut the light off! So was she out of there yet?
Joe ran to the room. He saw the girls still playing.
"Kamryn what's going on?"
"I was packing up," she started.
"Honey, that's the least of our concern right now, let's go!" he said. he grabbed her hand. She grabbed her daughters, and then her purse. They all began to leave. Eventually they stopped holding hands, and there was an explosion. The first explosion just made them all drop to the ground. The girls began crying.
"Come on, we need to get out," Joe said. He was focused on getting out, and looked back only a few times. The moment he reached outside though there was another explosion.
Joe fell to the ground. "Duck for cover!" he yelled. He didn't realize he was yelling to no one.
Moments later Joe began to get up with the help of a CHP officer. He caught a glimpse of the name plate, it read "J. Baker"
"Sir, are you ok?" Jon asked.
"Y-Yeah…" he started then looked back.
"Oh no…oh…Kamryn!? Lacy! Alex! Payton! Can any of you hear me!?" there was nothing. They must've been trapped inside. "I have to go back in there," Joe said.
"No, I can't let you do that."
Joe glared at Jon. "My family is trapped in there! They could be dying!"
"We're doing all we can, but if you go back in there you're going to be endangering your life as well."
Joe glared even more. It didn't look like Jon was doing anything, just holding him back while his family died. How was that helping? Joe wanted more than anything to save them…but when the fire was finally put out and the body's were found they were dead. He couldn't do a thing.
Joe began to weep, and he made a vow, he'd get revenge on that Officer Baker. After all it was his fault that Joe wasn't able to save them, right?