Chapter 1:
Life. It is a word that there is no true meaning. To most it means nothing until it is
About to be taken away from them.
Sitting on my balcony, I watch the bats fly overhead. Free to fly in the night. I stand on the rim of my balcony and jump the story fall. Landing in a crouched position I sprint down the side walk. On the pier I see the moon's reflection on the lake. The current making it shimmer like a mirage, an unreal picture only found in a dream. The life by the moon-light shows the shadow's, blacker than night against the ground. The star's shine penetrates the dark showing the light in the dark. From behind I feel movement in the ground. I turn around to see my best friend, Kile. (Pronounced Kyle but spelt differently).
"What are you doing out?" He asks. "You know that I am a creature of the Night." I respond with a smile. He couldn't help but crack up. "You really are something aren't you?" We sit on the pier in silence. "So when is your mother going to send you to camp?" He asks. "Tomorrow, you?" I ask in return. "Same. I am at least glad I could hang out with you for the summer. Smart mom's think alike, well, and my brother." Another smile crosses his face. He gets up to leave right around dawn and helps me up. "My mom is going to kill me if I'm not back in bed soon." His mother isn't very found of him being out in the night. "Okay. See yah." He says. "See yah." I echo. I get up and walk away but I don't go home. I go to a fight club. One of my friend's father's owns it so I will go to his house and hang in the morning. I walk up to the "Combat Club" and knock on the door. It is quickly opened but Zach's mother. "Hay, Tilyr. Seth is in his room but try not to make a lot of noise." I whisper thank you to her and walk up to Zach's room. I heard voices so I stopped and listened. Seth's voice I knew "So what do you think I should do? I can't get n a fight with him. He will kill me!" A voice I also recognized as Bryant's. "Dude, I don't know what you should you. You could talk toy Tilyr. She probably could help out." I think it was Seth, got up and started pacing. That was when I decided to knock. Seth opened the door and a surprised look came across his face. "Hay, Tilyr." I heard Bryant say "Speak of the devil and the devil shall appear." I snorted at that and so did Zach. "Hey Bryant Mom is going to send us to camp in a little bit so you got to come home." He nodded and got up from Seth's bed. Bryant was my twin brother and Seth was both our friend's. He was a little more than a friend to me so when Bryant went to go to the bathroom Seth wrapped me in a hug. "I miss you in my arms." He says quietly. Bryant came back in the room. Of course we didn't know he was in the room until Seth looked behind me and let me go of me so I fell on his bed. "Why didn't I know about this?" He wasn't mad but I couldn't read his reaction. I looked up at him and jumped up. "Because it would have been Kind of weird since he is both our friends and I didn't want to make things awkward and I didn't want you killing him." He just laughed and ruffled Seth's hair. "I wish I knew about this before going to camp or I would have been making fun of you guys a lot more." I'm going to head home but you can be here a little bit longer since we are leaving in a couple hours." He smiled and shook his head and went home. "So we have like and hour so what do you want to do? Oh, and you mom said we can't be loud." We looked at each other and giggled. That hour was pretty awesome but it came to an end to soon and I had to leave.
On my way home I smelled something. When I turn the corner I see that my house is engulfed with flames. Luckily, my mother already had our stuff in the car. My mother! My Brother! When I run up to my house the fire fighters wouldn't let me go any farther. "Where's my family!" I screech while they hold me back. Finally, one of the firefighter's loosened their grip enough so I could run into my house. I had to crawl on the floor to even be in my house. Inside the door I take a right. I almost ran into the fire turning the corner into the living room. I saw our couch in flames. I hope my dog got out. Back tracking to the door I take a left towards the kitchen. I found her on the kitchen floor knocked unconscious, probably from the fallen lumber. Coughing, I hear crashing behind me. Water was plashing against the fire making it hiss. I found my mother so all I needed to do was find my brother. I ran up the stairs to find him in his room. But the door was jammed and he couldn't get out. "BRYANT!" I couldn't help scream his name. "BRYANT! Answer me!" The tears ran down my face even when I heard his voice behind the door. "Get out of the house. NOW!" I cried harder. "Not without you! I won't! Bryant! Get out of there! I need you." His voice was getting weaker. "Get out now! I'll be fine." I heard his coughing behind the door. His voice was scratchy. "Bryant! Get out of there now! I need you! Don't you dare die on me know! Remember your dream? You wanted to be a football player and now you have that scholarship. What about that?" There was no answer. "Bryant!" I screamed again. He wouldn't answer me. Why wouldn't he answer me! I hit the door. Again, and again I tried to break it. I couldn't. I wouldn't. "Bryant! I won't leave with out you!" The door finally moved. He was inside next to the door. I picked him up and tried to drag him out of the room. I got him to the top of the stairs. "Tilyr! Leave me and get out of the house now!" I couldn't let him go. I hugged him so hard I thought I was going to break his ribs. My tears started to fall on his face. "I won't leave you!" I got him down the stairs and that's when I heard the crack. I heard screams and my brother say "I love you." The smoke turned dark and that's all I saw when lumber fell, crashed, and all went black.