You Found Me
"Is this a dream?
If it is
Please don't wake me from this high
I've become comfortably numb
Until you opened up my eyes
To what it's like
When everything's right
I can't believe
You found me
When no one else was lookin'
How did you know just where I would be?
Yeah, you broke through
All of my confusion
The ups and the downs
And you still didn't leave
I guess that you saw what nobody could see
You found me
You found me"
It was heavy, a heavy darkness. Something was coming I didn't know what it was but I had been waiting for it to come for a long time. I couldn't feel anything I wondered if I was still laying on the forest floor. I wondered if I was dead. I couldn't move everything was so heavy even my limbs which I was having trouble locating they were like stone.
In the darkness things started to come apart, emotions I'd kept hidden away finally finding their way out. Faces appeared in my mind, that night replayed itself in my mind and suddenly everything was hot.
The sound of a baby crying was ringing in my ears woke me up. He was sleeping in the room next to me Benjamin next doors kid that we were babysitting for the night. It was summer so the heat didn't seem all that strange the fact the baby's call was going unanswered was. I kicked off the thin bed covers and opened the door. The smoke flooded in and I could see the flames , I was fighting the fear.
I grabbed my blanket from the top of the wardrobe and started yelling names as I ran to the small bathroom in my room. No one could hear me so I started to scream the piercing sound hurt even my own ears I knew the power my own screams held. Suddenly things came in motion as I ran with the now wet blanket coughing as I received the small child from his portable crib.
Back in the corridor the flames had grown higher and there was no chance of taking the stairs now relief took over as I saw the open bedroom doors everyone was out of the house. I rushed to my bedroom window throwing it open . I climbed out baby safely held in one arm as the other held onto the window frame. I was now glad that Dad had put in that conservatory as I stepped down onto the thick glass.
"Sh... Ben its ok" I said as he began to cry louder.
I looked for a point that I could jump off a saw the ivy that grew up along the wall. I was good at climbing ever since I was young but I' never tried to do it with only one hand it was I difficult but I did it. I found myself in the back garden Ben safely in my arms. I could hear the sirens now ringing out coming closer. I went to the gate at the back of the garden and out on to the backstreet until I came round the front of the house.
Here Garrett was holding Amy in his arms tears streaming down both of their faces. There was a small crowd gathered of neighbours and people who were just there out of morbid curiosity. I was searching through the faces trying desperately to find the faces I needed to see the most. Amy and Garrett saw me and I was suddenly in their arms.
"Where are Mom and Dad?" I asked barely a whisper.
They didn't speak I just looked in their eyes and knew I had lost them forever. I hadn't screamed loud enough but I'd never stopped screaming. I never cried over Mom and Dad's death because I had never accepted it.
I was crying now as I became conscious, pinned down by the tree against the damp earth. Prince was barking loudly from my side he was using his own body heat to keep me warm. My right arm felt like it was been stabbed repeatedly. It was still raining hard I had to close my eyes to protect them but the tears didn't stop.
In the distance I could hear my name been called in a familiar voice full of anxiety. I groaned and tried to answer but my voice just wouldn't come out. Prince answered for me howling and suddenly Edward was there.
I must have been dreaming why Edward would be here calling out my name looking for me? He'd been spending most of his time ignoring me. I was in too much pain to be dreaming but still when I watched Edward lift the tree off me with virtually no effort it was a bit hard to believe it was real. I closed my eyes again.
He knelt down at my side he picked me up without any trouble at all holding me in his.
"Edward..." I murmured.
"Reese" he said it surprise "Does it hurt anywhere?"
"My right arm I think it's broken" I said staring down at the floor where Prince was following us.
"I don't think so" he said
It was broken I guess he was just expecting more fuss about it but being in his arms was all I could concentrate on. I looked up at his face it was soft, concerned and slightly relieved. His eyes were golden and his skin pale as ever in the dark but he was still painfully handsome. I wanted to touch him just to make sure he was real. I yawned I was so tired and noticed I was wrapped up in Edward's coat – when had he done that?
"Sleep Reese you're going to be alright now" he said gripping me a little tighter
And so I did as he said...