Alice woke up with a snap, she felt as if sharp blades entered her all at once. The impact was so strong she flew backwards in her seat.
She knew…her brother was dead.
"NOOOOOO!"
She pounded her fists against the desk, making everyone snap around and look, just then all the windows in the classroom, almost from the volume of Alice's voice shattered. There were screams as millions of pieces flew everywhere.
At that exact moment parked in the drugstore parking-lot Joey snapped awake, almost as if he had heard Alice's screams. The sound of Alice's hopeless cry filled the air and Joey saw part of his windshield crack.
Stunned he blinked and touched the silver line which now appeared on the lower half of his windshield.
Touching it he knew something bad had happened.
Just then something warm dribbled down his face, touching it and saw in his rearview mirror his nose was gushing.
He had only been asleep for about four minutes, drifting in and out from the sounds of cars passing by.
He had remembered back that night in Western Hills. Will and Taryn had been playing Dungeons and Dragons in their room, it was close to lights out and Taryn was having a can of coke and a cigarette.
Taryn had been good to him, in fact when she first came in she seemed moody with everyone until she noticed Joey didn't talk. From time to time in the TV room during the day when she was catching a smoke she would find Joey sitting alone reading and talk to him, mostly complain about then nursing staff and Sims. Joey of course never answered, but he listened and nodded from time to time, making Taryn laugh. In fact she gave him his first cigarette, but after a few horses coughs and wheezes, Taryn laughed slapping him on the back saying maybe it wasn't for him.
The game ended when she went to bed and Max came in to tell them it was lights out. In the darkness of the room both decided that Joey would have first shift. During this time he sat in the chair that looked out the window which was wired up so no one would be stupid to break and glass and try to climb out.
He watched Will every few minutes as he slept in his bed, and tried passing through a book to make the next two hours go by quick. Then he saw for a second…Phillip?
Panic rose inside him as he looked again and knew he was seeing was real. He raced to wake up Will and went to go get help. The nurse wasn't being any so he got the others and joined them at the window, banging as the others screamed for him to stop.
Watching Phillip die it brought almost a different cast of light on what was happening, it scared him to death since he could have been next.
Holding his bloody nose with the back of one hand he knew he needed to talk to Alice before it was to late.