Chapter 2

Ryan awoke the next morning with a pounding headache. She looked around, but saw no sign of Danny. 'He must have left.' Ryan thought as she sat up and took a drink of water. 'He should have at least said goodbye.' She thought again. Looking around, she saw a paper on the table across the room. She stood up and walked over to read it. It looked like it was written in a hurry. Danny wrote the note. It said that he had to go visit his grandmother in Arizona and that he would be back in a week. She looked out the window and saw her little brother ridding his bike up to the door of the hospital. He locked it up outside and went in. That was all she could see. She sat on her bed and waited for him to come up to her room.

It wasn't five minutes before a nurse came in and said, "Mrs. Camble, you have a visitor." The nurse opened the door wider and Ryan her little brother standing there holding a bouquet of white roses, Ryan's favorite. He ran into the room and gave her a big hug. The nurse closed the door and walked away down the hall. Ryan was holding Jason, her little brother, in her arms for about three minutes before she held him back and looked at him. She could feel her face turning red and her eyes well up with tears as she held him.

When Ryan finally let go of Jason, her cheeks were red and wet. She grabbed her blanket to dry her face. When she was done, Jason handed her the flowers and gave her a kiss on the cheek. This made her eyes well up with tears again. She looked at him and smiled. Then she smelt the roses and saw that there was a card in them. She looked at him again and picked it up. When she was done reading it, she looked down at him and smiled, tears streaming down her cheeks as she continued looking at him. He smiled back at her and gave her yet another big hug. Ryan hugged him tighter than the before. He didn't resist like he usually did, instead he hugged her tighter than she was hugging him.

Just then, he backed away as if something was wrong. Ryan dropped the card and stared at Jason with worried eyes. He took a glance behind himself and ran out the door as fast as he could. She ran out the door after him. When she got into the hall, he was gone. She didn't know how this could happen. There were no other halls he could have turned down, and why did he run away? Ryan went back into her room, lied down, and fell asleep.

The next day, here dad came in to sign Ryan out of the hospital. When he got up to her room, he opened the door and saw Ryan asleep on the bed, looking as innocent as an angel. He decided to stay there and let her sleep. Sitting on the chair across the room, he fell asleep. An hour later, the nurse walked in and put Ryan's lunch down on the table next to her bed. As she set it down, Ryan jerked out of her nightmare. The nurse just gave her a confused look and walked out, leaving Ryan's medication next to her meal. Ryan pulled the table closer so she could eat.

Looking around, Ryan saw her dad asleep in the chair across the room. She got up to go and wake him, but something inside her told her to stay where she was. As she looked around the room, something broke the window. Ryan scurried to her feet and ran over to her father who was startled awake by the sudden shatter of the window. Another bullet soon followed the first, slamming the wall with such speed as to make it crack. The two of them ducked under the table Ryan's food had been sitting on.

Many more bullets quickly followed the first two, shattering the glass vase Ryan's flowers were in. She let out a gasp of horror as she watched the beautiful vase being shattered right before her very eyes. Burying her face in her dad's neck, she let tears pour out of her eyes as she listened to the ear-shattering screams from the rooms nearby. Ryan could hear the horrified cries of the babies in the nursery as it was being blown apart by bullets just missing their heads.

Ryan couldn't help but think this disaster was her fault, like they were coming to take her away, but were harming others in the process. A part of her wanted to get up, but another was telling her to stay where she was and that it would all be over soon.

She crawled over to the door and opened it. Standing right in front of her was a demon that was getting ready to blast the door down. He grabbed her arm and burst through the ceiling. "Ryan! No!" she heard her dad yell as she was flown out of the hospital by the demon. They were flying so fast that she couldn't see where they were going. Ryan felt a sudden thump and realized they had landed. She looked around and saw that she was in a small cave in the side of a mountain.

Ryan crawled over to a corner of the cave and sat in a tight ball, wrapping her arms around her knees. Before she could say anything, the demon leapt into the air and was gone as fast as he had come. She sat there looking around, but too scared to get up or move. 'What did I get myself into.' She thought. Closing her eyes, she drifted off into a light sleep, awaiting the return of the demon.


"How did it come to this?" She said as she was sitting before a large wooden door as if awaiting the occupant to open it. Sitting on her knees, she looked at the ground in defeat. Little drops of water hit the ground she was leaning over. She looked at her hands, now feeling the pain from what she had done moments before.

Blood gushing out of her rather large wounds, but she didn't care. She just wanted her father back, to be held and comforted by him again, but she knew that would never happen. He was gone forever, never coming back, and it was all her fault…….

Ryan was rudely woken by the sound of boulders pounding the side of the mountain. Still in the same position she was when she had drifted asleep, she looked around for an explanation to the sudden noise. She stood up, not remembering what had happened the night before.