The Nightmare
Ulrich laid on his bed and looked up at the ceiling… He'd seen Odd again with Sissi today and that was the last straw… He'd hung around Sissi and Sam way too much and tomorrow would be the day that he finally told Odd that they were through. Officially. It wasn't fair to keep causing himself this pain…
He looked up out the window and saw the rain splattering against the cool glass. Outside was projecting how he felt, but he knew that it wouldn't for long…
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Odd watched Ulrich turn over to his other side and saw his hand clenching the blanket tightly… Whatever he was dreaming about was scaring him…
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Ulrich sat up as an area below the window began to smoke. He moved things around to try and see what was causing this and noticed a small fire forming near the bottom of the window, a small hole where something had been fit through…
The fire quickly began to engulf the desk near it and Ulrich backed up against the door. He pulled at the doorknob. Someone had locked it from the outside and the door was refusing to unlock. Someone had broken the lock, trapping him inside the room.
"Help!" he shouted, pounding on the wooden door as he heard the fire alarm start to go off. Whatever kind of fire this was, it wasn't responding to the water falling from the sprinkler in the ceiling. "Help!" he tried again.
Behind the door he heard shouting and screaming. It was kind of late, so some kids most have been woken up and were afraid. He heard hordes of people pass his door, but no one stopped. It seemed like they couldn't hear his screaming.
"Help! I'm trapped in here! The door won't open! Help!" he shouted louder.
Finally someone stopped to open the door, but Ulrich didn't see who. He rushed out of the room and down the hallway as the fire engulfed his room. He saw a few other rooms that had been set on fire and he realized something. All the separate rooms held someone that was gay in them. He ran harder and faster, trying to get out of the now nearly engulfed hallway. Whatever this fire was, it was fast. It didn't respond to the sprinklers so Ulrich was soaked and the floor was really slippery.
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Odd knew that the dream was seriously bugging Ulrich… His eyes were screwed shut, tears were falling, he'd been tossing and turning… He kept whispering incomprehensible words…
He wanted to wake Ulrich so badly, but he held himself back… If Ulrich needed him he'd ask for him…
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He was still on the second floor and had found a room that wasn't burning yet that had a decent window he could jump through. It was one of the rooms that was still left untouched by the fiery hand…
He heard sirens as he neared the window. The firefighters were here and they'd be able to help him down.
He put all his arm strength into opening the window when someone came behind him and shoved him out the window, running away quickly and leaving the burning building.
Ulrich didn't have time to cover his face and smashed through the glass window and fell to the ground. His back caught the impact, but his head jerked back due to the momentum and he cried out in pain.
His vision blurred and he barely picked out his friends in the group of students standing a ways off to one side of the school building.
He heard Odd's and Yumi's screams followed by Aelita's. He could hear them, but he couldn't… Darkness was enveloping him…
Odd… He might never get to see him again… If his head pain was this bad then his head must have hit hard… It hurt… What if he died… Odd… Yumi…
"Ulrich!" he heard someone shout.
"Ulrich, get up!" the shouting voice demanded. He could feel someone shaking him.
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Ulrich shot forward, sitting up. He felt the cool tears on his face…
"You were having a nightmare…" Odd whispered beside him, hugging Ulrich.
"I'm scared, Odd…" he whispered, leaning into Odd and letting the tears fall. He knew the person that had started the fire and pushed him out the window had done it on purpose… "They set Jeremie's room on fire, too… Didn't they…?"
Odd nodded and hugged Ulrich tighter. He knew what Ulrich was getting at…
"It was to get rid of us… They hate us…"
"The person that did it was caught… They ended up in jail… I don't remember who it was, but that's not important… Delmas cracked down after he found out that it was a hate crime… Sometimes I wish I was in a coma just so I didn't have to listen to all the speeches and lectures and all that stuff… He told everyone he wasn't joking… Any repeats or things like it and he'd call the cops and make sure that they were sentenced to the biggest thing they could be… Haven't you noticed? No one has written 'fag' on our door… No one has tried to tear us apart… Nothing."
Ulrich looked up at Odd. "Thanks…"
"I didn't do anything…"
"You stopped being afraid… You're here with me right now, laying in my bed, and comforting me…"
"It's what I do."
A/N: Well, I felt like I really needed to do this. I really want to make some sort of difference, I guess. Stuff like what happened in this DOES happen. People end up dead, innocent people, because someone doesn't like the fact that this or that person isn't straight. Do remember, dear readers/fans, I'm not posting a story this week and will be focusing on a few one-shots I want to get done. X3 I might end up posting the new story Wednesday or Thursday. XD Maybe. XD
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~MoonlitxAngel