CH12

"NO!" I screamed. Tears began streaming down my face. James grabbed me as I screamed and cried. I lost someone else.

"Lily" James struggled to hold me "She's gone."

I looked up to see tears rolling down his cheeks, but shoved him into the wall. I bolted to Sarah's still, breathless body covered in blood. I crawled to the bed she laid in and observed her condition. I closed my eyes as tight as they would allow me and opened them hoping it was just a dream.

"Please wake up." I pleaded as I gasped trying to catch my breath. The sobs were uncontrollable and I was having a hard time breathing. "WAKE UP!" My screams did nothing but upset me more. Her face was pale, her lips colorless and her eyes were a hazy color. I looked down to see it was her heart. Someone or something had stabbed her in the heart. The thought of loosing another mother destroyed me.

James came and picked me up. He was taller and obviously stronger than me. He carried me pass everyone and I buried my head in his warm chest. "It's ok, you're going to be ok." He whispered in my ear and it soothed me.

"The police are on their way." Brandon came in with a crying Tiffany. "I called them; they said there is nothing they could do so all we can do now is wait for them to come get the body."

"Don't say that." I mumbled.

"Say what?"

"Body, don't say body, it's Sarah." My voice got rough. I glared and Brandon just nodded his head. I didn't like her being called just a body. It made her seem like she was really gone.

Sam came in without Crystal when we heard another scream. "HELP!" We followed the plead for help and found Crystal being attack by the devilish creature.

"Don't just stand there help me!" She yelled. She had its jaw stuck with a ruler keeping its mouth open.

"Your not taking my girlfriend too!" Sam tackled the creature. The creature was about knee height and was putting up a fight. Soon Brandon jumped in to hold it down.

"What the heck is that thing!?" Tiffany was freaking out, she didn't know what to do.

"It comes from Underland!" I shouted and grabbed one of the picture frames off the wall. "Brandon duck!" He did so and as the creature jumped out at him I sung the frame and hit it in the head. It slammed up against the wall snarling and growling.

James went over to Tiffany with one of his baseball bats. He held it out in front of him while he stood in front of Tiffany. "What's Underland!" His voice was shaky.

"Where I come from! When you found me by that tree, there was a hole. I came out of there!" I helped Crystal up and watched the creature crawl at James like he was stalking his prey. Brandon undid his belt and wrapped and end around his knuckles. Then he started to whip the monster.

Tiffany finally spoke "What do you mean you came out of a hole!"

I watched as the creature spin around and make his way towards Brandon. "It's like a different world." I ran to my room and grabbed my fencing was pressing Crystal against the wall to get away and James was yelling at the creature to come at him.

"How can we believe you!" Sam shouted.

"DO YOU SEE WHATS HAPPENING NOW!" My voice was like ice and I yelled with a deep tone. While the creature wasn't watching I jumped over the coffee table that was in the hall and came down with a slash to its neck. It fell over decapitated and turned to dust.

Everyone rapidly exhaled and inhaled to catch their breaths. I stood up and saw all eyes on me. "Mind telling us what happened?"

We went over to the coach and I told them everything. The world I was born in and friends I had and the Mother that I lost. They actually took it rather well, at least their eyes didn't pop out from those bug-eyes they were giving me.

"Now I have to go back. If they wanted me back so badly that they killed Sarah, then I can't take the chance of loosing you all too." They were all quiet and whipping away tears.

James stood up "Let's handle the funeral first."

The police came and examined the scene. We didn't tell them about the creature who attacked so we told them that we didn't know what happened. They questioned us for a good while but once they found that we had video cameras around, they checked the tapes. Once they saw that it wasn't us, they let us go. Somehow our battle with the creature didn't show up on the cameras, which left us very concerned and down right scared to death.

They let us pack some clothes before we were sent away to stay in a hotel for the next few days while they got everything cleaned up. They suggested a burglary gone wrong, but we knew what really happened.

"The funeral is tomorrow guys." The once perky Tiffany was now hardly speaking unless it was something about the funeral.

"Can I put white flowers around her?" I suggested. Crystal and Tiffany gave me a sad but weak smile.

"Sure, can I ask why?" I continued to look at the ceiling as I laid on the hotel bed avoiding Crystals eyes.

"Just because, white seem like a nice peaceful color." They continued the planning so I got up and headed to the boy's room.

I knocked on the door and waited. "Oh, hey Lily, thought you were helping with the plans."

I sighed. His arms wrapped around me and held me close.

"It's ok." His lips touched my forehead. I looked behind him to see Brandon and Sam sitting on their beds staring at either the ground or the wall. No one seemed to be watching TV.

"I don't like wearing black." I pouted.

Tiffany sighed "Well, that's what you wear to funerals." She continued her stare out the window.

We rode in the limo to the church. Thousands of people were there, but I wondered if they were here for Sarah or to see us. We had VIP seats in the front row for us and our team members who worked with us and Sarah. It was open casket and I got to see her one last time surrounded by white roses before they put her away for good.

It was still hard to process actually loosing her, even when they were digging the whole to se her in. We held hands surrounding the hole they were setting her in forever. I couldn't handle them covering her up with dirt so James walked with me through the cemetery. I wanted to tell the workers to stop incase she started breathing again, but that wouldn't happen. I walked hand in hand with James in his Black suite and tie and me in my knee high black dress that waved in the wind with its white bow. We didn't talk, just walked.

The next day we put on our regular clothes, me with my dark jeans and white jacket and headed to the cemetery.

"You think she is watching us?" Tiffany sniffled.

I watched as Crystal place her arm around her "No doubt about it."

The boys stood behind us and I felt worst. I got up and walked into the forest. Without anything I covered my face and screamed in frustration. I screamed for all the days to come without her and I screamed for my self. I let another person I love go.

I sat against a tree holding my knees to my chest. I watched as my friends waited at the edge of the forest for me to come out. It was bout time for me to leave when I heard rustling. Fear crept over me. Are they not done torturing me yet?

I peered behind the bush and was attacked by the devilish creature. "JAMES!" I screamed as loud as possible. This one was bigger than the rest I had seen and a lot stronger.

"LILY! WE'RE COMING HOLD ON!" I saw my friends running frantically to help me.

"JAMES HURRY!" I hit the monster with my fists and tried kicking it as much as possible. It was dragging me to a tree.

"LILY!" My friends yelled. I saw them jumping over bushes and dodging branches to try and get to me.

I tried to grab something, anything to resist as much as possible. It dragged me more and more and I saw the hole by the tree. I stuck out my hand "JAMES!" He dove at me. He was the last thing I saw before I was down the hole to Underland.