Katie reached the huge pile of rocks, dust and remains of the building.
Michael was nowhere to be seen.
"Michael? Say something!" Katie screamed. There was no reply.
There was no time to waste. Katie grabbed at a steel board that was laid across some of the rubble, and with a lot of struggling she finally managed to remove it. She entered to find that some of the corridor, which she remembered from being dragged through by Frankie, was still in tact. She called again for Michael but there was still no reply. Suddenly a large crashing noise erupted, and a pile of rocks and dust fell, blocking the doorway and just missing Katie by a few inches. She threw herself to the floor and curled up, awaiting the pain that somehow did not come.
The door of the fort was now fully covered, sealing Katie from Sean and Zeke, who were yelling to ask if she was ok.
"I'm fine, I'm going to find Michael! Get any help you can!" Katie shouted back at them, and before they could protest, she made her way through the wreckage.
The place was thick with dust and rubble kept falling everywhere. Katie kept calling Michael's name constantly, all to which she had no reply. A bunch of small rocks then fell from the ceiling, one catching Katie on the head. She fell to the floor and curled up to avoid further damage, and once it was over she felt her head, which was now wet with blood.
Whilst Katie lay on the floor for a moment waiting for the pain to pass, and a couple of short tears, she noticed something that stood out slightly from the murky surroundings.
Michael's white fedora hat.
She slowly got up on all fours, cautious of any more debris falling, and slowly crawled towards it.
When she got there she picked it up and studied it; it was still warm from being on Michael's head, so he couldn't have dropped it long ago. She wiped the dust off it and hugged it to her chest; she longed for Michael so much.
Suddenly she heard faint noises coming near her. She looked further up to see some rocks falling from a big pile of wood and fallen panels. She slowly moved closer.
"Michael?" she shouted.
As she got nearer the rocks she noticed slight movement. She moved a plank of wood to reveal Michael's hand with the white tape around his fingers, slightly twitching.
"Mike!" she screamed in relief. She pulled off more wood until all of Michael's top half was showing. She bent down to him and held his head; he was bleeding and slightly moving.
"Michael? Can you hear me?"
"K…Katie…" He managed to say, half opening his eyes.
"Mike, are you ok?" Katie asked him. She pulled the wood off his legs, now revealing his full body. Michael tried to move but he ended up grimacing at the pain all over his body instead.
"K…Katie…please Hunnie…get out…" he ordered.
"NO! I won't leave you!" Katie promised. She took off her small, tatty cardigan, folded it and placed it under Michael's head. His head lolled to one side; he was falling in and out of consciousness.
"Help is on the way, I promise…" Katie whispered. Suddenly a huge pile of rocks and dust fell. Katie screamed and covered Michael as best she could.
"Katie, get out of here! Please Hunnie" Michael pleaded.
But it was too late. Katie failed to reply, and she blacked out as the rocks piled on top of her and Michael.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Noises of sirens filled the silence of the night as they rushed up the street. Sean and Zeke waved them down.
"Where are they?" asked a fireman as he stepped out of the truck.
"I dunno, in the rubble somewhere. Please hurry, we heard our friend screaming, they both might be hurt!" Sean yelled.
"Ok, move in boys!" the fireman ordered, and several men began to rush into the rubble.
Sean and Zeke also watched as an ambulance came onto the scene, and began to unload two stretchers, which were both wheeled closer to the rubble. Some of the nurses came to the two boys and gave them blankets and hot drinks to keep them warm.
"Your friends are going to be ok" the nurse tried to reassure them, but even she didn't seem so convinced. Zeke began to cry, and Sean patted his shoulder.
"It'll be ok you know. Michael won't die, and Katie…"
"Katie could be really hurt! I don't want anything bad to happen. I want them to live happily together, like Michael told us. It was meant to be Katie's best birthday ever, and it's been spoilt" Zeke moaned.
More minutes past, when suddenly there were yells that they had found them. Sean and Zeke ran over to see the medical staff wheeling Michael out on a stretcher. To the boys relief he was alive, however he was covered in bruises and blood, and a nurse was wrapping bandages around some more severe cuts.
"Michael!" the boys shouted, as they ran over to him. "Are you ok?" Sean asked.
"I'll be fine…I just need…some time…to get back on my feet" he croaked.
"Where's Katie?" Zeke asked. Suddenly, words like 'losing blood' and 'not breathing' filled the air. The boys looked over to see more medical staff, frantically rushing Katie along on a stretcher to the back of a second ambulance. She was completely still and unawake. Zeke tried to run over but one of the nurses stopped him.
"Your friend is under severe conditions, it's best you keep out of the way, love. You can come in the ambulance with Michael" she told him.
The boys climbed into the back of the ambulance and sat next to Michael. One of the nurses laid a warm blanket over him and passed another to the two boys.
"She can't be…it can't happen…" Sean stuttered. Zeke just buried his head in silence.
"My Katie…" Michael whispered, in shock. The thought of never seeing her cheerful face again made him feel sick. And the ambulance began to speed off, taking Michael and Katie to a much more safer place.
……………………………………………………………………………………
Serious now, had ANYONE out there got any ideas? Haha, I'm pathetic at story writing :( lol :P
Hope you are enjoying :)
Xxx
Sorry the chapters are so short! I'm not good at writing lots ;)
Plus I might be slow at updating, have lots of homework/coursework :(
