Lucas stood on the other end of the barrel of the gun closing his eyes tightly. The moments anticipating the bullet to come charging out were the longest in he had ever experienced in his life. He tried to turn his attention to something else, anything else.

Lucas made goodbyes in his mind. Just as he was about to start going through who he loved, a door slowly click open behind him. He could not bring himself to open his eyes and see if it was another shooter.

"What are you doing here? The school is on lockdown!" Jimmy shouted angrily.

"I know Jimmy," Keith's voice answered.

Lucas felt tears build in his eyes hearing his uncle, well now father's, voice behind him. Keith was always saving him. He always managed to come in at the right time through out Lucas's seventeen years of life.

"Can you let him go, Jimmy?" Keith continued. "You and I can talk about this."

Lucas opened his eyes slowly to see Jimmy unsure of what to do. The young boy looked at Lucas in the eye with his gun still pointed at him. Lucas saw past the terror in his eyes and saw an old friend so full hurt. He wished he could have done something to prevent this. He went to open his mouth but,

"Go on, get out of here!" Jimmy yelled.

Lucas turned around and started to walk backwards. He stopped right in front of Keith, afraid to leave him to face the barrel of the gun alone.

"Go on son," Keith spoke softly and gracefully slipped something in Lucas's back pocket. "Take that for the road."

Lucas looked hard at Keith, his uncle…his father as of that day. He for some reason could tell that it would be the last time he saw him. If Jimmy killed him, he should kill Lucas with him. Lucas could not imagine the idea of losing Keith, it pained his heart too much to let himself dwell on the possibility.

"Keith…" Lucas began.

"Luke, I love you son…but it's time for you to go." Keith finished. He looked at his beautiful son. He smiled lightly feeling so proud of him and the man he had become.

Lucas wanted Keith to come with him but there were no words that would that would persuade him otherwise. He turned around to head out of the door. He began to walk out when he heard the worst sound in the whole world, a loud gun shot slicing through the tension filled air. Lucas's body snapped back into the hallway to see his uncle lying their on his back with a pool of blood forming on his chest.

"No!" Lucas screamed rushing to his uncle's side.

Lucas fell to the ground near him and screamed his name over and over again. He brought Keith's head to his and said over and over, "Keith, hang on. I'm going to get you out of here!"

Lucas felt for a pulse, something to show him life. The rhythm grew slower and slower as the seconds passed by. He looked up at Jimmy. The boy looked as if he could not believe what he had just done. His dark brown eyes full of desperation filled with remorse.

Lucas filled with the most terrible form of rage. His entire body began to tremble with anger. His heart rate raced and it began to hurt warning him to calm down. A stupid messed up heart would not settle him down from his anger. He would have grabbed the gun from Jimmy himself and shot him, but he needed to get his dad some help.

Lucas scooped up his dad's slowly dying body in his arms. "I've got you dad, I got you."

As Lucas carried him, his memory remembered a time when he was riding his bike when he was five years old. He was whizzing down the block showing off to his mother, Keith, and Haley. He hit a rock that sent him flying off his bike. His face slammed against the hard cement pavement leading his nose to take the brunt of the fall.

Keith ran over instantly. He scooped the tiny little blonde hair boy in his arms seeing the massive amount of blood pouring out. "I've got you Luke, I've got you." the man reassured the little boy over and over.

With tears filling his eyes remembering that day, Lucas got out of the school without even saying anything to Jimmy. The boy could kill himself for all he cared. Lucas carried Keith's dying body outside. Every step he took ripped through his chest but he had to keep walking even though dizziness clouded his vision completely.

ehh...I really can't say I am all too proud of this chapter! Let me know honestly what you think...