Well...two updates in one day, pretty awesome, huh? : )
Karen waited anxiously for the two men she loved to emerge out of the school. Brooke and her stood next to each other without exchanging any kind of conversation. Karen almost felt envious of the seventeen year old girl next to her. She at least got to see Lucas that day. Karen felt her heartbreak at the thought of not getting to say goodbye to her son if the worse should happen. Her thoughts would turn evil like that, considering the idea she may not see him again, but just as her mind would have the gun shoot him, it would turn off not letting her think those horrible things.
Sometime in that horrible cycle, a loud shot cried out inside. Karen's heart stopped for a brief moment who it hit. The fear of the possible circled around her like a merry go around that would not let her get off. She placed her hand on her chest and prayed over and over again that God would protect her boys.
Fifteen minutes after the gunshot, a boy came out of the school carrying someone. Karen squinted to get a better look. As the child approached closer, she saw his bright blonde spiked hair.
"Lucas!" she allowed herself to scream. Her legs moved her towards her only son, but upon seeing who he was carrying, she stopped. Her stomach opened up its claws and swallowed her heart inside the depths of it.
Keith lied inside Lucas's shaking arms with his head bent awkwardly. His eyes were closed and all color had been drained from his face. A dark red puddle grew bigger and bigger around his chest as every moment passed by.
A group of members of the SWAT team circled around Lucas blocking Karen's view. As she strained for a better view, being she couldn't move, Brooke reached out and grabbed her hand.
One of the officers went to take Keith out of Lucas's grasp, he fought it at first. He would not and could not lose him. The man urged Lucas to let go of Keith. Reluctantly, Lucas handed over Keith. As he let go, he saw his hands were shaking and his fingertips were covered in blood.
Lucas watched the officer carried Keith away. He reached his arm out for him but another officer stood in his way. The surrounding officers forced Lucas upon the ground as they patted him down for weapons. With his face against the pavement, Lucas's heart screamed in agony. His entire body slowly become numb started from his left hand.
The officers lifted Lucas up and told him to go find his mother. He stumbled slowly to her as his legs became slowly frozen. She met him half way and pulled him into her arms.
Lucas trembled in her safe arms. He looked up at an ambulance that sat twenty feet away and saw Keith on a stretcher right outside of it. One paramedic took a white sheet and started to cover him with it. Lucas pushed his mother away and ran over to the stretcher.
"Keith!" Lucas began to cry, "Dad!"
The paramedics pushed the stretcher into the ambulance as Lucas cried. Tears fell down his cheeks as he watched it drive away. The pain in his heart screamed an all time high. He grabbed his chest. Sweat filled on his neck and his brow. His heart pounded more furiously as the moments passed. His eyes drew heavy and so did his body. Suddenly, his whole body went numb. His legs buckled underneath him and he came down hard on the payment.