Chapter 16: The World Comes Crashing Down

December 25, 7:00 A.M

Darrion stormed off, away from Ryan. She couldn't believe how childish he was being. How could Ryan have the audacity to think that bad about Andy. Andy was innocent, he hadn't done anything wrong, yet Ryan still chose to believe he is this malevolence being out to harm everybody. Darrion had to agree though, Andy was very mysterious, but that didn't call for all out war on the boy. Darrion learned from meeting Ryan to never judge too quickly. And besides that, she wanted to give the story of Christ to Andy; Ryan did that for her, why shouldn't she do it for Andy?

Darrion found herself at Andy and Dylan's door. She inhaled deeply, wanting to be someone's friend shouldn't be this hard, she thought to herself.

Darrion knocked until she heard Andy's voice calling her to enter. She walked in and saw Andy, standing, at the window looking outside with his back to her. Darrion couldn't believe it, Andy was screaming in pain just yesterday when he tried to stand for a second. She looked around the room seeing maybe if Dylan would be doing the same, but he wasn't even in the room.

"Andy, you're standing." Darrion gawked in astonishment.

Andy kept his back turned to her, looking at the clouds bellowing outside through the window. Indicating there would be a storm.

"Andy? You alright?" Darrion asked walking closer to Andy to stand beside him putting a hand on his shoulder.

Andy turned his head to look at Darrion giving her a devilish/cocky grin. "Peachy"

Darrion raised an eyebrow "Really? Because yesterday you we're crumbling in pain."

Andy chuckled "Surprises can happen."

"I guess." Darrion muttered giving Andy a suspicious look "Did you see Charlie? He was suppose to be in here."

"Oh, he was here."

"He was? Well where did he go?" Darrion asked looking around the room as if she would find Charlie hiding somewhere in the room

"He's with Dylan" Andy responded nonchalantly, walking over the closet taking out a jacket

"Are you planning on going somewhere?" She asked walking over to him "Where are they?"

"You ask too many questions." Andy criticized

"Excuse me?" Darrion demanded backing away from Andy.

He followed her as she kept backing away "You know, I knew this job required me to talk to you, but I didn't know you would be so annoying."

"Excuse me! What are you talking about?" Darrion exclaimed quickening her steps trying to make it to the door, but Andy beat her to it blocking her path.

"Well I have to say, you are denser then they lead on to."

"Who are you talking about? What are you talking?"

"Nothing you need to know" Andy stated darkly

"I think I have the right to know, and where are Charlie and Dylan!" Darrion demanded

"I think you have more important things to worry about, like what you will look like in Global Community imprisonment uniform. For some reason I don't think flashing orange is your color."

"Global Commu- wait, you're with the GC, you're one of those moral monitors!" Darrion shouted backing up as far away as she could from Andy

"You're not the brightest are you?" Andy joked as he reaching behind him, pulling out a fully automatic black handgun.

Darrion's eyes widen, face paled "What are you going to do?"

Andy's harsh frown turned up, to a wicked grin.

Ryan let sly remarks escape out of his mouth as he stomped out of the schoolhouse. The clouds started letting few drops of water fall, forcing Ryan to pull his dark navy jacket hood over his head. Ryan thought he was going to have an amazing Christmas, where he would spend with Darrion and Charlie, doing all the Christmas traditions. He hoped that this day, just this once, could make him think like they weren't on the run. Like they weren't fugitives from the world, that they could act like kids for just a little bit. Then he had to open his big mouth and ruin it all.

He figured out now that not trusting Andy opening wasn't the best idea, but he never thought Darrion would care so much. Grated, he probably wouldn't mind all what she was doing, if it wasn't for that bewildering dream… or message, Ryan was still unsure on that. He thought that having this knowledge would be beneficial, that for once he would be able to take care of the danger that haunted their group. Even though he was glad to have had this dream, he was now thinking it was all in his head, that none of was really a 'message from God'. Since the dream neither Andy nor Dylan had done anything which was caused of suspicion. They were still not believers yet, so they still had to be careful of what they said and to keep their guard up, but nothing they had done was cause of how Ryan was treating them.

Still, he was still upset with Darrion. Truthfully, he the only reason he blew up at her was because she didn't say anything about her plans with Andy. It was Ryan's idea to participate in a present exchange and made up the idea and planned it all for the three of them, just them. If she had asked, he thought, maybe he would have been tolerant about it. He would have probably put up a fight or at the very least disagree, but it would have gone over better. And because of it he was angry at Darrion instead of Andy.

As Ryan trudged along in the mixture of snow and mud, the rain started coming down harder and the wind picked up. Ryan had just notice how dark the sky was getting, and forced him to think about heading back.

Then, a loud noise ruptured from the schoolhouse.

Ryan fell silent and looked up, letting whatever it was that create that noise happen again.

BOOM.

There it was again, turning around he saw birds flying high, away from the schoolhouse. And with that, saw a bright glow in the distance, close to the house. Ryan took off his hood and squinted his eyes to get a better view of what was in the distance.

BOOM.

And it was then that Ryan realized what it was the cause of the loud sound. He turned and booked it back, sprinting as fast as he could.

How could he have been so stupid, thinking Andy wasn't a danger, for dismissing his dream, and leaving both Darrion and Charlie back at the schoolhouse, alone. As he kept running Ryan did not realize how far he had traveled, it felt like he had been running for at least a mile and still had a good ways until he could manage to reach the house. Ryan prayed that he would find nothing, that everything would be alright that the noise he had heard was not what he thought it was, that it wasn't from a gun.

Hehehe… um hi. I have a few things to say so please read.

1! I had this draft in my folder for about 4 months I just kept on fixing it and in the beginning it was suppose to be at least three times longer than this and this would have been the last chapter, then MAYBE have a epilogue, but I decided to cut it in half and end here. I know I'm evil.

2! It finally summer! Yay! Well, I've been done for two weeks now, graduation was two Wednesday's ago but I ended up going on a road trip with friends. But ANYWAY that means I will update the next chapter (that is already written) after I edit it to the MAX. Than (sniff sniff) this story will be over.

3! I have been editing the few earlier chapters in this story. I'll probably edit them again because I have missed a few grammatical and spelling mistakes. They're still the same thing, just the writing is a little bit better and the dialogue is cleaned up to flow more.

4! My other stories, all have at least one chapter done. Just need to be edited and cleaned up a bit.

5! Question time, you don't have to answer if you don't want to or care. I've already asked around, but if I were to write another AU story, should it be a DaRy story or a group, or just a totally different couple? I've always liked the idea of Mark and Janie. Just because they are so much alike, think about! Really they are! It would be a… interesting couple to say the least.

Alright that is all, until next time my dear readers!