Life during a war
Chapter 28: Seeing
It has been a week since my mum was found, I am now twenty four weeks pregnant, and my mum is nearly fully healed. We've all been doing okay, though with Marcus, Caleb and Peter being in the same building as us we have been a little tense, like every time the door opens we would flinch or get out our weapons, sometimes even both. Luckily, though, we haven't seen them at all. I'm trying to figure out if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
David is now paralysed, due to Tobias shooting him in the back. He needs a wheelchair to get around, he hasn't told anyone it was Tobias that shot him, maybe because he doesn't know, or maybe because he's planning something. Who knows? All I know is that we can't trust him, or anyone in this place, other than maybe Amar and George.
Right now Tobias, Christina, Will, Uriah, Marlene, Zeke, Shauna, Lynn, Tori, Hana, Bud, Harrison, Amar, George, my mum and I are heading towards the cafeteria to get food. We still have some snacks and things back in our room but they aren't proper meals, so we get meals from the cafeteria and eat those throughout the day.
We enter and see that not many people are here, there's never many people here, most people go to the main cafeteria. The tables are already lined with different types of food for breakfast, cereals, milk, orange juice, bacon, eggs, sausages, toast, butter, jam, chocolate spread, beans, hash browns, fried tomatoes and mushrooms, and more.
We sit at a large table and grab the food we want, placing it on our plates. I grab some toast and spread some chocolate spread on each slice. I pour myself some orange juice and start eating. We eat and talk about things, like home, the baby, everything and anything we could think about.
The door opens and the three people I never wanted to see again walk into the room, smirking as they look over at us.
My breaths become deep and heavy and everyone at the table looks at me, worried.
"Tris, what's wrong?" Tobias asks.
I can't speak. I don't know what to say. They're getting closer. Closer to me.
"Tris…" Tobias says before looking where I am looking. Everyone looks where I am looking.
I feel tears burn in my eyes and I let them fall. They're here to make our lives hell. They're here to hurt us. They're here to kill my baby. I need to get out of here.
I stand up but a horrible pain rips through my stomach, I cry out as I fall to the floor. My mum catches me and sets me down gently, sitting on the floor with me leaning against her, clutching onto her shirt as hard as I can. Hana rushes over and I see Tobias kneel in front of me, tears in his eyes.
"Mum?" I hear Caleb say and he runs over to her, to me.
I start screaming, partly because of the pain and partly because he's coming near me.
"Caleb, go away." My mum says.
"What?" He asks, confused.
"Get away from Tris, now." She orders.
"But you're my mum." He says. "I thought you were dead."
"I'm not your mum anymore. You shouldn't have done what you did to your sister. Go away. I don't want to see you again." She tells him as she runs her hand through my hair.
"You can't say that." He says angrily. "I did what I had to do."
"No, you were a coward, you were selfish. You shouldn't have almost killed your sister and her unborn child…"
"She shouldn't be pregnant. She shouldn't have a boyfriend. She had to be tested on. She had to die. That baby has to die." He says, pulling out a gun and aiming it at my stomach.
Tobias stands and punches Caleb in the face, hard. They fight.
I see Marcus and Peter getting closer and another pain rips through me. My friends run over and beat them until they're unconscious, my mum and Hana are with me.
"Tris, you have to breathe, okay, deep breaths." Hana tells me like she did last time this happened.
I try to breathe with her, I try to. It helps. Until I hear a gun go off and feel another pain in the side of my stomach. I gasp and see David pointing the gun at me. I look at my stomach and see blood oozing out the side.
"No!" I hear Tobias shout as he runs over to me. He's crying. My mum's crying. My friends are crying as they run over to me.
I feel tired. I feel weak.
"Tris, stay with me. Please, stay with me." Tobias says, pressing his hand to my wound.
"I love you…" I say before it all turns black.
Hey Ravens, how are you?
Merry Christmas. I will try and update soon but the days I won't be updating are on Christmas day (so tomorrow), New Year's Day and my brother's birthday, which is January 4th.
Sorry for the cliffhanger.
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