Chapter 13:
Ross's POV
I looked at watch. It was 1:30 in the morning. Why couldn't I get to sleep. I kept thinking about Barbara and the others... But mostly Barbara. I hoped she was at home.. I hoped she was safe. Wish I could text her, but I'd go over to her house in the morning, I needed to ask her something any way. As I began to fall asleep I noticed how quiet it was. There were no drunks or druggies fighting and shouting outside. Mom and dad weren't shouting at each other in here. In fact all I could hear was a slight buzzing noise coming from the recently built electric station. My house was one of the houses in the FAYZ that had electricity. But most of the people had figured that out already. The people from the first FAYZ ( that's what they were calling themselves. When the dome expanded it created the second FAYZ. So everyone who came in then are now called people from the second FAYZ) had already moved in to the empty houses. But to be honest I didn't really care what the others people did. All I really cared about right now was getting to sleep which was proving a lot harder then it had been last night.
"Knock Knock"
I again looked at my watch it was 2:30. God had I been thinking for an hour now. Sighing I slipped out of bed and walked down stairs. I opened the door.
"Hey Barbara. Are you ok?" I asked looking at her face which was riddled with cuts and dried blood. She was also clutching three of her fingers from her left hand in her right hand.
"No, I'm not alright. My face looks like a war zone and three of my my fingers are broken." She said as tears began to form in her eyes.
"Come in, I'll get you a cloth to clean your face with. What happened anyway?" I said as she followed me into the kitchen.
"That guy. Caine has been throwing me at walls as hitting me for the last hour demanding that I tell him what power I have." She said now with tears flowing down the side of her face.
"Come in to the living room and you can tell me all about it." I said as we got up and walked into the room. In there we sat down on the couch and told each other about our day. I told her about my power and what Sam and Caine said to me. And she told me what Caine had done to her. Then after about a half hour of silence we fell asleep in each other's arms.