A/N: Why do I keep writing 'A/N:' here, when it's not really an A/N? Anyway... I present to you, after an eternity, chapter FIVE!
I jumped over a heavy girder on the floor and tossed the mobile to Matt. He easily caught it in the air and waited for me to sit down by him.
"Who should we call?" He asked. I hadn't expected that question, and honestly, I didn't know.
"Um... Maybe... I don't know." I hesitated.
"Maybe if we call nine one one, and then they can call the firemen down on the ground?" Matt suggested.
"It's worth a try." I said and shrugged.
Matt swiftly pushed the buttons and then held the small phone against his ear.
"What?" I asked when his face fell. He just handed me the mobile and I put it to my ear.
"You've go minus thirteen..." A mechanical-like voice said. It felt like if all my hope disappeared from my mind.
Matt sighed softly, leaning his head against the wall. His eyes were fixed on the flames.
My lower lip was trembling and I looked at the mobile as if wanting to mentally force it to call somebody.
Suddenly, it hit me.
"Matt! Send a message!"
He gazed at me.
"Yes! A message! You're the best!" he cheered, but then started coughing violently. "Sorry..." He whispered and smiled weakly when he managed to stop.
I let my hand stroke his soft hair but didn't smile back.
Matt took the phone and started writing a message. When he was done he hesitated.
"Should I send it to Tai? Or Izzy maybe?" He asked.
"Send it to Tai. He lives near you, huh?"
"Yeah." Matt pushed the final button and sent the message.
"You think he'll answer?" I wondered.
"Hope so." Matt replied.
"What did you write?"
"'Call me now, it's an emergency. I'm not joking.'"
"Okay." I grabbed Matt's hand.
After maybe a minute, the beeping melody of Robert Miles's "Children" was heard. I answered the cell phone in less than a second.
"Hello?" I said hopefully.
"Sora? I thought this was Matt's number." I heard Tai's sleepy voice say.
"It is. He's right here-"
"Then ask him why he wants me to call him now! It's ten o'clock in the morning for crying out loud! He knows I'm sleeping then!" He made a short pause. "Sora, why are you answering Matt's mobile?" He asked and sounded very confused.
"Tai, we're inside of Matt's apartment, and there's a fire and we can't get out and-"
"What?"
"Look out of your window." I said and heard the sound of Tai rolling up the blind in his room, probably seeing the burning building.
"Oh my god... You're inside of there?" He yelled.
"Yes! The firemen don't think there's anybody left inside! You have to help!"
"Alright, I'm on my way." I heard how Tai ran out of the room, the phone still in his hand, and hung up.
"Tai's coming." I said to Matt. He sighed with relief and I wrapped my arms around him.
We sat like that for a couple of minutes before I nudged his arm.
"Matt?" I was surprised of the sound of my voice. It sounded raspy somehow and I came to the conclusion that it was because of the hot smoke surrounding us.
"Matt" I tried again, this time shifting a bit, so that I could see his face.
His body had gone limp and his eyes were half-closed, making it look like if he was drugged or something.
Remembering that he had been out here in the smoke much longer than me, I quickly tore off some of the t-shirt I was wearing and held it over his mouth. I hoped that it would filtrate the air somewhat.
Drops of sweat trickled its way down my face and body as well as it did on Matt's. My head was pounding because of the awful headache that terrorized my brain. The world spun before my eyes and suddenly, my brain started to feel lighter. A funny feeling spread in my body, making me sick and I closed my eyes, just for a second, wanting the blur to clear. But when I tried opening my eyelids again, it didn't work. The funny, tickling feeling in my body had disappeared, but in its place was... nothing. It felt numb. My brain was filled with clouded thoughts and I just couldn't focus on anything. I couldn't almost remember what had just happened. I just welcomed the soothing darkness and slipped away into unconsciousness.
***Third person POV***
A noisy crash was heard as one of the firemen broke into the apartment with an axe through the door. Sweat trickled down his brow and he adjusted the mask that covered his head and protected it from the heat and smoke. He remembered the kid that had come running down the street, shouting that his friends were still in the building. He had almost started throwing punches on the fireman's boss when he hadn't believed him.
'If that kid lied...' the fireman thought. 'I'm going to have him grilled if his story isn't true.'
So far, no one of his colleges had found anyone.
The fireman made his way through the hall and in to the living room. His eyes scanned it quickly, and they found nothing but a rubble of girders. Taking a few steps into the room, he saw something behind the collapsed rafters.
'What...?'
He moved himself closer to what he had seen, and noticed it was not only one person, but two. A blond boy and a redheaded girl. They were both still and motionless and he it was easy to tell that the boy's legs were broken.
A sudden adrenalin rush gave the fireman the strength to clear the way from some of the heavy girders and he hurried to the two teens, checking their pulse. The redhead's pulse was a little slow, but still beating fairly strongly, but the blond boy was a different matter. It was hard to make out any pulse at all, but there was one, even though it was far to slow and faint.
The fireman shot a glance at the boy's legs and decided that it would be impossible for him to carry him out. And that was if the boy had been alone too. Now, there was the girl to think of too.
The fireman searched his pockets after his small comm. Radio. He found it without delay and too contact with his the people down on the street.
A noisy soughing was heard from the small phone like machine and then a voice said, "Hello? Yuu, is that you?"
"Yeah. And I've found the ones that kid was talking about. A boy and a girl. The boy has severe damage on his legs- I can't possibly carry them both down by myself, boss. I could use a little help here,"
"The boy, can he be moved, Yuu?"
"No, sir. I think we need a barrow for 'im."
"Which floor are you one?"
"The sixth one." The fireman, Yuu, was starting to feel nervous. They needed to get out as fast as possible.
"The sixth one? Then we can use the crane. Which one is the nearest window?"
"I'll show you,"
Yuu ran over to the window and tried opening it. When it didn't work, he simply smashed it instead. Clearing most of the sharp pieces, he leaned out of it, waving to the people on the ground.
"Look! There he is!" The big haired teen that had told them about the boy and the redhead shouted as he jumped up and down, pointing.
Yuu's boss looked up at him and then yelled something to some other firemen. The firemen scurried to the crane.
Yuu didn't wait by the window to see what they did next. He pushed his way back through the mess of broken material to the two unconscious teens. The girl as easy to move closer to the window, but since he couldn't move the boy, afraid that that might have damaged his already broken legs further, he had to wait with him.
Then two new firemen jumped in through the open window. Yuu hadn't heard them over the deafening crackling of deadly hot and hungry flames.
One of the firemen noticed the girl and pulled her with him out of the window, and the other one ran to aid the hurt boy with Yuu. He had a barrow with him and together, they lifted the boy's limp body over to it. The boy didn't show any signs of stirring.
"Let's get a move on!" the new fireman shouted and they lifted the barrow, taking it and the boy with them out through the smashed window. They got to the platform of the tall crane and were taken down to the safe ground where the girl already was starting to wake up and was taken into an ambulance. The paramedics had put her in one of those barrows with a quilt over.
That big haired kid was being pushed back as he tried to run forward to get a better look at his friends.
"Are they okay? Hey!" he yelled.
The instant Yuu and the other fireman touched the ground, the other teen started to shout his name.
"Matt!"
Once again, he was pushed back into the crowd of people that had gathered around the building.
"He'll be fine if you let us do our job," a paramedic said as he and his co-workers put the blond teen, Matt, on a similar barrow to the redhead's.
The two youngsters were carried into the ambulance. Telling the chestnut haired kid to back off and that he could visit his comrades in the hospital, the paramedics shut the doors and got into the van as well, driving off, blue lights blinking and signal sounding loudly.
***About 5 hours later***
"Matt?" Sora's voice was nothing more than a whisper, not wanting to wake the boy up if he wasn't awake.
A soft groan was the reply. Sora saw Matt opening his eyes slowly and groggily in the other hospital bed.
Matt drew a deep breath. The air was so much easier to breathe than it had been in the burning building. He was sure that he wouldn't have noticed a small thing like that before the fire.
"Sora?" Matt murmured. His legs were throbbing slightly, but the pain wasn't anything against how it had felt a few hours back in time. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, Matt..." Sora didn't know if she should cry of laugh. "I should be the one asking you how you are,"
"I'm fine."
Something between a small laugh and a strangled sob escaped Sora's lips. "I love you, Matt,"
"If I would be able to get up, I'd kiss you,"
"Don't think that way,"
"I love you too,"
Matt reached out his hand and Sora did the same. They were lucky that their beds were placed so close together so that they could hold hands. They lay that way for a long time, neither one letting go.
A/N: There. There! *Finally* finished!!! Yeah! Hehe, I know this wasn't that good, but hey, I started this story a long time ago, before I could write *anything* good in English!^___^ Please REVIEW! That'd make me sooo happy! ;P
I jumped over a heavy girder on the floor and tossed the mobile to Matt. He easily caught it in the air and waited for me to sit down by him.
"Who should we call?" He asked. I hadn't expected that question, and honestly, I didn't know.
"Um... Maybe... I don't know." I hesitated.
"Maybe if we call nine one one, and then they can call the firemen down on the ground?" Matt suggested.
"It's worth a try." I said and shrugged.
Matt swiftly pushed the buttons and then held the small phone against his ear.
"What?" I asked when his face fell. He just handed me the mobile and I put it to my ear.
"You've go minus thirteen..." A mechanical-like voice said. It felt like if all my hope disappeared from my mind.
Matt sighed softly, leaning his head against the wall. His eyes were fixed on the flames.
My lower lip was trembling and I looked at the mobile as if wanting to mentally force it to call somebody.
Suddenly, it hit me.
"Matt! Send a message!"
He gazed at me.
"Yes! A message! You're the best!" he cheered, but then started coughing violently. "Sorry..." He whispered and smiled weakly when he managed to stop.
I let my hand stroke his soft hair but didn't smile back.
Matt took the phone and started writing a message. When he was done he hesitated.
"Should I send it to Tai? Or Izzy maybe?" He asked.
"Send it to Tai. He lives near you, huh?"
"Yeah." Matt pushed the final button and sent the message.
"You think he'll answer?" I wondered.
"Hope so." Matt replied.
"What did you write?"
"'Call me now, it's an emergency. I'm not joking.'"
"Okay." I grabbed Matt's hand.
After maybe a minute, the beeping melody of Robert Miles's "Children" was heard. I answered the cell phone in less than a second.
"Hello?" I said hopefully.
"Sora? I thought this was Matt's number." I heard Tai's sleepy voice say.
"It is. He's right here-"
"Then ask him why he wants me to call him now! It's ten o'clock in the morning for crying out loud! He knows I'm sleeping then!" He made a short pause. "Sora, why are you answering Matt's mobile?" He asked and sounded very confused.
"Tai, we're inside of Matt's apartment, and there's a fire and we can't get out and-"
"What?"
"Look out of your window." I said and heard the sound of Tai rolling up the blind in his room, probably seeing the burning building.
"Oh my god... You're inside of there?" He yelled.
"Yes! The firemen don't think there's anybody left inside! You have to help!"
"Alright, I'm on my way." I heard how Tai ran out of the room, the phone still in his hand, and hung up.
"Tai's coming." I said to Matt. He sighed with relief and I wrapped my arms around him.
We sat like that for a couple of minutes before I nudged his arm.
"Matt?" I was surprised of the sound of my voice. It sounded raspy somehow and I came to the conclusion that it was because of the hot smoke surrounding us.
"Matt" I tried again, this time shifting a bit, so that I could see his face.
His body had gone limp and his eyes were half-closed, making it look like if he was drugged or something.
Remembering that he had been out here in the smoke much longer than me, I quickly tore off some of the t-shirt I was wearing and held it over his mouth. I hoped that it would filtrate the air somewhat.
Drops of sweat trickled its way down my face and body as well as it did on Matt's. My head was pounding because of the awful headache that terrorized my brain. The world spun before my eyes and suddenly, my brain started to feel lighter. A funny feeling spread in my body, making me sick and I closed my eyes, just for a second, wanting the blur to clear. But when I tried opening my eyelids again, it didn't work. The funny, tickling feeling in my body had disappeared, but in its place was... nothing. It felt numb. My brain was filled with clouded thoughts and I just couldn't focus on anything. I couldn't almost remember what had just happened. I just welcomed the soothing darkness and slipped away into unconsciousness.
***Third person POV***
A noisy crash was heard as one of the firemen broke into the apartment with an axe through the door. Sweat trickled down his brow and he adjusted the mask that covered his head and protected it from the heat and smoke. He remembered the kid that had come running down the street, shouting that his friends were still in the building. He had almost started throwing punches on the fireman's boss when he hadn't believed him.
'If that kid lied...' the fireman thought. 'I'm going to have him grilled if his story isn't true.'
So far, no one of his colleges had found anyone.
The fireman made his way through the hall and in to the living room. His eyes scanned it quickly, and they found nothing but a rubble of girders. Taking a few steps into the room, he saw something behind the collapsed rafters.
'What...?'
He moved himself closer to what he had seen, and noticed it was not only one person, but two. A blond boy and a redheaded girl. They were both still and motionless and he it was easy to tell that the boy's legs were broken.
A sudden adrenalin rush gave the fireman the strength to clear the way from some of the heavy girders and he hurried to the two teens, checking their pulse. The redhead's pulse was a little slow, but still beating fairly strongly, but the blond boy was a different matter. It was hard to make out any pulse at all, but there was one, even though it was far to slow and faint.
The fireman shot a glance at the boy's legs and decided that it would be impossible for him to carry him out. And that was if the boy had been alone too. Now, there was the girl to think of too.
The fireman searched his pockets after his small comm. Radio. He found it without delay and too contact with his the people down on the street.
A noisy soughing was heard from the small phone like machine and then a voice said, "Hello? Yuu, is that you?"
"Yeah. And I've found the ones that kid was talking about. A boy and a girl. The boy has severe damage on his legs- I can't possibly carry them both down by myself, boss. I could use a little help here,"
"The boy, can he be moved, Yuu?"
"No, sir. I think we need a barrow for 'im."
"Which floor are you one?"
"The sixth one." The fireman, Yuu, was starting to feel nervous. They needed to get out as fast as possible.
"The sixth one? Then we can use the crane. Which one is the nearest window?"
"I'll show you,"
Yuu ran over to the window and tried opening it. When it didn't work, he simply smashed it instead. Clearing most of the sharp pieces, he leaned out of it, waving to the people on the ground.
"Look! There he is!" The big haired teen that had told them about the boy and the redhead shouted as he jumped up and down, pointing.
Yuu's boss looked up at him and then yelled something to some other firemen. The firemen scurried to the crane.
Yuu didn't wait by the window to see what they did next. He pushed his way back through the mess of broken material to the two unconscious teens. The girl as easy to move closer to the window, but since he couldn't move the boy, afraid that that might have damaged his already broken legs further, he had to wait with him.
Then two new firemen jumped in through the open window. Yuu hadn't heard them over the deafening crackling of deadly hot and hungry flames.
One of the firemen noticed the girl and pulled her with him out of the window, and the other one ran to aid the hurt boy with Yuu. He had a barrow with him and together, they lifted the boy's limp body over to it. The boy didn't show any signs of stirring.
"Let's get a move on!" the new fireman shouted and they lifted the barrow, taking it and the boy with them out through the smashed window. They got to the platform of the tall crane and were taken down to the safe ground where the girl already was starting to wake up and was taken into an ambulance. The paramedics had put her in one of those barrows with a quilt over.
That big haired kid was being pushed back as he tried to run forward to get a better look at his friends.
"Are they okay? Hey!" he yelled.
The instant Yuu and the other fireman touched the ground, the other teen started to shout his name.
"Matt!"
Once again, he was pushed back into the crowd of people that had gathered around the building.
"He'll be fine if you let us do our job," a paramedic said as he and his co-workers put the blond teen, Matt, on a similar barrow to the redhead's.
The two youngsters were carried into the ambulance. Telling the chestnut haired kid to back off and that he could visit his comrades in the hospital, the paramedics shut the doors and got into the van as well, driving off, blue lights blinking and signal sounding loudly.
***About 5 hours later***
"Matt?" Sora's voice was nothing more than a whisper, not wanting to wake the boy up if he wasn't awake.
A soft groan was the reply. Sora saw Matt opening his eyes slowly and groggily in the other hospital bed.
Matt drew a deep breath. The air was so much easier to breathe than it had been in the burning building. He was sure that he wouldn't have noticed a small thing like that before the fire.
"Sora?" Matt murmured. His legs were throbbing slightly, but the pain wasn't anything against how it had felt a few hours back in time. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, Matt..." Sora didn't know if she should cry of laugh. "I should be the one asking you how you are,"
"I'm fine."
Something between a small laugh and a strangled sob escaped Sora's lips. "I love you, Matt,"
"If I would be able to get up, I'd kiss you,"
"Don't think that way,"
"I love you too,"
Matt reached out his hand and Sora did the same. They were lucky that their beds were placed so close together so that they could hold hands. They lay that way for a long time, neither one letting go.
A/N: There. There! *Finally* finished!!! Yeah! Hehe, I know this wasn't that good, but hey, I started this story a long time ago, before I could write *anything* good in English!^___^ Please REVIEW! That'd make me sooo happy! ;P