Seth's POV

"What are you doing." Dean asked as he hobbled himself outside with me and Roman. Roman was currently standing in the yard front of the yard, running the water hose over several balls that came from the gym.

"Coach told me to wash these for the elementary field day." Roman said to him as he continued to wave the water around.

"You're wasting water." He said while slowly sitting down next to me in the bench we had on the porch, "You could have just ran a wet towel over them."

"They would have took twice as long." Roman said while rolling his eyes.

"And now your waisting twice as much water." Dean responded to him.

"Don't tell me how to wash my balls ok?" Roman said to him and Dean immediately smirked.

"How to wash your balls?" Dean asked and Roman glared at him.

"You make me feel so uncomfortable sometimes." Roman said to him as he continued to waved the water over the objects.

"I'm not the one who just just said 'don't tell me how to wash my balls'." Dean said and tried to stiff a laugh.

"You know what balls I was referring to." Roman groaned.

"Can we please stop saying balls." I groaned.

"From the windooow to the wall!" Dean shouted, "Till the sweat drip down my b- Roman stop it!"

I flinched as Roman walk onto the porch with the water hose and sprayed Dean, getting water on me in the process.

"You're an ass!" Dean shouted at him but wore a smile on his face, "I'm an injured individual and you decide to drown me? Or maybe freeze me to death cause it's fucking 30 degrees out here! This is not going to look good on your record."

"There's only so many times you can play that 'I'm injured' card before I stop caring and just assault you as I please." Roman said with a shrug, "It's not my fault you pissed me off. Now you can freeze to death."

"You mean that?" Dean asked and as a response, Roman waved the hose back in our directed. He somehow managed to miss Dean completely, but completely soaked me.

Roman's jaw dropped while Dean held his side when he laughed.

"Dude I'm sorry." Roman said, but even with shocked expression I could tell he was trying to hold back laughter.

"I. Hate. You. Both." I growled slightly, suddenly feeling extremely cold.

"Take it back." Roman said with a laugh before waving the hose again, spraying both me and Dean.

"Spray me again and Seth's gonna kick your ass." Dean said while still laughing.

Roman laughed and waved the hose again, but instead of my just sitting there, I immediately jump from the porch and chase Roman who had already stated to run off to the back yard.

I was a good ways behind him the entire, until we came back to the font of the house where he had fell in a puddle of water that was created by the unattended water hose.

Dean laughed hysterically from the porch, "It hurts! Oh my god, but it's worth it! I told you not to waist the freaking water! Oh this is priceless! Say hello to Snapchat!"

I laughed, but immediately stopped as Roman grabbed my leg and immediately pulled me down into the water with him.

"You bitch!" I shouted while  immediately pushing him and he only laughed.

"My best friends are in a puddle." Dean said while holding up his phone.

"Stop taking pictures." Roman groaned while rolling his eyes.

"It's a video." Dean said with a laugh.

"You should get his reaction when he discovers that his hair is wet." I point out and Roman's hands immediately shot to his hair, then a long whine escaped his lips.

"It's dirty." He whined again while Dean and I laughed loudly. He glared at me before splashing water on me again.

I laughed again but stood up, then lent my hand to Roman who gladly excepted it as I helped him stand up.

"Where's all the balls go?" Roman asked once we calmed down.

"The water sorta just spread them around." Dean said then pointed, "I think some are over there."

"Help me pick them up." Roman said to me and I nodded.

After ten minutes, we had gathered 6 out of the seven Roman had brung.

"Where's the Soccer ball?" Roman asked as we continued to look around.

"Maybe it rolled around back." Dean suggested.

"That's a long way to roll." I say as Roman and I began to walk to the backyard.

"Maybe it's possessed." I heard Dean shout and I rolled my eyes.

"I swear he better be glad I love him." Roman mumbled and I laughed then he pointed as we entered the backyard, "There it is."

I smirked as we walked over to the ball. Roman bent down to pick it up and I playfully kicked it away from him.

"Seth I swear to God." Roman said as I kicked it again once he tried to reach it, "Stop it!"

"Watch the matter?" I teased as I kicked it a father length this time, "Just reach it Ro."

"I'm going to fücking kill you." He said as he jogged to go get the ball, but I ran and kicked it again, this time it rolling into the woods.

"Oops." I muttered while Roman glared at me.

"You're going to get it." He said to me.

"Why me?" I asked.

"You freaking kicked it, you freaking get it." He said with a shrug.

"Come with me." I then say to him.

"Hell no." Roman replied.

"I'm not going into the freaking woods alone." I say him, "The sun is setting dude."

"How hard is it to go grab a freaking ball?" Roman groaned.

"What if a snake is on it?" I suggested.

Roman groaned loudly again, "Come on."

"Now was that so hard?" I asked him, then immediately grabbed onto his arm, "Now let's go."

"Baby." He said while rolling his eyes as we both entered into the woods.

"There it is." I say while point to a small tree nearby.

We walked over to it and just as I bent over to pick it up, Roman kicked it farther into the woods.

"Oops." He mocked my voice with a smirk and I glared at him.

"If we get lost this is your fault." I shot at him, reattaching myself to his arm again.

"Stop being so scary." He said to me, "Where'd it go?"

"Hell if I know." I say, "Somewhere that way."

He nodded and we slowly began to make our way in the direction of where the ball had went.

I heard something move and I moved my head in that direction, "What was that?"

"Probably a animal Seth." Roman said, "We're in there territory so stay quite."

"Can we hurry up and find this damn thing?" I asked him, "I don't like it back here."

"Stop being so scared." He said as a bird crowed around, "I think I see it."

"Thank god." I mumble as I detached myself from Roman's arm to go get it as it rested next to a large tree trunk.

"That it?" Roman asked as I reached down to pick it up, but my eyes landed on carvings that were on the tree.

"Dude check this out." I say to him while tracing my hand over the patterns.

"What?" Roman asked as he looked at what I was doing, "What's this?"

"I don't know." I say to him, "Who ever does this is talented. Look at these designs? They're good."

"They are." Roman mumbled as his finger traced some of them, then his eyes stopped on one.

"What is it?" I asked as I followed his gaze to a small drawing of what seemed to be a bird. It wasn't as detailed or nice as any of the others so I wondered why he was fascinated by it.

"I've seen this somewhere before." He mumbled, "But I can't remember where..."

"Good or Bad?" I asked him and he was too busy inspecting to respond to me.

I suddenly heard a noise and I jumped, "What was that?"

"It was just a animal Seth-" roman started to say but got cut off by the sounds of a sadistic laugh.

"We're leaving!" I shouted, immediately running towards what I believed was where we came out at, Roman not far behind me.

I didn't stop running until we were fully out of the woods and halfway back to the house.

"What the hell was that?" I shouted, "That wasn't a fucking animal! I'm not going into any damn woods again I swear to God!"

"Calm down." Roman said to me, "It was just the wind or something."

"You're a fucking lie!" I shouted at him, "That was not wind."

"Chill!" He shouted at me, "We're still living aren't we?"

"Barley." I mumbled while crossing my arms.

"What you do with the ball?" Roman asked.

"Fuck that ball. I'm pretty sure I dropped it." I said to him, "And I'm not going to get it. You better just buy a new ball dude."

"Whatever." Roman mumbled but I could tell he was just as shook up as I was, "Let's just go inside, I'm sure Dean is wondering where we are..."

"What?" I asked him as he trailed and he pointed to an object a few feet away from us.

"Is that..." I trailed off, looking at the familiar Soccer ball that I was sure I had left in the woods.

"It is." Roman said to me.

"Hell. No." I say, marching right past the ball, "I'm not dealing with this demon shit! No! I am not! I will not! You can not force me! I'm not about to die today! Everyone has me fucked up! I didn't sign up for this shit."

"Seth-" Roman called after me but I stopped him as I walked around to the front of the yard again.

"Nope!" I shouted and continued to walk. Dean giving me a look as I walked into the porch.

"What's wrong with you?" He asked me as I opened the door and walked inside.

"I'm not dealing with possessed children's toys tonight!" I shouted to him before going back to my room and closing the door, locking it in the process to to make sure nobody or no thing could get in.

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"I think we've established that I'm not like most art teachers who would be having you practice drawing circles the whole year." Ms.Lambert said while sitting cross legged on her desk, "I like for my students to think outside the box. Draw what they feel about certain things."

"So for your next assignment," she said to us, "You will be drawing what you see coming in the future."

"Like what career path we choose?" Randy asked beside me. Eva use to sit next to him, but Paige made me switch out to cause less drama.

"It could be." Ms.Lambert said while getting up and walking over to the 'turn in' tray, "Some from this morning have been about there 'after college' life. Other's drew different things such as a diploma. Maybe a symbol of graduating. Others drew... Something quite different. But hey, it creativity so it's good. Feel free to look through other classes to get an idea of what you want to do. It'll be do at the end of class, but if you need extra time, just talk to me."

"I'm gonna go get some papers." Randy said to me and I nodded as he got up, then laid my head down on the desk.

I was beyond exhausted. I didn't get much sleep last night really. How could I after that?

I'm not my brothers, I don't just easily shake stuff. It bothered me. It was creepy as fuck in my opinion. We went from joking around to me being scared as hell. I know Roman is or was bothered, but I just showed it more. Then there was Dean who had no idea what was going on and was still at home resting.

Randy returned and set some papers down on the table.

"Some of these are good." He said while looking through some of the drawings, "This one shows the political race. So i guess we can do real life events too."

"Most likely." I say to him, "I think I'm just gonna so a stick figure walking across a stage."

Randy laughed and continued flipping through the drawings, then stopped on one, "What's this suppose to be? The Hunger Games?"

I look at the paper that he held in his hand. It was very... Different, yet very well drawn. Beautiful patterns surrounded by what seemed to be like fire. Along with a quote that read 'and then they lie trapped in a world of fire' Then my eyes landed on one thing in particular.

A bird.

One extremely similar to the one Roman had pointed out last night on that tree.

"You ok?" Randy asked me, a look of concern on his face.

"Um," I started and shook my head, "Yeah. I'm just tired. I'm just going to finish this so I can lay down for a second."

He nodded, "I'll go get some markers."

I nodded but felt someone tap on my back. I turn around to see Paige with a concerned look on her face, Eva sitting next to her, already busy drawing.

"You ok?" She asked me.

"I'm fine babe." I say, giving her my best smile, "I'm just tired."

"You wanna talk?" She asked me again.

"Maybe later. Come to my house tonight?" I asked her back.

"Will there be food?" She asked me and I laughed.

"Of course." I responded.

She smiled, "Then I will definitely be there."

I smiled but stopped as I heard a loud noise. Several other people covered their ears at the loud screeching noise as the fire alarm light flashed from out in the hallway and over our heads in the classroom.

"Is this a drill?" Paige shouted over the noise as Ms.Lambert immediately stood up from her desk.

"Alright!" She shouted, "Leave your stuff and get in a line! Go, now, quickly and quietly."

"Seth grab my phone!" Randy shouted when Ms.Lambert shooed him towards the door instead of back to the desk.

I nodded and grabbed the phone that was on the desk, then quickly walked out into the hallway with the others and immediately smelt smoke.

"I think something burned over in the Home Eco hall." I heard Daniel say, the smell of smoke getting stronger.

"Well if it's an electrical fire then they better make sure they turn off the water sprinklers." Paige said as she looked up above on the ceiling,

I shrugged and kept walking as the teachers tried to hurry us out of the building just as the water system kicked in and a large sound was heard from the back of the building where the Home Eco rooms were. A few students beginning to run towards the exits.

"Let's go." I say while walking behind Paige just to make sure nothing she would be alright.

She nodded and sped up her walking. I looked around, not sure if my surroundings were getting hotter because of the fire or because I was beginning to panic.

"Let's go!" One of the teachers shouted as many students crowded at the door.

"Look up." Randy mumbled as we were forced to stop walking because of the crowd of students at the door.

I glanced up at the ceiling and my heart almost stopped at the sight of how the fire had quickly spread to the ceiling.

"Keep it moving." I said as we move towards the door quickly.

The longer we waisted, the longer my eyes stayed fixed on the ceiling. Then the sound of the bar screeching filled my ears

"No stop!" Daniel yelled, stopping everyone towards the very back. Which was me, Paige, Randy, Eva, Emma, Zack and a girl that I believe was a Freshmen. I think her name was Amanda, she took advanced classes that were considers regular classes for me.

"What?" I asked him loudly.

"Back up, now!" Randy shouted just as the bar fell and we all quickly back away from it, it also blocking our way of here

"Is everybody ok?" I heard Emma shout as smoke quickly surrounded us.

"Paige!" I quickly shouted.

"I'm alright!" She replied back, but soon went into a coughing fit, "We need to get out of here!"

"Are we trapped?" Amanda asked.

"There's got to be a way out of here." I heard Daniel say but I could hear the urgency laced in his voice.

'And then they lie trapped in a world of fire.' The quote that I read earlier replayed over and over in my head.

"Maybe some one will come for us." Zack said.

"No." I say to him, "We need to get out of here now."

"Seth calm down." Randy said.

I tried taking taking calm breaths but that was hard with smoke filling my lungs with every breath.

"Where's Eva?" Paige asked quickly.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Randy shouted, "Where'd she go?"

"Do you think she got out?" Dainel asked, covering his shirt over his face to help not breath in as much smoke.

"You know what?" Randy said and coughed slightly, "We need to find a way out, we don't have time to worry about her. Come on, we aren't going to have much time."

I covered my face just as they were doing and followed Randy off into the ever lasting heat.

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Chapter 30 of book 3
Chapter 96 in all

little itty bitty cliff hanger.

my mind is a cruel place where my characters almost die, like a lot. You AINT GOTTA READ IT FAM. Geez, it's not like I'm killing people off every chapter... yet...

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And I lowkey love seeing the comments from my readers that think they have this whole thing figured out 😂😂 you make excellent points and judge calls, but my mind is a little bit different so different from what you think.

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