Beyond This Point

The sky was blue and the sun is beaming as if god was smiling down on everyone today,
the beaches were filled with people as it was in the mid-seventies perfect a stroll by the beach.
People already boating and crabbing on the waters, I feel like it’s a dream and yet it feels so real I
can smell those burger stands with those delicious burger patty’s sizzling on the fryer. There was
many smiles and laughter around as everyone were having a great time there was sand castles that
were being made in the sand and people like children running in the cold waters. Their was a
festival going on with many food booths with concerts and everything. While everything
seemed perfect then there was a sudden shook and everyone stopped and everyone looked around
then suddenly the ground was shaking as everyone started to run as brick buildings were tumbling
over as the earth quake was shaking violently. Even the streets were making wave formations like
the ocean except it was on the road people running to get cover and people trying to drive away but
can’t as there was to many people on the streets screaming for their lives, some were crushed by the
dubree that was falling from the buildings or the trees that were falling as well. A long crack then
was made deep in the road, After five long shaking minutes it finally stopped; you already could
hear the sirens all around and see how people coming out with their injured or even the dead some
were a bloody mess and some you didn’t expect of why that person died. There was smoke
everywhere from the fires that were started and the few buildings that had fell, People were already
leaving town and traffic was being built up on the highway. I was trying to find my wife and
daughter I screamed for their names through the big crowd but could not hear them, Oh god where
are they please let them be alright. There was a loud deep echoeing sound that made many heads
turn to the ocean and in the distance I saw a long white mist that coming towards them it got louder
like the sound of sounds of waves were coming. The sirens then started to go off and telling
everyone to get to high ground and everyone screamed and ran as fast as they could, some even
tumbling over each other. As people were going on top of the buildings and people trying to run
for high cover as the wave line became bigger and bigger as it ferociously was crashing towards the
beaches the wave then came crashing into everything as the water rushed fast into the towns. The
waves were monstrous something you would see in a nightmare people being washed away it was so
horrifying to just watch it to know the fact that you are seeing people die. It’s not like the most
because it’s actually happening, the presence became dark as everything was smokey and the sky
didn’t seem so blue as waters were washing in cars, boats, rocks, dubree and bodies it was a horrible
sight to see. I was swimming fast as I saw my wife and daughter holding on to each other as they
were trying to not drown, I tried to save them but could not, I then saw how the water was
increasing to get deeper and the water was drowning them. I screamed, I cursed I used all my
strength to save them, oh god please bring them home to me…and then I woke up.

Week 2 Day 3 Drake Park Bend, OR 2:45 P.M.
It’s been three days and things slowly progress to get more difficult and tragic as the town is becoming more grey then the other day. Each day it seems like the hearts are of stone and is turning cold like a stone to where nothing matters anymore, careless. The gang is slowly rising up and distributing more drugs around the town making a pierce that has made a wound in central Oregon. More cops and swats have busted many gang members and dealers for meth and heroin, more have come because there is more people, with the division 2 COCC it has the population of 32,000. As everyone is cramped in and the beds are taken even the floors, Bend community and Red Cross have started a festival day a day for everyone to be in peace, to work the problems and become a community again but more large. This festival carries food booths and stuff for the kids to play and many concerts; it was a Bend event for everyone.
Aaron was walking down through town as the streets were crowded with people
and there was many lines at the food booths, there was even cops arresting people in public. He
was trying to maneuver around each person saying “excuse me” as he got by Kyle who had his
camera man getting ready to go live, then he looked and walked in front of the camera as the camera
man said go.
”Hi I am here live at the Bend festival my name is Kyle and I am news for you today”
The news was everywhere in the park as they were interviewing those who made the event to
happen and some people in the crowds for interviews. Sara was in her office and was on the
computer finishing up emails and one of her friends came in and said “you coming?”
“I’ll be ready in a few.” she smiled
She smiled back and walked away, Sara was emailing her good friend who is a senator of Ohio and
they had a conversation of what leaders will do next. Jeff was walking in his construction
worker outfit he had the hard cap helmet on and his bright orange vest, he walked casually and was
not in a hurry as he was holding a tool box. He walked through the crowd of people in the park as
the festival was going on and the music was loud, he then walked up the park and to the back side of
town in a parking lot and he went in his car and sat there. A few minutes went by and Aaron walked
down and stopped at a distance of 65 feet away from the concert, he kept on hearing a loud small
ringing sound that was hurting his ear drum. He then shook his head and it stopped he walked away
from the music he bent over and tried to get rid of the ringing then looked over at the band with
people smiling and dancing then in that moment BOOM!!!. From the right Aaron was able to hear
the bomb go off near the stage where people were sitting up on the grass, there was a bright flash
and a sudden rumble beneath their feet that threw them off. As time seemed to not exist and
everything slowed down there was a fast wave in the air that knocked everyone down and things
were blown away as people were stabbed by nails, glass and other sharp objects. Aaron was still
down, he had ash and blood on him, he saw the wreckage around him as he heard loud low echoes
of screaming and a really loud ringing sound, he was light headed to where it was difficult to walk.
His vision was fuzzy and spinning as he saw dead people lying around and some who were alive with
limbs missing and blood everywhere. Everyone panicked and starting running as the crowd was like
a stampede in the streets and people driving fast out of town and sirens going off everywhere with
cops and soldiers running everywhere to find any suspicion. Aaron gets up and walks, he turned
around and looked over towards the intersection in town and towards the library then a sudden
shook happened as everyone stalled and in the distance in the parking lot by the library three cars
exploded making a huge loud boom sound that echoed throughout the town. Jeff then started the
car and drove away towards the empty road that was being blocked and Jeff managed to drive away
without notice. There was smoke everywhere with large crowds of people running through the
streets and the park, as they all fear for their lives and were doing everything they could not to lose
them. Cops were already making road blocks and directing traffic, including calming the crowds of
people and evacuate them back home, there was many gun shots that were heard that echoed in the
air. Reporters were everywhere trying to capture the scene of what was going on.
As the news everywhere were speaking about this and made the politicians go frustrated for this
was the last thing they wanted and that was for the media to get involved, they were already thinking
about harsher enforcement to clean this mess up. Squads of cops and soldiers were walking through
every corner and alley way of neighborhoods, parks, stores and alleyways with desperation and
determination to find of whoever did this. The hospital was filled and had to use the churches to
help, as 23 were dead and 155 are injured maybe even more, you can hear the screams of people in
the hospital that was filled with pain from burns, stabbed by the shards of the bomb and people
who have missing limbs it was a bloody nightmare.
A couple hours went by and channel 8 news then came on and everyone crowded
around to watch the TV as mayor of Bend Oregon was on the platform ready to make his speech
in front of the press. As everything was quiet and you could hear some people even crying,
Everyone’s hearts were broken for those at the North West coast and in central Oregon of all the
terrible things they have been enduring.
“This is your local news here at channel eight this is news; hi I’m Cameron today at 2:40
P.M. this afternoon a festival was going on for Bend Oregon community and for the refugees that
have been staying in central Oregon since last week. After a deadly earthquake and tsunami that
shocked the North West, but when everything seemed to go well something happened, this is a
quick video to show you what happened.” The news then switched it over to the video where Kyle
and his camera man were doing an interview with Sara leader of Red Cross natural disaster , then
when everything seemed well. Suddenly an explosion happens near the stage as the camera was
moving around wildly and there was a lot of screaming and smoke around with lots of people
running by it.
“Authorities are trying to investigate this situation and they are saying it was not on accident
and this is terrorist act, so far 23 people have been reported dead and 155 are injured but more are
still being counted. Then after when the bomb went off, fifteen minutes later in the parking lot in
front of a library three car explosions that was sending fear to everyone. Right now congress and
the president are working on how to send relief to the refugee camps and control the violence that
has been happening more in the last week. All local authorities are asking for your help, if you have
videos or pictures from the explosions or something that was suspicious please notify the authorities
and send them what you have to help them have better leads in their investigation. Late last night
more gang rivalry violence has been happening, at 1:30 A.M. last night in the neighborhood of fox
hollows a fire fight broke out and ten people were found dead, authorities say that they were
members of a gang and three of them were leaders. As this was not a war but an execution and the
worse may yet to come. If you want to help with the tragedy that is happening in the North West,
relief donations are available and if you would like to help please contact Red Cross volunteering
and they will get you started. We will keep you updated on the refugee crisis in central Oregon but
until then thank you for joining with me here on channel 8. Thank you and God be with us.”
Jeff was aiming down his scope he was sitting down below in the brushes where
he was knelt down on some weeds, it was partly cloudy and very hot he was sweating but
trying not to move. He saw the buck that looked like a big one. it was up on a rocky cliff about
500 yards away from him, it was difficult to take a shot as it was so high up and the sun started to
glare in his scope making it hard for him to see. He then lowered his fire arm and looked at the deer
he looked up and saw a cloud slowly moving in front of the sun once when it did, he quickly
brought his gun up getting himself comfortable with the butt of the gun pressed in hard against his
left shoulder. He quickly aimed and then pulled the trigger and the bullet hit the deer hard in the
neck as the deer fell off of the cliff and rolled down the hill. He walked over and tied all four of the
deer’s legs together and tied some small rope around the legs and dragged it down to his quad that
he drove down and parked it by some trees. He walks up as the deer was heavy and layed it on the
quad bed and tied it up, he got on the quad and sat down with his gun lying next to him. Jeff started
it and heard the motor going loud VROOM!!! VROOM!!! The quad was shaking as he was holding
in the brake leaver and started twisting the gas a couple times as it was loud, then he pulled out of
there fast and drove down the hill. The trees were beautiful and very vibrant green even the sun
glaring through the forest as its beams are shining through the trees with a bright, The smell of fresh
pine was in the air as if someone was making a fire. He drove down a dirt trail, down the hill as there
were branches and twigs on the ground, crackling as the tires were running over them. Then he
arrived at his log cabin home that is close to sun river, he parked the quad in the open shed and
turned it off; he grabbed the deer and dragged it inside the cabin. He walked right in after closing
the door as there wasn’t much furniture only one couch no TV or radio only two beds everything
looked empty and it looked like no one has been there in years from the webbing in the corners to
the dust that was built up on the floors and wood counters. Jeff laid the deer on the old wood table
as it was dripping blood on the table and on the floor from its bullet wound, So he took off his big
brown coat that he had since when he was building in Portland and was working for a long time till
he got laid off because of the recession. There were many things he had brought, that carried many
memories. He was wearing a long grey sleeve shirt with jeans and his boots that he has had since
boot camp in the military. Jeff walked over in the kitchen and grabbed his combat knife, walked
over sat on the chair in front of the table and grabbed the deer’s legs and pulled it closer to him.
Jeff then looked at it, he stared and then grabbed the flask out of his pocket and took a swig from
his scotch. His face quivered as his cheeks were shaking, he blinked his eyes a couple times and
then he plunged the knife in the deer’s belly the blood flowed out fast, then he continued to start to
cut down in the middle as blood was coming out faster. Softly but quick and gentle as he would
make a hard tug in the animals stomach, he grunted and cursed as he put the knife away and put
almost forearm length in the deer’s stomach as it was opened up and the smell was unbearable to
the point where your eyes would water. Jeff grabbed his knife with the other hand and put it
back in the deer’s stomach, you can hear the slime sounds swishing back and forth; then he was
moving around. Cutting the organs and taking them out then placing them on the table. There was
blood everywhere on the table and on the floor as well, he then got up and walked over to the sink,
turned it on and started to wash his hands then dried them. He grabbed a big black trash bag with
yellow rubber gloves on and he walked over to the table and started to put the deer’s organs that
were slimy looking and in the color of dark purple in the black trash bag. Then opens up the black
duffel bag that was on the ground next to him, he unzipped it and there were multiple blocks of
homemade C4’s, he grabbed them out and shoved it in the deer’s stomach. After when he got all
twenty of them in its stomach then he stapled it closed with a staple gun, then grabbed a black tarp
and laid it by the table. Jeff dragged the deer off the table and wrapped it up and tied it to where the
deer’s legs were all facing towards its face. He then dragged the bag that had the deer in it and
dragged it out in front of his cabin and then laid it on the back of his truck. Jeff then laid the deer
down and got in the truck, started it and drove away out of the woods, he drove out of Sun River
and towards Prineville once he got towards the farm land where there was another military base and
a small refugee camp not too far away. He pulled over and knew that soldiers drive on this road, so
Jeff got out of the truck and then laid the deer in the middle of the road. Then he got in his truck
and drove away. Meanwhile later it was 4:05 in the late afternoon and two military trucks with one
Humvee that had a 50 cal. They pulled over and they saw the dead deer and two soldiers
walked towards it, one bent over and as he saw the staples and torn it the C4 ignited caused from
the detonator that was tied to the staples. Both were gone as the explosion was very big and the
impact was intense throwing one truck and then many soldiers got out of one Humvee as there was
twenty of them with machine guns in their hands. The machine gunner on the Humvee cocked back
the gun and they were looking around as it was quiet and then they heard whistling it made them get
startled, then bird sounds. Then Jeff first got up and shot one then all around the area of the road
out of the brushes and shrubs, his brothers got up quickly and fired their machine guns intensely at
them. Once the gunman on the Humvee tried to shoot at them he was sniped out through the head.
Jeff and his boys were proud as it was a success and they walked up towards the trucks and in the
truck that wasn’t destroyed had all these weapons and ammunition. Jeff saw the many crates and he
stood in front of them raising his gun high in the air as he yell “Let’s take it all!!” they cheered as he
slided the long crate out of the truck and it broke with all these guns and they slid off two more
large crates out of the truck. They loaded these crates in the vehicles that they had hidden during
the firefight and drove them over for pick up, now realizing and they have the power to change
things and they knew that’s what they were going to do.
Aaron was helping out more in the Red Cross, rushing around in the tens where many were
injured and hurt, he was going everywhere trying to help as many as he could. He then walked out
of the tent and grabbed out a cigarette and tried to light it but wouldn’t light, so he grabbed his
cigarette from his mouth and he looked around. Then saw a reporter taking photos around the
camp so he walked down as he was curious about what kind of pictures he was taking, he then got
close to him.
then said “how’s it going… beautiful day isn’t it?”
the man nodded and said “why yes it is, can I help you?”
“oh no just interested what pictures you were taking, I use to be a journalist in college so I
know what it’s like.”
“oh no that’s fine which college did you go too?”
“Oregon State”
“nice yeah I’ve heard good things about that school. “
“yeah…but where you from?”
“I’m from southern California”
“oh yeah” Aaron smiled
Then he smiled and said “yeah”
“my name is Aaron”
“Kyle”
“So what brings you all the way over here?”
“Well my dad wanted me to be a doctor but my mother was a writer and I really loved to
write. So I pretty much said screw you to my dad and worked my hardest for journalism and I’m all
about wanting to bring the truth out to people. Plus I went to Washington State and got my
bachelors there and got a job with a news team. Now here I am living the dream”
“wow that’s kinda like how I started”
“oh yeah, what brings you here?”
“well my dad wanted me to be in the military and I did too but my mother was a teacher and
I loved teaching people but I didn’t feel like my place was to teach children, so I joined up with the
army headed to boot camp in Georgia I passed the training as their highest unit. Came home then I
go on my first tour did two of them and retired and got my license to be a teacher and was teaching
in Redding California then got a better job here in Bend.”
“yeah I guess I can see that.”
“where were you when this happened?”
Kyle looked at him and looked nervous and didn’t know how to say it of what he went through, for
it was nightmare to him.
“I was actually was in Seattle trying to get a job there, and right when I got in the car, that’s
when the shaking started and everything started to shake, increasingly to get worse the minutes felt
like hours. People were panicking and running down the streets some who were crushed from the
falling dubrie in the buildings. Trees were falling down in the streets, old brick apartment complex’s
that were being raddled so much that the entire complex crumbled. The roads were going in wave
motions from the quake, once it was over the city didn’t look the same as there was local officals
everywhere. People were dieing all around me and there was nothing I could do about it. So I
decided that this is my story to show everyone what happened here, how this earth quake changed
everything.”
“And I hope they listen.”
They give each other the look of wishing them both the best of luck in their survival as they were
confident to do what they can to get what they want and that’s the truth to bring everyone back
from forgetting minds. The crowd that was rushing down to the tents, small facilities and libraries
to help the refugees stay connected with their family. Aaron and Kyle looked over wondering what
was going on and followed the crowd of people and saw how they were watching the TV’s and felt
more helpless as they saw on the TV screen CNN broadcasting that the stocks are going down again
and will be more difficult, it was showing thousands of people in the streets protesting and at the
white house people have started to protest at the front. As the nation became more saddened and
broken, the government didn’t know what to do as there were a lot of unanswered questions. The
crowd of people were shocked in their eyes, you can already know what they were thinking. What
are we going to do? How will we provide for our families now? Aaron then walked up the hill
towards the other buildings at COCC and walks in the Science building and saw how more people
were watching the news and looked fearful, he walked in the offices and saw Sara. She was watching
the news as well and was not very happy he walked in but she didn’t look, he walked over and stood
next to her watching the TV.
She then said “how did we get ourselves in this? I failed, we all failed. We thought about
ourselves and forgot about helping each other.
“we still believe, we just are hurting”
“We use to believe that when someone is hurt it doesn’t matter if your random or outcast.
You would still go up and see why that person is crying and you comfort that person, we use to help
each other out in our hard times. Now we let our own pride make everything that is simple to being
complicated, different and almost complete, now we will stand fragile.”
She then turned around and even looked more upset but yet to not even cry, walks over to her
bench table that was marble and beautiful. She continued to walk over where she bent over over
and opened the cupboard and grabbed out a bottle of vodka with a tall glass, she filled it to the half
way marker and started taking sips of it.
Aaron then said “it’s interesting that no matter how much humans try to control or justify it
will always be complicated and imperfect. This is not something that is terrorist or the next gang
war…this is going to be a revolution but they will destroy the city, pouring out all their cruel corrupt
darkness in this town. If we give up then they will all give up, we are the very last encouragement of
good into these people’s lives. They are dieing as their home is gone and they have lost so many
loved ones, and their tears continue to pour down from their eyes. If we can continue to fight for
these people then they will fight with us” he turned around to face her and he gently turned her
around to face him and he looked at her with his hands on the side of her arms as he said “we
cannot fail, I don’t have many friends. But only one and I need my friends help to complete this.”
She smiled as she had tears starting to drop from her eyes and she wrapped her arms around him as
he did too, she then said “you better not tell this to anyone” he smiled as two good friends they
both didn’t have any friends and only trust each other, and they knew they are all that they got to
accomplish this.
Jeff was down low on his stomach he was hidden in the twines and brushes, he looked
down as the road that led through Prineville towards Fossil River. There a few miles more down is a
military camp headquarters; He knew that many soldiers drive on these roads, Waiting, as the sun
was shining and was blazing hot hearing the flies buzzing around and the trees swaying through the
muggy wind. Jeff then saw three Humvees driving down and had three gunners on top, Jeff grabbed
out the small mirror and shined it towards the far cliff across from him the distance about a hundred
feet away. The sun made a glare on it and shined a light towards the others that were hiding and
they did it back to move on to their positions. Then not too long after in seconds three explosions
were set off, two seconds from each other creating a mass impact explosion around the rocky cliffs
by the road. One truck was caught in the intense fiery explosion and the other got buried and the
third one stopped quickly as the roads was blocked off from the piling in the street. Soldiers were
rushing out of the third vehicle as there was smoke and dust in the air, they headed towards the
other trucks trying to see if anyone had survived they were grabbing a few that were buried in the
rocks. Then Jeff had his comrade’s rush down and aim their guns at them as there was many and
they were yelling and cursing at them for them to drop their weapons and put their hands up. They
tied them up and had them remove all their clothes to where they were naked, they were all laughing
at them, and then they put them back in the truck and they left without revealing their trace. A few
hours went by before the military had found them and saw how this could become a threat until
they found four other soldiers stripped down and blind folded with cardboard box signs
that were string around their neck, they read it and it said “the fire gets worse before the real ignite
begins” they knew right then that they are not dealing with no ordinary gang or terrorists. They saw
how they use military tactics and strategies as they are facing an invisible enemy.
Things were becoming more difficult as reality was truly hitting the modern life, as people
were becoming fragile, easily manipulated and deeply oppressed. Young people from age 16 to 23
are becoming more involved with little hood rat gangs and are selling drugs like meth around the
ghetto neighborhoods, neighborhoods were becoming like the jungle in L.A. where even people are
walking outside with their AK-47’s out. they made sure that no cop can take it back as they want
these neighborhoods to stay in their control with power and in which it makes these neighborhoods
stay trashy, pitter, violent and to continue the drug runs in these homes. Meth and Heroin was
becoming the most well-known drug in the city when it used to not even be seen before, as people
are losing it and are breaking. Giving up and giving it to their animal survival instincts, the beautiful
tourist city that everyone loved to live in, was becoming an outlaw territory even the law force were
having difficulty just controlling it. The military had their eyes on this new gang that was slowly
rising up, they sense that this gang has been a part of the meth and heroin that’s been distributed
around town, and recruiting more men to their gang. More and more were falling into the great
darkness consume where many were joining them, most were coming from the built refugee shelters
in the woods that was off of China hat road. These shelters were either tents, sleeping on the
ground to a tarp laying on a couple of two-by-fours, to small built wood forts. There was hundreds
of people living there as they looked all dirty like they hadn’t showered for weeks, wearing on the
clothes that they had when they first arrived. People doing heroin in their forts even kids were
doing it, they were starting to become a wide spread of small drug corporations always going
through these parts of the woods. Even recruiting children to help sell drugs on the streets and refugee camps, making every fragile soul in these camps to be crumbled and weaken forever. Cops and military investigators were finding out that most of the drug corporations are being runned in
lava caves and underground tunnels that they dug and built to easily get around quicker. Everyone
was losing money, selling was becoming the only way to survive and get cash to at least feed
themselves and their families, things were becoming more and more darken. This was becoming a
new age…of the Dark Ages.
It was warm outside and was blue sky another busy day with crowds of people walking
in the streets, everyone was outside enjoying the warm beautiful day as this was their first day where
it was suitable to be outside. Volunteers were out helping with the injured and sick, playing activities
with children and just talking to people. It was beginning to look like a good day a lot of smiles,
people getting along it almost looked like people were accepting this, they were actually getting up
and telling others of their story of who they are and where they came from and how they survived.
You didn’t want it to end as it just made you smile maybe even tear up to think we are going to
make it, but in life there is those good days and then there is the bad days, this is one of them.
POP,POP, POP everyone stopped and stalled as they were trying to figure out if that was gun
shots, it was quiet and fear had struck them hard like a freight train hoping that it was not what they
heard, then you heard screaming and more shots were fired aloud where everyone could hear it, and
everyone started to run as they screamed and tried to run for their lives. There was two men with
bullet proof vests on and were holding two AK’s that they were firing into the crowd and just
walking down as people were running from them, then soldiers started to rush down and started to
fire at them and were able to shoot them down.
Soldiers were getting people to go into the gym and the football field and to panic as they
were having soldiers protect them, and so they rushed down and were directing people to get back
to their homes safely. Once they had the streets at the school to be cleared they had several teams,
going around throughout the college seeing if there was more shooters. They found four bodies of
Red Cross volunteers dead and one from a church volunteer ages from 16 to 35, they were
cornered in a dead end of the building and were shot to death. The refugees cried as they heard
about who got shot as many looked up to them and considered them as friends, The news alert
came on everywhere on TV, radio and internet about how there was a shooting at the refugee camp
in COCC. Once the president saw this and was told more about what happened he then issued for
all Red Cross and volunteers from their church at COCC to all go home and stay there and that they
will be safe there. Soldiers and law enforcement quickly responded and had all the volunteers
evacuate out of there as they went on buses, the soldiers put a long fence down the streets both
sides and had a gate to keep the refugees in, so that no one can get in or out. The refugees rushed
to the fences and gate crying for help and were very afraid, screaming out and begging for them to
take them away. As they knew if they stay they will die. It was difficult for the volunteers to leave
them most were in tears as they knew that they may never see them again.
Soldiers were trying to get people in the three main buildings and even some of the other small
Buildings at COCC to keep people safe. But the rest of them had to stay in a group of tents that
were in the football field that will be heavily guarded, as they know for the next twenty four hours
they will be in enemy territory.
Aaron was rushing down the hall ways in the E.R. at St. Charles hospital in Bend,
he was rushing people in who were shot, he couldn’t believe how many more people he was seeing
come in with gun wounds and knife. He then took a quick break and walked down the hall of the
hospital, the patient rooms were all filled up, he then walked pass some of the rooms in the E.R..
Then saw this woman outside of the room and staring at her, for he saw that she had been there for
many days. He walked over to her and stood by as she was looking at the nurses that were checking
her daughters vitals. She had short blond hair she looked like she hadn’t slept in a while and hasn’t
ate either she looked like she had been through a lot.
Aaron then said “Long day?”
She looked and saw him and said “yeah, you can tell?”
“you look like you could use a coffee” he then had the second cup of coffee in his other
hand and she grabbed it and said “thank you” she sipped on it and closed her eyes as it was
refreshing to her.
“so do you work here?”
He said “no I don’t, I like most others are trying to help” she smiled he then said “is that
one yours”
She looked and said “yeah she is”
“oh she is beautiful”
“thank you”
“how old?”
“8”
“aw well she’s beautiful, yeah but I have one except mines 17” he then pulls his wallet out
and grabs a picture of him, his wife and daughter and showed it to her, she looked at it and smiled a
nd said “aw their beautiful, lucky man”
he smiled as he pulled back and looked at it more and putted it away and said “yes I am
mame.”
“I wish I was that lucky”
“if you don’t mind me asking what happened to her?”
“she was raped.” as she just stared at that clear glass, looking upon her daughter as
she just rests there. She then said “she’s been in a coma almost two weeks and has not woken up.”
Aaron almost had tears coming down and was angry and said “what’s her name”
She said “Kate”
“I have never prayed before mame, I don’t know who god is but all my life I have known
that there is a god but I have never knew who that god was but mame I will pray for Kate. I pray
that whatever god it is that he will be comfort you.”
“she hugged him tight and had tears in her eyes and said calmly and gently said “I can’t lose
her, but I don’t know how to hold myself up.”
“I’ll tell you this”
When she let go he then said “do you have someone to help you, do you have a husband that you
want to get a hold of?”
She then said “I do have a husband and there won’t be no point in calling my husband.”
“why mame?”
She looked at him bluntly and said “my husband is going to war.”