Andy had been traveling to different camps for the past week to tell them that there is still hope in the world. He had left a few days after he had kissed me, and according to Esther since then we had become a sort of couple. I didn't know though, I had never really been in a real relationship before.

This past week had been going by slowly. Esther was always at the doctors helping the people that needed it. Tonight was the first night since the Andy thing that she was able to come home for the whole night to have a proper dinner then sleep until she was needed tomorrow morning. We had had normal dinner conversation with how her and Zain were (which I could tell was going good because the night she brought him home were the nights I couldn't get any sleep) and how me and Andy were.

Tonight I was able to get some sleep when Esther was home. It was a peaceful night. The stars shown bright with not a cloud in the sky. For the first time in years I was having a good dream and not a nightmare. I was dreaming of seeing my parents walk into Camp W and we would finally be a family again. When My reunion was beginning the edges of my dream began to burn. It was like burning a piece of paper.

I bolted up right actually feeling the heat of the fire in my dream on my face. When I glanced around everything seemed to be fine...then I heard Esther scream my name.

"Catherine! There's a fire!" She screamed.

I jumped up and tried to open my door without bothering about pants. I was about to burn alive I was not about to worry if the camp saw me in my underwear. I pushed on my door. It was hot. It nearly burned my hands just trying to open it.

"It's too hot!" I screamed to the other side of the door.

I heard a thud then Esther yell, "move back!"

I did as she commanded trying not to breathe in the smoke that now was engulfing me. More thuds then a split and the door swung open. I ran out of my room seeing that the living area was covered in even more smoke, and fire was blocking the front door. We were both coughing uncontrollably not able to get a breath of real air. Esther was covering her mouth with her shirt and she was looking around frantically. If it was possible I would have jumped out the window in my bedroom but it was up two stories and it was too small for anyone to fir through. We were trapt.

Still coughing I heard screams on the other side of the front door. I couldn't understand what they were saying. The fire had gotten too hot and I could see Esther coughing harder than I was. She was on all fours trying to catch her breath. I got down beside her trying to tell her that I was with her, that we were going to be okay...but we weren't.

I could see Esther's face covered in dirt and ash and I knew mine was the same. She had given up holding her shirt over he mouth and I was beginning to black out. When my sight was slipping I felt arms pick me up and rush me out the door. I wrapped my arms around the person and coughed out smoke as we exited the burning house. Water was being splashed on door and I could see Esther being carried out by Ashley and being set on the ground far from the house. I looked into my saviors eyes and saw that it was Coma. I tried to laugh with happiness but all that came out was more coughing.

"Esther needs help!" I heard Ashley shout.

Not even a second had passed when Jinxx came running over and swept Esther away...again. How many times was she going to be taken from me? Coma set me down where Esther once was and he began to wipe my face with a cold wet cloth. I felt so good but he stopped for a few seconds then applied it again around my eyes and mouth. I was still coughing and another hand handed me a cup of water.

"What happened?!" Jake asked beside me, he must have been the one to hand me water.

I couldn't talk all I could do is point toward the fire that was now put out. Yeah, obviously there was a fire. But that's all I knew. I curled my legs to my chest and leaned on Jake's chest and cried. That was twice since we got here that we were almost killed.

Coma was still wiping the ash from my face and Jake was attempting to sooth me by telling me that we were okay and that the fire was gone. The only problem was was that Andy wasn't here.

I must have cried myself to sleep in Jake's arms because the next time I woke up I was in the doctor's on a bed that looked like the one I saw Esther in when she got stabbed. I had the same clothes on and still no pants, but at least I got a sheet over me. I sat up to see Coma and Jake in the room with me.

They both stood at once walking over to my side. "Hey," Coma started, "how you feeling?"

"My throat hurts," I rubbed my throat.

"You didn't have any bad burns...but Esther." Jake trailed off.

"What? What happened to Esther?!" I demanded.

"She has third degree burns on most of her arms and some of her left leg."

"She got those getting me out of my room!" I yelled knowing that it was my fault.

"How could you have possibly changed what happened?" Coma asked, "you didn't know there was a fire or that your door was stuck."

"Oh my god..." was all that I was able to say before the tears started to roll.

"Hey, hey, hey no don't cry. Esther will be fine and out in a few weeks and everything will be back to normal." Jake said sitting on the bed beside me pulling me to his chest.

Yeah normal.

"Andy will be back in a few days and he will get this all sorted out." Coma informed.

"No! He can't find out! It'll worry him too much." I said the tears stopping.

"But.."

"No, please don't let him find out." I said cutting off Jake.

"Fine, then you tell him when you feel like it." Coma said, "you can go home if you want. The only thing that was really damaged on your house was your door and that was fixed early this morning."

I nodded and they left the room. Probably other things needed to be dealt with. I stood up and found that a pair of pants were put on the end of the bed. I slipped into them to find that my body slightly burned. Every part of my skin hurt.

I walked down the hall until I found the room Esther was in. Jinxx was hiding what I could see of her from the door. When I tried to walk in to get a closer look he stopped me.

"I want to see her!" I screamed trying to look around him to see how badly my best friend was hurt.

"You can't! I'm sorry!" He yelled succeeding in holding me back.

"Why?!"

He walked over to Esther and put the sheet over her body. Then he looked at me and pulled some of the sheet away from her arm. It looked like someone had boiled her arm in a pot of water. If my skin hurt from how little I was burned how must she have felt? I covered my mouth not wanting to scream out. I let Jinxx push me out of the room after that and I slowly walked back to the house, wondering if we were ever not going to be in harms way.

Notes

Fire's no good:(
So some of the pictures for the Characters kind vanished! I will try to put them back up as soon as possible!