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wasn’t too far from Sunny Bay.
    It took us about an hour to drive there, and
another half hour to walk to the spot, but once we reached it, it
was more than worth it. Wild flowers grew throughout the grass, and
the sun shined through a break in the trees. About one hundred feet
from where we set up camp, there was a waterfall over a beautiful,
crystal clear lake.
    It was so peaceful, even if there would have
been noise, the waterfall blocked it out. It was pretty obvious
that we were the only ones around. Surely, if someone else was,
they would have heard the waterfall and came to witness its
beauty.
    We set up all three tents; Lily, Annabelle,
Rose and Grace offered to take a tent together. That left one for
Allison and Cooper and one for Dante and I. Annabelle’s tent was
much bigger than the two Lily and Cooper brought, so the girls took
that one.
    Everyone took turns using the tents to change
into bathing suits. By the time we were all ready, the lake was in
the shade, and the sun burst through the trees just inches away
from the shore.
    As we headed for the water, an uneasy feeling
came over me. A vision took over, and I could no longer see what
was happening in front of me. Only what was happening in my
mind.
    It wasn’t a vision really, more of a
flashback. I was underwater, and my lungs were fighting for air. I
began to feel weak; I could feel the life rushing out of me.
    Then, it fast forwarded to me being alive
again. Instead of being relieved and happy that we were winning the
fight against the Alliance, I still felt only weakness. I wondered
if I didn’t notice it before because of the rush from defeating the
Alliance.
    Then in slow motion, knife in hand, I stabbed
Nurse Debby. Slowly, I started feeling stronger, and soon I was
back to feeling normal. It didn’t last though, because not too long
after that, I felt better than I ever had before.
    When I could see what was going on around me
again, I was on the ground. Dante was next to me with his hand on
my forehead.
    “Are you alright? You just fell, and you
weren’t responding.”
    “No, I’m fine,” I answered, but honestly, the
same weak feeling I had in the flashback, was all that I felt right
now.
    He went to help me up, but instead of pulling
me up onto my feet in one quick motion, he struggled. He looked
embarrassed. I shifted my feet so they were flat on the ground and
the next time he tried I pushed up off of my feet.
    “I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with
me,” he explained.
    “It’s fine,” I smiled.
     
    Everyone else went swimming, after the
flashback I couldn’t. Dante and I changed back into our clothes,
and then decided to walk around. This place was beautiful. We hiked
up to the top of the waterfall. Then, we walked around until we ran
into the first people we’d seen since we arrived. They looked about
our age, another observation I made: they looked like trouble.
Their muscles bulged out from their too-small shirts, and it looked
like one of them had a gun stuffed into their pants.
    They hadn’t noticed us yet. I told Dante that
we should go, but before we did, their eyes were on us.
    “Hey, what are you doing over there?” One of
them laughed in a condescending voice.
    We didn’t answer. We started walking away
before things could get ugly. I heard one of them whisper
something, and then they moved closer to us. One of them got in our
way and stood in front of us, waiting for us to say something.
    “Where do you think you’re going?” One of
them slurred, in the most serious voice he could muster.
    “We’re just going back to our friends,” Dante
said, his voice was calm.
    “No, you’re not,” the man said before he
grabbed Dante. Instantly, the gun was pointed to his head.
    I couldn’t believe this; this couldn’t be
happening. It was bad enough when we knew the Alliance was after
us, but to stumble upon two drunken idiots with a gun—this was bad.
The only thing I could process, the only thought