Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. Nothing seemed real. My friends were crying and comforting each other; one of them had a death grip on my hand and my mind was numb. Alex was pacing back and forth beside the car but I could tell he wanted to follow the guys from the way he kept looking towards the raging inferno they had disappeared into. I finally found my voice the third time I saw him do it.
"Go Alex, please go and make sure they're okay." Tears were streaming down my face and there was a knot of sick fear and panic in my gut. It felt like a long time since he'd left and sitting out here in the dark I couldn't see anything.
"No, Jace would kill me if I left you out here alone. Where the f**k is the fire engine?" He ran his hand over his head miserably and none of us rela
