Ace
Sometime during the night, my father slammed my door open
"THE BARNS ON FIRE!" he shouted, running out the door in his pajama bottoms. Steele and I both shot out of bed before running downstairs, my t shirt rubbing against my thighs as I ran, Steele shivering as the cold blowing winds hit his nearly naked body
"NOOOO!" I screamed, running towards the barn, the agonized whineys of some of our prized horses echoing through the air; it was a haunting sound I wished I could forget
"Get the water truck!" My mother gasped, running towards the water traugh with a bucket as my dad threw his bucket on the flaming barn. Steele helped my parents as I ran across the yard to the truck we use to haul water for all the traughs. It was always kept full in case of an emergency. Peeling out of the shed, I drove across the yard and slammed it into park near the barn as my father wasted no time running for the nozel as Steele fought with the valve
"Molly..." I gasped, realizing I'd put her in the barn "NOOO!" I screeched, running to the door of the barn
"Ace!" I heard someone yell, but I was already in the door. There was smoke everywhere, and I could see horses lying on the floor, their flesh bubbling and burning
"Molly!" I called, coughing as I looked around, searching
"Molly..." I called again, though my voice was becoming weaker, my breathing more difficult, and my eyesight fuzzier. In the last stall, I found my beautiful made, lying on the floor coughing and wheezing, although somehow untouched by the inferno around us
"Moll...." I smiled, lying beside her, her head against my own as I rubbed her neck. I knew I wasn't going to get us both out, and I wasn't leaving her here to die alone
"I-I love....y-you Steele....And I-I'll nev-ver leave you M-Molly..." I whispered as the timbers in the barn shuddered and groaned as their hungry nemesis drove forward. I thought I saw something in the doorway of the stall, but my world went black.
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Steele
My stomach dropped as Ace's father ran from her room. A fire? Both of us shot up from her bed and ran down the stairs and out into the cold winds. The rain was on it's way, but had yet to hit here. Both Mr and Mrs Jobins were already there tossing bucket after bucket of water onto their barn. You could hear horses inside, hear the panic and pain through their cries; it was horrifying. I grabbed a bucket as Ace ran off across the yard. I didn't know what she was doing, but I couldn't worry about it now as I started tossing water on the fire
"Steele move!" Mrs Jobins called as a big water truck lurched to a stop in front of me, Ace jumping from the drivers seat. Her father grabbed the hoze, and I started trying to turn the handle, no luck. Both of us started trying to turn it, and it slowly started giving way
"NOOO!" I heard a woman scream, turning just in time to see Ace bolt towards the barn
"Ace!" I screamed, gaining the attention of both her parents
"BABY NO!" Her dad cried, tears springing into his eyes as the doorway caved behind her.
YOU ARE READING
Love Me Like a Love Song
RomanceThey met at a party being held out in the middle of Mcreery's field. He was sitting on the tailgate of his truck, she was dancing with her friends in the halo of some bodies head light's. All it took was a glance and smile and he was a gonner.
