“Please, you gotta let me in there!” I yell, trying to push past the barricade. The woman guard was strong, pushing me back with ease. I could hear the sirens coming this way, from ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars alike.
“Sir, the fire fighters will be here in just a moment,” she told me, her voice annoyingly calm.
“My sister’s in there!” I yell back. “She may not have another moment!”
“Sir, I understand, but you have to stay back. The building’s on fire.” I wanted so badly to say it wasn’t, that it was just a ploy that my extremely clever and so helpless sister did so she could escape the vamps after her.
But then I saw the smoke and my mind blanked as tried with more force to get past the officer.
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Midnight Falls
FantasyCarl finds himself walking home through Central Park at midnight after a long night of bussing tables and dealing with picky people. He knows it's dangerous, for more than one reason, but it shortens his trip by a few minutes and he needs to get hom...
