If We Could Make it There

"I Could Just Tell."

Cheryl POV

Is Kate okay? I was the one who found her first, rolling around and tears silently rolling down her face as she whispered 'Bruxa, Bruxa'. What could this all possibly mean? First, the one thing Kate is truly terrified happens, and then she has a vivid nightmare about something that scares her half to death. But what happened in her dream?

"Kate" Grace says "What happened in your dream?" It's like Grace read my mind. Kate starts explaining.

A burning tree had been struck by lightning and forced the roof down. Caylie and Ashlyn had been burnt.... I was unconsious. Alex, Grace and Seth dead? She describes the events so therally that I begin to become frightened. She couldn't see Ashlyn...

Seth looks shocked that he could have possibly been killed. Why? Everyone dies eventually. Why be afraid?

I answer my own question. Because we want to live a little first. We are young. We shouldn't be snatched away from this life yet, and going down this path make me feel a little closer to the dead side of things than I want to be. I don't want to die either. But I think he looks afraid because this description, the vivid and real from Kate, makes us fear we will die. And soon.

I look at Caylie. In Kate's dream, her and I were the only ones to survive other than Kate. Caylie was burnt here and there, but fairly okay. If that dream had gone on any further, would she have died too?

"And then I woke up." Kate finishes.

"Anything else?" Alex asks. Kate looks around, and then fixates her eyes on the ceiling.

"I know how Grace, Seth and you died, and how Cheryl got knocked out." She mumbles. Knows? How could she know? She must have left something out of her story. How could she tell? She must have seen something.

"Grace. Y-you and Seth got hit by the tree when it was falling." She explains "Alex, one of the branches cut your side. Cheryl, you got hit on the head with a rock." We all stand there for a second, puzzled and shocked. How could she tell?

"Kate, how did you know what happened to us?" I say, my voice quivering. She looks into my eyes.

"I felt it." She announces "I could tell when I saw you. I don't know how, but I could. It's like I..." She hesitates before adding "I could just tell by looking at you. This is seriously freaking me out."

Kate POV
And it is. I don't know how I could establish their injuries, or how they died, but I just knew. And I don't know if I will ever be able to know why.

I try to get up before gasping in pain. I look down at my wrist and see not a cut from a rock, but a burn from a fire. A fire? There was no fire. So how could I have gotten a burn?

Grace comes over and looks at my wrist, although I try to hide it. Her eyes widen in fear. Somethings wrong with me.