Remembrance

Chapter 1:remember

(TW: fire, blood, guns, missiles, implied death)
I am also using google translate for the other languages so it's not gonna be good
Sometimes I wake up, expecting to see my sister's crib next to my bed. Expecting to see my brother fast asleep on the floor again. Sometimes I dream that I'm still there, I dream that I can smell my mom’s blueberry pancakes, I can hear dad laughing and strumming chords on the guitar absentmindedly. I hear my brother laugh, and my baby sister giggle, I feel happy. So I go downstairs, but every time I reach the bottom, I'm back there. I can see the pictures vividly and hear the screams echo so loud it hurts. I remember that day as clear as glass, the visions of fire and smoke haunt my dreams, I can see it everytime I close my eyes. I can hear it, the whistles and bangs, the screaming. I can feel the smoke in my lungs, I can feel the burning with every breath, my eyes water and my throat aches. When I think all is lost, I see a figure pulling me away from the fire, it takes me into the forest and sets me down behind a bush. He pours water on my face and other parts of my body, as I come to I recognise my brother's face, his golden orbs stare back at me with fear and sadness in them. We run, there’s nothing else to do, so we run and hide in a small cave off the coast. I can’t remember how long we were there, time almost seems as if it was standing still. Someone shakes me awake, they shine a light on my face as they call my name, the voice is frantic and worried and gets louder until it scares me awake.

I lurch in bed, waking up in a cold sweat, my brother is standing next to me holding my arm and shining a light in my face, he looked relieved to have finally woken me up, he turned off the flashlight before turning back to me “you did it again” I look around the room, some things have been knocked off their shelves while others fell over, I sigh “sorry”. He smiles “It’s alright, just try to be more careful next time” I nod “sorry” 

Virgil yawned, stretching out his arms in the process "I'll try" he put his arms down and shifted his body to stand up “is there any coffee?" Remy eyes him "Right, yeah, that was dumb. Of course there is” Virgil walks to the large pile of clean clothes in his room "be down In a minute!” he dug through the pile before deciding on a dark blue Nirvana T-shirt, black hoodie, ripped jeans, and black vans. He walks downstairs to the kitchen and gets a Jack Skellington cup from
the cupboard "are you sure about that? The coffee makes your anxiety spike right? and you've already had an accident" Virgil shrugged “it makes it spike but it keeps me calm, it should be fine. Besides New school, in a new country, in the middle of the year, with a language I'm not too good at yet. My anxiety is already spiked” He sits on the counter with his ingredients and begins pouring them into the cup “want some?” Remy shrugged “already had some, but i'll take more” they both laughed “I think we might have an addiction” Virgil said sliding the cup over to remy and beginning to make his own “Probably but I don’t see a problem with it. It helps” Virgil began to drink his coffee, jumping off the counter and putting away the stuff he took out “it does, it just sucks that we get headaches if we don’t have it” Remy nodded, getting his and Virgil's backpacks from the living room. “Here, for coffee and monster and such” Virgil gave a quick thanks before taking the Black and purple backpack, it had purple plaid patches on parts of it. There were some pins and patches on the back of it, mostly of bands, nightmare before christmas, and witch stuff. His and Remy’s backpack each came with an extra pocket for coffee and other drinks, it kept them the right temperature, and was waterproof in case any of them spilled. He filled his backpack with 2 cans of coffee, 1 original monster, 1 eclipse monster, 1 white monster, and a coffee monster. “A coffee monster, really” Remy said in the middle of filling his backpack with thermoses and cans of coffee “hey, it combines my 2 favorite things” Remy rolled his eyes and zipped his backpack, taking his sunglasses out of the side pocket and resting them on his face. “Whatever it's time to go” 
Virgil and Remy begin the short trek to school, stopping on the way so Virgil could pet a kitten. Because the two had arrived in the middle of the school year they had to stop by the office for their schedules and a tour. Virgil went up to the counter tentatively asking the lady at the desk for his and his brother's schedule, Remy on the other hand, sat down in one of the chairs and passed out almost immediately. When he got the papers Virgil sat down next to his brother and readjusted his sleeping position so he wouldn’t get back pains later.  Five minutes had passed since the boys had sat down when the door to the office opened. “Sorry we’re late, the teacher wouldn’t let him leave” a boy said, he had dirty blonde curly hair, bright sky blue eyes, freckles, and a gap in his teeth. The boy he gestured too looked almost identical to his sibling except for the fact that he was taller and his hair was darker. The shorter boy had on a baby blue sweater and beige cat themed overall shorts, his glasses were round and had hearts on the sides. His brother was wearing grey jeans, a dress shirt with a pink tie, and a beige sweater on top of it. His glasses were also round but instead of hearts on the sides he had glasses chains with little rainbow beads on them. “My name is Patton and this is my brother Emile!” the shorter one said Virgil stood up -finding himself only about and inch taller than Patton- and held out his hand for the other boy to shake “M-my name is Virgil and the boy sleeping over there is my brother Remy” he gestured to where his brother remained asleep “Is he ok?” Emile asked walking over to Remy and examining him “he’s fine, he just has narcolepsy so he falls asleep a lot” “ah that makes sense” Patton said “how do we get him to class?” Virgil walked over to his brother and nudged him gently “ hey dùsgadh. fhuair sinn falbh (hey wake up. We have to go)” he said, poking him a bit harder this time. Remy stirred before gently opening his eyes  “dè? dè tha dol? (what? what's happening?) Virgil helped him to his feet “feumaidh clas a dhol (Class, we gotta go)” Remy nodded and picked up his backpack, taking out a can and drinking some “sorry I fell asleep” Emile shook his head “it's quite alright, i understand”  Remy smiled and stuck out his hand “In case i wasn’t introduced my name is Remy.” Emile shook his hand “you were but it's nice to meet you, my name is Emile Picani”  “that cute of a name suits you babe” the blonde boy blushed, as virgil held back a snicker. Remy introduced himself to Patton quickly and was then dragged along by the other boys for a tour.  “So, he’s cute” Remy eyed him through his shades before smiling “a little, but i don’t know him too well so we’ll see how it goes.”