According to skiz fight rules you have to fight till you lose, but the girl doesn’t want to fight another fight and tries to make a break for it, but the crowd runs after her. She tries to scale the wall of the building I'm perched on, but the stab wound is stopping her. So I go help her up, she hesitates to accept my help. Although she eventually takes my hand and I help her up the building. I take her to me and tesses rondevu point and she thanks me. Then she introduces herself but I can't say my name because she might be a spie. Tess introduces herself to the girl whose name is June. Then Tess treats Junes injury, 🤬 kaid did a nasty move on her stabbing her hip.

Strangely, the smell of smoke keeps on becoming more intense. “Hey Cady! Do you sme-” I began to yell up the stairs, when suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the faintest bit of orange. Did I accidentally light something on fire?! I frantically checked my surroundings, making sure there were no sparks. Thankfully there weren’t any. 

There’s no way that Cady lit the house on fire, she’s not someone who would forget that her friends are still in a house that she’s about to light up with flames! Once again, the smell of smoke grows stronger. Coming from the staircase leading down to the basement, not only did I see sparks, but I was now seeing an orange glow! Leaving my gas can behind, I began to run over to the entrance to see what the light was, for fear that it might actually be fire.

I got about four yards away from the entrance, when all of a sudden, I started to hear crackling. That sound had me scared to death. I was frozen with fear, and because of this instead of running towards the staircase, I carefully walked towards it. I was about nine feet away from the staircase when it began to collapse onto the floor! Now I knew for sure that this was a fire, and I felt unsure of whether or not I was going to make it out of this alive! Would I be able to see Cady again? What about Mirren and Johnny? Will they make it out of this too? I started to sprint towards the entrance, when I heard a faint sound.

"Johnny! Mirren! Come on guys answer me! Please say something!” It was Cady! When she said that, the basement floor had started to flood with smoke. It was becoming harder to breath by the second! As I began stumbling towards the entrance, my lungs began to fill with grey disgusting gas, and it felt like the inside of my chest was on fire! I could feel all of the individual ashes going down my throat and burning my esophagus. Now instead of only worrying about getting out of here alive, I have to worry about possible lung damage! This was only supposed to be something that would stop the aunties from fighting, not something that would cause me to die! My lungs have become filled to the brim with ashes and smoke, and even taking the smallest breath made me feel like I was being burnt alive! I was only getting small amounts of oxygen now, and my head started pounding, my mind now being affected from the lack of oxygen.

I heard footsteps coming from upstairs making their way to the basement. I started trying to scream “Cady! Help me!” but those words ended up turning into a coughing fit from all the dust, ashes, and cloudy grey air filling up the room.

Right as the basement started becoming crowded with smoke, I was moving an inch at a time, my body becoming fatigued from the lack of oxygen. I covered my face with my shirt and with all my might tried to push forward, but I was suddenly stopped by the wall of burning wood caused by the fallen staircase.

“Gat! Gat can you hear me! Please Gat say something! Not you too! Please not you!” 

I had no strength left, and before I knew it, I was collapsed on the floor, desperately trying to make an attempt to escape. However, I knew that with my current state, there was no way  I was going to make it out of this alive. “Cady. I just want to let you know before I die. Just know that I love you, and I don’t want to leave you. I would never ever want to leave you.” I burst out coughing after saying that, and with more smoke invading my lungs, I wasn’t able to keep up my body’s demand for oxygen.

Those were the last words I tried to say to Cady, and right before I took my last ashy breath, I was able to hear her say my name one last time. After hearing my name said, my lungs began taking in more of the wretched cloudy air, and at that moment I knew that I was going to die from either suffocating, or being burnt alive. I wasn’t going to see anybody ever again, and I started shedding tears, knowing that I was going to be leaving my beloved Cadence Sinclair.

- Gat.

After a few days I decided that it would be a good idea to head back to Vermont to get her recuperated. She layed in the dark for days. Cadence would try to contact the kids back on Martha’s Vineyard. I could tell she was missing them. All of a sudden Cady just threw up, and before I knew it, it became a constant thing. I could tell she was in so much pain but I couldn’t do anything about it. Boy, she did lose some weight. Not in a good way, either. She became slim very soon with all the vomiting. I took her for MRI’s and CT scans. They tested her for brain tumors, meningitis, you name it. They prescribed her with drug after drug. They kept prescribing her to more meds, but none of them worked. They finally diagnosed her with PTHA, post-traumatic headaches. 

After about a year in Colorado, Cady’s dad wanted to see her again. He would be taking her on a 10 week trip beginning in mid June. That meant Cadence wouldn’t get to go to Beechwood this summer. I constantly told Cady things and she just forgot them. I always had to repeat myself. Cady ended up going on the trip with her dad, and from what she told me, it wasn’t great. I felt awful for her, no one should have to go through that pain.