Too Late

Every step pulled me along, I raced to get to her, to save her and yet the voice in the back of my head said other, it knew that I was too late, I knew. Yet I ran as hard as I could, nearly falling down the stairs as my legs had went faster than I could most days, using the wall to help me from falling. Using the wall to steady myself before I jumped forawrds off the last 5 steps, ignoring the hard landing as I ran past the windows to my left. On the second floor I could see everything unfolding just outside in the court yard.

I was so close and yet so far.

Turning and pretty much flying down the next set of stairs I was heading for the ground floor, the windows were gone as rooms were on that side now though that didn't stop me. And yet as I rounded around the corner and through the open doors, I came to see what was unfolding in front of me now, my eyes were wide in shock even though I knew what was going to happen but yet I couldn't scream out.

My hand reached out as I kept running. "No! Don't!" I had finally screamed, it was too late though. I soon enough tripped by being so tired from running so much and ended up face first at her feet.

I was too late...

She had eaten my candy bar I was saving.