Okay well first off let me say... FIRE!! O.o yes - there was indeed a fire over the past week. Last thursday actually. My mate and I were relaxing and little did we know that our friend decided to cook. Actually... deepfry. He left a sauce pan of oil on the stove and came down stairs with us - my mate and I had no idea it was left ON. All the sudden we hear the upstairs fire alarm go off and me and my mate are the first to rush up. My mate ran to the living room to check for cigs and candles that might have started it - there was smoke everywhere! I ran to where the smoke was thickest- the kitchen...
Flames were almost to the ceiling the oven hood was black and thick smoke was pouring out of the hellish sight. I screamed for my mate! Our friend rushed to the room and I stood and watched as he picked up the pot and tried to dump it in the sink dropping it there because of the heat. He tried to put it out with water (which keep in mind you NEVER do with oil and grease based fires! And I know why now...) and the flames lept out of the pot and danced everywhere! The curtains in the window caught on fire and started to go up in smoke! I couldn't believe what I just saw.
My mate rushed in to the kitchen and I ran to the bottom of the stairs and yelled at our friends sister to get out! We ran outside barefoot in the snow - calling the neighbors to get help! They called the fire department and we waited. Our friend sister started to cry and flip out. I hugged her and told her we were okay. Finally my mate and our friend came out - they said it was under controll and put out - but we had the fire department come anyway. I put our friends sister in my car to stay warm and went back up to the house. The fire department came and I looked at Blau. His hoodie was burnt and melted all down the front - he was luck that none of it melted to him. I went to hold his hands and they were burnt. By that time he still had bits of melted curtain on him.
He had grabbed the burning curtains and pulled them down to stomp them out. With no regard for his own safety he saved the house. The fire department left and the inspection came. Our friends family rents a condo. We've been staying in their basement for a while. Hiding. If they found that we had been there all along we all would've been in trouble. We scrambled to make it look like we never lived there. Best we could in 5 minutes. After that our neighbor helped tend to my mates hand, but he needed a hospital. I called my mother who works at the same one I do and told here we were coming in. Blau protested - half out of fear of my mother (I sometimes fear her myself... long story...) and half out of debt. I shoved him in my car and took him there. He needed medical care - I didn't care about cost. I would gladly pay anything for his wellbeing. We were in the ER for about 3 hours. Short wait considering the way hospitals work.
He spent time with everyone after I passed out in the basement. He woke me up some hours later to tell me the power had gone out and we needed to move. We would have froze. The only place we had to go in the middle of the night was to my house. Neither one of us is very welcome there - but I snuck him in. We needed warmth and a place to rest... that was all.
I'm just glad to have my Blau. I'm sad he was hurt - but it makes remember that things could always be worse. It's sad that it takes things like this to make to remember how important things are to you, but I think we al need it sometimes. Besides that though - Blau and I are moving out -and soon! We can't stay with our friend for long. They are inspecting like crazy now. And we can't put our friends family at risk any longer. So we are going to find an appartment very soon. Either this month or the end of next. So despite these slight set backs... things are looking up. I think we're all just happy to be alive...