DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA, OR "NOW YOU'RE GONE"

IF I DID, I WOULDN'T BE WRITING SONGFICS.

Jess cried and cried. He cried harder than ever. He hadn't cried this hard when he slipped and cut himself when he was 4. He couldn't stop thinking about Leslie. She couldn't be dead. She just couldn't.

He stopped crying long enough to think.

"If she's gone, so am I."

Now you're gone
I realize my love for you was strong
And I miss you here now you're gone
I've been waiting here by the phone with your pictures hanging on the wall

Jess got up, and ran down to the snapped rope where they had found her.

Now you're gone
I realize my love for you was strong
And i miss you here now you're gone
I've been waiting here by the phone with you're pictures hanging on the wall

Is this the way it's meant to be?
Only dreaming that you're missing me
I'm waiting here at home
I'll be crazy now you're gone

There's an empty place in my heart
It won't alarm me it will break apart
It won't heal, it never fades away
I'll be thinkin' 'bout you everyday

He stared at the murky brown waters. He wondered what she had felt when she hit them.

Now you're gone
I realize my love for you was strong
And i miss you here now you're gone
I've been waiting here by the phone with you're pictures hanging on the wall

Is this the way it's meant to be?
Only dreaming that you're missing me
I'm waiting here at home
I'll be crazy now you're gone

Now you're gone
I realize my love for you was strong
And i miss you here now you're gone
I've been waiting here by the phone with you're pictures hanging on the wall

He thought of evrything she had done for him. She had opened his mind wider than he could have imagined. She had appreciated his drawings.

She had loved him. And now she was gone, all because he didn't take her to Washington.

Is this the way it's meant to be?
Only dreaming that you're missing me
I'm waiting here at home
I'll be crazy now you're gone

There's an empty place in my heart
It won't alarm me it will break apart
It won't heal, it never fades away
I'll be thinkin' 'bout you everyday

He stepped onto the log, and looked down. He closed his eyes.

"Here I come Leslie"

He stepped off.

And woke up.