~Viola~
I had been reading his ma's diary ever since that day on the beach...
that day at the beach where Todd nearly died...
myTodd... dead...
I can remember almost every word of the diary now, and I can't help but feel the flutters of love that tingle through my body when I read them. It makes me think of my own mother... dead also, and my father... dead as well, and then Simone blown into a void of non-existence. Even mistress Coyle, gone. It just seems like everything I touch has to suffer, has to die.
But if my Todd never wakes up, I...
I... would die as well, die inside.
In the short time I've known Todd it feels like forever, but forever still doesn't fell long enough...
Ben says that we just have to give him time, but how much time? Because my time on new world has taught me that time waits for no man. Not even my Todd.
We had our whole lives ahead of us, the mayor was gone so no more obstacles to fight, just me and him. Us against the world, and then 1017...
I have never felt so much hate for one being. 'The Sky' they call him, but more like the earth to me; 'dirt'
No I can't think like that,
Hating 1017 isn't going to change what's already been done, but it still doesn't stop me, so I just go back to wishing that the words of love that dance through Todd's Ma's journal reach him in wherever he is, so that wherever he may be he feels loved, and not alone. Like I how I feel now, like everything I love and have ever loved is fading into nothing.
But then out of the corner of my eye I see my Todd stir, and I feel my heart jolt, because he does it again, but this time he opens his eyes, I rush to his side and gently stroke the hair out of his face and watch his eyes look but not see, and I hear the faintest feeling of bewilderment in his noise.
It is then that tears leak from my own eyes as Todd's wonder around the room because he's back my Todd is back, his noise may be confused but his words aren't;
"I'm here Viola" he whispered "I'm here"
