" They weren't kidding when they said a single life is a blessed one. But I hate being alone…" she moaned as she picked up her bag, getting ready to leave.
"Ow!" She dropped her bag as she bumped into someone on her way out. "Oh, sorry.." A masculine voice apologized. A man about 20 or so stooped down and picked up her bag, smiling as he did so. Cecyl felt her heart flutter, seeing his raven-black hair and deep eyes.
'Oh man, he's so hot… And I just nearly bulldozed the guy…. Stupid, stupid, stupid!' she thought, saying, "No, I'm sorry… Really, it's my fault." She felt her cheeks turning a shade of crimson; she was too embarrassed to think straight.
"Hey, don't worry about it." He said coolly, smiling. His smile was so nice, as though he didn't smile as often. It felt so… rare. It made her almost giddy.
"Hey, how about I buy you a drink to apologize?" He suggested. "No, it's ok." Cecyl replied, grinning what she hoped looked sexy. "Ok, then, if you insist that it's your fault so much, then buy ME a drink." He said. "Okay…Umm-hey, can I ask your name?"
"You can call me Seth." He said. "Seth…" The name rolled off of Cecyl's tongue smoothly, making her quiver. "Okay, Seth. What would you like?"
It was one of those better lives they lived. If they recognized each other then… Well, at some point, HE would lose her to someone else, and he had suffered heartbreak too many times for a normal human to bear. Of course, he wasn't a normal human. An assassin like him was trained for worse cases. He always found her. SHE sometimes retained her memories, sometimes she didn't. But then, somehow, their souls sought each other out; faithful to the love they shared so long ago, beyond their human lives.
"Hyacinth! Don't run too fast!!! You know I can't run as fast as you can!!!" Eve ran after her best friend, and the two eight year olds hurried through the park. "Ha! Catch me if you can!!" Hyacinth laughed as she passed the park gate, closing her eyes to feel her triumph. That was the eight year old's first mistake.
"No, Hyacinth!!! Watch out!" The next thing she knew, Eve, was screaming as people gathered around the bloodied body of her best friend.
"Huh? So I ran in front of a car?" Hyacinth felt a bit woozy from the anesthetic, but was conscious enough to answer the doctor's question. "Yep. We'll have to test you later on, but for now, don't try to move too much, okay? I'll send someone in to take care of you, while we try to contact your family. Who can we contact? Do you know?" The doctor asked, adjusting her glasses.
"No. I don't have parents. Eve's parents take care of me, but I don't know my real parents." Hyacinth said faintly. "Oh, okay." The doctor looked bewildered. "Just get some rest for the examination later. I'll get one of the nurses in here, okay?"
"Okay." Hyacinth said, drifting off to a peaceful sleep.
"Oh, you're awake? How are you feeling, Hyacinth?" Hyacinth woke up and saw a young male nurse sitting near the bed, cutting her pieces of apple. "Oh, who are you?" Hyacinth asked brightly. "I'm Lex, your nurse for the time being. You like apples?" He replied, and then asked.
"Oh, do I call you Lex, or what?" Hyacinth asked, maintaining her eight-year-old spunk. "Anything but 'or what'. Hey, here you go." Lex handed her an apple, though this piece was particularly strange.
"Hey! It's my face. Are you an apple artist?" Hyacinth asked, an innocent, quizzical look on her face. Lex laughed lightly, and replied, "Well, it's a hobby. Do you like it?" "You're great! Hey Lex, can you stay? Or are you busy with stuff?" Hyacinth put on an innocent, hopeful face, which made Lex sigh. "Okay then." He chuckled.
"Did you notice how eager Lex was to take care of the kid? Didn't he say he wasn't so fond of whiny patients?" "Oh, I don't know, he and little Hyacinth get along well. It shows his good side off pretty well." "Well, it looks like he loves Hyacinth like a sister, don't you think?"
The two were nearly inseparable, and though Hyacinth got bad news, her spirits didn't waver.
The little girl lost the use of her legs, and had to be confined to the hospital a bit longer. Eve's parents didn't mind paying the hospital bill for her care, but they had only adopted her unofficially, so she was pretty much an orphan, in a way.
During her days in the hospital, she suddenly became sickly, but never lost her spirit, not as long as her newest and best friend Lex was there.
"Hyacinth, I need to ask if Lex told you about… your ailment." The doctor bit her lip nervously, wondering how the little girl reacted. "He told me I have bad cancer, but he didn't say much else. He was really sad. Doctor, will he be okay?" Hyacinth asked, the child-like innocence not fading away from her eyes, even under sickly wrinkles from her days confined to a bed.
"He will be, but I'm afraid… Hyacinth…" The doctor started, unable to go on with the sentence. "Am I going to die? 'Cuz I want to know how long I have." Hyacinth said in a strangely mature way. "Yes Hyacinth. I'm sorry, but you have exactly two days until your system, and after that, we don't know how long you'll last." The doctor choked out. How can she take this? She's such a small girl. She thought.
"Death isn't that bad. It's like sleep, but when I wake up, everything will be different. And then… And then… It'll be okay again…" She said softly, fading back into a restful slumber.
That last day, when Hyacinth was nine so was her best friend Eve, who came to see her that day. When Eve ran ahead to see Hyacinth, she looked through the crack in the door and saw the nurse Lex; his head hung low, tears streaming down his face, holding Hyacinth's hand tightly.
"Do you have to die so soon? Please don't leave me alone again…" He begged. "I'll wait…. If you wait… I'll wait." Her small voice was weak now, and she was ready to die. Again. "I love you. So much." He sobbed. It wasn't like him, but he didn't care. He couldn't bare it. "I can't bear to lose you again." "It's okay. It's all gonna be okay, right? You promised, right?" Her frail voice became weaker, and she raised her pinky childishly and smiled the comforting, innocent smile. It was immature, but it meant the world to him as he took her pinky in his own and managed to smile through tears. "Promise!" She said, giggling. "I promise." He replied. "Tell Eve to learn to run faster, 'kay?" She said, her voice fading. "Don't worry." He replied. "Love you too…" With that, a life ended.
Her breathing stopped, and other doctors rushed in to get her to the ICU, but he knew it was no use. After that day, Lex was gone. The last to see him was the nine-year-old Eve. Eve became the best runner in her school, elementary and high school, but that's another story.