Do you want to play? - 2
"What kind of old friend?" asked Martha "Because you doesn't seem any happy…"
"We met at the high school of Metropolis. We both were different, our families weren't rich, but we knew that we want to change our future. We were brilliant students, and we used to play roll games. They were trainings for the real life" he stopped a while "The last year before go to the university he wanted to do something special, he proposed me to play a real roll game. And I accepted… I thought that it could be funny…"
"What happened?" asked Martha.
"Albert prepared our game with the entire city as the setting. So anybody could be a player, a piece of the game, or a victim…" He breathe hard remembering the past "The game would take all the time it was necessary… but we never end it… He had prepared a prove for me; "something brilliant", he said. I never imagined that he would do anything like that… I couldn't arrived on time… but I would do if I had know it!"
"What happened, Lionel? What couldn't you do?"
"The card said that I had to save the demoiselle from a horrible death… It had to be just a game… with not real victims… She would be at the highest tower… the Daily Planet building… he had tied there, from a rope which was nearly torn, my girlfriend…"
"Oh my god!" exclaimed Martha taking her hands to her mouth.
"Her name was July Spring, she was very nice, she was my first love… and when I arrived there I hold her hand and tried to take her up again… but the rope finally tore and I couldn't take her up, and… her hand slip from mine and I saw how her body felt to the floor…"
"Oh God!"
"They took Albert to a mental hospital… they said that he had done that because he was mad… I dreamt with July for years… it was really hard for me to stand that death…"
"But it wasn't you fault" said Martha staring at his eyes and holding his hand.
"That's what everybody tried to say to me… but… I played the game… it was my fault… she was my girlfriend… I put herself on danger…"
"You didn't"
"I did!" he shouted scaring Martha.
"Sorry… it's just that… I don't know what can Albert want as much years later…"
"You will not know it if you don't open the envelope"
He looked the white envelope again… he read the name… his hands were shaking… he couldn't open it…
"Can you do it for me?" asked to Martha.
"Sure" she took the envelope, and opened it. There was a short letter inside, she read it:
Dear Lionel,
During these years in the hospital I have read a lot about you; about how my best friend Lionel Luthor have became one of the richest millionaires of the country. Congratulations, at least one of us have been able to make his dreams real.
I have remembered a lot how fun we had when we played our roll games… those were really great years… but there was one game that we never finished… and… as we used to do… the game must go on!
Do you want to play?
Your friend,
Albert McGigant.
"That's all what it says…" said Martha.
"The game must go on…" repeated Lionel.
"What does it mean?"
"It means that he want to continue the game…"
"Oh my god! But… he's in the hospital… isn't he?"
"I will have to make sure…" he breath hard "Well… let's go to have lunch"
"Are you sure? Maybe you prefer to go home or…"
"No… What I need now is to spent some time with a good friend… a really good friend…" said, as he opened the door to Martha.
TO BE CONTINUED…