VII.

"You're really good at this," he says with a smile.

"Oh no Luke. Just tell me that I suck at this, I promise, I won't be mad at you." I chuckle and look at him, expecting that he will laugh. But he doesn't.

His face is serious. He shakes his head. "Its true Katherine, you're good at this," he says again and goes back to his work.

I keep my shout and continue my research. He's helping me and he started to ask questions about British Literature. As he said earlier, I'm good at this but I'm not still convinced.

My phone alarms. Its from the to-do list, it says that I need to return the book to the library. Many students borrow this book so each one of us has indicating time of using it. I stop the alarm and put my cellphone in my pocket.

"Hey." Luke looks at me, his brow raises. "I'll return this book to the library, I'll be right back." He nods and I head out for the library.

Since it's our vacant, all hallways are empty. Every footsteps that I take makes echo. I reach the library and open the door. As the door closes, it makes a loud bang. The librarian shoots me a look and I mouth "Sorry."

The librarian is reading a newspaper. I clear my throat and she looks at me. The thing I can't look at her, she's scary, I swear. I return the book without look at her and sign on the logbook.

Right at the back, screaming, shouting and laughing come. I flinch and the librarian slams the newspaper on the desk. She stands up and makes her way to the back.

I can't help it but look at the newspaper. I pick it up and look at it. It's kind of familiar to me. I flip through the pages and find the thing article I'm looking for. I knew it. This is not the newspaper for today. It's the newspaper where the article about the death of my parents is written.

My breath stops, or that's what I feel right now. How can I forget them? Here I am spending time with the boy who ruined it all. How can I even do this? I'm a horrible person.

The voice of the librarian wakes me out of my trance. She is screaming her head off at the guys back there. I put the newspaper back and exits the room. I reach the cafeteria without me even knowing it. I guess, I'm always thinking about something that I forget what's happening to the real world.

"Are you okay?" Luke asks as I sit down on the chair.

"Yeah, I'm just stressed," I answer.

There's silence and I really want to ask Luke a favor.

"Luke." He looks up to me. "Can you accompany me?"


"Is this it?" he asks.

"I think so. This is what I saw on the newspaper," I say.

We enter the cemetery. Yes, I'm going to visit my parents. It's windy and it's me and Luke. It gives me goosebumps because this is what exactly I saw in the movies before the character was killed.

A black crow appears out of nowhere. I jump and suddenly hold Luke's hand in fear. I hold my chest and close my eyes for a moment. Stupid bird, I think I'm going to have a heart attack.

"Are you okay?" Luke asks and I nod in answer.

After a few minutes, we finally find it. The place where all of my family is buried. A classic mausoleum at the end of the cemetery. I'm holding the key which is gave to me by the police when my parents died. My hand is shaking and my eyes become watery. Luke puts his hands on my shoulders and it suddenly calms me.

"It's okay of you're not ready yet," he says but I shake my head.

I clear my throat "I'm ready." I let my left hand to guide my right hand so it won't shake. I unlock the door and it opens. The smell is old but it smells like home. This is supposed to be my home. We enter the mausoleum and I turn on the lights. Luke closes the door with a loud click.

This mausoleum is for my family on my mother side but on her will and testament says that if her family dies we will be buried on her family's mausoleum.

I've been here many times. There is an underground where our ancestors back in the 1800's are buried. It's kind of modern inside, unlike outside, it's classic. The room is white and huge, and there are no things at the center.

The walls have drawers with two gold handles at the each end and inside is the coffin. Of course, there's a dead person inside that coffin. But not all drawers are occupied since many of them have no names.

I search for the drawers that keep my mother and father. I find my mother first, Lordes Perez is written in gold shiny letters on the drawer. I trace her name with my fingers and I break down.

Luke is already beside me, comforting me. "Shhh, it's okay, it's okay."

"I miss them so much," I say in between sobs.

"I know, everything's going to be fine," he says.

I wipe my tears and move to the left, it's my father's drawer. I start to cry again, I remember all the times that I've shared to them. Those are the happiest moments in my life. And now they're gone.

Luke let me cry to let my emotions out. After almost 30 minutes of crying, I stand up. I look around, I'm gonna miss this.

"Let's go," I say and he nods.

Before we get out, I look back at my parents' drawers for the last time. Another drawer catches my eyes. I don't know how to feel, if I should be sad or be angry or be happy.

This is supposed to be my home.

I think this is already my home.

Lilian Katherine Perez is written on the drawer. I'm dead, but the thing is I'm not. That's why my other relatives don't even bother to call me because I'm dead. And also, when we enrolled on school, Lordes wrote my name as Katherine Rye and not Lilian Katherine Rye.

I know I'm adopted now and my last name is definitely Rye. But she changed my name in purpose. She doesn't want anyone to have suspicions about me.

I'm dead but I'm not.


Sorry again :( I waited for the school year to end so there are no more things to worry about. And sorry again if this is kind of short to you. I hope you like this chapter :)

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