I groggily woke up that morning and felt weak.

Was it something I ate?

Something I drank?

Then I hit me… the beer.

I swear to Dios that I will not drink another alcoholic beverage again.

As I got into the shower, thoughts buzzed my head.

Susannah.

Susannah.

I have to save her, but I can't do it today!

I don't even know where she came down with this disease or anything!

I have to talk to her, and figure all of it out. As I got out of the shower I glanced at the clock on the wall. It read 7:50. I only had ten minutes to get to work on time. Quickly, I hastily put on my uniform and jumped into the car.

When I pulled into the parking lot, I ran in and practically jumped into the cash register.

"Here sir!" I said, pulling myself up off of the ground.

"Jesse!" My manger Mark said, "Why must you ALWAYS be late and do that EVERY SINGLE DAY??"

I straightened my name tag and looked at him, "I-I just lost track of time sir." I stuttered. Nombre De Dios! I do not stutter!!!

"Every day?" He asked me.

"Sadly yes sir, Well you see, my girlfriend just died of cancer, and I kind of haven't been sleeping well." He raised an eyebrow and said, "Just make sure it DOESN'T happen again under my roof!"

"Yes sir!" I said, and he unlocked the door.

After about an hour of work, I sat down to eat lunch with my best co-worker friend, Kyle.

"Your girl really died?" Kyle asked me, as we sat down at a table in the lounge room.

I slowly nodded my head.

"Tough break." He sighed.

"What do we have today Kyle?" I asked, hoping to change the subject.

"Oh, I bought us subs from Subway!" He said, throwing me a sandwich and a bag of Lay's Potato Chips.

"Thanks man, I'll order food tomorrow."

"K." Kyle said, his mouth stuffed.

We sat in silence for 5 minutes, until Kyle brought up Susannah again.

"So was this girl…" He started but I cut him off.

"Susannah." He nodded his head.

"So was Susannah really hot or just cute?"

"Kyle, Susannah was HOT." I said.

"YEAH! THAT'S HOW THE JESSENATOR DOES IT!!! YEAHHH!!! HOT CHICKS!! WOOO!!!" He screamed, reaching across the table and giving me a high five.

"Yeah man." I said, gazing down at my sandwich.

"Jesse!" Someone whispered.

"JESSE!!!" She screamed. I turned around and saw Susannah standing in the doorway.

"Hey Jesse, man, what are you looking at?" Kyle asked, and I turned around.

"Oh, I just thought I heard my name, and turned around. You know what? I'm going to go to the bathroom before Lunch Break is over." I said, getting up.

"You do that man." Kyle said, shoving potato chips into his mouth.

"What?" I whispered to Susannah, bringing her down the hallway.

"Jesse! Why won't you help me????" She moaned. Susannah was acting like a little kid.

"Susannah! You get what you deserve! You should have told me earlier!!" I said, annoyed with this subject.

She started to cry, and I knew that Susannah does not cry. I also knew that she hated to cry.

"Susannah. When did you first get cancer?" I asked.

She started to whip her tears from her eyes and said, "Well it was about 3 or 4 months ago when I went into the hospital after I got into that car accident remember? And wrecked your old Mercedes?" I nodded my head. "Anyways, when you left, they told me that I got a head injury and that cancer was forming in my body. I got really scared and didn't want to believe it. I later asked them how I got cancer and they said that part of it was from the car crash, but if I hadn't gotten into the car crash, then cancer wouldn't have grew. They didn't know HOW it grew from the crash, but it did." She said.

"Wait a minute. You're saying that if you never got into that car crash, that you could have not died from cancer, and they could have given you medicine that could destroy it?" She nodded her head.

"Where did you come from and where were you going that day when you got into the accident." I asked, scratching my head.

"Well I went to go get you and your old friend Jim some pizza from Mario's and this guy cut in front of me on the highway, and I ran into the back of the car." She said.

"Susannah." I whispered. "I can't help you." She dematerialized.

YES! I GOT ALL OF THE INFORMATION!!! I can just tell her that I can go get the pizza, and then she would never have died! Then after I get the pizza, I can take her in to have a check-up and then she can get rid of that cancer!

"Um, Jesse? What is taking you so long?" Kyle asked as he stuck his head out of the door.

"Nothing." I smiled, and walked back to finish my sandwich.

After work I came home to find Paul on my couch.

"PAUL!!!!" I screamed and slammed the door shut.
"Nice to see you too De Silva." Paul said, getting up and walking towards me.

"What do you want?" I growled.

"I need you to help me get Susannah back to life." I rolled my eyes.

"What's in it for me?" I asked, raising my eyebrow and leaning up against the wall, my arms crossed.

"A whole lot De Silva. A WHOLE lot." He said. "I'm willing to buy you a new car, and give you a new house. I'm willing to give you 5,000 dollars if you help me."

I couldn't believe it.

"Sure Slater." I said and stuck out my hand.

He stuck his out too and we shook on it.

Little did I know he had his fingers crossed behind his back…..