Ahhhhh I'm so sorry for the wait! But this is the last chapter of the story and I'm going to be uploading an epilogue after this to finish it off so I hope you guys enjoy it!

Emily dropped the gun that she was pointing at Phil. She was facing away from me so I couldn't see her face but her entire body went limp and she froze. We all watched as Grace slowly crumpled to the ground. I suddenly was released from the wall and I fell to the ground along with the rest of my friends. I rushed over to Phil's side and hugged him tightly but we all watched as Emily walked and then ran over to Grace. She pulled Grace's head into her lap and we heard her start crying as she held her girlfriend's dying body in her arms.

"Grace, w-why?" Emily stuttered.

Grace could barely speak but she managed to spit out a few words.

"Cause I know that this isn't you."

Emily looked confused as more tears fell down her face.

"I couldn't let you kill someone. For that is something that you can't undo. And I know you've done a lot of bad stuff but you've always had a chance to change. A chance to be better. But murder is something that you can't go back on. Then you'll be stuck on that path forever."

The whole she said this Emily's face was still and tears just leaked out of her eyes.

"I would rather die than see you go down that path."

No one said anything. We were all speechless. Emily had done so many horrible things and yet here is someone who is willing to die for her. Because they love her.

Emily still didn't say anything, she just held Grace's hand and cried. "Why would you do that for me?" she asked.

"Because I love you," Grace whispered. "And it makes me sad because you believe that no one could ever love you. That no one could ever care. But I do. You brought so much laughter into my life, you have no idea. You helped me when no one else would and above all you made me smile during the time in my life where such a thing as even smiling was the most difficult challenge every day. But you made it so much easier. You made me happy."

The rest of us couldn't believe our eyes or our ears. I heard Phil start to silently cry and I hugged him even tighter. We knew there was nothing we could do but watch and this was probably one of the saddest events I have ever witnessed.

"Thank you," Grace whispered to Emily before taking her last breath and falling back out of Emily's arms.

For a few moments everything was silent. And then Emily slowly reached up and shut Grace's eyelids. And then she slowly lowered her body to the ground and stood up.

"What have I done?" I heard her whisper.

The rest of us just sat in silence as she stared at the ground. But then I noticed that her eyes were slowly trailing toward the gun on the floor.

I leapt forward and tried to stop her but I was too late. She reached down and grabbed the gun and pointed it at me.

"Emily wait please," I said and started walking toward her. For some reason I no longer feared her. She was just a girl who lost her way and made too many decisions out of fear. She was the girl I used to love.

"Please don't do this," I whispered.

She shook her head and then aimed the gun at her head.

"I'm sorry," she said between tears. "I'm so so sorry for everything."

In only a few seconds I finally understood everything. I understood why she did what she did and how much she had been suffering. She was just alone. Alone and afraid just like many other people in the world and she thought the only way to not be alone was to make other people alone. And I knew how it felt to be alone.

I suddenly found myself saying the words I'd never I'd say.

"I forgive you."

Because I did. After everything she had done, I forgave her. And I wanted her to know that I did. Because I knew that I couldn't stop what would happen next.

"Thank you," she whispered.

And she shot herself.

For the next hour I didn't process what was happening around me. I knew that police and ambulances arrived and people tried to ask me questions and help me but I didn't register any of it. All I did was hold Phil in my arms and stare at the two bodies on the ground next to each other. The last thing I remembered that night was noticing the shadow of angel wings from Grace's back and how Emily used her last breath to reach her hand toward Grace's body in hope she wouldn't die alone.

She didn't.