Promise Chapter 25
"Annie!" Maria screamed waking Annie up from her usual nightmare
Annie walked out of her bedroom, quick on her toes. Annie found Maria with her head against the wall crying her eyes out. "Maria what's wrong?" Annie asked touching her shoulder gently
"She's not b-breathing" Maria sobbed
"What do you mean?"
"M-Mabel"
Annie froze. She turned slowly so she could see Mabel. She didn't want to look she didn't want Maria to be right. Annie walked over slowly and felt Mabel's wrist. There was no pulse. Her chest wasn't moving. "M-Mabel" Annie stuttered biting her lip. Normally Mabel's big, green, round eyes would flutter open and a big smile would appear on her face. Her little arms would stretch out and her chubby little cheeks would begin to rise as her smile would grow stronger. But this morning Annie didn't see that. Mabel lay there still, breathless and lifeless. Her eye's stayed shut. "Mabel wake up, please" Annie said letting a tear roll down her cheek. Annie tightened her grip on Mabel's cold wrist. She had to accept that she was gone and when she did it was as if a set of flood gates in Annie's eye sockets had just opened and released a waterfall of tears. She didn't know what to do. She felt like she couldn't breathe. Like her lungs were flooded with water, she felt like she did when she choked up a gallon of water in the arena.
"Annie she's gone" Maria cried. Maria was still leant on the wall crying her eye's out. Annie sat on the bed that Mabel lay asleep in. Asleep not dead, not to Annie anyway. "Can we burry her with Mum, Dad and Hazel?" Maria asked. Annie looked at her and smiled weakly "Yes"
There was a knock at the door. Annie's head snapped up. "It's ok Annie it was just the door. I'll go get it" Maria made her way downstairs, still crying. Annie wrapped herself in a blanket and took Mabel's hand. "I'm sorry sweetie" Annie sniffled
Maria answered the door. It was Finnick "Maria what's wrong?" Finnick asked noticing her teary eyes.
"It's Mabel"
Finnick paused for a while then said "Where's Annie?"
"Upstairs in Mabel's room"
Finnick rushed up the stairs and came to holt when he saw Annie crying on the bed. He walked in slowly and sat beside her. Annie immediately felt his presence and took his hand. "She's gone" Annie breathed. Finnick pulled her onto his lap and rocked her gently. Annie placed her head on his chest and murmured "Stay with me"
"Ok" Finnick said kissing into her hair
Maria saw them in their embrace and thought for a minute. She was beginning to trust Finnick; maybe Maria was wrong about him. She backed away, not wanting to disturb them.
Annie pulled herself up a little by Finnick's shirt and rested her head on his shoulder, her face buried in his neck. Finnick leant his head against hers and said "It will be alright Annie" Annie didn't say anything she just let him squeeze her hand.
Maria sat at the kitchen table and stared out of the window at the empty green. Maria wanted to go see Mags. She liked Mags, Mags was like a grandmother to her. All of Annie and Maria's grandparents were dead. Maria grabbed her coat from the porch and left to Mags' house. She didn't want to be in the house while Mabel was lying upstairs dead, she need to get away, she needed to confide in Mags.
"Maria?" Mags said when she answered the door
"Mabel is dead" Maria blurted out. She started crying again. Mags put her arm round her. Mags felt like crying herself. She remembered the day she held her in her arms while she called the doctor, looking into her big, round eyes, her lush green irises had a glint in them that day.
Maria told Mags everything, she didn't hold back. Maria had necked at least 5 mugs of tea through their conversation, she never usually drank tea. Maria liked Mags' house, it had that cosy feeling. Whatever Mags had done to the place was really nice. It reminded Maria of a cottage.
"How is Annie?" Mags asked
"Devastated" Maria choked
"I'll take you back to yours"
"Ok"
Mags and Maria found a note on the kitchen table. It read
Maria
We have gone to burry Mabel, you should come along, and Mags too. We're at the graveyard.
Finnick
"They've gone to burry Mabel" Maria said bluntly
"Let's go" Mags smiled weakly
Maria and Mags found Annie and Finnick standing at a grave. So that's where the peacekeepers had buried them. Finnick had a shovel in his hand; they must have buried her already. It wasn't much of a grave. When the peacekeeper's buried them they must have been in a rush. Finnick had straightened the tomb stone and carved Mabel's name in after Hazels. It now read
Here lies
Ryker Cresta
Celeste Cresta
Hazel Cresta
Mabel Cresta
Deeply loved and missed
Finnick added the deeply loved and missed. The peacekeepers didn't have the decency to do that. The four of them stood there for a while and stared at the grave. A tear rolled down Annie's cheek and landed on the flower that Annie laid on the grave. A droplet of rain landed on Finnick's nose. He looked up at the grey sky; more droplets were coming down now. Maria held out her hand and let a rain drop land on her palm. She stared at it while more droplets surrounded it. Mags looked like she had a million crystals in her hair. The white bulged out into the droplets, making each droplet look like a precious stone.
Finnick took Annie's hand. She stopped crying. It was as if his touch was an off switch for her sadness and pain.
"It's raining" Mags sighed
"Yeah" Maria sighed back
Maria looked down at the grave before her and said "I hope I don't end up down there" There was true fear in her voice
"You won't" Annie said with a weak smile
Ok now that was a depressing chapter. I cried a little while writing this bit:
There was no pulse. Her chest wasn't moving. "M-Mabel" Annie stuttered biting her lip. Normally Mabel's big, green, round eyes would flutter open and a big smile would appear on her face. Her little arms would stretch out and her chubby little cheeks would begin to rise as her smile would grow stronger. But this morning Annie didn't see that. Mabel lay there still, breathless and lifeless.
I'm so pathetic. Ok review please *sweet face* for meeeee xoxoxox