Here's another chapter for all of you good people out there in cyberspace. This is another filler chapter, but soon things are going to get crazier. I'm not revealing anything though. Sadly, this fanfic should be finished sometime in February. On the plus side, that means that I can go ahead with my sequel. YAY! Well, anyway, here's Chapter 48. I hope you like it. Not much really happens. It's sort of short.
There was school the day after Dr. Mullins died. It didn't seem possible that the world could go on. Shouldn't everything have stopped? How could the world continue without one of the bravest, kindest, hard working people in it? Didn't they care? No, because they didn't really know who she was. The world now knew her as Debra Arnold, the ninth grade creative writing teacher at Livingston Jr. Sr. High School. As far as they knew, Dr. Charlotte Mullins never existed.
When Max, Elisabeth, Iggy, Nudge, Ella, and Fang got to school, everyone was gathered around the flagpole. They walked through the crowd until they found Colten, Caressa, Chris, and Kylie.
"What's going on?" Max asked Chris.
"Didn't you hear? Miss Arnold was killed in a car wreck. She was hit by a drunk driver somewhere." she replied.
That was the story. A drunk driver had killed her. That was the whole cover up.
Mr. Grayson walked in the middle of the crowd and asked everyone to listen to him.
"An unfortunate tragedy has just struck our school. Miss Debra Arnold was killed by a drunk driver…" He continued his speech, but to the flock it was just a bunch of words. Meaningless. Mr. Grayson was talking about Debra Arnold, not Charlotte Mullins.
Elisabeth cried the whole time while Iggy held her. It was all he could do. Nothing else worked. She wouldn't talk anymore. She just sat and cried.
When Mr. Grayson was finished, everyone went inside the school, except for Iggy, Elisabeth, Max, Nudge, Ella, and Fang.
"Ig, listen. I don't think Elisabeth can make it through today. Take her home okay. You can stay with her if you want." Max sighed.
"Okay Max." Iggy replied. "Come on Elisabeth." he said, turning her. "Let's go home."
She nodded and followed him, silently.
When they got home, Elisabeth sat down on the front porch steps.
"Do you want me to go?" Iggy asked, hesitating.
She shook her head. "No. I need you to stay." It was the first sentence she uttered since she was panicking in the elevator.
He sat next to her and held her. She had stopped crying and wasn't shaking.
After a long silence Elisabeth said, "Iggy, promise you'll love me no matter what."
Iggy, puzzled, replied, "I promise. Why?"
She sighed and said, "And promise me that if anything ever happens to me that you'll remember me this way."
"I promise. Now are you going to tell me why I'm promising this stuff?"
"I love you so much Iggy. You have no idea." she mumbled.
Her lips found his and she kissed him as if she was kissing him for the last time.
See, I told you it was going to be short. Well, I hope you enjoyed that chapter even though absolutely nothing happened and it was very depressing. Well, I'm done for now. Updates will come soon. Keep reading and reviewing. Thanks.
